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TELE-satellit
EUROPE'S SATELLITE MAGAZINE
International Satellite Broadcasting News
Number 64, Week ending 13 August 1995
By Martyn Williams
News Desk : Internet martyn@twics.com  or CompuServe 100025,1637
(c) TELE-satellit Magazine


TVB TAKES CONTROL OF CHINESE CHANNEL
  LONDON, England (TS) -- TVB International (TVBI), a unit of Hong 
Kong's Television Broadcasts Limited, has bought a 52% stake in The 
Chinese Channel.
  TVBI buys the controlling stake from Pacific Media PLC who 
previously held 80% of the channel, the remaining 20% is held by Shaw 
Media.
  Before the deal, The Chinese Channel already has close ties with 
TVBI with which it held exclusive European rights for its programmes. 
TVB is the largest maker of Chinese language programming in the world.
  TVBI currently operates satellite and cable television services in 
Taiwan and North America. The purchase of an equity stake in The 
Chinese Channel will allow TVBI to broaden its satellite distribution 
network and maximise the potential of the sizeable Chinese speaking 
audience in Europe.


NHK STICKS WITH FRANCE TELECOM, NEW SATELLITE TO EUROPE
  TOKYO, Japan (TS) -- NHK and France Telecom this week announced that 
they are extending the seven year old relationship between the two 
companies with the signing of an agreement to supply NHK Television to 
bureaus in Europe via the new PanAmSat 4 (PAS-4) satellite.
  Use of the new satellite, located at 68.5 degrees East, means 
programming from NHK in Tokyo will no longer travel to Europe via the 
United States, beaming into the continent from PanAmSat 1.
  Instead a single satellite, PAS-4, will be needed to connect Tokyo 
with NHK's European bureaus meaning a better quality picture for 
viewers of Astra's JSTV service.
  France Telecom has permanently leased a transponder on the new 
satellite for the service which will start later this year. The 
European bureaus are also linked back to Japan via a reverse path on 
PAS-4.
  To ensure permanent service for NHK, France Telecom will provide the 
uplink and downlink for transmissions on PanAmSat 4, as well as the 
uplink for PanAmSat 1, and a dedicated microwave link between Paris 
and London.
  In addition, France Telecom downlinks the images transmitted from 
Japan for JSTV programs. These images are then broadcast via Astra 
from London by Maxat, a 100% subsidiary of France Telecom.
  

UK UNVEILS DIGITAL TV PLANS
  LONDON, England (TS) -- The UK government revealed plans for future 
digital broadcasting this week paving the way for up to 24 channels of 
digital terrestrial broadcasting.
  The plans are for licences to be awarded to the companies providing 
the digital multiplexing services rather than to the channels.
  Six channels will be available for digital TV services in which 
three or possibly more compressed channels could be squeezed.
  The current terrestrial broadcasters, BBC 1 and 2, ITV, Channel 4 
and S4C are all guaranteed space with other space available to new 
channels, current satellite broadcasters or additional channels from 
the terrestrial broadcasters.


BT CONFIRMS HOT BIRD 3 LEASE
  LONDON, England (TS) -- British Telecom has confirmed it will lease 
a transponder on the upcoming Hot Bird 3 satellite to Central European 
Media Enterprises (CME), a company based in Bermuda with headquarters 
in London.
  The lease, previously reported by TS-News, will allow CME to 
digitally distribute programming to its terrestrial television 
transmitters as well as cable television systems, providing a low-cost 
method of distributing the programmes in different languages.


SKY RESULTS WILL LOOK GOOD
  LONDON, England (TS) -- British Sky Broadcasting will announce its 
full year results for the first time this week. Previously, as a non 
traded company it did not release detailed financial results.
  Speaking this weekend analysts said they believed the results would 
be good with increased profits being reported.


BRITAIN'S NTL, APTV, BEGIN WORLDWIDE MPEG NETWORK
  LONDON, England (NTL) -- APTV and NTL have introduced the first 
global MPEG-2 digital video network, with plans for it to reach all 
continents by the end of the year.
  On 1 August APTV began distributing its TV news feeds digitally via 
the Eutelsat II-F1 satellite using NTL's 'System 3000' MPEG-2 video 
compression technology. Over the coming months the service will be 
extended to a further five satellites. This is in addition to the 
recent announcement of APTV's 24-hour digital service to Asia.
  NTL has supplied three complete systems: one for PAL feeds, one for 
NTSC feeds, and a reserve system as a back-up for either.
  

