From WOOD@stab.sr.seTue Nov 21 00:58:57 1995
Date: Mon, 20 Nov 1995 15:24:44 +0100
From: George Wood <WOOD@stab.sr.se>
To: wood@rs.sr.se
Subject: MediaScan/Sweden Calling DXers 2236
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:: MediaScan ::
:: SWEDEN CALLING DXERS ::
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:: Number 2236--Nov. 20, 1995 ::
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Satellite, shortwave and other electronic media news from Radio Sweden.
This week's bulletin was written by George Wood.
Packet Radio BID SCDX2236
All times UTC unless otherwise noted.
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There's a change in our shortwave schedule to North America. At 14:30
hrs UTC, and only then, 15240 kHz has been replaced by 15245 kHz. Note
that the old frequency remains at 13:30 hrs.
VIOLENCE AND SEX ON TELEVISION:
Violence and sex on television are issues that concern many people, not
least parents. Here in Sweden there have been protests about the
violence on children's programs. The commercial satellite channel TV3
has announced it will be taking the controversial series "Power
Rangers" off the air again in the new year. This follows threatened
advertising boycotts from two large retail chains.
The boycott threat has also reportedly led the other two major Swedish
commercial channels, the satellite-based TV5 Nordic (Femman), and the
terrestrial and satellite broadcaster TV4, to begin removing programs
with violence from their schedules. ("Dagens Nyheter", TT)
In Britain, on the other hand, the objection is to sex, or any kind of
nudity, on television. Softcore pornography, freely broadcast in other
European countries, is strictly regulated in Britain, and hardcore
programs are not permitted at all. Last week the British authorities
banned the satellite channel TV Erotica, which is owned by an American
company, but uplinked from Sweden. (TT)
In today's program, I called up Julian Clover, editor of "Satellite
Trader" magazine in London, who told me the last time this happened was
to stop a channel uplinked from Denmark, Red Hot Television.
In their efforts to stop the uplinking of pornography from Sweden, the
British authorities are turning to the European Union. According to one
EU diplomat, the case of TV Erotica may wind up in the European Court.
NORDIC MEDIA NEWS:
TV-SAT--The second TV1000 channel, TV1000 Cinema, has begun broadcasts
on TV-Sat 2 on 11.900 GHz. There were problems on TV-Sat on November 6,
when the aging satellite lost two of its transponders. The Danish
version of Kinnevik's TV6 vanished, along with the private Norwegian
station TV Plus. They've since been relocated. TV Plus is now on the
hithertoo unused 12.054 GHz on TV-Sat, while TV6 Denmark has replaced
SVT 1 on Intelsat 702 at the same location, on 11.679 GHz.
SVT 1 has moved to DFS 1 Kopernikus at 33.5 degrees East, 11.492 GHz in
D-MAC. (Bertil Sundberg)
PIRATE CARDS--A few weeks ago TV1000 and arch-rival FilmNet changed the
codes for their D2-MAC pay movie channels, disabling the many pirate
decoder cards in circulation.
But no sooner had the old pirate cards been turned off than suppliers
mailed out invitations to their customers to return the old cards so
that new updated chips could be installed.
One source for pirate cards is actually advertised on the teletext
pages of TV1000's sister channel TV3 (page 822). On the surface it's a
Satellite Club, but that just seems to be a front for distributing
pirate decoding software. (Bertil Sundberg)
By the way, Bertil, Sweden's "Space Doctor", has now opened his own
World Wide Web site, at:
http://www.algonet.se/~rymdis/EW.htm
SWEDISH COMMERCIAL RADIO--Although the law permitting private radio
stations is supposed to forbid networks, they do exist, using loopholes
in the law. Now Kinnevik, owner of TV3 and TV1000, is merging its P6
radio network with another chain, the Radio Rix stations run by the SRU
group of newspapers. The new network consists of 23 local radio
stations from Luleaa in the far north to Malmoe in the south, and
covers 62 percent of the Swedish population.
The common broadcasts are due to begin on February 1st.
One immediate result has been that the newspaper G�teborgs Posten in
Gothenburg is closing its radio department, laying off 23 employees.
(TT, "Dagens Nyheter")
P6/DAB--Kinnevik is calling its radio network P6, which has led to a
legal conflict with the public broadcaster Swedish Radio, which calls
the Stockholm International channel that includes Radio Sweden P6.
