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The shape of the merger between UPC and SBS Broadcasting began to take firmer shape at MIPtv last week with plans for two joint channels an as yet unnamed film...

German public broadcaster ARD had to delay its widely publicised change of transponders on the Astra satellite system (19.2 degrees East) because of technical problems. Originally scheduled for April 6,...

Japan Satellite Television (JSTV), the UK-based pay-TV channel for Japanese people living in Europe, has ordered digital set-top-boxes from German manufacturer Galaxis. The Lubeck-based company will immediately begin with producing...

US DBS operator Echostar has taken a stake in Israel-based Gilat’s Internet via satellite spin-off Gilat-To-Home Inc, which plans to provide high speed two-way satellite Internet connections to residential customers....

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...