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SWEDEN CALLING DXERS
from Radio Sweden
Number 2256--Sept. 17, 1996
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Shortwave and other electronic media news from Radio Sweden.
This week's bulletin was written by George Wood.
Packet Radio BID SCDX2256
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NORDIC MEDIA NEWS:
RADIO SWEDEN--Swedish Radio's RealAudio relays on the Internet have
now reached Radio Sweden. Our Swedish programs are now available in
RealAudio from our Web pages (at present it's the daily program at
18:00 hrs UTC that's saved every day). The World Radio Network has
been carrying our English programs in RealAudio on their World Wide
Web site (with a link on our pages). Now we're adding our own
RealAudio service for English, which should be available soon (the WRN
feed is still available). Our other languages will soon follow. Check
out:
http://www.sr.se/rs/main.htm
CLASSIC FM--The private Stockholm radio station Classic FM has a new
owner. The British chain of the same name (apparently owned by Time-
Warner) has sold the station to the American company Great Western
Radio. ("Dagens Nyheter")
DENMARK--In Denmark, the public telecommunications company Tele
Danmark is about to launch its own commercial radio channels. The
first will be a music station aimed at people between 15 and 35, and
will launch on satellite and cable at the beginning of October.
Another channel, featuring classical music, will start in the new
year. ("Dagens Nyheter")
RADIO OASIS--Danish officials have revoked the community radio licence
of the neo-Nazi station Radio Oasis, because it aired texts from Adolf
Hitler's "Mein Kampf". When the station was given permission to go on
the air in February, officials warned the licence would be revoked if
Radio Oasis broadcast anything racist. The newspaper "Roskilde Tidene"
writes that the 13 member local radio board agreed unanimously on
September 3 to shut down the station. It gave the owners of Radio
Oasis, Denmark's National Socialist Movement, four weeks to appeal the
decision. Last month, Danish neo-Nazis applied to a licence to begin
shortwave broadcasts to Europe, but officials have not yet announced a
decision. (Reuters)
NORWAY/DENMARK--For the past two weeks both Denmark and Norway have
had new public service TV channels. In both cases, the original single
non- commercial channel has been competing with a new commercial
station called TV2. At the beginning of the month the original Danish
public service channel became DR1, and it was joined by the new DR2,
aimed at a younger audience. As we reported last time, you'll find DR2
on the Intelsat 707 satellite on 11.667 GHz, in D2-MAC. (And Monday
evening it was still broadcasting in the clear.)
On the same satellite, on the same day DR2 started, Norway's public
service NRK was joined by NRK 2. In today's program, Radio Sweden's
Olso correspondent Tony Samstag reports on response to the new
channel.
You can find NRK 2 on Intelsat 707 in D2-MAC at 11.486 GHz. It has
switched sporadically between clear and coded, but Monday evening it
was coded.
TV NORGE--TV Norge, owned by the Scandinavian Broadcasting System
(owned by the American ABC) and the Norwegian publishers Schibsted,
has cut its workforce in half during the past six months. The station
no longer has any studio presentation or production of its own.
("Dagens Nyheter") TV Norge, which broadcasts in clear PAL on Intelsat
707, has just begun broadcasting "Star Trek: The Next Generation",
Saturdays at 20:00 hrs CET. The first episode ("Encounter at Farpoint
I") was on September 14. (Sweden's Kanal 5, which broadcasts in
uncoded PAL on Tele-X, carries "Next Generation" on Saturdays at 17:10
hrs CET, preceeded at 16:20 hrs by "Babylon 5".)
SWEDEN--The public service Swedish Television has expansion plans.
Guldkanalen, the Gold Channel, modelled on the BBC's UK Gold, with a
best from the archives format, starts next year on cable here as a pay
channel, and will be relayed by satellite as well from next Spring.
("Svenska Dagebladet" and "Metro")
Swedish Television is finally going to put its regular programming on
satellite, so Swedes in Europe, and the thousands of licence-payers
here outside the reach of the terrestrial transmitters, can watch.
According to reports, the project is being co-ordinated with Finland's
YLE, which has a similar plan (reported last time). The channels would
be carried in digital MPEG, probably from Sirius at 5 degrees East.