Our P6 is scheduled to go national along with Swedish Radio's Digital
Audio Broadcasting stream, which so far is limited to Stockholm only.
When the DAB stream does go national, there's a proposal for a new
multi-cultural channel. Starting in 1998, it include music from every
part of the world except the United States and Britain. 30 percent of
programming would be in immigrant languages. The rest would be in
Swedish, the immigrants' common language here, and the hope is that the
channel will attract Swedes as well, forming a link between the native
and immigrant communities. (TT)
EUROPEAN MEDIA NEWS:
SUPER CHANNEL--We reported last time that NBC is putting its business
channel CNBC on its Astra 1D transponder, and keeping entertaiment
programming on Eutelsat II-F1. The split was supposed to be
accomplished by the end of February, but the programming began to
diverge on October 30. Since then the Astra service has carried CNBC
13:00-21:00 hrs UTC, while CNBC has been carried on Eutelsat II-F1
13:00-17:00 hrs. (James Robinson)
TURNER--Turner Broadcasting has revamped its schedule on Astra
transponder 37. Yoga Bear is obviously more popular than black and
white movie stars of the 30's and 40's. The highly popular Cartoon
Network expanded its schedule by 2 hours until 21:00 hrs UTC daily,
with a corresponding cut-back in the B and C movies carried on TNT on
the same transponder. (James Robinson)
APNA-TV--There's a new Indian broadcaster seeking to establish a global
presence. Apna-TV is actually based in London, but it broadcasts Hindi-
language films for South Asians around the world. The European service
is using Russia's Statsionar 11 satellite at 11 degrees West, on its
Ku-band transponder on 11.525 GHz, as well as the nearby Ekspress 2
satellite at 14 degrees West, on C-band 3.825 GHz. The channel also
says it is relayed over the Russian Ekran satellite at 90 degrees East
to South Asia, using the L-band.
CATALONIA--Catalonia's TV3 carried election results on the evening of
November 19, on Eutelsat II-F2, on 11.162 GHz.
EU--The European Commission has made some important decisions recently
regarding Europe's future telecommunications infrastructure. In today's
program our EU correspondent Joe Kirwin reports from Brussels, that
with digital technology moving rapidly, and the 1998 deadline for
deregulation of the European telecom industry fast approaching, the
Commission is trying to keep up with a series of new legislative
proposals. (Reuters)
ARIANE--Europe's Ariane rocket successfully launched the European Space
Agency's Infra-Red Space Observatory on November 16. (Reuters)
The next scheduled Ariane launches are to carry France's Telecom 2C and
India's INSAT-2C on December 6, followed by Christmas Day by
Panamsat-3R and Malaysia's Measat-1. (Space Calender)
NASA SELECT--NASA Select TV has been spotted at Eutelsat II-F2, on
11.75 GHz. (Kauto Huopio, Finland)
This is the new location of the US Information Agency's WorldNet, which
is broadcasting with a cut-down schedule, and sharing the transponder
with Med-TV. The NASA broadcast seems to have been a temporary relay
only.
NASA Select TV is carried around the world over the Internet, using the
CU-SeeMe format. See our MediaLinks Web page for links to CUSeeMe
information.
CHILDREN'S CHANNEL--Rupert Murdoch is trying to buy a controlling stake
in The Children's Channel, which is part of the British Sky
Broadcasting Multichannels package, but 100 percent owned by TCI's
British subsidiary Flextech. Murdoch's Twentieth Century Fox is trying
to buy TCC to provide a British outlet for its many programs for
children and young people. ("What Satellite TV")
TRAVEL CHANNEL--The Travel Channel is starting a French edition. Unlike
the current English-language channel, the new one will have more local
material, and will concentrate more on vacations and luxury vacations.
(Frank Oestergren, "Aftonbladet")
SCOTLAND--Commercial broadcaster Scottish Television is working with
Flextech to launch The Scottish Channel on cable networks next year.
The intention is to put it up on satellite as well, as soon as
possible, in order to reach Scots living outside Scotland. ("What
Satellite TV")
SHOPPING--A new channel called Shop Europe is to replace TV3 Norway on
Astra transponder 31, when Kinnevik's channels finally do leave Astra.
(James Robinson)
FRANCE--Private televison broadcaster TF1 and state-owned France
Televison on Thursday said they were joining forces to set up a French
language digital satellite service to counter a flood of American
culture.
