From: rdickel@cs.strath.ac.uk (Robert A Dickel IE91)
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Subject: Satnews 087
Date: 29 Jul 92 15:28:44 GMT
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IN THIS WEEK'S EDITION: 
 
* ITC SAYS NO FUTURE FOR BSB SATELLITE TRANSMISSIONS 
* REUTERS TAKE CONTROL OF VISNEWS WITH NBC 
* EC IN COURT OVER TV SOCCER COVERAGE 
* CABLE TELEPHONY INCREASES IN THE UK 
* FILMNET AWARDED COMMERCIAL TV LICENCE 
* OFTEL LIBERALISES CABLE TELEVISION LICENCES 
* SATELLITE TV SOCCER HIT BY POLL IN UK 
* EUROPE'S SMALLEST TV STATION 
* KUWAIT TO INTRODUCE CABLE TELEVISION SERVICE 
* HDTV OLYMPICS 
* THE CATTLE CHANNEL 
* CNN EDITOR IN EXTERNAL WORK ROW 
* NEW LATIN AMERICAN CHANNEL FOR US 
* MTV EUROPE CELEBRATES FIFTH BIRTHDAY 
* NEWS IN BRIEF 
* EUROPEAN SIGHTINGS 
* NORTH AMERICAN SIGHTINGS 
 
 
ITC SAYS NO FUTURE FOR BSB SATELLITE TRANSMISSIONS 
The UK's Independent Television Commission says that it will  not 
be advertising a licence to operate a Domestic Satellite  Service 
(DSS) on the Marcopolo satellite.  This scuppers any hope for BSB 
owners  who wanted to see services continued after  BSkyB  ceases 
transmissions aboard the satellite at the end of the year. 
 
     Many  submissions were made to the ITC and discussions  were 
held between the ITC, Department of National Heritage and  BSkyB, 
before a decision was made. 
 
     Twenty expressions of interest were received by the ITC from 
organisations wishing to broadcast from Marcopolo at a peppercorn 
rent.  Ethnic and educational channels were popular  submissions. 
Many organisations proposed operation a closed user group service 
-- a service not compatible with a DSS licence. 
 
     The ITC says that it believes that any successful  applicant 
would  not have been able to continuing providing  services  when 
the Marcopolo satellite needed replacing -- as required under the 
terms of the DSS licence. 
 
     Recent discussions between the ITC and BSkyB have been  held 
over the replacement of BSB subscriber equipment. BSkyB says that 
it will be writing to BSB dish-owners with details of the planned 
changeover of equipment in August. 
 
REUTERS TAKE CONTROL OF VISNEWS WITH NBC 
Reuters  and  NBC have signed a ten-year  television  partnership 
that will explore new opportunities in global television.   Under 
the terms of the partnership, Reuters will take over full control 
of Visnews - the international video news agency. 
 
     NBC's 37.75 percent share in Visnews has been transferred to 
Reuters.   Outline plans to purchase the 11.25 percent  share  of 
Visnews from the BBC have been agreed.  Visnews has in turn  lost 
the  exclusive right to distribute NBC's programming outside  the 
US under the agreement. 
 
     Peter  Job, chief executive of Reuters and chairman at  Vis- 
news, says: "We intend to invest in television and make Visnews a 
more  powerful  force by extending its operations  into  Reuters' 
network of 118 reporting bureaux worldwide." 
 
     *  Visnews' VisEurope newsfeed channel on Eutelsat II-F1  is 
to  be encrypted using Videocrypt during August in a bid to  stop 
unauthorised reception by non-subscribers. 
 
EC IN COURT OVER TV SOCCER COVERAGE 
The  European Commission is to face a court hearing over  allega- 
tions  by  private television companies that the rules  of  foot- 
ball's governing bodies are restricting broadcasting. 
 
     And officials at football chiefs UEFA are angry at the  EC's 
threats to levy heavy fines for failing to hand over  information 
on  broadcasting to broadcasters.  UEFA says that its  rules  are 
designed to prevent saturation coverage of matches which would in 
turn reduce attendances. 
 
     The  Scottish Football Association has also taken the RC  to 
court  for  a  testcase ruling, after a  complaint  was  made  by 
Screensport  saying that it had been prevented from  broadcasting 
Argentine  football  in  Scotland.   Screensport  executives  are 
reportedly confident of winning a court ruling. 
 
     Under rule 14 of UEFA regulations, any broadcaster that buys 
the  rights to cover soccer matches in one country needs  written 
approval  from soccer authorities in each European country  where 
broadcasts may be received.  If one country fails to give  appro- 
val, the broadcasts cannot go ahead. 
 
