Belgacom boosts TV everywhere offering

Belgacom has added Belgian public broadcaster RTBF’s La Une, La Deux and La Trois to its TV everywhere offering, along with French commercial channel TF1.

The service, which allows users to watch TV on a PC, Mac, laptop, tablet or smartphone, already offers één, Canvas, Ketnet/OP 12, vtm, 2BE, vtmKzoom, Vier, VIJF, Vitaya, Acht, Eurosport, anne, JIM, Nickelodeon Junior, Euronews, Belgacom  11+/Zoom, Belgacom 5, RTL-TVI, Club RTL, Plug RTL, AB3, AB4, France 2, France 3, France 4, France 5, LCI, MCM Pop, Tiji and Canal J as well as football and basketball matches.

Belgacom said its TV everywhere application had now been downloaded over 400,000 times. The full service is available for €4.95 a month, but users can access the Belgacom TV guide and programme recordings remotely free of charge.

Separately, Belgacom has said it will add German-language channel RTL to its line-up and has denied rumours that it has withdrawn German public channels ARD and ZDF. Belgacom said it hoped a deal could be struck to keep both channels on its line-up.