France Television head Jean-Pierre Elkabbach and TF1 chairman Patrick
Le Lay told reporters they were setting up a joint company to define
programmes, select a decoding system and plan a marketing strategy.
The private broadcaster controlled by building conglomerate
Bouygues and the owner of the public France 2 and France 3
channels said they had already decided to use the satellites of
the Eutelsat organisation.
French broadcasters fear the flood of American networks and
programmes on the Astra satellites, run by Luxembourg-based Societe
Europeene des Satellites (SES). France is particularly concerned about
the risks to its language and identity posed by a free and large
offering of U.S. and English language television programmes.
Former Culture Minister and now Justice Minister Jacques Toubon last
year failed to rally other European Union countries around a proposal
to impose production quotas on television stations to defend the
European industry.
At the moment, most television services use analogue delivery methods.
But the next generation of television technology will use digital
methods permitting far more networks and other services with better
image and sound quality. TF1 and France Television decided to join
digital forces after they had separately opted for Eutelsat, which
already carries such small French language broadcasters as Sept/Arte,
TV5, Euronews and La Cinquieme. (Reuters)
THAILAND--Tele-satellit's 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. ("Tele-satellit")
MIDDLE EASTERN MEDIA NEWS:
TURKEY--The Turkish Kanli 7 has moved from its test position on
Eutelsat II-F3, and is now broadcasting on Turksat on 11.010 GHz. This
is supposed to be the European beam, but signals are extremely weak in
northern Europe, home of many of the Turkish immigrants who are the
presumed audience.
Turkish officials have announced they are planning to launch a second
Turksat in June, and a third satellite in 1999. Agreements have been
signed with France's Aerospatiale. ("Turkish Press Review") One hopes
the new satellites will have better European beams than the current
Turksat.
EGYPT--Egypt has also signed an agreement with a French consortium led
by Matra Marconi Espace to build and launch Egypt's first satellite.
NileSat will begin operating in mid-1997, and is supposed to cover the
Arab world, the Americas, and Asia. That seems a bit exaggerated, as
there's hardly a single position in the Clarke Belt that permits that
kind of coverage.
The new satellite will offer 16 channels of sports, movies, children's
and cultural programs. (AP)
Egypt currently has two channels on Eutelsat II-F3 at 16 degrees East.
The all-Arabic language Egyptian Space Channel puts a powerful signal
into northern Europe (where there are unlikely to be many viewers),
while Nile TV, which carries programs about Egypt in English and
French, uses a weak half transponder, and is barely visible.
NORTH AMERICAN MEDIA NEWS:
MURDOCH EYED TIME-WARNER--The "New Yorker" magazine has reported that
Rupert Murdoch seriously considered spearheading a more than USD 40
billion bid to buy the Time Warner communications empire but abandoned
the idea in late October.
Time Warner announced in September that it was buying Turner
Broadcasting System Inc. for USD 7.5 billion. According to the "New
Yorker", Murdoch thought the merger with Turner would frustrate his own
expansion plans.
If Murdoch headed such a bid, it could have led to the world's largest
takeover, surpassing the more than $25 billion paid by Kohlberg Kravis
Roberts in 1988 to buy RJR Nabisco.
The article also detailed a summer meeting between Murdoch and TCI's
John Malone in which the two men discussed ways of helping Ted Turner
make a bid for CBS. Turner did not make the bid and instead agreed to a
merger with Time Warner, which Malone, as a major shareholder in Turner
Broadcasting, went along with.
The "New Yorker" says Murdoch's major goal was to find a way to gain
control of Turner's Cable News Network. (Reuters)
PANAMSAT--As part of its ongoing expansion program, PanAmSat Corp. has
requested U.S. government approval to operate several new international
communications satellites that will expand its broadcast and
telecommunications services throughout the Americas by the year 2000.
PanAmSat has applied to the FCC to operate international communications
satellites in orbital locations that traditionally have been used for
domestic U.S. satellites, 79 and 103 degrees West in both the C-band
and the Ku-band.
In addition to these orbital slots, PanAmSat has requested FCC approval
to operate two new satellites that will provide international
communications services over Ka-band frequencies. These satellites
would be located at 58 degrees West Longitude and 79 degrees West
Longitude.