CABLE TELEPHONY INCREASES IN THE UK 
According  to  figures  released by  the  Independent  Television 
Commission the number of telephone lines installed in  customers' 
premises by cable operators increased by 125 percent in the first 
six months of 1992. 
 
     There are approximately 48,000 telephone lines connected  in 
17  franchise  areas.  Several other cable  television  operators 
plan to introduce telephony services to subscribers by the end of 
the year. 
 
FILMNET AWARDED COMMERCIAL TV LICENCE 
The  Dutch government has awarded Filmnet a  domestic  commercial 
broadcasting licence.  Filmnet plans to use the licence to extend 
its present unencrypted programming schedule for Dutch viewers. 
 
     Filmnet  plans to start broadcasting additional services  in 
autumn.  A detailed programme schedule has yet to  be  completed, 
but  Filmnet says that it will offer a "broader selection  of  TV 
programmes while guaranteeing the same level of quality." 
 
     The licence has been granted for an initial ten-year period. 
Cable  television  viewers in Holland will benefit from  the  new 
commercial  broadcasting  licence, with the increased  period  of 
programming made "in the clear." 
 
OFTEL LIBERALISES CABLE TELEVISION LICENCES 
Oftel, the UK's telecommunications watchdog, has liberalised  the 
technical requirements required for systems installations by eli- 
gible broadband cable operators. 
 
     Under  the  new ruling, cable operators can choice  the  way 
they build their cable networks.  Oftel says that cable-TV compa- 
nies  that have a 23-year operating licence will be  affected  by 
the move. 
 
     Cable  systems  that have a 15-year licence can  revoke  the 
existing  licence  and receive a 23-year  licence,  according  to 
Edward Leigh, parliamentary under-secretary for technology. 
 
SATELLITE TV SOCCER HIT BY POLL IN UK 
An  ICM poll commissioned by London Weekend Television in the  UK 
shows  that only three percent of people who do not own a  satel- 
lite  dish intend to install a dish to watch  encrypted  Premiere 
League football matches. 
 
     A further 13 percent says that they may consider  installing 
a  system.   Over half the respondents who  watched  football  on 
terrestrial  television said that would definitely not install  a 
satellite dish. 
 
     Sixteen percent of respondents already had satellite televi- 
sion installed, with a further six percent receiving cable  tele- 
vision services. 
 
EUROPE'S SMALLEST TV STATION 
Residents  in  Echtershausen,  a small village  near  the  German 
border, are benefiting from Europe's smallest television station. 
 
     The  140  inhabitants  can tune into  their  own  'community 
council'  as  live broadcasts are being made from  all  meetings. 
The  mayor  doubles up as the main presenter, the  butcher  as  a 
cameraman and the locksmith as a sound recordist. 
 
     Villagers are keenly participating in Tele Echtershausen and 
are  producing  their own magazine-style programmes.     All  the 
technical equipment has been self-installed, with some assistance 
from German broadcasters. 
 
     A  decision was taken to create the local station  as  resi- 
dents have great difficulties tuning into the main German terres- 
trial channels as the village is located at the bottom of a  huge 
valley.    Deutsche Bundespost Telekom officials refused  to  in- 
stall cable television services into the area as it is part of  a 
large conservation region. 
 
     The equipment used is quite primitive: A conventional  home- 
video  camera  is used for all broadcasts,  and  domestic  video- 
recorders are used to replay off-air broadcasts. 
 
KUWAIT TO INTRODUCE CABLE TELEVISION SERVICE 
A cable television service is to be introduced in Kuwait,  offer- 
ing up to forty television channels. 
 
     According to the  Kuwaiti Communications Ministry,  citizens 
will  be  encouraged  to opt for the  cable  television  services 
instead of installing satellite dishes, which are causing  envir- 
onmental concerns in the country. 
 
     A  private company will handle the operations and  installa- 
tions of the network,   The Ministry says that it can monitor the 
television  channels  broadcast  over the  cable  system,  but  a 
spokesman declined to comment on whether censorship may be intro- 
duced for some broadcasts. 
 
HDTV OLYMPICS 
Many HDTV broadcasts are being made from the Barcelona  Olympics. 
A 26-strong team from the UK's Thames Television has joined other 
broadcasters to make a series of broadcasts in 1250/50 HDTV. 
 