("Radiotidningen")
The Swedish Educational Broadcasting Company, UR, is planning to
launch a Swedish counterpart to the American C-Span next year. Besides
covering the Swedish parliament, the new channel, called UR-Arena,
will carry broadcasts from the EU, the Council of Europe, the United
Nations, and similar organizations. The plan is controversial, a
Conservative party member of the UR board, Marika Ehrenkrona, has
written an opinion column in a Conservative Stockholm newspaper
denouncing the idea, saying "Who wants a TV channel with politicians
speaking continuously for 18 hours a day?" ("Radiotidningen" and
"Svenska Dagbladet")
She's apparently never heard of C-Span, which broadcasts over 2
channels for 24 hours a day.
OPEN CHANNEL--The Stockholm City Council is giving a grant of more
than USD 525,000 to the cable TV channel Oeppna Kanalen ("Open
Channel"). The community access station, which has been on local cable
since 1993, reaches 330,000 Stochkholm households. It has anticipated
UR-Arena by broadcasting sessions of the Swedish parliament.
TV3/TV4--On the commercial side, both private Swedish broadcasters TV3
and TV4 have been denounced by their own colleagues recently. TV4 has
been accused of taking advantage of the local TV companies around the
country who provide it with regional programming. ("Dagens Nyheter")
TV3, owned by Rupert Murdoch wannabe Jan Stenbeck's Kinnevik, has been
accused of having a top-down management style that squashes dissent,
and ignores normal labor practices. Of the 21 journalists who started
their new news program in the Spring of 1995, nearly two-thirds have
quit or were fired, often with no notice. ("Journalisten")
TV3 has a new homepage, (so far just one screen saying it's under
construction) at:
http://www.tv3.se
("SATCO DX Chart Update")
TV1000--TV3's system station, the pay-movie channel TV1000, made a
mess of its launch to Finland ten days ago. TV1000 and TV1000 Cinema
broadcast uncoded during the weekend, and the centerpiece of the
entire advertising campaign for subscribers, both in Finland and here
in Sweden, was the broadcast of the film "Pulp Fiction". Unfortunately
something happened to the uplink, and the screen went blank in the
middle of the movie for an entire hour. Rather than stop and start the
film again when the trouble was fixed, TV1000 just kept rolling, a
move that did not win it many friends. The uncoded broadcasts
continued for several more days than initially announced.
VIACOM--We reported last time that TV Pluss on Intelsat 707 was going
off the air. According to a screen announcement, TV Pluss is now owned
by its rival TV Norge, along with the labor movement's newspaper
chain. They've taken it off the air to develop a new format, and it
will return on a new transponder.
Last Thursday the old transponder, 11.679 GHz, was taken over by MTV's
Nordic service, which continues to broadcast in parallel on the Thor
satellite at the same position. (Richard Karlsson, "Aftonbladet") The
Thor service is to close down. ("SATCO DX Update)
MTV has announced that its sister channel for older viewers, VH-1, is
expanding into Scandinavia. VH-1 Scandinavia is reportedly to be
coming to the other Nordic satellite position, on Sirius at 5 degrees
East. An Eastern European service will be launching on Eutelsat's Hot
Bird satellite. ("Tele-satellit News")
On September 17, Kinnevik announced that it has reached agreement with
Viacom to distribute four channels in the Nordic and Baltic regions:
Nickelodeon, the Sci-Fi Channel, MTV, and VH-1. According to the
managing director of Kinnevik's Modern Times Group, Pelle Toernberg,
the distribution of MTV (already on Thor and now Intelsat 707) would
not begin until the middle of 1998. The other 3 will start October 1.
The channels will be transitted through the Nordic satellite company
NSAB. VH-1 will be on Sirius at 5 degrees East. The other two will be
on TV-SAT at 1 degree West. (Frank Oestergren, "Aftonbladet", TT and
Reuters)
MTV Europe has finally achieved a long held goal of transmitting three
regional streams into Europe. The service began September 2, using
digital technology to send northern, central, and southern beams via a
single transponder. ("Tele-satellit News")
Kinnevik's media company MTG is also negotiating with British Sky
Broadcasting to create a structure for pay-TV, alongside MTG's
existing commercial-sponsored channels. MTG continues to negotiate
with Nethold about merging TV1000 and FilmNet, as well as merging
Sportkanalen with SuperSport. ("Finanstidningen" and Frank Oestergren,
"Aftonbladet")
SUPERSPORT--Nethold's SuperSport is realizing its original ambition,
by becoming a pay channel on November 1. The initial plans for a pay
channel had to be changed when rival Kinnevik announced that its
planned Sportkanalen would be free and financed by commercials.
