Author: Staff Writer

THE Australian government has cleared the last regulatory barrier to building a rocket launch site at Christmas Island in the eastern Indian Ocean. Work at the site will begin later...

The Prague District Commercial Court has ruled that Central European Media Enterprises (CME) and its directly-owned subsidiary CNTS, along with the licence holder CET21 of the TV Nova broadcasting network,...

COMMERCIAL channel Polsat is to look elsewhere for a partner in its planned 24-hour news channel. It had been hoped that the ITN-EBU venture Euronews would give much needed support...

Canal+ is reporting consolidated revenues of Eur927 million for the first quarter of 2000, representing a gain of 23.6 per cent from the same period in 1999. For the first...

SPANISH digital satellite platform Via Digital, in partnership with Telefonica’s Internet portal Terra Networks, is carrying out tests with a view to launching a high-speed Internet access service through the...

NEW launch TV4 is reaching 61 per cent of Polish television households since its launch on April 1. TV4, which has acquired the satellite and terrestrial feeds from Nasza TV...

by Clayton Mowry The thrill is gone. Our 15 minutes is over. Satellites are old news. According to the word on the street, the hype and excitement that surrounded the...

By Theresa Foley The debate over bent pipe versus onboard processing is picking up steam as the dozen or so satellite broadband projects come closer to fruition. If William Shakespeare...

By Robert Nelson Rain affects the transmission of an electromagnetic signal in three ways: (1) It attenuates the signal; (2) it increases the system noise temperature; and (3) it changes...

by Peter J. Brown As the U.S. cable TV industry deploys high-speed, two-way hybrid fiber-coax (HFC) networks, the use of satellite-based distribution is expanding despite the increasing presence of fiber....