This news is provided free of charge to on-line users by TELE Satellit magazine and TS News Service GB. IT IS FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY. It may not be reproduced for commercial reasons by any means what so ever Der TS Nachrichtendienst is ein service fur die freunde von TELE Satellit und TS-TV und ist nur fur personaliche infromation freigegeben. TELE SATELLIT European Satellite News - English Version Number 9, Week ending 24 July 1994 By Martyn Williams CompuServe 100025,1637 Internet martyn@euro.demon.co.uk (c) TELE Satellit Magazine Programming Note : TS News appears in a much shortened form this week due to train strikes in the UK and holidays. We will back to full length next week. RTL announce scrambling The long awaited switch to scrambled transmissions on RTL's French TV network has been announced. The channel has chosen to use a system call SmartCrypt. SmartCrypt has been developed by French company Schlumberger. No date has been set for the change over but it will definately take place by the end of the year according to the RTL communique de presse. Distribution of decoders in France will be handled by Teleciel. RTL TV has been distibuted by satellite since 1st December 1993 on Telecom 2B. Broadcasts from the terrestrial transmitter in Luxembourg on channel 21 will remain in the clear. The switch to scrambled transmissions has been made necessary due to the pirating of the RTL signal on cable networks in Switzerland mainly. RTL Club Latest news from TS Germany is that the planned new RTL sender, RTL Super will now be called RTL Club. This is the fourth name given to the station. The first two were RTL 3 and RTL Classic. The channel is expected to start broadcasting via Eutelsat Hot Bird when it launches later this year. LCI to remain direct to home In an interview in Le Monde on 19th July Etienne Mougeotte from LCI said that the new French all news channel would be offered for direct to home reception from Sptember 15th. The channel will be encypted using an as yet un chosen system. Previously the channel had said the LCI would be available to cable only from that date. NHK stays with Hi-Vision After deciding to move towards a new digital TV standard in Japan, the national broadcaster, NHK, reported in it's Friday evening "News 7" broadcast, seen here on JSTV, that the Hi-Vision programming offered by DBS will be extended to 10 hours a day to boost set sales. NHK attracted complaints from Japanese electronics companies after announcing that the standard would be replaced by digital broadcasts around the turn of the century. TS-TV #5 this week ! Don't miss TELE Satellit TV this week. The broadcast will focus on the latest satellite news with Petra anchoring in the studio. All viewers will have the chance to win a Chaparral Monterey 40 by answering some simple questions. TS-TV is Europe's only programme for satellite enthusiasts by satellite enthusiasts and yet more proof that TELE Satellit is Europe's number one satellite magazine. The broadcast details are : Eutelsat 2 F1, transponder 33 : 11.596 GHz, horizontal polarisation, 6.50 MHz audio. Friday 29 July, 2100 CET (2000 UK) Sunday 31 July, 2100 CET (2000 UK) * repeat * Sunergy satellite details The latest Sunergy broadcast from Sun Computers will take place this Thursday from 15:30 - 17:00 UTC. The circuit will be available from 14:30 UTC. The broadcast is entitled "A Discussion on Object Technologies" and comes live from ObjectWorld, San Francisco. The satellite details are as follows : SATELLITE: INTELSAT K ARC POSITION: 338.5 DEG. EL (21.5 