SuperSports' switch to free operation (and appearance on a D2-MAC
transponder in addition to its original MPEG transmission) forced
Kinnevik to make Sportkanalen a weekend only channel sharing the
Swedish and Danish TV6 transponders. SuperSport is negotiating with
Sweden's major cable operators, but FilmNet's CEO says there's a risk
that if the negotiations are not completed in time, SuperSport may be
blacked out on some cable systems. Home dish owners will be able to
subscribe, with a discount to those subscribing to FilmNet. ("Dagens
Nyheter") (Fortunately the baseball season will be over by November 1.
SuperSport is one of the few European channels carrying Major League
Baseball.)
SuperSport is adding a Tele-text service. (Richard Karlsson in
"Aftonbladet")
EUROPE:
NETHOLD/CANAL PLUS--TV1000 may need friends, as its main rival just
became part of Europe's largest TV empire. The Scandinavian-Dutch
channel FilmNet is owned by the Swiss-South African company Nethold,
which also broadcasts to Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.
The American giant Hughes, owner of DirecTV, was rumored to be talking
to Nethold about buying a major share, which would have created a
globe-spanning rival for Rupert Murdoch. ("Wall Street Journal")
But instead, it was France's Canal Plus that announced a merger with
Nethold, creating a European empire instead, with interests in France,
Spain, Italy, and Germany, as well as Scandinavia, Eastern Europe and
the Benelux. Nethold's broadcasts to Southern Africa are reportedly
being kept out of the deal. ("Aftonbladet", "Tele-satellit news",
Reuters)
Nokia has been supplying the digital decoders that are necessary for
reception of Nethold/Multichoice's new digital services to
Scandinavia, the Benelux, and other areas. Digital receivers are now
being sold in the Netherlands, but manufactured by Pace instead of
Nokia. When these have been evaluated, Nethold/Multichoice will launch
its Scandinavian digital service. (Richard Karlsson in "Aftonbladet")
Nethold has signed an agreement with Hyundai Electronics America to
supply up to 60,000 decoders per month for all the territories where
Nethold has, or is about to launch, digital television. ("Business
Wire")
DIGITAL WOES--Germany's ill-fated digital television consortium
Multimedia Betriebs GmbH on Monday appeared close to collapse after
its leading shareholder announced it would leave the group. Deutsche
Telekom AG, which holds 27 percent of MMBG, says it will inform the
other shareholders this week of its plan to withdraw. The other
investors include Bertelsmann, CLT, Canal Plus, and the German public
broadcasters ARD and ZDF. MMBG was set up to market a common digital
decoder for Europe, to avoid a standards war. This goal was undermined
by Bavarian media mogul Leo Kirch, who declined to join the group and
launched his own decoder. The take-over of Nethold by Canal Plus gives
it control of both of Europe's decoder systems, the Seca decoder which
it created with Bertelsmann, and Nethold's decoder, which is being
used by Kirch. One German newspaper says Deutsche Telekom now wants to
develop its own decoder. Rupert Murdoch's New Corp has taken a stake
in Kirch. (Reuters)
EUROPEAN UNION--The European Commision announced on September 12 that
it is investigating the proposed merger between Bertelsmann and CLT,
as the deal apparently falls under the EU's merger rules which ban the
creation or strengthening of dominant positions. The Canal
Plus/Nethold merger is also expected to be submitted to the EU's
authority. (Reuters)
The European Court has ruled that laws which Belgium imposes on its
cable operators are unlawful. The Belgian regulations require the
networks to carry only approved foreign programming. The court agreed
with the European Commission, which said the rules were against the
Broadcasting Without Frontiers regulations, as they stopped
TNT/Cartoon Network from getting on cable in Belgium. The court says
that a national government cannot block a channel that has been
approved under the laws of another EU member. However, the European
Commision has denied that the ruling would authorize the broadcast of
pornography into Britain, as had been claimed by British newspapers.
