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RADIO DEEJAY TO LAUNCH SATELLITE TV CHANNEL
Following the positive experience of Radio Italia with Video Italia, Italy’s most listened to radio station, Radio Deejay has announced plans to launch its own satellite TV channel. Deejay TV...
PREMIERE WORLD ACTIVATES D-BOX RETURN CHANNEL
German pay-TV broadcaster Premiere World will finally activate the return channel via the digital decoder d-box this year. According to Robert Blickhan, head of Premiere World’s distribution and retail marketing...
NEW SKIES ORDERS NSS-6 FROM LOCKHEED MARTIN
Lockheed Martin has, as expected, been awarded the contract to a build NSS-6 satellite for New Skies Satellite. NSS-6, from 95 degrees East, will be an A2100AX (launch mass 4650...
TBS LANDS ART DEAL
Turner Broadcasting System (TBS) has signed a “multi-year” deal with DTH operator The Arab Radio and Television Satellite Network (ART). Three separate 24-hour channels will offer CNN International, Cartoon Network...
NAPOLI FC TURNS BACK ON STREAM
Newly promoted Italian first division club Napoli FC has decided to disown an existing TV rights contract with Tele+ in favour of a more profitable deal with rival pay-TV operator...
HISPASAT GETS GO AHEAD FOR FOURTH 1D
The board of directors of Spanish satellite company Hispasat has given the green light for building its fourth unit 1D, will a launch scheduled for the autumn of 2002. Hispasat...
TRANSPONDER MONITOR
INTERSPACE’S IN-DEPTH STUDY OF EUROPEAN SATELLITE ACTIVITY, COMPILED BY MIKE FALLON Key: D – Digital A – Analogue 80 degreesE: Express-6A A – Moscow-based TV6 appears to have left 3875...