Author: Staff Writer

A new Italian content provider which aims to provide an “on the road” service, from planning to broadcast, was launched on March 22. Channels & Co was founded in December...

Globalstar, the MSS operator hoping to avoid the fate of fellow LEO system Iridium, has demonstrated transmission of Internet data over its system at the ITU America Show in Rio...

The number of German local FM radio services that add an inexpensive digital satellite feed to reach DTH homes is set to increase further: the latest addition is Hit-Radio Antenne,...

Hallmark Entertainment Network’s launch in the UK next month will be exclusive to Sky Digital. Jody McAfee, Hallmark’s vice president of marketing, told Interspace that the satellite service would have...

Canal Plus-owned Telepiu has pledged to increase its investment in Italian cinema from L60 billion (Euro 30 million) to L90 billion over the next two years. A 1998 film financing...

Fox Kids Europe confirmed it will launch a German version this October on Premiere World, the Kirch Group/BSkyB-backed digital platform. Ynon Kreiz, Fox Kids Europe’s CEO, at the MIPtv market...

Discovery Channel is to become the first thematic channel to offer enhanced programming for the UK market, reports our sister publication Inside Digital TV. The enhancements will be made available...

UK telecommunications regulator Oftel is set to force BSkyB’s SMS division Sky Subscriber Services Limited (SSSL) to publish what it charges for access to the Open… interactive shopping mall. Other...

Via Digital has launched a new interactive traffic service called Trafico Activo (Active Traffic). The service allows the subscriber to find out in real time about conditions on Spanish roads...

EM-TV CEO Thomas Haffa spoke exclusively about his plans for Formula 1, in which his company has taken a 50 per cent stake, to Interspace at last week’s MIPtv. “We...