     The  broadcasts  will form part of a 9  million  programme, 
utilising  41 cameras, 28 video recorders, three edit-suites  and 
two HD-MAC encoders.  Over 230 hours of HDTV broadcasts have been 
scheduled by the organisers. 
 
     Signals  will  be relayed over Eutelsat II-f3,  Telecom  2A, 
TDF1/2, Olympus and TVSAT-2 satellites throughout Europe. 
 
THE CATTLE CHANNEL 
A new satellite television channel is to be launched later in the 
year -- and it will be devoted to the sale of livestock.  Farmers 
will  be able to tune in from their farm kitchens and  make  bids 
for sheep, cows and other animals. 
 
     Central  Livestock Auctions Satellite Sales  in the  UK  has 
been formed and will commence broadcasting from the University of 
Plymouth's transponder aboard the Olympus satellite from 6  Octo- 
ber. 
 
     Auctions will be controlled from a specially-created  studio 
at the polytechnic.  Bidders will make contact by telephone after 
viewing their prospective purchases on screen. 
 
CNN EDITOR IN EXTERNAL WORK ROW 
According  to  a report in The Wall Street  Journal,  Lou  Dobbs, 
business editor for CNN, has built a lucrative sideline as a paid 
spokesman for several Wall Street brokerage houses. 
 
     But  the  article stresses that there is  no  evidence  that 
Dobbs'  reporting for CNN has been biased in favour  of  external 
clients.  CNN is now said to be conducting a review into external 
work carried out by the network's journalists. 
 
     Dobbs was paid between US$5-10,000 per videotape by  clients 
such as PaineWebber and Sherman Brothers. 
 
     CNN's  president  Tom Johnson is quoted as saying  that  the 
network  has complete confidence in Dobbs' and that he  will  not 
face any disciplinary action. 
 
NEW LATIN AMERICAN CHANNEL FOR US 
Sistema  Unida de Retransmision (SUR) is a new service  available 
on  Spacenet 2 transponder 22 (69 degrees west longitude)  writes 
Anthony Pavick.  Programming is mainly the retransmission of news 
and variety programming, live and delayed, from central and South 
American  countries. All programming, except Tele  Jornal  Brasil 
which is  in Portuguese, is in Spanish. 
 
     Programming  is provided by networks such as: TV Nacional  - 
Chile;  TeLeFe  - Argentina; SBT - Brasil;  Caracol  -  Colombia; 
Panamericana - Peru and Telesistema - Ecuador. 
 
     SUR  is  planning to become a subscription channel,  but  is 
currently  broadcasting  in the clear.  Further  information  and 
schedules can be obtained by calling, toll-free, 1-800-553-1713. 
 
MTV EUROPE CELEBRATES FIFTH BIRTHDAY 
Satnews special feature. 
 
On  1  August MTV Europe will celebrate its fifth  birthday,  and 
viewers  are guaranteed a sound and vision spectacular while  the 
channel celebrates its birthday on-air. 
 
     At 12.01 am on 1 August 1987, Elton John launched the  chan- 
nel  from The Roxy Club in Amsterdam to 1.6  million  households. 
The first video aired was Dire Straits' "Money for Nothing." 
 
     Within  six weeks of the launch, the channel had managed  to 
secure  a one week cable and satellite network exclusive  on  Mi- 
chael  Jackson's Bad video.  During February the  following  year 
new  studios  were opened in Camden, north London, and  within  a 
year  of the channel's launch 3.5 million households were  tuning 
in. 
 
     MTV  Europe   made  its debut onto the  Astra  satellite  in 
February 1989, and celebrated its second birthday by broadcasting 
to  over ten million households.   This event coincided with  MTV 
signing a massive deal with Deutsche Bundespost Telekom for  dis- 
tribution of MTV's signal through German cable networks. 
 
     British Telecom's shareholding in MTV was sold to Viacom  in 
February 1990, and MTV continued its massive expansion  programme 
by  signing distribution agreements in many  countries  including 
Iceland,  Israel  and Poland.  MTV services for Brazil  and  Asia 
were launched, and by its fourth birthday, MTV Europe was  broad- 
casting to over 25 million households. 
 
     Now,  nearly five years on from its launch, MTV  has  signed 
arrangements  to have its first teletext service  operational  by 
August,  During 1992, MTV signed an agreement for a second  Astra 
transponder, and now broadcasts to over 35 million households  in 
Europe. 
 
     MTV executives are remaining tight-lipped over future  deve- 
lopments  for the channel, but it is rumoured that  an  encrypted 
pay-per-view scheme  may be used for key concerts and programmes. 
Digital  signal compression is also expected to be introduced  to 
provide more 'taste-specific' channels for viewers. 
 