DEG. WL) TRANSPONDER: H8 FULL TRANSPONDER FREQ: 11665 MHZ POLARIZATION: VERTICAL TV STANDARD: 625 50 PAL AUDIO SUBCARRIERS: 6.6/7.4 MHZ AUDIO DE-EMPHASIS: 75 MICROSEC SATELLITE: GSTAR 2 (KU BAND) ARC POSITION: 125 DEG. WL TRANSPONDER: 15 D/L TRANSPONDER FREQ: 12110 MHZ D/L POLARIZATION: VERTICAL TV STANDARD: 525 60 NTSC AUDIO SUBCARRIERS: 6.2/6.8 MHZ AUDIO DE-EMPHASIS: 75 MICROSEC. SATELLITE: GALAXY 7 (C-BAND) ARC POSITION: 91 DEG. WL TRANSPONDER: 9 D/L TRANSPONDER FREQ.: 3880 MHZ D/L POLARIZATION: HORIZONTAL TV STANDARD: 525 60 NTSC AUDIO SUBCARRIERS: 6.2/6.8 MHZ AUDIO DE-EMPHASIS: 75 MICROSEC. For further information about this broadcast or Sun Microsystems' Sunergy program contact: Vicki Pedretti sunergy@sun.com 1-415-336-5847 Sky Sports 2 schedule Sky have published the following schedule for the first weekend broadcast of Sky Sports 2: FRIDAY 19 AUGUST 1994 18.00 THIS IS SKY SPORTS TOO! 18.30 TENNIS SPECIAL - NICK BOLLETTIERIE 19.30 US PGA GOLF - LIVE 22.00 EUROPEAN PGA GOLF 01.00 CLOSE SATURDAY 20 AUGUST 07.00 SOCCER AM 11.00 TENNIS SPECIAL - NICK BOLLETTIERI 12.00 EUROPEAN PGA GOLF 16.30 MOTORSPORT SPECIAL 18.30 GOLF NIGHT 21.00 US PGA GOLF 23.00 MOTORSPORT SPECIAL 01.00 CLOSE SUNDAY 21 AUGUST 1994 07.00 THE SPORTS EXTRA 11.00 MOTORSPORT 12.00 EUROPEAN PGA GOLF - LIVE 16.30 WORLD SUPERBIKES CHAMPIONSHIP 18.30 GOLF NIGHT 20.00 US PGA GOLF 23.00 NASCAR 400 01.00 CLOSE Special thanks to Joel Wirsztel in Paris and 3615 SATPHONE for help with the LCI and RTL France stories. 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 164 pages, full colour with tables, charts and news with many off-screen photos of the satellite channels plus a informative technical section. Part of the magazine is written in English. Subscriptions are available for DM 120, Europe surface mail; DM 144, Europe airmail and DM 192, ROW airmail. Orders for subscriptions and more information should be sent to : TELE-satellit Customer Service, Silheimer Str. 6a, D-89278 Nersingen, Germany, Fax +49-7308-5296 Where to find satellite news : TELE Satellit News, English : LHARC'd Windows Write Version - CompuServe UKFORUM library 17, EURFORUM library 5 ASCII Text Version - CompuServe UKFORUM library 17 Fax polling - +31-45-273615 *2*44 ; +49-89-496287 *9 alt.satellite.tv.europe newsgroup on Internet World Wide Web : http://xan.esrin.esa.it:2602/satellite.html TELE Satellit News, German : ASCII Text Version - CompuServe Deutsches Computer Forum (GERNET) Fax polling - +49-89-496287 / +31-45-273615 TELE Satellit TV ! Last Friday of every month, repeated following Sunday . Eutelsat 2F1, 11,596 GHz, Horizontal. 20:00 UK, 21:00 CET Other reliable sources of satellite news : - Satellite Journal International provides worldwide satellite news and can be found in UKFORUM, EURFORUM, TELECOM, BPFORUM and CEFORUM plus other networks worldwide including Internet, Nifty Serve Japan and Fidonet. - 3615 SATPHONE on Minitel in France for the latest hot news ! - +33-1-3670-8192 for the latest French language satellite news updates - SAT 1 Text, page 550 with fresh news every 3-4 days plus frequency charts. - Radio Sweden Mediascan. 1st and 3rd Tuesday, 20 minutes into the English programme via Astra, Shortwave, Mediumwave 1197 kHz and the World Radio Network. World Wide Web users can access several electronic journals and more information via the European satellite home page, URL http://xan.esrin.esa.it:2602/satellite.html We encourage all European satellite users and viewers to drop by UK Forum section 17, Entertainment, to chat and discuss all issues related to European satellite broadcasting.