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Intelsat was using the Long March rocket for the first time to launch one of its satellites. Intelsat currently has 23 satellites in orbit.

A spokesman for News Corp., Howard Rubenstein, said the accident would not hinder the group's plans to offer 150 channels of entertainment, news and sports programming to viewers in Latin America and the Caribbean.

`N ews Corp. has a number of other real options and will disclose them shortly,'' Rubinstein said in a statement.

Grupo Televisa and Globo plan to offer national and local programming in Spanish and Portuguese. Initially, the venture's partners said they planned to invest $500 million.

But a similar explosion last year delayed the plans of several American media companies to offer a package of satellite television services in Asia. Viacom, Time Warner's Home Box Office and Turner Broadcasting System were among the companies that had leased space on an Apstar 2 satellite to beam MTV, CNN and other channels throughout Asia.

After the rocket carrying that satellite exploded, media analysts said the companies had to settle for space on a series of regional satellites, which had less reach than the Apstar 2 would have offered.

News Corp. actually benefited from that accident. In 1993, the company had purchased a controlling stake in a rival Asian satellite service, Star TV. With his biggest competitors unable to enter the Asian market, Murdoch was able to build Star TV into the dominant programming service.

A spokeswoman for Tele-Communications, LaRae Marsik, said the partners in the Latin American venture intended to begin service by the end of 1996. When the companies announced their plans last November, they said they planned to be in business by May.

Ms. Marsik said Tele-Communications and its partners had a back-up plan, which could include leasing space on another satellite, but she declined to offer details. ``It is an unfortunate incident,'' she said, ``but it is not a make-it-or-break-it event for us.''

Jessica Reif, a media analyst at Merrill Lynch & Co., said, ``If they can get up and running with exclusive programming within six months, it doesn't set the venture back that far.''

Hughes Electronics, a subsidiary of the General Motors Corp., is starting its own satellite broadcast service in Latin America. Ms. Reif said that venture, which is based on Hughes's DirecTV service in the United States, would benefit if the explosion delayed the Murdoch-led venture. NYT-02-14-96 2029EST Last Modified November 1998 http://www.muc.saic.com/proceedings/walkthru_ne_text.html Copyright 1998 Named Entity Key nyt960214.0704 A4479 BC-MURDOCH-SATELLITE-NYT 02-14 0608 BC-MURDOCH-SATELLITE-NYT MURDOCH SATELLITE FOR LATIN PROGRAMMING EXPLODES ON TAKEOFF (kd) By MARK LANDLER c.1996 N.Y. Times News Service

A Chinese rocket carrying a television satellite exploded seconds after launch Wednesday, dealing a potential blow to Rupert Murdoch's ambitions to offer satellite programming in Latin America.

Murdoch's News Corp. is one of four media companies in a partnership that had leased space on the Intelsat satellite to offer the Latin American service. The other partners are Tele-Communications Inc., the nation's largest cable operator; Grupo Televisa SA, the Mexican broadcaster and publisher, and the giant Brazilian media conglomerate Globo.

Llennel Evangelista, a spokesman for Intelsat, a global satellite consortium based in Washington, said the accident occurred at 2 p.m. EST Wednesday, or early Thursday morning at the Xichang launch site in Sichuan Province in southwestern China. ``We have no details on what caused the accident,'' he said.

Evangelista said the Chinese-built Long March rocket veered off course and was destroyed after it failed to reach orbit. Intelsat was using the Long March rocket for the first time to launch one of its satellites. Intelsat currently has 23 satellites in orbit.

A spokesman for News Corp., Howard Rubenstein, said the accident would not hinder the group's plans to offer 150 channels of entertainment, news and sports programming to viewers in Latin America and the Caribbean.

`< ENAMEX TYPE=\"ORGANIZATION\">News Corp. has a number of other real options and will disclose them shortly,'' Rubinstein said in a statement.

Grupo Televisa and Globo plan to offer national and local programming in Spanish and Portuguese. Initially, the venture's partners said they planned to invest $500 million.

But a similar explosion last year delayed the plans of several American media companies to offer a package of satellite television services in Asia. Viacom, Time Warner's Home Box Office and Turner Broadcasting System were among the companies that had leased space on an Apstar 2 satellite to beam MTV, CNN and other channels throughout Asia.

After the rocket carrying that satellite exploded, media analysts said the companies had to settle for space on a series of regional satellites, which had less reach than the Apstar 2 would have offered.

News Corp. actually benefited from that accident. In 1993, the company had purchased a controlling stake in a rival Asian satellite service, Star TV. With his biggest competitors unable to enter the Asian market, Murdoch was able to build Star TV into the dominant programming service.