PanAmSat currently operates three satellites: PAS-1 serving the
Atlantic Ocean Region; PAS-2 serving the Pacific Ocean Region; and
PAS-4 serving the Indian Ocean Region. Three additional Atlantic Ocean
Region satellites are under construction, including the soon to be
launched PAS-3 replacement. The company also plans in 1997 to launch
PAS-7 over the Indian Ocean Region and PAS-8 over the Pacific Ocean
Region. ("Tele-satellit")
LATIN AMERICAN MEDIA NEWS:
MURDOCH DOES LATIN AMERICA--Tele-Communications Inc. is expected to
join News Corp., Mexico's Televisa and Brazil's Globo in announcing a
joint venture to bring direct-to-home TV to Latin America, the daily
Variety reported. It quoted sources close to the deal as saying TCI
President and CEO John Malone may join Rupert Murdoch, Televisa CEO
Emilio Azcarraga and Globo's deputy director general Roberto Irineu
Marinho for an announcement in New York, with a satellite link to the
Jornadas de Cable pay-TV show in Buenos Aires.
One source said the alliance will involve three platforms -- for
Mexico, Brazil and the rest of Latin America -- with Televisa, Globo
and News Corp. heading distribution in the respective areas. Thanks to
its strong presence in the Argentine and Chilean cable arenas, TCI will
likely have a sizable minority stake in the rest of Latin America
platform, and a smaller stake in the Mexican and Brazilian set-ups.
TCI's entry in the Latino DTH arena presents an extra challenge for
Hughes Communications and its allies in Galaxy Latin America, a DTH
project set to launch in March 1996. Before TCI and Televisa joined
News Corp.-Globo, GLA appeared to be the frontrunner.
However, experts say the new alliance has far superior potential
satellite capacity, as it plans to use the transponders News Corp. and
Globo have already booked with Intelsat plus the three PanAmSat birds
that Televisa will bring to the alliance. On the other hand, industry
insiders expect GLA to launch up to three months ahead of its rival.
The accord marks the second time in three weeks that TCI and News Corp.
have struck a major deal, having announced a global sports alliance in
late October. The two deals imply several synergies. For example, TCI
owns pan-Latino sports web Prime Deportiva and has a 35 percent stake
in Torneos y Competencias, an Argentine programmer with exclusive
rights to all top-flight national soccer games.
TCI sought to ally with Televisa once before. In May 1993, it agreed to
buy 49 percent of Televisa paybox Cablevision, and jointly expand pay-
TV services throughout Latin America. But the deal later fell apart.
(Reuters)
ASIAN MEDIA NEWS:
ASIASAT--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. ("AsiaSatLink")
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. ("Tele-
satellit")
MURDOCH EXPANDS IN ASIA--Rupert Murdoch's Star-TV is getting ready to
take the plunge into digital TV to Asia. Asiasat-2 will boost coverage
of Star-TV into Eastern Europe and Australia.
Addressing the News Corp annual meeting, in Adelaide, Australia, Rupert
Murdoch said Star-TV would experience "great growth" during the next 12
months, noting that the Hong Kong-based broadcaster would launch a
package of 15 movie channels into Indonesia in six months, while
working on its first venture into Japan.
Murdoch said that during the next six months Star would broadcast movie
channels in five languages -- Mandarin, Hindi, English, Bahasa
Indonesia and Tagalog -- and within 12 months would add Cantonese and
Japanese. Sports would remain a key element of Star's television
strategy and Star was looking to develop more youth-oriented services
based on the format of India's Channel V.
"That is our strategy -- to dominate in four key programme categories:
sports, music, movies and general entertainment," Murdoch explained.
(Reuters)
AUSTRALIA TOO--Murdoch is expanding in Australia as well. Foxtel, a
50-50 joint venture group between Murdoch's global media machine News
Corp Ltd and state-owned telecom group Telstra Corp, has announced a
tie-up with pay-TV group Australis Media Ltd. The deal would create the
most powerful pay-television group in Australia, combining Australis'
microwave and satellite services with Foxtel's plans to roll out a
20-channel cable pay-TV service. Analysts estimate the enlarged group
would have access to 90 percent of Australian homes.
Most analysts expect Foxtel to effectively take over Australis, giving
the Murdoch pay-TV service a so-called back-door listing on the local
exchange. The enlarged Foxtel would strike a harsh blow to the third
player in Australia's pay-TV industry, Optus Vision, which is partly
financed by Australia's richest man and long-time Murdoch rival Kerry
Packer.
