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MONEY ON SKY
As reported in the last issue of Interspace, The Money Channel has secured a long-term carriage contract on Sky Digital, with a launch date fixed for February 7. Money will...
BSKYB ADDS RADIO SERVICES
The long-awaited addition of radio services to the Sky Digital platform will take place around November 15 when 20 stations are added. The BBC will add 12 services, enabling listeners...
NEWS CORP SLIPS IN GLOBAL RACE
A year ago News Corp was ahead of Hughes-owned DirecTV in terms of global customers. News Corp. commanded 29.7 per cent of all satellite pay-TV subscribers, compared with DirecTV’s 26.6...
MEDIASET, KIRCH SIGN AGREEMENT
Italian broadcaster Mediaset may extend its alliance with Germany’s Kirch Group to include pay-TV, according to Mediaset CEO Maurizio Carlotti. Commenting on rumours that Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp and Canal...
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...
PACE CONSUMERS WARM TO HOME SHOPPING
The UK’s Pace Micro Technology has released some findings from its latest survey into the attitudes of consumers to digital television, The Pace Report 2000. The results gave some comfort...
NOGGIN COULD GO ON NICK JR
Nickelodeon may launch pre-school channel Noggin as a block within Nick Jr channel in the UK, managing director Karen Flischel has told Interspace. Meanwhile, Nickelodeon itself will launch in India...
TRANSPONDER MONITOR
Key: A = Analog D= Digital 68.5 degrees E: PAS-4 & 7 A. The Asian version of Sony Entertainment Television is occasionally testing on 3925 MHz horizontal in clear Pal....