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TELE-satellit
EUROPE'S SATELLITE MAGAZINE
International Satellite Broadcasting News
Number 77, Week ending 12 November 1995
By Martyn Williams
News Desk : Internet martyn@twics.com  or CompuServe CIS:martynw
(c) TELE-satellit Magazine


BSKYB SURPRISE MARKET WITH BETTER RESULTS
  LONDON, England (TS) -- Better than expected results from BSkyB 
surprised the market this week. The London based broadcaster reported 
more than doubled pretax profits for the first quarter period to the 
end of September.
  Analysts had forecast profits of between 41 and 50 million pounds 
although Sky reported actual profits of 50.8 million pounds.
  Subscribers in the three months jumped 214,000 to hit 4.38 million 
said the company. Underlining how important subscribers are to the 
company, it said 85% of all revenues came from subscriptions.
  The figure represents a 35% increase on the previous year for 
satellite viewers and an 11% jump on cable viewers. 
  Of all subscribers, 57% took all premium channels, but that figure 
looks set to fall from now as The Playboy Channel has begun 
broadcasting and is likely to attract less premium subscriptions than 
sports and movies.


PANAMSAT GETS JAPAN LICENCE
  TOKYO, Japan (TS) -- A month after announcing it had won a licence 
to uplink from Japan, PanAmSat has formally received the 
authorization. It will enable the American company, the world's 
largest private satellite operator, to begin offering services from 
next week's Asian Pacific Economic Cooperation forum (APEC) meeting in 
Osaka.
  Until now, PanAmSat had been made to sell its services via local 
affiliates.
  The entry of the company into the market is expected to result in a 
dramatic drop in charges for international satellite time from Japan.


THAI TV SET FOR EUROPE
  LUBECK, Germany (TSND) -- When TELE-satellit reported several months 
ago that we had sucessfully received Thai Television from the Thaicom 
satellite at our German monitoring station we received many calls from 
Thais in Europe wanting to know how to receive it. Unfortunatly for 
them, the equipment needed is somewhat more complex than an Astra 
receiver but the good news is that someone was obviously listening to 
our reports of interest from Thais.
  Our German news editor, Peter Klanowski, has heard from 
Krath-Telecom in Aachen the news that Thai TV will begin broadcasting 
in Europe from next year.
  Tests are scheduled to begin from mid November and the channel will 
begin full time broadcasting from 1 January 1996 on Eutelsat 2F3 at 
11.163 GHz, Horizontal.
  We also understand the service will be encrypted and cost DM 56 a 
month with a decoder priced at DM 200. We have no information about 
which system the channel will use at present but understand it could 
be Nagravision.



ROMANIA DENIES BANNING HUNGARIAN TV CHANNEL
  By Matyas Szabo, OMRI Inc.
  BUCHAREST, Romania (OMRI) -- Romania's National Audio Visual Council 
has denied banning broadcasts of the Hungarian satellite program Duna 
TV on cable network, Romanian media reported on 9-10 November. The 
controversial decision aroused strong criticism among Romania's 
Hungarian minority.


TVBI RAPPED FOR ADS
  TAIPAI, Taiwan (TS) -- Taiwan's televison regulator has fined Hong 
Kong based TVB International for violations if the country's 
broadcasting standards.
  TVBI was fined around $24,000 for broadcast of a advertisment for 
the racy new movie "Show Girls".
  The broadcaster was also warned for a weight loss programme 
commercial which was not sufficiently labeled as advertising.
  It is the first time Taiwan have acted over beamed in satellite 
programming from Hong Kong and comes after local regulators found they 
could fine the local distributor of the channel.


ASIASAT LAUNCH SCHEDULED
  CENTRAL, Hong Kong (TS) -- Asia Satellite Telecommunications Ltd 
(AsiaSat) will launch its next satellite, Asiasat-2, on November 28th. 
A Chinese Long March rocket will carry the broadcasting satellite into 
orbit from the Xichang satellite launch facility.
  The satellite will replace the original Asiasat-2 lost during an 
explosion shortly after take-off last January and add much needed 
capacity to Asia's skies.
  Amongst broadcasters already confirmed to broadcast on the satellite 
are Star TV and China's CCTV.


