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Leo Kirch’s digital pay-TV package Premiere World is to get some unexpected competition: Dusseldorf-based media house Rheinische Post plans to enter the German pay-TV market. Media company Deutsche Fernsehnachrich-ten Agentur...
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Italian pay-TV operator Stream has reported a record 120 per cent increase in subscribers to its digital platform for June. At the same time, Stream has announced that Corrado Sciolla...
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National Geographic Television has added another UK digital channel, Adventure 1, from November 1. A company spokesman said the material is expected to attract younger viewers than its existing National...
MMS: SOLAR ARRAY PROBLEM FIXED
Armand Carlier, CEO of Matra Marconi Space (MMS), has claimed the long-running problems with Matra’s solar arrays were "now sorted out; we know where the problem lies… and how to...
VIRUS ON ASTRA
After two recent closures, the German-language satellite radio offering available on the Astra satellite system (19.2 degrees East) is set to gain an additional participant: Virus, the youth radio planned...
GLOBALSTAR SOFT-LAUNCHES SERVICE
CEO Bernard Schwartz launched the soft-rollout of Globalstar, the second GMPCS (Global Mobile Personal Communications by Satellite) operator at Telecom 99, with the message that "the other guys aren’t of...
NEW CHANNELS FOR STREAM
Italian digital operator Stream is set to boost its pay-TV bouquet with the addition of several new channels in the coming months. Two new football channels aimed at fans of...
NEW CHANNELS FOR GERMANY
Germany’s satellite market will see three new entrants if the Frankfurt-based regional media authority approves new licence applications. Dogan Media International, the German sister company of the Turkish Dogan group,...
MTV DEAL WITH PREMIERE WORLD
Kirch Group’s digital pay-TV operator Premiere World and MTV Networks Europe have reached a compromise, ending the conflict over the removal of MTV and VH-1 from the digital platform after...
MIDDLE EAST GETS SET FOR CHANGE
While Orbit struggles to drive subscriber numbers, new players such as Etisalat are preparing to enter the Middle Eastern multichannel broadcasting business. Interspace surveys current developments… On top of the...