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The long-awaited acquisition of General Instrument (GI) was concluded last week when Motorola absorbed the box-making company in a stock swap that sees GI shareholders take a 17 per cent...

French digital satellite platform TPS has announced details of how it will use the hard disk storage system that is to be built into its set-top boxes by receiver manufacturer...

One of a pair of Yamal-100 telecommunications satellites launched from Kazakhstan on September 7 has failed to make contact with the ground, according to its project engineers. The craft were...

Fifty editorial and production staff will be lost as a result of schedule changes on BBC World, the BBC’s flagship overseas news channel. Out will go BBC World’s long-form The...

Lockheed Martin can proceed with its planned 49 per cent acquisition of satellite communications company Comsat, the Federal Communications Commission confirmed last week. The US Justice Department has now also...

BBC Prime has managed to retain direct-to-home satellite capacity in the German market after reaching a new agreement with the Premiere World platform. The entertainment channel had, like a number...

Jerry Glover, managing director of National Geographic Channel Europe, has left the company to become commercial director at Yahoo! Europe. He is replaced by veteran channel specialist John O’Loan, who...

Sharp contrasts between the viewing patterns of DF1 subscribers compared to their Premiere counterparts have emerged ahead of the merger between the two platforms. The information was revealed by Premiere...

Still suffering from the aftershocks of the Asian financial crisis, AsiaSat has announced reduced turnover of HK$376 million (pounds 30 million) for the first half of 1999, down 19 per...

SES revealed its half-year results (to June 30) on Monday. These showed buoyant growth in all areas, benefiting from its investment in AsiaSat last December. Revenues increase to Euro340.4 million...