NEWS IN BRIEF 
Television  history  was made in the UK recently with  the  first 
broadcast  of  a  company's annual general  meeting  on  national 
terrestrial  television.  Cable & Wireless broadcast a  half-hour 
programme on BBC1 television, using the BBC's Select TV  service. 
Other  specialist channels will be broadcast during BBC1's  down- 
time. 
 
     Inmarsat  and Teleglobe Canada have signed an agreement  for 
the  provision of satellite tracking, telemetry and control  ser- 
vices  to support the Inmarsat-3 and Inmarsat-2  satellites.  The 
Teleglobe earth station based at Lake Cowivhan, British Columbia, 
will  be used to track satellites in the Atlantic Ocean West  and 
Pacific Ocean regions. 
 
     Plans by many independent television companies in the UK  to 
create  a  pan-European television channel are set to  go  ahead, 
with  an  initial investment of 30 million.   The  channel  will 
broadcast  on the Astra satellite and utilise  archive  material. 
The  yet-to-be-named channel would compete with the UK Gold  net- 
work, operated by the BBC and other broadcasters. 
 
     In  the UK, a court heard that a jobless TV addict became  a 
gun  bandit to save his satellite dish from being repossessed  by 
creditors.   The criminal was sentenced to seven years  imprison- 
ment  for holding up a West London building society and  stealing 
1,106 
 
     A report commissioned by the Hong Kong government has recom- 
mended that the Star TV network -- operated by Hutchison and  the 
Li  family  -- should start charging a subscription fee  for  its 
programming, and introduce broadcasts in Cantonese. 
 
     Screensport has lost its battle to broadcast coverage of the 
Barcelona Olympics, but it has vowed to continue pressurising the 
European Commission to rule against an alleged cartel operated by 
EBU members.  An hourly Olympics bulletin will be broadcast. 
 
     Arianespace  has successfully launched two  satellites  from 
its  space centre in Kourou, French Guiana on 9 July.  Insat  2-A 
and Eutelsat II-F4 were launched.   An Ariane 44L launch  vehicle 
was used for Ariane launch 51. 
 
     Francis Baron has resigned as chief executive officer of the 
European  Television  Network and the  European  Sports  Network. 
Richard  F.  Spinner has been appointed as  Baron's  replacement. 
Baron has apparently resigned to pursue 'other interests.' 
 
     Sharp has launched a 28-inch colour television with a built- 
in  satellite  tuner offering a 16:9 widescreen  HDTV  option  as 
standard.  The set - known as 28C-WD2 - will initially be  avail- 
able solely in Japan. 
 
     Astra  Marketing  in the UK has showed its support  for  the 
Confederation of Aerial Installer's satellite training courses by 
donating spectrum analysers to two accredited training colleges. 
 
     Jim  Henson  Productions and Walt Disney Co. have  signed  a 
distribution  agreement  for "Fraggle Rock" from October  on  the 
Disney Channel. 
 
     A  Horizont communications satellite has been launched by  a 
Proton  rocket from the Russian Baikonur kosmodrome on  15  July, 
for the Russian Ministry of Communications. 
 
     Satellite Technology Management  has announced a 49  percent 
rise  in  revenues for the first six months of the  year  to  US$ 
9,331,100, with gross profits up 46 percent to US$ 4,287,400. 
 
     Comsat  -- the US signatory to Intelsat and Inmarsat --  has 
opened  an earth station in Anatolia, Turkey, which will be  used 
to provide coverage for four oceanic regions. 
 
     A consortium called Asian Radio and Television is to  launch 
a 2 million share offer to finance an Asian television  station, 
which will operate from the London studios of Sunset Radio. 
 
     Blenheim Online says that the 0th European Satellite  Commu- 
nications Conference will be held at the London Metropole  Hotel, 
London during 7-9 December. 
 
     A US$ 159 million Japanese satellite has been launched by  a 
NASA  rocket to study how  particles blasting away from  the  sun 
interact with the Earth's magnetic field. 
 
     Eutelsat is reportedly offering up to a 50 percent  discount 
for  its SMS capacity on Eutelsat II-F3, due to its  pre-emptible 
rights and low takeup. 
 
     RTL-4 has taken a ten percent stake in Filmnet. Further  co- 
operative  associations  between the two Dutch  broadcasters  are 
slated. 
 
     Turner  Broadcasting Systems is planning to operate a  joint 
venture in Russia that will see the creation of a new channel  on 
Russia's terrestrial television network. 
 