In a statement, the Commission said the Broadcasting Without Frontiers
regulations specifically exempt "offensive programme material, such as
pornography or gratuitous violence". (Reuters and "Tele-satellit
News")
ADULT--The hardcore French pornography channel, Rendez-Vous returned
on September 11. ("Tele-satellit News)
NBC--NBC and Eutelsat have signed a contract that gives NBC Super
Channel (which is changing its name to NBC Europe) a 12 year home on
the upcoming Hot Bird 5 satellite. This is scheduled to join Eutelsat
II-F1 (current home of NBC Super Channel) and the other Hot Birds at
13 degrees East, when it is launched in 1999. (Eutelsat)
MSNBC--Several programs from MSNBC have been carried weekends on CNBC
on Astra. Now daily MSNBC programs are being carried on NBC Super
Channel on Eutelsat II-F1 (albeit it at rather strange times).
(Reuters) "Internight" is being carried live, at 2:00 CET. The
computer show "The Site" is at 16:00 hrs (when hardly anyone
interested in computers is home from work.
NBC says it expects the full MSNBC channel to make its debut in Europe
in late 1997, when digital capacity is available. (Reuters)
CNET--The Sci-Fi Channel, which relays the computer show "C/Net
Central" on its American network, has begun rebroadasts to Europe as
well, Tuesdays at 22:30 British time, on Astra transponder 47.
The Sci-Fi Channel Europe does broadcast 24 hours in MPEG, which is
relayed on cable networks in Britain and Finland. The European
schedule on the Sci- Fi Channel's Website
(http://www.scifi.com/sforiginals/cnet/") lists other broadcasts of
"C/Net Central" on Saturdays at 10:50 and Sundays at 17:00 hrs British
time. An Internet-related program called "The Web" is carried
Saturdays at 10:00 and Sundays at 17:25 hrs British time, and a
science and technology program called "The New Edge" is on Tuesdays at
22:00 hrs (while the Astra transponder is carrying Sci-Fi Channel),
Saturdays at 11:15 and Sundays at 18:15 hrs. The Sci-F Channel was
supposed to be carried on Nickelodeon Sweden's Astra transponder 27,
and was reported sighted there a couple of times before the
"Nickelodeon 09:00-15:00" test pattern went up. Last Sunday evening,
the test pattern was gone, and the sounds of "C/Net Central" could be
heard on the channel for a while.
COMPUTER CHANNEL--British Sky Broadcasting has announced the launch of
another "channel" to its Sky Multichannels package. The Computer
Channel will be carried for two hours between 18:00 and 20:00 hrs
British time daily from November 1. Programming will be in four half
hour shows: Family Guide (a beginner's guide to technology), Games
World, Global Village (with computer news from around the world), and
Chips with Everything (an expert guide to technology). ("Tele-satellit
News") It's unclear what transponder this "channel" will join,
possibly Sky 2, possibly the "7 channels" on transponder 47, should
the Sci-Fi Channel be given its own transponder for 24 hour
broadcasts.
FOX--Rupert Murdoch's new children's channel will definately be called
the Fox Kids Network, and will share Astra transponder 7 with Sky 2,
beginning October 19. As we reported last time, it will broadcast
daily between 06:00 and 19:00 hrs British time (making the use of this
transponder for the Computer Channel less likely). ("Tele-satellit
News")
GRANADA--Granada promos have begun broadcasts on Astra transponder 58
(Granada Good Life) and 59 (Granada Talk TV). Both are scheduled to
begin on October 1, along with Granada Plus on transponder 3. (This
would seem to argue against the report last time that BSkyB is
launching a pay-per-view service on transponders 58 and 59.)
WARNER--Astra promos are now being carried on Astra transponder 57,
where Warner Brothers Television begins on November 1.
BBC--TCI's British subsidiary Flextech has reportedly beaten out
British Sky Broadcasting to win the BBC contract to launch at least
six pay TV networks in Britain early next year. The new services will
also be available in around 18 months as part of the BBC's new digital
multiplex. (Cable World)
This channels are reportedly: BBC 1 Plus, BBC2 Plus (both offering a
complementary program schedule to the existing national channels), and
a 24 hour news channel called BBC News, which will all be free.
Several subscription channels complete the package: BBC Learning Zone,
Arena (arts) Horizons (science and nature), Life (lifestyle and
consumer programs) and Showcase (entertaiment and drama).
While it had been reported that a BBC Sport Channel had been rejected
because the Beeb cannot compete with BSkyB in this area, it now
appears that there will be a channel called Sportsview, containing
archive material and event repeats.
