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From: "George Wood" 
("SATCO DX Chart Update")
AMOS--Amos 1 is now carrying the following Israeli channels: IBA
Channel 1 on 11.132 GHz, Channel 2 on 11.174 GHz, Channel 3 on 10.968
GHz. ("SATCO DX Chart Update")
NORTH AMERICA:
MURDOCH--Rupert Murdoch's Fox News Channel launched on October 7, but
not in Manhattan. An on-going dispute between Murdoch's News Corp and
Time Warner Inc. prevented the channel from being seen in Fox's home
base. Under the provisions of its merger with Turner Broadcasting,
operator of CNN, Time Warner was compelled to include another news
channel in its cable systems, but chose MSNBC rather than Fox. News
Corp has continued to use political pressure to carry the channel in
New York. "The New York Times" reported on October 9 that Fox News
will be carried on one of the city's public service channels, at the
request of Mayor Rudolf Giuliani. "The Times" also says the city will
telecast the Bloomberg Television News network, which Time Warner has
refused to carry, on a public-access channel as well.
News Corp has also sued Time Warner for not carrying the Fox News
Channel. "The New York Post" newspaper, owned by News Corp replaced
CNN listings with those for Fox News for two days, in what a spokesman
said was a temporary deletion. CNN owner Ted Turner has apologized for
his widely reported remark in a private meeting comparing his rival
Rupert Murdoch with Adolf Hitler, according to the Anti-Defamation
League. The ADL, an organization working against anti-Semitism, says
it wrote to Turner saying that such a comparison trivializes the
millions of Jewish victims of Hitler's Nazi Germany. ("Tele-satellit
News", Reuters, and Curt Swinehart)
ECHOSTAR--Echostar 2 has reached its assigned orbit at 119 degrees
West. In-orbit testing began on September 27, and is expected to
continue through October. The 16 transponders, capable of transmitting
more than 100 addition digital channels for Echostar's DISH Network,
are expected to begin regular transmissions on November 1. (Curt
Swinehart)
RADIO MIAMI INTERNATIONAL--Radio Miami International, WRMI, will begin
regular broadcasts in Portuguese, beginning October 13, 1996. The new
weekly one hour block will air on Sundays at 20:30-21:30 hrs on 9955
kHz. When North America switches to standard time on October 27, the
Portuguese block will shift to 21:30-22:30 hrs UTC. (WRMI)
LATIN AMERICA:
PLAYBOY--Playboy Enterprises is joining forces with Cisneros
Television Group to launch two new television networks: Playboy
TV/Latin America and AdulTVision/Latin America. Both services will be
offered initially on an exclusive basis by Galaxy Latin America, a 144
channel direct-to- home satellite service. ("Tele-satellit News")
ASIA/PACIFIC:
SOUTH KOREA/JAPAN--Correcting the report last time, KDD is Kokusai
Denshin Denwa, a Japanese international telecommunications company
(and not South Korean as we wrote). (Goro Amihari)
GOLF CHANNEL--The Golf Channel is now using PanAmSat's PAS-2 satellite
for full-time program distribution in the Asia-Pacific Region. The
Golf Channel commenced the service in Asia on October 1 with
distribution to television viewers in Japan via the PerfecTV digital
service.  The new PanAmSat service marks The Golf Channel's first
foray outside of the domestic U.S. television market.
The Golf Channel is also on Superbird B1 on 12.670 GHz.
The PAS-2 satellite currently transmits more than 20 television
channels throughout the Asia-Pacific region. In addition to The Golf
Channel, other digital channels transmitted from PanAmSat's California
teleport include Country Music Television, BBC Worldwide Television
and Bloomberg Television. ("Tele-satellit News" and "SATCO DX Chart
Update")
JAPAN--PerfecTV, Japan's first digital TV service, started on JCSAT 3
(128 degrees East) on October 1, initially offering a bundle of 60 TV
and radio channels. Future plans call for an increase to 170 channels.
More than 35,000 decoders for the service have already been sold.
Perfect TV Corporation says it expects 300,000 subscribers by the end
of the year, and more than a million over the next three years.
("Tele- satellit News")
SKYPORT--SkyPort, a group of eight satellite broadcasters, has
announced it will broadcast on both Japanese digital TV satellites.
SkyPort currently broadcasts an analog subscription TV package on
SuperBird-B, and competes with the CS-Baan service offered on JCSAT-2.
