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TELE SATELLIT EUROPE'S SATELLITE MAGAZINE European Satellite News - English Version Number 21, Week ending 16 October 1994 By Martyn Williams News Desk : Internet martyn@euro.demon.co.uk or CompuServe 100025,1637 (c) TELE Satellit Magazine Hot Bird hots up - Aerospatiale delivers Hot Bird 1 - Leases going fast - NBC may launch second channel TELE Satellit News Bureau London and Munich Eutelsat's new Hot Bird 1 satellite was handed over by French manufacturer Aerospatiale this week. The new satellite, to be positioned alongside Eutelsat 2 F1 at 13 degrees east, is likely to begin broadcasting early next year and will provide the first real competition for Luxembourg's Astra satellite in the major markets of the UK, Poland and Germany. The latest news from our German news desk indicates that there are only a few transponders left on Hot Bird - From Eutelsat 2 F1 : EDTV Dubai, MTV Europe, NBC Super Channel and TV 5 Europe. From Eutelsat 2 F2 : RAI Uno, RAI Due and TVE International. From Eutelsat 2 F3 : TV Polonia Two of the remaining transponders are reserved for CLT, probably for Super RTL, and Polish Telecom, possibly for the new Canal Plus Poland service or PolSat. There are a further two new channels, EBN - European Business News - from Dow Jones Television and Premiera TV. Despite there being only a couple of transponders left on Hot Bird there will be some free channels on Eutelsat 2 F1 when channels vacate that satellite. NBC Super Channel is understood to be continuing on both Eutelsat 2 F1 and Hot Bird for the foreseeable future. In the short term this will simply be used for dual illumination of NBC Super Channel and tests of digital TV but NBC are understood to be considering launching a second channel for Europe. Chinese Channel says it's still Nagra Despite UK press reports this week that the Chinese Channel would switch encryption systems for a third time, to VideoCrypt, CC told TS News this week that they are to start encryption soon with Nagravision. CC had originally wanted to use the CryptoVision system but changed to NagraVision after Astra's owners, SES, said that the introduction of another system may confuse the market. A report in Satellite Trader said that SES had once again told CC that Nagra was unsuitable because other broadcasters channel 47 used VideoCrypt. It is understood that CC have an option on a Eutelsat 2F1 transponder and they may move to that sometime next year. Ratings War ! - Star TV and TVB fight it out in Taiwan TS News Bureau Munich Rupert Murdoch's 64 per cent owned Star TV network is battling Hong Kong's TVB in a bitter ratings battle in Taiwan. The centre of the problem is that each network contracts a different agency to measure audience viewing and each agency uses different methods. Star's agency uses 500 "people meters" to measure audience reach whilst TVB employs random telephone calling to 7000 people to determine which channel they are and have been watching. Let's party ! Satellite festival on 22/23 October TELE Satellit News Bureau London, Munich and TESUG Next weekend will see the launch of TESUG TV. Anchored by Eric Wilshire and ex Radio Luxembourg DJ Jonathan Miles, TESUG TV will produce 20 hours of programming centred around satellite TV and broadcasting. The broadcast will be direct from British Telecom's Goonhilly earth station in Cornwall and be live to Europe via Eutelsat 2F1 and to North America via Intelsat 601. Documentaries will feature the history of satellite TV from Telstar through to the upcoming Eutelsat Hot Bird. Contributors to the show include NASA, Arianespace, Aerospatiale and GPO Films. A special feature from Echosphere will describe the new American DBS service that is due to start next year. Broadcasters contributing behind the scenes documentaries include Euronews, Eurosport, The Family Channel, Deutsche Welle TV, TV 5 Europe and NBC Super Channel. There's a special look around the World Radio Network's computerised headquarters in London with station chief Karl Miosaga and a trip inside the UK's Radio Authority. The CAI will show you how to properly install a satellite dish and on Saturday from 1745 to 1815 direct from the Telekom Usingen uplink station, TELE Satellit's Dr. Dish (Christian Mass) and Petra Hüther (TELE-satellit Chefredakteurin) along with Tim Narwath (TESUG Deutschland) will host a German half hour. The technical side of the event is impressive with outside broadcasts from Atlanta, Washington, France, Munich and Betzdorf possibly. The viewers will get a chance to see the technical side of the operation with a look around BT's Goonhilly earth station and BT's Docklands teleport in London. The camera will even take you onto a big dish and look inside the uplink ! The technical details are : Times : 0900 - 2000 UK/CET Saturday/Sunday 22/23 October 1994 (except 1645 - 1745) Europe : Eutelsat 2F1, 11.617 GHz, Vertical, 6.50 MHz (50us), 7.02 MHz (Wegener Panda) North America : Intelsat 601, 3.820 GHz Incoming feeds to TESUG TV : Intelsat 601, 11.135 GHz Contact Details during the broadcast : Telephone : +44-1326-221333 (BT Goonhilly) Fax : +44-1872-325401 email : tbc smail : PO Box 576, Orpington, Kent, BR6 9WY, United Kingdom India - 25 killed in dispute over Doordashan broadcast Peter Heinlein, VOA New Delhi Twenty Five people have been killed in the Indian