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TELE-satellit
EUROPE'S SATELLITE MAGAZINE
International Satellite Broadcasting News
Number 69, Week ending 17 September 1995
By Martyn Williams
News Desk : Internet martyn@twics.com  or CompuServe 100025,1637
(c) TELE-satellit Magazine


PANAMSAT'S PAS-4 BEGINS OPERATIONS
  TOKYO, Japan (TS) -- PanAmSat's new PAS-4 satellite has entered 
operation at 68.5 degrees East. The satellite is already providing 
broadcast services to customers and viewers across almost half the 
world.
  The latest reports from TELE-satellit worldwide monitors are listed 
below :

>From Australia
3.905   V   Sony Entertainment Television
3.912   H    Carrier
3.965   V   CNN International
4.111   H   CNBC Asia
4.035   V   NHK TV-Japan
3.995   V   CNN Newsource
3.935   H    Test Pattern - "PAS 2  SYLMAR, CA."
  courtesy Nathan Kopel, International Radio Monitos and Peter Merrett

>From South Africa
12.5375 V   M-Net South Africa
12.6645 V   SABC TV 1
12.6975 V   SABC CCV
12.7245 V   SABC NNTV
12.7405 V   CDAT     
  courtesy Michael Cookson, TELE-satellit South Africa

  NHK will also be using the satellite to link Tokyo to Paris and 
India's Doordarshan have also announced it will be using the satellite 
for services to Asia and Europe.
  Hong Kong Telecom this week said it would begin using PAS-4 for 
broadcasting service also.
  Other broadcasters include China Central Television, Disney Co. , 
Capital Cities/ABC Inc.'s ESPN, HBO & Co., Liberty Media Corp., 
MNET/Multichoice, SABC/Sentech, Sony Corp., Turner Broadcasting Corp. 
and Viacom Inc.


NOS TO LAUNCH SATELLITE SERVICE IN 1996
  HILVERSUM, Netherlands (TS) -- Dutch public broadcasting is set to 
light up Europe's skies next year when the NOS begins a satellite TV 
service for Dutch citizens abroad.
  Basing the service on Germany's Deutsche Welle TV and France's TV5, 
the new channel will offer tailor made programmes for an international 
audience and the best of Dutch public TV.
  The channel will make money from advertising and sponsorship and 
target the estimated 600,000 Dutch speakers living outside Holland and 
the Belgian region of Flanders.


NETHOLD DIGITAL SERVICE THIS YEAR
  AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (TS) -- Nethold will launch its digital TV 
service before the end of the year according to the company. The 
service will offer around 50 near video on demand channels to viewers 
across the Benelux and Northern Europe.
  The first services will offer movies timed to begin every half an 
hour meaning that around four channels will be required for each movie 
making a total of ten movies available at any one time. Sports will 
also be offered to viewers.
  Decoder prices are planned to come in at around 900 to 1000 Dutch 
guilders with monthly subscriptions priced at around 70 guilders. 
Additional charges will be levied for movies.
  The Dutch PTT will link Nethold, parent of FilmNet, to the Astra 
satellite from where the service will operate.


IRAN ARRESTS OVER SATELLITE DISH MANUFACTURE
  TEHRAN, Iran (TS) -- The Iranian police are reported to have made 
around thirty arrests over production of satellite reception equipment 
and dishes.
  A local newspaper said police seized 226 satellite dishes from a 
workshop just outside the capital, Tehran.
  In April, the Middle Eastern country made ownership of such 
equipment an offence. Some dishes are reported to have been placed 
back on the roofs of Tehran and disguised with air conditioners and 
other equipment. There are no reports of arrests for individual 
possesion of satellite reception equipment.


GRAFF AND PENTHOUSE TEAM FOR GLOBAL NETWORK
  NEW YORK, New York, USA (GRAFF) -- Graff Pay Per View and Penthouse 
International, annouced this week a joint venture between Spice, Inc., 
a wholly owned subsidiary of Graff, and Penthouse International, Ltd., 
a wholly owned subsidiary of GMI. The company will be the exclusive 
vehicle for the development and distribution of adult entertainment 
television networks and programming outside North America, using the 
Penthouse and Spice brand names.
  Spice and Penthouse will each own 50% of the equity of the joint 
venture company. The proposed terms of the transaction are that The 
Home Video Channel Limited (HVC), a wholly owned United Kingdom 
subsidiary of Graff, together with the Spice name and related 
identity, will be contributed to the joint venture company for 
additional consideration. 
  HVC currently operates three subscription networks: The Home Video 
Channel, which features Hollywood movies; and The Adult Channel, an 
adult television network distributed to more than 40 countries from 
the U.K.; and Eurotica, a more explicit adult channel broadcast to 
more than 30 European countries from Denmark.


HUGHES ANNOUNCES ALASKA LEASES
  ANCHORAGE, Alaska, USA (TS) -- Hughes Communications and 
Alaska-based General Communication, Inc. have announced an agreement 
that provides GCI with multiple, dedicated C-band transponders on 
HCI's new Galaxy IX and Galaxy X satellites. 
  GCI is the first customer to acquire capacity aboard the new 
spacecrafts. Under terms of the agreement, GCI will lease five C-band 
transponders aboard Galaxy IX at its interim 123 degrees West orbital 
location.
  The satellite is planned for launch in April of next year and will 
remain at 123W until the following year when Galaxy X will replace it. 
Galaxy IX will then offer back up capacity for Hughes.
  "Galaxy IX will provide the market with an infusion of C-band 
capacity following a period of extremely tight transponder supply" 
said Carl A. Brown, senior vice president, Galaxy Satellite Services
for Hughes Communications.
  GCI will use the transponders to provide a full range of domestic 
and international communication services to more than 90,000
customers throughout Alaska.


TURNER CHOOSES GI FOR LATIN AMERICA SERVICE
  ATLANTA, Georgia, USA (GI) -- General Instrument Corporation and 
Truner Broadcasting System have announced the US broadcaster will use 
GI's DigiCipher(R) II equipment to provide compressed video/audio and 
data services to Latin America.
  Turner Broadcasting will use GI's DigiCipher II MPEG-2 compatible 
digital compression system to eventually reach over 1,500 different 
sites throughout Latin America. The service will be transmitted over 
PanAmSat 3 which is scheduled to launch in late 1995, and will become 
operational in February 1996.


IN BRIEF
  LONDON, England (TS) -- London's Carlton Communications has bought a 
31% stake in Channel KTV, a Chinese music channel seen in China, 
Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau, the Phillipines, Vietnam and Bangkok. The 
stake cost Carlton around $10 million.
  LONDON, England (TS) -- Flextech is tipped to sell its cable TV 
network interests in the UK. The TCI owned company says it will face 
further increases in investment if it holds on to the cablecos.




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