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Profiles media executive Leo Kirsch. Comments on media executive Rupert Murdoch; Career background; Details on the media empire of Kirsch.

Presents the top broadband players in Europe. Dominance of cable television operators and digital subscriber line providers; List of regional ranking; Details on top companies.

Examines the trend involving the recruitment of mass media employees in Internet businesses. Perception of more career opportunities in the dot-com market; Comparison of employee defections in Latin America, Canada and Asia; Examples of top market players in Germany which cornered the market for top dot-com talent.

Examines investment opportunities that can spring from Deutsche Telekom's plan to sell of its cable holdings in Germany. Cable operators' plan to build broadband systems on Deutsche Telekom's backbone; Investors' complaint about the slow pace of Telekom's divestment of its cable holdings; Investment opportunities in direct-to-home broadcasting and interactive television.

Reports on the latest programming packages of digital platform of Premiere World in Frankfurt, Germany. Number of subscribers of Premiere; Problems of the German media conglomerate Kirch Group; Accounts on the agreement between Premiere World and BSkyB.

Discusses how Germany's broadband and Internet markets reacted to falling technology and Internet stocks. Delayed projects; Revised business plans; Fundamentals of the German Internet business; Key players; Cable's important role in Germany's broadband future.

Features the German sports channel Deutsches SportFernsehen GmbH. Ownership by media mogul Leo Kirch; Kirch's refusal to pool DSF together with free or pay television; Newsroom and production services to Kirch's networks; Joint venture France's TF1 and Canal Plus SA.

Focuses on the potential of the Multimedia Home Platform (MHP) standard to advance the Digital Video Broadcasting standard and turn the television set into a full-fledged multimedia terminal. MHP applications; Programming language; Levels of MHP implementation in Europe.

Reports on Christiane zu Salm's performance as general manager of the Music Television Network's German operations, MTV Networks GmbH. Zu Salm's comments about the way critics have underestimated her capabilities; Prospects for the cable company's re-emergence as the top music channel in Germany; Role in the network's relocation to a Munich facility; Programming changes made.

Reports developments within the television industry in Germany as of June 2002. Prevalence of television companies filing for insolvency; Impetus to the decision of TeleMunchen Group to cancel the launch of digital cable channels; Basis of the animation channel launched by RTL2.