A spokeswoman for Tele-Communications, LaRae Marsik, said the partners in the Latin American venture intended to begin service by the end of 1996. When the companies announced their plans last November, they said they planned to be in business by May.

Ms. Marsik said Tele-Communications and its partners had a back-up plan, which could include leasing space on another satellite, but she declined to offer details. ``It is an unfortunate incident,'' she said, ``but it is not a make-it-or-break-it event for us.''

Jessica Reif, a media analyst at Merrill Lynch & Co., said, ``If they can get up and running with exclusive programming within six months, it doesn't set the venture back that far.''

Hughes Electronics, a subsidiary of the General Motors Corp., is starting its own satellite broadcast service in Latin America. Ms. Reif said that venture, which is based on Hughes's DirecTV service in the United States, would benefit if the explosion delayed the Murdoch-led venture. NYT-02-14-96 2029EST Hughes expects Galaxy VIII(I) will bring in $30 million in revenue in its first year and $58 million each year for the following 11 years, according to filings at the FCC.

GE Americom filed its cost and revenue assumptions confidentially at the agency. Its plan calls for two satellites and a spare.

The plans are significant, said Scott Blake Harris, former FCC international bureau chief, as ``yet another indication of the health and strength of the U.S. satellite industry.''

The airwaves to be allocated are currently used by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for its tracking and data relay system. The system, among other things, monitors the Space Shuttle, helps to retrieve satellites, and relays communications between ground stations and low-orbiting spacecraft including the Shuttle. Those functions are likely to be slowly shifted to another slice of spectrum, while the airwaves they've historically used are turned over, in part, to satellite services such as the ones planned by GE and GM. Other companies that support the allocation and may use it include Lockheed Martin Corp.'s Loral Space and Communications, International Private Satellite Partners/Orion Atlantic Capital Corp., and Comsat Corp.

No opposing comments on the allocation were filed at the agency.

The spectrum shift comes at Hughes' initiative. The company asked the FCC in March of 1995 to fix an imbalance in the uplink and downlink airwaves available to fixed satellite services so that the spectrum could be more effectively used.

`T he downlink bands are not paired with any uplink bands,'' the company wrote. Indeed, for 1000 megahertz allocated for satellite downlinks, or transmissions from satellites to earth stations, the agency had only set aside 500 megahertz for uplinks. That's meant that half of the downlink capacity has been unusable, because no corresponding uplink airwaves existed.

`I t is . . . critical to the competitiveness of the United States satellite industry, both at home and abroad, that the commission allocate'' more airwaves for fixed satellite uplinks, Hughes said.

A similar plan was set by the International Telecommunications Union at the World Administrative Radio Conference in 1992, and adopted at the same meeting in 1995.

The plan hadn't yet been implemented in the U.S. because interference with NASA's radar functions hadn't been worked out.

Also at Thursday's meeting, the FCC plans to formalize the process public utility companies use to become certified as telecommunications providers. NYT-09-10-96 1604EDT ", "cite_spans": [ { "start": 12987, "end": 13014, "text": "Last Modified November 1998", "ref_id": null }, { "start": 13015, "end": 13087, "text": "http://www.muc.saic.com/proceedings/walkthru_ne_text.html Copyright 1998", "ref_id": null } ], "ref_spans": [], "eq_spans": [], "section": "Template Relation Key", "sec_num": null } ], "back_matter": [ { "text": "dishes and to cable company receivers for distribution to cable subscribers.

Mexico's Grupo Televisa SA, Multivision SA and Medcom SA all have plans to deliver direct-to-home video satellite service to Mexico within a year.

Televisa, Mexico's largest broadcaster, has formed an agreement with Rupert Murdoch's News Corp., Brazil's Globo television network, and Denver-based Tele-Communications Inc. to offer direct-to-home service throughout Latin America.

Turner Broadcasting System Inc., for its part, agreed in July to distribute Cable News Network and three other cable channels to Latin American subscribers together with a group called Galaxy Latin America, composed of GM's DirecTV, Venezuela's Cisneros Group of Cos., Brazil's Televisao Abril, and Mexico's MVS Multivision.

Hughes' Galaxy VIII(I) plan would use one satellite, which the company estimates will cost $230 million to build and launch. Hughes expects Galaxy VIII(I) will bring in $30 million in revenue in its first year and $58 million each year for the following 11 years, according to filings at the FCC.

GE Americom filed its cost and revenue assumptions confidentially at the agency. Its plan calls for two satellites and a spare.