But their rivalry didn't prevent Rupert Murdoch and Kerry Packer from
reaching an uneasy truce in late September when Murdoch's British Sky
Broadcasting formed an alliance with Packer's Nine Network to launch a
24 hour news channel for Australia. Packer's Optus Vision and Murdoch's
Foxtel have both agreed to carry the service, which will be called News
Channel. Domestic and international news will be provided in part by
Sky News in London and Nine Network's news resources. (Reuters)
JAPAN--Thousands of satellite TV viewers in South Korea and China lost
access to Japanese DBS transmissions for at least a week in late
October. On October 24 what was described as a "positioning error"
caused BS-3A, Japan's primary direct broadcast satellite, to be taken
out of service. The back-up satellite, BS-3N, is less powerful.
Japanese viewers noticed little difference in reception of the four
channels involved, but fringe viewers in farther off areas of Asia
could no longer see the programming, until BS-3A was repositioned.
(Curt Swinehart)
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 the 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. ("Tele-satellit")
INDIA--United Artists Programming, a subsidiary of TCI's British
subsidiary Flextech, is planning to launch tailored versions of its
chnnels in India over the next few months. Candidates include Bravo,
Discovery, and TCC. ("What Satellite TV")
GLOBAL MEDIA:
PANAMSAT--PanAmSat's new PAS-4 has entered operation at 68.5 degrees
East. According to "Tele-Satellit" monitors, the following transponders
are already in use:
Monitored in South Africa:
12.5375 V M-Net South Africa
12.6645 V SABC TV 1
12.6975 V SABC CCV
12.7245 V SABC NNTV
12.7405 V CDAT
(courtesy Michael Cookson, TELE-satellit South Africa)
Monitored in Australia:
3.905 V Sony Entertainment Television
3.912 H Carrier
3.935 H Test Pattern - "PAS 2 SYLMAR, CA."
3.965 V CNN International
3.995 V CNN Newsource
4.035 V NHK TV-Japan
4.111 H CNBC Asia
(courtesy Nathan Kopel, International Radio Monitors and Peter Merrett)
Also reported, from Europe, are the following channels, all in clear
PAL:
3790 MHz Asian Business News
3870 MHz ESPN
3910 GHz Sony
4040 GHz unknown Indian channel
4085 GHz CNN International
4115 GHz Cartoon Network/TNT
4190 GHz MTV Asia
12.6 GHz NHK
Other channels reported from PAS-4 in South Asia include Indian
channels EETV and YES, and Discovery.
South Africa's SABC says it hopes to have 14 pay TV channels on the air
by the end of next year. The SABC says the system could eventually be
expanded to as many as 21 channels.
Japan's NHK is using the satellite to link Tokyo to Paris and India's
Doordarshan has also announced it will be using the satellite for
services to Asia and Europe. Hong Kong Telecom also says it will begin
using PAS-4.
Other planned broadcasters include China Central Television, Disney,
HBO, Liberty Media Corp., and Viacom. ("Tele-satellit" and Curt
Swinehart)
CYBERSPACE:
TCC--The Children's Channel has added a site on the Worldwide Web on
the Internet. You can find it at:
http://www.tcc.co.uk
VOA--Bill Whitacre has developed a semi-official homepage for VOA
Monitoring. See:
http://voa.his.com
BENELUX DX CLUB--The Benelux DX Club provides new SW news at:
http://promet12.cineca.it/htdx/swls/bdxc.html
TELE-SATELLIT--"Tele-satellit" magazine has moved all its Internet
mailing lists to a new server. Everyone subscribed to the list as of
November 5 has been moved to the new server. To subscribe send a
message to:
listserever@tele-satellit.com
with the message body "subscribe ts-news"
There's also a new WWW site at:
http://www.tele-satellit.com
STREAMWORKS--The World Radio Network has now begun relaying its
programming, including Radio Sweden, live over the Internet, using the
Streamworks format. Unfortunately, so far its at 32 thousand bits per
second, which is faster than the fastest modem can handle. But the
speed should drop by half in the next few days. More details on the Web
at:
http://www.wrn.org
RADIO SWEDEN--You can find Radio Sweden's Web pages by aiming your
browser at:
http://www.sr.se/rs
Besides the multimedia version of today's MediaScan bulletin
you can also find and download interviews from previous programs.
We also have a new feature, full of links to media providers around the
world, online and broadcast, shortwave and satellite stations as well.
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