The method of delivery has yet to be decided, but the coming Astra 2A
at 28.2 degrees East (which will the home of digital channels from
British Sky Broadcasting) and the launch of UK digital terrestrial
broadcasting in late 1997/early 1998 offer the most obvious
alternative methods of delivery.
Working with Flextech could give the BBC access to the American
market, and Flextech access to at least some of the BBC's vast program
archive. Flextech is also in talks to buy out the stakes of two of its
other (besides the BBC) partners in the UK Gold and UK Living
channels, Pearson PLC and Cox Communications. (James Robinson and
"Tele-satellit News")
HUNGARY--Angenna Hungaria's MPEG-2 package has officially started on
Israel's Amos-1 satellite. The first channel is TV3 Budapest. More
digital signals should be expected soon, as Nethold will launch its
package, which should include A3 Television. The Hugnarian HBO is
another possibllity. The service is intended for cable systems, rather
than DTH. ("Tele-satellit")
FRANCE--Radio France International is now broadcasting on
Nickelodeon/Paramount's Astra transponder 48, audio 7.38 MHz. (Richard
Karlsson in "Aftonbladet")
MPEG--The German 3Sat and Franco-German Arte are now broadcasing in
MPEG on Astra transponder 71, joining Cartoon Network/TNT, CNN, and
Multithema 2- 4. (Richard Karlsson in "Aftonbladet")
AFRICA:
WORLD RADIO NETWORK--Radio Sweden is about to join a number of other
international broadcasters on FM in South Africa, via the World Radio
Network. I called up WRN's Karl Miosga in London for the details, and
our conversation is in today's program.
Following the example of its feed to the CBC Overnight Service in
Canada, WRN will be relaying six radio stations, including Radio
Sweden, as part of South Africa's SAFM service, in the middle of the
night. The WRN African feed is also going to be carried on Nethold's
Multichoice digital DTH package to South Africa.
SOUTH AFRICA--The board of the South African Broadcasting Corporation
as given the go-ahead for a new eight-channel satellite TV service,
Astrasat. It will begin before the end of the year, and will be free
until next March, when it becomes a pay service.
Six of the channels will be new, and the remaining two services will
be SABC Two and SABC Three. Three free channels, SABC One and two new
services, will be available from next year when PanAmSat's PAS-7
satellite is launched. A total of 13 channels will eventually be
available from PAS-7, in addition to all of the SABC's radio networks.
("Tele-satellit News")
NORTH AMERICA:
WORLD RADIO NETWORK--In today's program, Karl Miosga also talks about
WRN's hopes to expand its current North American service, which is on
the Galaxy 5 satellite, to one of the several DBS DTH digital services
over North America.
TIME-WARNER/CNN--On a closely contested 3-2 vote, the American Federal
Trade Commission has given final approval to Time Warner's acquisition
of Turner Broadcasting, clearing the way for the creation of the
world's largest media company. The settlement requires Time Warner's
cable networks to carry a second news channel to compete with CNN to
at least half of its subscribers within three to five years (good news
for MSNBC and Fox News). ("Time" magazine")
Ned Brainard writes on "Wired" magazine's "Packet" Website that the
FTC decision can't have pleased Time's "Pathfinder" WWW service. He
notes a "Wall Street Journal" report that Ted Turner has been pushing
to have Time Warner's interactive services, such as Pathfinder, put
under the control of Turner's CNN Interactive Unit. ("Packet")
FOX--Rupert Murdoch's Fox News Channel becomes the third 24 hour cable
news channel in the United States when it starts on October 7. It will
initially be available to 10 million cable subscribers, with 16 hours
of live programming daily, and news updates during programming
repeated overnight. (AP)
FAMILY CHANNEL--Family Channel viewers in the western USA will soon be
watching a digital version of the channel, although they might not
realize it. The programmer, who service is seen in almost 99 percent
of America's cable households, has announced it is switching to
Scientific Atlanta's PowerVu system for domestic cable distribution.
The new system will enable the Family Channel to deliver six video and
audio channels over a single transponder, on Satcom C3.