SSVC MOVES TO DIGITAL SYSTEM
  LONDON, England (TLI) -- Teleport London International is providing 
a packaged satellite transmission service for SSVC TV, the full-time 
television service for the British armed forces, using Transponder 1 
on the Columbia/TDRSS satellite. The SSVC Television service will 
start from TLI on 1 September, transmitting to multiple locations 
throughout Europe.
  SSVC TV is produced and edited by TLI's parent company, SSVC, using 
the studio and post-production facilities located at the same site as 
the teleport.
  TLI is providing SSVC with a turnkey service that includes digital 
video compression, uplinking satellite transmission services including 
transponder capacity, and involves management of the transmission path 
from the studio to the receive terminals and links to the TV 
transmitters in the overseas locations. SSVC TV will be launched as an 
encrypted analogue service that will be migrated to a digitally 
compressed format in October 1995 using Philips MPEG 2 Digital Video 
Compression Equipment.


FAXCAST REACHES AGREEMENT WITH NBC
  PERTH, Australia (FAXCAST) -- NBC and Australia-based Media 
Technology Corporation Limited (MediaTech) signed a series of 
agreements that both finalize a previously announced agreement 
regarding the utilization of NBC's Vertical Blanking Interval (VBI) 
capacity.
  Under the agreement, MediaTech, parent of the U.S.-based Faxcast 
USA, Inc., has been granted U.S. rights networks for a minimum of five 
years to utilize NBC's over-the-air and cable broadcast signals as 
part of MediaTech's global Faxcast network for distribution of data 
and facsimile data. Through this agreement, the Faxcast USA service is 
expected to be carried over the nine owned and operated stations and 
up to 206 affiliate stations that make up the NBC television network 
as well as CNBC. MediaTech's North American subsidiary, Faxcast USA, 
Inc. has been operating its fax and data service over five of NBC's 
owned and operated stations and CNBC for the past twelve months.
  NBC has also agreed that it will work to secure the cooperation of 
its Super Channel unit in Europe, its newly developed Asian satellite 
channel, CNBC Asia, as well as NBC network affiliate stations in the 
United States to further develop this data distribution network.


CLARKBELT SNAPSHOT
By Jean Phillipe Donnio
  PARIS, France (TS) -- An update of satellite movements,
- Intelsat 504 is located at 29.4 deg W since July 1995. It was 
replaced by Intelsat 506 at 31.4 deg W.
- Intelsat 513 has been replaced by Intelsat 706 at 53 deg W. Intelsat 
513 is now being moved westwards, probably to 177 deg W (Intelsat 503 
replacement) or to 157 deg E (new Intelsat slot in the Asia-Pacific 
Region).
- TDRS 1 has reached its new slot at 139 deg W. It had left the 85 deg 
E slot in May.
- Inclined satellites: a few satellites appear to have stopped 
North-South stabilization to save lifetime. Among them, Telecom 1C.
- Eutelsat 1F1 has just gone over 5 deg inclination! Launched in Jun 
1983, the satellite is in inclined orbit since 1989.


SO WHAT'S THE DEAL WITH THE BOAT ?
  LONDON, England (TS) -- Anyone tuning around on HotBird can't have 
failed to notice the appearance of a yacht, a large, large yacht, 
during the day on a channel leased to CLT. During the evening a relay 
of ART's music channel ART 5 takes over. What's the reason behind this 
mysterious transmission ? A lot of speculation has taken place but 
TELE-satellit can reveal the answer this week thanks to the all 
knowing Marcello Berengogardino of Italy's "Satellite Magazine" who 
explained what's going on.
  The owner of ART, Prince Al Waleed, who also now owns a larger stake 
in Italy's Fininvest, has a favourite channel. You guessed it, the ART 
music channel.
  He apparently watches the channel while he works for many hours a 
day but now he's on holiday, during August. His holiday is taking him 
across the Mediterranean on his "little" boat.
  With the signal the ART channels put into the region large dishes 
are needed and its difficult to receive the signal so, when presented 
with the problem, the Prince's aides decided they must solve it.
  After a lot of faxes and telephone calls, Telespazio leased 
transponder 16 from the CLT for the length of the Prince's vacation at 
a cost of around 320,000 ECU. Uplink costs come in at about 20,000 ECU 
making it a more expensive vacation than planned but at least with the 
music channel !
  

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