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TELE-satellit
EUROPE'S SATELLITE MAGAZINE
International Satellite Broadcasting News
Number 71, Week ending 1 October 1995
By Martyn Williams
News Desk : Internet martyn@twics.com  or CompuServe 100025,1637
(c) TELE-satellit Magazine


SABC PLANS PAY TV
  JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA (TS) -- The SABC has revealed its own 
plans for pay television. The state network said this week that it 
hopes it will have 14 channels on the air by the end of next year.
  Two free of charge channels will launch this December, eight pay 
channels by June and the remaineder by the end of next year. SABC says 
the system could eventually be expanded to as many as 21 channels.


TELE-EVANGILISM LAUNCHES ON ASTRA
  LONDON, ENGLAND (TS) -- A new religious channel has begun 
broadcasting via the Astra satellite. The station are owned by South 
African husband and wife team Rory and Wendy Alec and will air 
programming on the Christian Channel Europe (CCE).
  CCE will broadcast daily for two hours but plans an eventual 24 hour 
service. It will air many US religious programming, thanks to 
sponsorship deals with American preachers in addition to Christian 
music videos which could grow into a dedicated music channel in the 
future.


ARIANE LAUNCHES TELSTAR
  KOUROU, FRENCH GUIANA (ARIANE) -- On September 23, Arianespace 
successfully placed the Telstar 402R telecommunications satellite into 
orbit for the U.S. firm AT&T.
  The launch from the Space Center in Kourou, French Guiana, was 
carried out by the 50th Ariane 4 launch vehicle, an Ariane 42L, which 
is equipped with two liquid-propellant strap-on boosters.
AT&T's Telstar 402R satellite was built for AT&T by Lockheed Martin
  Astro Space in Princeton, New Jersey. Weighing 3,410 kg at liftoff, 
it is equipped with 24 C-band transponders and 24 Ku-band 
transponders. Design life on orbit is 13 years. Located over the 
Galapagos Islands, it will provide direct television broadcasting, 
telecommunications and VSAT transmission services for the United 
States, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands.
  The next launch, Flight 79, is scheduled for October 13th. An Ariane 
42L launch vehicle will be used to carry the Luxembourg-based Societe 
Europeenne des Satellites' fifth direct TV broadcast satellite, ASTRA 
1E, into orbit.


"OCTOBER REVOLUTION" AT RUSSIAN PUBLIC TELEVISION . . .
By Laura Belin, OMRI Inc.
  MOSCOW, RUSSIA (OMRI) -- In what the 23 September Kommersant-Daily 
described as an "October Revolution at Channel 1," Russia's largest 
network Russian Public TV (ORT) substantially revised its programming 
schedule, to take effect on 1 October. 
  The most controversial change was the decision to drop Sergei 
Dorenko's news magazine "Versii" (Versions), ostensibly for financial 
reasons. However, Irena Lesnitskaya, director of the television 
company that produces "Versii," called the decision "pure politics" 
since producers offered the show to ORT practically for free, Ekho 
Moskvy reported on 22 September.
  According to Dorenko, ORT executives disliked his political 
independence. In recent months, Dorenko aired fragments of an 
interview with Chechen fighter Shamil Basaev, speculated on the health 
of Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin, and investigated acting 
Procurator-General Aleksei Ilyushenko. The independent network NTV 
agreed to broadcast "Versii," beginning on 2 October. Aleksandr 
Solzhenitsyn's weekly talk show was also dropped from the new ORT 
schedule, AFP reported on 24 September.


. . . AS THE NETWORK IS REPRIMANDED FOR COVERAGE OF DUMA BRAWL
By Laura Belin, OMRI Inc.
  MOSCOW, RUSSIA (OMRI) -- The President's Chamber on Information 
Disputes reprimanded Russian Public TV (ORT) for "incomplete and 
inaccurate" reporting of the 9 September brawl in the State Duma, 
ITAR-TASS reported on 22 September. 
  The brawl started when right-wing National-Republican Party leader 
Nikolai Lysenko attacked Gleb Yakunin, a pro-reform deputy. Duma 
deputy Vladimir Lysenko, chairman of the centrist Republican Party, 
brought the complaint because Channel 1 news reported only that 
"deputy Lysenko" started the
fistfight. 
  He charged that the network's failure to specify which Lysenko was 
involved had damaged his own reputation. The chamber ordered ORT to 
inform viewers explicitly that Nikolai Lysenko instigated the brawl; 
and recommended that television companies show photographs of 
political figures with common surnames to avoid confusion.



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