The plans are significant, said Scott Blake Harris, former FCC international bureau chief, as ``yet another indication of the health and strength of the U.S. satellite industry.''

The airwaves to be allocated are currently used by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for its tracking and data relay system. The system, among other things, monitors the Space Shuttle, helps to retrieve satellites, and relays communications between ground stations and low-orbiting spacecraft including the Shuttle. Those functions are likely to be slowly shifted to another slice of spectrum, while the airwaves they've historically used are turned over, in part, to satellite services such as the ones planned by GE and GM. Other companies that support the allocation and may use it include Lockheed Martin Corp.'s Loral Space and Communications, International Private Satellite Partners/Orion Atlantic Capital Corp., and Comsat Corp.

No opposing comments on the allocation were filed at the agency.

The spectrum shift comes at Hughes' initiative. The company asked the FCC in March of 1995 to fix an imbalance in the uplink and downlink airwaves available to fixed satellite services so that the spectrum could be more effectively used.

`T he downlink bands are not paired with any uplink bands,'' the company wrote. Indeed, for 1000 megahertz allocated for satellite downlinks, or transmissions from satellites to earth stations, the agency had only set aside 500 megahertz for uplinks. That's meant that half of the downlink capacity has been unusable, because no corresponding uplink airwaves existed.

`I t is . . . critical to the competitiveness of the United States satellite industry, both at home and abroad, that the commission allocate'' more airwaves for fixed satellite uplinks, Hughes said.

A similar plan was set by the International Telecommunications Union at the World Administrative Radio Conference in 1992, and adopted at the same meeting in 1995.

The plan hadn't yet been implemented in the U.S. because interference with NASA's radar functions hadn't been worked out.

Also at Thursday's meeting, the FCC plans to formalize the process public utility companies use to become certified as telecommunications providers. NYT-09-10-96 1604EDT Last Modified November 1998 http://www.muc.saic.com/proceedings/walkthru_co_key.html Copyright 1998 ", "cite_spans": [ { "start": 6767, "end": 6794, "text": "Last Modified November 1998", "ref_id": null }, { "start": 6795, "end": 6866, "text": "http://www.muc.saic.com/proceedings/walkthru_co_key.html Copyright 1998", "ref_id": null } ], "ref_spans": [], "eq_spans": [], "section": "annex", "sec_num": null } ], "bib_entries": { "BIBREF2": { "ref_id": "b2", "title": "13", "authors": [ { "first": "gm", "suffix": "" }, { "first": "", "middle": [], "last": "Id=", "suffix": "" } ], "year": null, "venue": ">GE PROJECTS LIKELY TO GET NEEDED AIRWAVES FROM FCC THURSDAY (For use by New York Times News Service clients", "volume": "", "issue": "", "pages": "", "other_ids": {}, "num": null, "urls": [], "raw_text": "GM, GE PROJECTS LIKELY TO GET NEEDED AIRWAVES FROM FCC THURSDAY (For use by New York Times News Service clients)", "links": null }, "BIBREF3": { "ref_id": "b3", "title": "By Liza McDonald c.1996 Bloomberg Business News", "authors": [], "year": null, "venue": "", "volume": "", "issue": "", "pages": "", "other_ids": {}, "num": null, "urls": [], "raw_text": "By Liza McDonald c.1996 Bloomberg Business News", "links": null }, "BIBREF4": { "ref_id": "b4", "title": "MIN=\"allocation\">expected allocation will let the companies transmit video pictures, phone calls, and other data from earth stations to orbiting satellites, and then to customers in Mexico, the Caribbean, Central America, and South America", "authors": [ { "first": "", "middle": [], "last": "

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Washington, Sept. 10 (Bloomberg) --Satellite systems to deliver video services to Latin America planned by General Motors Corp.'s Hughes Electronics Corp. and General Electric Co. are likely to get the airwaves they need from federal regulators.

Plans for Hughes' Galaxy VIII(I) project and GE's GE Americom project depend on the Federal Communications Commission's allocation of a swath of spectrum that will let their earth stations communicate with satellites in space.

Scheduled for a vote at the agency's meeting on Thursday, the expected allocation will let the companies transmit video pictures, phone calls, and other data from earth stations to orbiting satellites, and then to customers in Mexico, the Caribbean, Central America, and South America.

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Llennel Evangelista, a spokesman for Intelsat, a global satellite consortium based in Washington, said the accident occurred at 2 p.m. EST Wednesday, or early Thursday morning at the Xichang launch site in Sichuan Province in southwestern China. ``We have no details on what caused the accident,'' he said.

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