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ELENA RUIZ ARG[ddot{U}]ELLO MADRID, SPAIN -- C[acute{e}]sar Alierta, the new chairman of the major European phone company Telef[acute{o}]nica Espa[sim]na, is bent on completing a series of projects left behind by [...]

MADRID, SPAIN -- One of the first tasks of Telefonica Media S.A.'s new chairman will be to prepare the company for an initial public offering, slated for September. Manuel Garcia-Duran [...]

ELENA RUIZ ARG[ddot{U}]ELLO MADRID, SPAIN -- Digital television here took another step forward this month with the May 5 launch of the country's first digital-terrestrial-television platform. Quiero Televisi[acute{o}]n expects to [...]

MADRID, SPAIN -- Portugal's small but advanced television business took another leap forward late last month, as the country's largest cable operator launched the market's first digital direct-to-home satellite platform. [...]

MADRID, SPAIN -- The Spanish pay television business took two turns last week, on both the direct-to-home and network fronts. Two rival DTH platforms decided to get hitched, and Cable [...]

MADRID, SPAIN -- Spanish direct-to-home platforms Via Digital and Canal Satelite Digital, which earlier this year announced plans to merge their operations, are now only agreeing to disagree. The platforms' [...]

MADRID, SPAIN - The dividing line in Spain between licensed and unlicensed cable operators is now more defined with the recent creation of the Cable Operators Association trade group, which [...]

MADRID, SPAIN - After years of struggling to get started, Spain's direct-to-home satellite and cable-television markets are hitting their stride with strong subscriber growth. The gains over the last year [...]

MADRID, SPAIN - The three most desirable cable franchises in Spain, covering the capital city here, have been awarded to CyC Telecomunicaciones Madrid, a consortium that has become a major [...]

MADRID, SPAIN - Retevision, Spain's television-signal-distribution agency and second national telephone operator, officially put an end to Telefonica de Espana's 74-year monopoly over telephony last week by launching its own [...]

MADRID, SPAIN - Spain's government has taken another step ahead toward bringing digital terrestrial television to the country, and the country's regulator has indicated that it may award multichannel multiplexes [...]

MADRID, SPAIN - The Spanish pay TV industry took another leap forward last week with the launch of the country's second digital, direct-to-home platform, Via Digital. The platform is led [...]

MADRID, SPAIN - Just as there's a wave of new channels on the boards for Latin America, there's a flood of new networks washing into Spain. The influx has been [...]

The Spanish government last week made several modifications to its new cable regulations in order to tip the balance more in favor of private cable operators. Under Spain's rules, two [...]

MADRID, SPAIN - One of the most anxiously awaited regulatory developments in Europe, the passage of the telecommunications cable bill in Spain, is now in sight. Spain's central government law [...]

MADRID - The telecommunications and cable bill drafted by Spain's Ministry of Public Works, Transportation and the Environment has been changed significantly by the Socialist Parliamentary Group to try to [...]

MADRID, SPAIN - Telefonica Multimedia has begun what will be the most advanced cable TV trials ever in Spain. Telefonica's cable tests will take place in 38 Spanish cities with [...]

MADRID - While passage of new cable regulations in this country is not in sight, the feverish development and investment activity in the region was apparent at a recent Kagan [...]

Cites the debut of Quiero Television, a digital-terrestrial-television (DDT) platform in Spain. Expected number of household that will subscribe to the DDT services; Accessibility of the DDT platform to almost every home in Spain; Interactive services that subscribers could access.