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TELE SATELLIT EUROPE'S SATELLITE MAGAZINE European Satellite News - English Version Number 27, Week ending 27 November 1994 By Martyn Williams News Desk : Internet martyn@euro.demon.co.uk or CompuServe 100025,1637 (c) TELE Satellit Magazine TV Asia is 1D's first broadcaster A special new years gift for TV Asia fans will be the launch of the station on it's very own channel. From the 1st of January TV Asia will transmit on transponder 54 (10.788 GHz, Vertical) of the new Astra 1D satellite and become 1D's first broadcaster. Astra 1D is currently in testing and TS News understands that SES will not move it into place at 19.2 degrees until the 30 Decemeber. TV Asia are currently planning a viewer campaign to tell subscribers about the equipment they need to receive Astra 1D before the existing channels go off the air at the end on January. The equipment, frequency shifting devices, are being marketed to viewers in association with manufacturer Global. New channels join Turksat Turksat at 42 degrees East has finally begun broadcasting programmes on it's European beam. The first channel to launch was Show TV. At the same time they also jumped onto the Turkish beam with sister station Cine 5. It's not known whether Show TV will drop the Eutelsat channel in favour of Turksat but it is likely that Cine 5 will leave Eutelsat shortly. Cine 5 can only be subscribed to in Turkey so the Turkey Beam would seem sufficient as long as a sizeable number of subscribers can receive Turksat. The technical details from Turksat Control are : Show-TV 11144 MHz, Vertical, PAL, 6.65 audio, Europe Spot, Turkish Show-TV 11174 MHz, Horizont. PAL, 6.65 audio, Turkey Spot, Turkish Show Radio 7.02/7.20, Turkish Best FM 7.38/7.56, Turkish Radio Maria 7.74 , Italian Cine-5 11124 MHz, Horizont. Syster, 6.65 audio, Turkey Spot, Turkish Senol Gulgonul of the Turksat Technical Team would liek reception reports from European viewers of the Show TV transmissions. He can be reached via email, haney@bilkent.edu.tr ESA agrees to Russian pad at Kourou Doug Clarke, RFE/RL, Inc. Anatolii Kiselev, the general director of Russia's Khrunichev space research and production center, told Interfax on 22 November that the French aerospace company Aerospatiale had agreed in principle to Khrunichev's plan to build a space launching site at Kourou, French Guyana. Aerospatiale builds the Arian-4 boosters that are used to launch some 60 percent of the world's commercial satellites and launches them from this South American facility. Khrunichev would build a launching pad for its Proton-M rocket alongside the French facilities and share much of their infrastructure. Kiselev stressed that the project still needed more preparation as well as the support of all governments concerned--including the United States. New Product - Echostar LT-8700 Echostar International have just announced the latest addition to thier range, the Echostar LT-8700. The new receiver is a low threshold version of the SR-8700 and comes in several versions. A choice of VideoCrypt or VideoCrypt 2 with a D/D2Mac Eurocrypt card reader are available. Echostar say the new receiver is ideally suited for areas such as Eastern Europe, Africa and the Middle East where signal levels are generally lower than those in Western Europe. Other features of the LT-8700 are : 300 favourite channels, 1500 channel memory, 22 kHz switching, 2 SCARTs, parental lock and VCR timer. Complete our survey - win a prize ! Thanks to those that have already completed it. We've had around 20 completed surveys back so far but we know there are more of you than that ! If you haven't already, please complete and return our survey. The results will be in our Christmas issue. It's not a big prize I'm afraid, just some stuff from Travel on Intelsat 601. We've got a baseball cap, pen, badge and key ring. There's also a couple of small games from Ericsson for runners up. Please complete the survey and email it to survey@euro.demon.co.uk Closing date is December 15th 1994. Prizes go the people who provide the most amusing answer to question 15 ! 1 What country do you live in ? 2 What is your principle language ? 3 What other languages do you speak ? 4 What bands to you have access to (S, C, Ku, DBS, Telecom) ? 5 Do you have a fixed dish, motorised, or flying LNB system ? 6 Which pay TV channels do you subscribe to ? 7 Which pay TV channels do you have access to ? 8 What are your top 5 satellite TV channnels (any language) ? 9 What are your five worst satellite TV channels ? 10 What are your top 5 foreign language TV channels ? 11 What are your top 5 radio stations ? 12 What is your favourite text service ? 13 What are your top sources of satellite news (tv, radio, magazines, text, online ...) ? 14 Where exactly do you get TS on-line news from (network and area) ? 15 Can you predict the top satellite news headline for next year ? 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