Susan Irwin is founder and President of Irwin Communications, Inc., which she founded in 1985. Ms. Irwin began her career in the satellite industry in 1977 as a consultant to the Appalachian Regional Commission on a project which demonstrated the use of satellites to broadcast live educational programming to rural …

Dolores Martos is the Vice President for Latin American Sales at New Skies Satellites responsible for all NSS sales and marketing activities in the Latin American region. New Skies Satellites N.V. is a private global system of commercial telecommunications satellites incorporated in The Netherlands. Ms. Martos joined New Skies Satellites …

It's gratifying, as we move into our second year of publication, to note the growth of TBS in terms of the coverage we provide, the audience we reach, and the people who have become involved in the publication. There are several new faces to welcome with this issue: we have …

"Asia: Information Poor to Information Rich: Strategies for the 21st Century" For the first time in its 26-year history, the Asian Media Information and Communication Centre (AMIC) held its annual conference in South Asia in mid-year. A major regional resource center based in Singapore and funded largely by governments, inter-government …

Peter Einstein was appointed president and chief executive of Gulf DTH/Showtime, the fastest growing direct-to-home digital satellite pay-TV service for the Middle East, in January 1997. Showtime provides eleven channels of Western programming throughout the region, from the Gulf to North Africa. As president and chief executive, Einstein has overall …

An online discussion with Philip Kitley, Keval Kumar, Brian Shoesmith, Amos Owen Thomas, and Tony Wilson TBS: Some experts believe transnational broadcasting has the potential to bring harmony between subgroups and between nations. Others believe the opposite, that the diversity of cultures that transnational broadcasting reflects and spreads will in the …

TBS: You alluded in your presentation at the 1998 International Broadcasting Convention in Amsterdam to the fact that the fast pace of technological growth could lead to a wide gap between those who are "high-tech" and an "information underclass," in terms of nations, regions, and individuals. Do you think that public …

Welcome to the journal Transnational Broadcasting Studies. It's a complex name, but one very deliberately chosen. A journal restricted to media that is both broadcasting in nature and transnational in range of transmission may seem highly specialized, but this is in actuality an already enormous and ever-growing field with the …

London, July 1998 TBS: MBC has acknowledged that it is preparing to lay off or buy back contracts of more than one hundred redundant employees. What is the reason for this move and will this reduce the effectiveness of MBC news and public affairs programming, which is acknowledged as an MBC …

Rome, July 1998 TBS: There's been a lot of talk that Orbit is moving out of Rome. Is this true? Alexander Zilo: We are not moving out of Rome, we are focusing on decentralizing portions of our business, what we're calling the Arabization of Orbit. Over the last five years we've encountered …