city of Bangalore, where communal riots broke out last Friday over the use of the Urdu language on local television news bulletins. Police say the death toll in four days of street fights reached 25 on Tuesday. From VOA's New Delhi bureau, Peter Heinlein reports the fighting is continuing despite suspension of the Urdu broadcasts. The trouble began last Friday when Muslims threw rocks at Hindus marching to protest the introduction of the Urdu language on somenews bulletins on the state-run television service. Urdu is spoken mainly by Muslims, and is the language of India's arch-rival Pakistan, while Hindus in the south Indian state of Karnataka, of which Bangalore is the capital, mainly speak Kannada. The trouble continued in Bangalore monday, even though a local Hindu leader involved in the anti-Urdu movement had called for an end to violence, noting that the government had backed down and suspended the Urdu-language broadcast. But Hindu hardliners apparently refused to heed the call, demanding that the broadcasts be cancelled altogether, not merely suspended. Show Report : NAB World Media Expo 1994 Greg Flakus, VOA Los Angeles In Los Angeles, 20 thousand radio, television, and cable television professionals are attending the National Association of Broadcasters world media expo. As VOA's Greg Flakus reports, the gathering gives suppliers of broadcast equipment and services a chance to pitch their latest hi-tech wares. Some 500 exhibitors set up in the Los Angeles Convention Center to demonstrate everything from satellite dishes and computer-assisted editing equipment to syndicated broadcast programs. While radio and television celebrities drew some of the crowd, most of the professional broadcasters and station managers in attendance came to see the new products. The obvious trend this year is to digital systems, whereby both sight and sound can be stored, retrieved, edited and transmitted utilizing computers and sophisticated software. Mike Carlson of odetiks broadcast was in the expo hall demonstrating his company's hardware and software products. "The biggest word out right now, of course, is the digital display and everybody is talking about a tapeless system where you are taking your video off a computer hard disk instead of off a tape and there are a lot of pros and cons with that type of situation, so that is why we have to be able to provide our customers with a satisfactory service to understand what the pitfalls might be and give them the flexibility of a tape system and a tapeless system in the same package." While the world media expo offers a tremendous opportunity to meet customers and show products, it is also a place where a supplier can view the competition. Mike Carlson says keeping up in this highly technical field is not easy. "That is quite the challenge because you always have to look around and see who is creeping up, who has the latest stuff, who has the new material and how flexible are you in bringing that new material, that new product and envelope it into your own product for your customers." While the expo continued in the convention center hall, the National Association of Broadcasters sponsored a number of workshops and conferences for broadcast professionals to address some of the major issues facing the industry today. topics included broadcast program formats, advertising and promotion techniques and issues of federal regulation. In brief ... - WRN - will start two new radio channels early next year. The awaited German service is scheduled to begin in early to mid 1995 whilst the much awaited National Public Radio feed from the US is due in the first couple of months of 1995 freeing up space on the English service. - Tele Monte Carlo - Scrambling will commence on the Telecom 2B channel during November. The station has been pirated by cable networks outside France leading to the move. - ARTE - on Telecom 2B now carries teletext. The service was already available via the relay for German on Kopernikus and on the TDF D2-Mac channel. - TELECOM 2B - Radio Nostalgie is now on the Arte channel, audio 7.25 MHz. - Kuwait - Newsfeeds from Kuwait have been seen on Intelsat K, 11.472 GHz V, and PanAmSat, 11.638 GHz, H - TELECOM 1C - The BBC News feed in Arabic for Orbit TV has been using this satellite from 1800 to 0000 UK/CET, 12.648 GHz Vertical. - Happy Birthday VOA Europe ! The satellite station turned 9 years old on Friday. - Eutelsat have been testing the carraige of two TV channels on one transponder recently - VIVA was broadcast in both analogue PAL and digital on Eutelsat 2F1, 11.617 GHz. - DFS Kopernikus 2, 28,5 degrees east, this satellite is getting more an more use in the 11GHz band for German news feeds, especially now Eutelsat 2F1 is full. Recently RTL and NDR were using it. - Intelsat 702 - TV 3 Sweden and TV 3 Denmark appear to have disappeared from this satellite. On 11.475 GHz Sweden's SVT2. TELE Satellit Magazine This news is from the English language news service of TELE Satellit, a monthly satellite magazine edited in Munich, Germany. It consists of 132 pages, full colour with tables, charts and news with many off-screen photos of the satellite channels plus an informative technical section. Subscriptions are available for DM 120, Europe surface mail; DM 144, Europe airmail and DM 192, ROW airmail. 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