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Nintendo and Kyocera will form the core of a group wich will be developing the satellite broadcast business using the successor to the BS4 satellite.
The Nintendo Co.Ltd. and Kyocera Corporation (Kyoto Ceramics/Cybernetics/Yashica) have agreed to participate in the satellite digital broadcast business and to grant new licenses.
They will be using the successor to the BS4 satellite - the BS4-b - targeted for launch in the year 2000. The two partners intend to achieve this by capital investment in Satellite Digital Music and Data Broadcasting Corporation, wich have been producing satellite digital music and data broadcasts since November of 1990 and wich posses the know-how and a good track record in this field.