Both the existing digital PerfecTV service and Rupert Murdoch's
upcoming JSkyB are using the JCSAT-3 satellite. DirecTV plans a
Japanese service from next year on the new SuperBird-C satellite, and
many had assumed SkyPort-D, the system's eight channel digital
version, would continue to use SuperBird. The announcement that
SkyPort has chosen both systems might actually indicate a preference
for the JCSAT- 3 line-up. ("Tele-satellit News")
DIGITAL HDTV--Japan's public broadcaster NHK says it plans to develop
technology to digitalize its "Hi-Vision" high-defination television
broadcasts, currently aired in analog form, by the year 2000. NHK's
chief technical director Toyoaki Hasegawa says "The digitalization of
Hi-Vision will be technically possible by the time of the planned
launch of the BS-4b broadcasting satellite", which will carry 4
channels. NHK also says it expects to establish an integrated digital
broadcasting system in which digital-based broadcasts and computer
communications are combined, and hopes to introduce it for the BS-5
satellite, which is scheduled for launch in 2007. (UPI)
MICKEY AND RUPERT--Walt Disney Co's sports channel ESPN and News
Corp's Asian satellite broadcaster Star-TV say they are forming an
Asian sports programming joint venture combining the resources of Star
Sports and ESPN Asia. The new company will provide multiple sports
programming services throughout Asia, with the exception of Japan,
Australia, and New Zealand, where each of the parties has separate,
pre-existing ventures. (Reuters)
NBC--NBC Asia has reached agreement with Star-TV to distribute digital
editions of NBC Asia and CNBC via Asiasat-2, beginning in mid-October.
The offerings will be included in Star-TV's multi-channel package to
India. (Curt Swinehart)
CYBERSPACE:
CORRECTION--Contrary to the report last time, News Corp sold Delphi to
a group of its former employees earlier this year. (Ed Ellers)
CANADA--Radio Canada International is putting seven of its languages
out in RealAudio. This includes a continuous 24 hour live feed, as
well as programs on demand in English, French, Spanish, Ukrainian,
Russian, Chinese, and Arabic. Programs produced in English and French
for the Canadian Armed Forces personnel overseas are also accessible
in realtime. There is also regularly updated text service of English
and French newscasts. Check out:
http://www.rcinet.ca
(Curt Swinehart)
SATNET--The number of Home Pages hosted at sat-net.com has now come to
12. The latest entry is Mark Long, creator of the "World Satellite
Almanac", now living in Thailand. Mark Long's home page is at:
http://www.sat-net.com/mlesat
("Tele-satellit" via Curt Swinehart)
FIRST-TV--CMP Media has launched First-TV, which it says is the first
Internet-only television broadcast. It can be received using a regular
computer that is connected to the Net by modem, and includes Internet
news, computer product reviews and features about people who are
making a mark on the Internet.
To view the programming, you'll first need to download the free
software called a VivoActive Player. That software can be obtained at:
http://www.vivo.com 
Once you've installed the software, you can connect to the TV
broadcast at:
http://www.first-tv.com 
(Curt Swinehart)
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Sweden Calling DXers/MediaScan is the world's oldest radio program
about international broadcasting. Radio Sweden has presented this
round-up of radio news, features, and interviews on Tuesdays since
1948. It's currently broadcast on the first and third Tuesdays of the
month.
Radio Sweden broadcasts in English (until October 27):
To Europe:
18:30 hrs    1179, 6065, 9655, and 11615 kHz (also Africa/Middle East)
19:30        1179 and 6065 kHz  (also Africa/Middle East) 20:30       
1179, 6065, 9430, and 9655 kHz (weekends only) 21:30        1179,
6065, 9430, and 9655 kHz (also Africa/Middle East)
Asia/Pacific:
12:30 hrs    13740, and 15240 kHz
13:30 hrs    9830 kHz
01:00 hrs    9435 kHz
North America:
11:30 hrs on 11650 and 15240 kHz
13:30 hrs on 13740 and 15245 kHz
02:30 hrs on 6090 kHz
03:30 hrs on 7115 kHz
Latin America:
00:30 hrs on 6065 kHz
01:30 hrs on 7290 kHz
The broadcasts at 12:30 and 18:30 hrs are also relayed to Europe by
satellite:
   Astra 1C (19.2 degrees East) transponder 33 (ZDF) at    
   10.964 GHz, audio subcarrier at 7.38 MHz
   Tele-X (5 degrees East) via TV5 Nordic at 12.475 GHz, audio   
subcarrier 7.38 MHz.
Radio Sweden is also relayed to Europe via the World Radio Network on
VH-1's transponder 22 on Astra, audio 7.38 MHz, daily at 22:00 hrs
CET.
Radio Sweden can also be heard on WRN's North American service on
Galaxy-5, on WTBS's transponder 6, audio 6.8 MHz, daily at 20:30 hrs
Eastern time (from April 7 at 21:30 hrs Eastern Daylight Time). 
Radio Sweden can now be heard via WRN in Africa on Intelsat 707 at 1
degree West, on 3.915 GHz, in digital MPEG-2, on the audio 8 channel,
at 01:00 and 22:00 hrs Central African Time.
We're also now available through WRN to Asia and the Pacific as part
of a European radio package on Asiasat-2 at 100.5 degrees East,
transponder 10B at 4 GHz, also in MPEG-2 as part of the DVB audio
stream. You can hear us at 06:00 and 09:00 Australian Eastern Time.
Each weekday's program, recorded at 11.30 hrs UTC is available in
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Thanks to this week's contributors            Good Listening!
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George Wood            wood@rs.sr.se
Radio Sweden           http://www.sr.se/rs
S-105 10 Stockholm   tel: +468-784-7239
Sweden		        fax: +468-667-6283	
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