     A camerawoman for CNN has been badly injured by sniper  fire 
while covering fighting at Sarajevo airport. The CNN camera  crew 
have left the area. 
 
     The  European Commission is to give the EBU a  US$4  million 
grant to provide an Arabic language fed for its Euronews service, 
due to be launched 1 January 1993. 
 
     Comsat says that its second quarter revenue fell to US$ 16.9 
million from US$ 18.9 million the previous period. 
 
     Viacom  Inc.  says  that second quarter revenues  are  up  9 
percent to US$ 451 million compared to the previous year. 
 
EUROPEAN SIGHTINGS 
By Dr Helmut Vahlbruch 
Extra submissions from Jurgen Bartels 
 
Eutelsat  II-F3,  16E has some new transmissions  on  11.594  GHz 
vertical    with    testcards   saying   "HBBTV    Stereo"    and 
"HASTV Test Yayini" 
 
     Transmissions  from the Barcelona Olympics can be  found  on 
11.080 GHz horizontal "ARD / ZDF Barcelona 92"  (Germany); 11.160 
GHz     "BBC BARC-1" (GB) 11.560 GHz and "CPF BARC OP2" (France) 
 
     TV-PLUS on 11.675 GHz horizontal / D2-MAC / 16:9 was in  the 
clear  on  16 July. TELE 5 Espana, 11.090 GHz vertical,  was  un- 
scrambled on 10 July. 
 
Eutelsat I-F5, 21.5E: 
Various  EBU  feeds can be noted from the Barcelona  Olympics  on 
this  transponder.   11.470, 11.508 and  11.550   GHz  horizontal 
(Sound in Sync). 
 
     On  22 July feeds from the AIDS Conference at  Amsterdam  on 
11.138 and 11.175 GHz vertical. 
 
Eutelsat I-F4, 7E: 
The Swiss PTT is using 11.475 GHz horizontal  for feeds (23 July, 
1850 UTC) 
 
Telecom 1C, 5W: 
In place of the black picture on 12.606 GHz vertical, (the former 
La  Cinq  channel)  a testcard appeared  saying  "Telecom2  Paris 
Serte" The usual audio subcarriers are still in place. 
 
Intelsat 601, 27.5W: 
EBU feeds from Sarajewo are on 11.060 GHz vertical. 
 
NORTH AMERICAN SIGHTINGS 
By Robert Smathers 
 
The  NBC Television Network has removed one of its  C-band  feeds 
this   week.   They used to have two Eastern time zone  feeds  on 
both  Satcom C1/8 and Satcom C1/9.  The only C-band feed for  NBC 
can be found on C1/8. 
 
     PBS has made the successful move from Spacenet 1 to Spacenet 
4  this past week.  PBS can be found on Spacent 4/channels 6,  8, 
10, and 12. 
 
     A  Chinese/Japanese news service has appeared on  Satcom  C1 
recently.  I have yet to find an identity of the service, but  on 
the program end slate, it says that the service is "a product  of 
TVB  (USA) Inc.".  This service is found (on an occasional  video 
basis) on C1/1. 
 
     CNBC,  on  Galaxy 5/13, can now be found in the  clear.   It 
probably won't stay that way too much longer. 
 
     NHK Japan has featured ABC programming in the clear  recent- 
ly. NHK usually encrypts the ABC network feeds on this  New  York 
City  to Tokyo feed channel with the Leitch system, but the  pro- 
gramming  has been in the clear for the last week.  NHK Japan  is 
found on Galaxy 6/18. 
 
     CNN International has moved.  CNN International was found on 
GSTAR-4/6  (Ku-band) until last week.  CNN International can  now 
be found on Spacenet 3/16 (program on 6.80, CNN Radio Network  on 
6.20). 
 
SATELLITE TV EVENT OF THE WEEK: 
This  week's event has to be the Democratic  National  Convention 
held last week in New York City. 
 
     I saw news feeds and convention coverage everywhere  (mostly 
on Telstar 301, Telstar 302, Galaxy 6, Telstar 303, ASC-1, Space- 
net 4, SBS-6, GSTAR-2, GSTAR-4, SBS-5, and Spacenet 1). 
 
     The only time I've ever seen more newsfeeds about one  event 
than  this one occurred in October 1989 when a  major  earthquake 
struck the San Francisco/Oakland Bay Area.  Bill Clinton won  the 
nomination to be the Democrat's candidate in the November  United 
States Presidential Election. 
 
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