BBC GETS AUSTRALIAN CARRIAGE
  SYDNEY, Australia (TS) -- The Galaxy broadcasting service has begun 
carriage of BBC World on its microwave distribution system. The 
service will not be available via Galaxy's satellite service.
  BBC World is broadcast to Europe, Asia, the Middle East, Japan, 
Africa, Canada as part of CBC Newsworld, and now Australia.


JAPAN - DBS SERVICES DETAILED
  TOKYO, Japan (RADIO SWEDEN) -- Thirty-nine companies, mostly 
non-broadcasting firms, plan to join Japan's first multichannel 
digital satellite broadcasting service due to start late next year, a 
business daily has reported.
  The Nihon Keizai Shimbun said the companies include Nippon 
Television Network Corp (NTV), Television Tokyo Channel 12 Ltd (TV 
Tokyo), Pioneer Electronic Corp major movie distributing firm Shochiku 
Co Ltd and Daiichi Kosho Co, which sells and leases karaoke machines. 
  The initial 40-channel service will start next September after a 
test run beginning in April, the daily said. The newspaper said NTV 
and other TV stations will provide satellite channels carrying the 
same programs as their non-satellite broadcasting, and TV Tokyo will 
provide an economic news channel. 
  Companies which make TV programs will have their own channels for 
travel and English conversation programmes, the daily said. New 
channels will also feature foreign languages, cars, coaching for 
examinations, stock prices, shopping and adult programmes, as well as 
sports and movie programmes, it said. 
  In the U.S., Hughes Communications Corp started a 150-channel 
digital broadcasting service in June last year, and now has one 
million subscribers, the daily said. Hughes Communications is planning 
to open another digital satellite broadcasting service in Japan.


TRANSPONDER UPDATE
  Nathan Kopel, International Radio Monitors (Australia)
  George Wood, Radio Sweden
- On FilmNet's Eastern European channel on transponder 63, there is 
Czech audio on 7.74 MHz, but so far only for soccer commentaries.
- The NewsOne news and sports feeds from ABC Television in the US are 
now being seen every morning (EST) on PanAmSat-2 at 3.935 GHz, 
Horizontal, with no scrambling.
- The German music channel Onyx TV (ComTV) began November 1, uncoded 
on Eutelsat II-F1, 11.146 GHz.
- TV Erotica continues on Eutelsat II-F3 11.575 GHz, but D2-MAC 
broadcasts have also begun on Hot Bird, on 11.533 GHz. 
- Bloomberg Information TV began its business channel on Hot Bird 
11.283 on November 1. This channel is broadcasting in MPEG-2.
- Canal Plus has delayed Canal Numerique, its Astra 1D digital channel 
package, until next spring.


BBC CREATES THE WORLD
  LONDON, England (BBC) -- BBC World Service has formed a partnership 
with Public Radio International and and WGBH radio in Boston to 
co-produce a daily global news program to be broadcast through-out 
America. 
  The hour-long program, "The World" will address what is described as 
the "current void of international news on American public radio". 
  The program will initally be launched in January, 1996, when it will 
be broadcast free of charge to seven stations in Los Angeles, San 
Francisco, Cleveland, New York, Boston, and Dallas, with plans to 
expand to Chicago, Minneapolis, and Washington. 
  The service will be available to all public radio stations 
nationwide after April 1, 1996.


RADIO SWEDEN JOINS WRN-2
  By George Wood
  STOCKHOLM, Sweden (RADIO SWEDEN) -- The Radio Sweden Swedish service 
has joined Radio Finland on the World Radio Network's new WRN2 service 
to North America. 
  Other WRN2 broadcasters include RTE in Ireland and Radio Vlaandern 
International. Like WRN1, the new service is on Galaxy 5, transponder 
6, which is WTBS. The audio is 6.2 MHz, and you can hear Radio Sweden 
in Swedish there daily at 2:00 PM Eastern Time, 11:00 AM Pacific.

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1948. It's currently broadcast on the first and third Tuesdays of the 
month. http://www.sr.se/rs

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Shimizu, Japan                         |Internet   : martyn@newsbytes.com
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