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Harmonic sells cable access line to Aurora Networks
Video technology company Harmonic is to sell its cable access products business to Aurora Networks…
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TV4 Group boosted by buoyant Swedish ad market
Swedish free-to-air commercial and pay TV broadcaster TV4 Group benefited from a buoyant domestic advertising…
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Sky Italia launches dedicated F1 channel
Italian pay TV operator Sky has launched a dedicated Formula 1 channel, Sky Sport F1…
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NTV Plus scoops English Premier League rights
Russian pay TV operator NTV Plus has acquired exclusive rights to broadcast English Premier League…
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Discovery’s Zaslav to give MIPTV keynote
Discovery Communications’ president and CEO David Zaslav will give a keynote address at MIPTV in…
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VimpelCom names Volga region chief
Russian service provider VimpelCom has named Andrei Kurdanov as director for the Volga region. In…
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Elemental launches Nvidia-based video processing platform
Technology companies Nvidia and Elemental Technologies have launched a new video processing platform to enable…
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Amino names Coles to senior role
Set-top provider Amino Communications has named Joe Coles as senior vice-president of product management and…
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EMC and Arabsat sign deal for hosted Ka-band payload
Middle East satellite operator Arabsat has signed a deal with Emerging Markets Communications (EMC) whereby…
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TV2 chooses Agama for quality assurance
Norwegian broadcaster TV2 has chosen quality assurance specialist Agama Technologies to to provide service quality…
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KDG survey reveals shift to internet viewing
About 17% of Germans are using time-shifted TV, with a third of German 16-29 year-olds…
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Formula One sees audience decline in 2012
Formula One’s global audience declined in 2012, pushed down by a 34% drop in viewing…
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Kim Dotcom planning to offer new services from Mega site
Kim Dotcom, the creator of file-sharing website Megaupload, which was shut down by US authorities…
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Berlusconi opponent interested in La7 acquisition
Italian entrepreneur and Diego Della Valle has expressed a serious interest in La7. The Italian…
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Ofcom awards Leeds local TV licence to Ian West’s Made Television
UK media regulator Ofcom has awarded a local TV licence for the Northern city of…
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Orange to divest Sonaecom stake
France Telecom-Orange has entered into a put and call option that will allow it to…
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Makedonski Telekom sees strong growth in TV base
Deutsche Telekom-owned Macedonian telco Makedonski Telekom now has over 70,000 customers to its MaxTV service,…
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Shorts TV gains carriage in Romania and East Africa
Short film channel Shorts TV has launched on Romtelecom in Romania and on the Zuku…
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Kenyan regulator agrees new switchover date
The Communications Commission of Kenya (CCK) has decided on a compromise date of September 15…
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Tanzanian minister hails switchover success
Tanzania has successfully completed digital switchover, beating the ITU’s 2015 deadline by over two years,…
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BBC Trust launches distribution review
The BBC Trust has ordered a review to see if the way the BBC distributes…
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Poland’s Vectra hires new brand agency
Polish cable operator Vectra has awarded a contract to deliver brand communication to Warsaw-based agency…
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Kroes calls for greater flexibility on movie windows
The current system of release windows for movies is often too rigid and can prevent…
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LGI sees strong Horizon sales in Switzerland; Ireland and Germany next
Liberty Global has sold 20,000 Horizon subscriptions in Switzerland since the advanced set-top launched in…
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Blinkbox takes James Bond catalogue in MGM deal
Blinkbox has inked a deal with MGM for the catalogue of James Bond movies. The…
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Investors sue Virgin Media for “unfair price” of Liberty Global deal
Virgin Media shareholders led by investor Jeff Grimsley have launched a class action against Virgin…
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Netflix is an opportunity, not a threat says CBS boss Moonves
Netflix is not a threat to broadcast network CBS, according to its CEO and president…
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Russian advertising market growth slows in 2012
Overall annual growth in the advertising market in Russia slowed last year to 13%, according…
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International business drives growth at Discovery
Double-digit growth at Discovery’s international networks helped drive overall revenue and profit growth at the…
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Euronews launches on Etisalat
News channel Euronews has signed an agreement with Abu Dhabi-based Etisalat to join its platform. The…