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TELE+ TO INCREASE SUB FEES
Leading Italian pay-TV operator Tele+ has increased its subscription fees, from the beginning of May. The cheapest package, Digi, will now sell at L21,000 (€10.85) , while the Basic package...
TVP OUT OF CYFRA+
A Polish court has found that public broadcaster TVP cannot after all take a stake in the Cyfra+ digital satellite platform. The court was ruling on a complaint from TVP...
EUTELSAT MULLS FURTHER ACTION OVER 28 EAST
EUTELSAT is in a quandary. Still smarting by the ‘loss’ of six crucial transponders to SES from its EuroBird slot, destined to be co-located at 28.2-29 degrees East alongside SES’s...
NEWS BYTES...
Disney Channel UK has confirmed it will launch ‘Toon Disney’, already a popular channel in the United States, this autumn on SkyDigital and digital cable. It will form part of...
SES EDVB-RCS TEST SUCCESS
EMS Technologies Inc has completed live, closed-loop, broadband satellite access tests as part of an SES/Astra Broadband Interactive project. The tests used the Digital Video Broadcast – Return Channel via...
Mir's Leak May Be Plugged
Cosmonauts Sergei Zaletin and Alexander Kalery have found at least one air leak in the Mir Space Station after two weeks of tests on board the Russian laboratory. Although ground...
Sea Launch Review Board Meets To Discuss Anomaly
Members of the Sea Launch Failure Review Oversight Board met the week of April 16 to hear briefings from the independent teams that are investigating the March 12 launch failure....