("Tele-satellit News")
LAUNCHES--GE Americom's GE-1 satellite was launched by an Atlas rocket
from Cape Canaveral on September 8. The satellite will relay TV
programming across the US and Caribbean, including GE's NBC network,
Turner Broadcasting, Primetime 24, Starnet, Microspace, NATV, NET,
several Rainbow regional sports services, and the Qualcomm tracking
and data messaging service for the trucking industry. The spacecraft
features the first US 36 MHz Ku-band transponders. The 4 launch burns
should be completed by September 19, when Lockheed Martin will turn
over control of GE-1 to GE Americom. The satellite will be located at
103 degrees West. ("Tele-satellit News", AP, Reuters, and Curt
Swinehart)
Echostar 2 was launched on an Ariane 4 rocket from French Guiana on
Septmber 10. HBO and Turner Broadcasting will be among the major users
of this DBS satellite. EchoStar expected the satellite will begin
delivering broadcasts to its DISH Network subscribers by November 1.
The satellite is capable of transmitting more than 100 (digital)
channels, doubling the DISH Network's current offerings. It will be
located at 119 degrees West, alongside Echostar 1. (Reuters,
"Tele-satellit News" and Curt Swinehart)
LATIN AMERICA:
ESPN--ESPN will launch its fourth Latino network, ESPN2, in
association with Mexican programming broker Productora y
Comercializadora de TV. The network will be available in Mexico and
Central America, and will mix sports from that region with North
American events like Major League Soccer and Baseball. ("Tele-satellit
News")
ASIA:
JAPAN--Toyota Motor Corp. is investing 500 million yen (USD 4.5
million) in PerfecTV, Japan's first satellite digital programming
venture, which will begin broadcasting later this year, with 70
channels of programming. (AP)
The PerfecTV Web site is at:
http://www.perfectv.co.jp
Correcting the report in edition 2255, CTN is Hong Kong-based, not
Taiwan. Their Web site is at:
http://www.ctn.net
And the name of the Japan satellite System's satellites is JCSAT, not
JCSat. (Goro Amihari)
Arianespace has announced it has signed a contract to launch the
JCSAT-5 satellite at the end of 1997, or beginning of 1998. (Reuters)
INDIA--Rupert Murdoch's British Sky Broadcasting is expanding
overseas. According to sources, Sky Sports is set to expand to India
and some areas of Asia. Apparently, advertisements for the channel are
already being seen in India. ("Tele-satellit")
On September 6, the Indian government announced approval for a USD 11
million direct foreign investment for Murdoch's News Television India
Private Ltrd (NTVI). This gives NTVI clearance to operate as an Indian
company, breaking the barrier that has kept foreign broadcasters out
of India. Murdoch's Star- TV owns 40 percent of NTVI, with the rest
owned by a Mauritius-based offshore company headed by a Non-resident
Indian. If NTVI applies to become a broadcaster, and if Indian law is
changed to allow satellite uplinks directly from the country, Star
will be better placed than any rivals in the direct- to-home TVRO
market, with programming originating in India, rather than beaming in
from abroad. Four Star-TV channels already reach India via cable
networks in the major cities. (Reuters)
CYBERSPACE:
RADIOTOWER--The Radiotower is a directory of live audio broadcasters
on the Internet:
http://www.radiotower.com
With a radio receiver type interface, it makes it easy to find and
tune in radio stations from around the world. (Paul Valkama, via Curt
Swinehart)
WORLD OF RADIO--Glenn Hauser's "World of Radio" now has a Website at:
http://hudson.idt.net/~khecht19/radio/shortwave/ghauser
INTERNET TV--Internet-capable TVs are moving into the Japanese market,
with Sharp Corp, due to release a 32 inch Internet-ready set soon,
Mitsubishi Electric Corp. and Sanyo Electric Corp. planning October
launches for their own Internet TVs, and Hitachi Ltd. slating a
November debut for a set-top box with Internet functionality.
(TechWeb)
But there's a much cheaper way to surf the Web on your TV set. Just
find a an old used Atari ST, with at least 1 MB RAM. You can use your
TV as a monitor, and surf the Web (by modem) by using the Atari
Internet Pack, which you can download from:
http://www.tripnet.se/~mille/english/programs.html
("InterNet Guiden")
CNN/PAGENET--CNN has launched a news service to pagers connected to
the Pagenet system. The pager in a Web window is also available from
the CNN Interactive site (http://cnn.com/ads/pagenet).
Thanks to this week's contributors!
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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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