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Akado adds Nat Geo Wild to digital tier

Russian pay TV provider Akado has added two channels, Nat Geo Wild and Usad’ba (“Manor”),…

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Davey joins Sky Deutschland as EVP programming

Sky Deutschland has appointed News Corp senior exec Gary Davey as executive vice-president programming. Davey…

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Discovery names CEEMEA programming boss

Discovery has appointed former BT Vision executive Stuart Pearson its programming boss for the central…

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Al Jazeera wins French international football rights

France’s professional football league, the LFP, has awarded Al Jazeera the rights to commercialize…

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Pace appoints former Asda CEO as chairman

Set-top vendor Pace has appointed former supermarket CEO Allan Leighton as its new non-executive chairman….

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Formula 1 races over to MaxTV

Subscribers to Croatian telco T-Hrvatski Telecom’s pay TV service MaxTV can now watch coverage of…

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ANACOM censures PT over poor DTT information

Portuguese regulator ANACOM has called on Portugal Telecom to improve the quality of information provided…

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Zon launches multimedia music service

Portuguese pay TV operator Zon Multimédia has launched Zon Música, a new multi-platform music service,…

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Sony, Apollo and Providence circle £750m All3Media


The television arm of Sony and private equity firms Apollo and Providence are being linked…

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Swisscom passes half million TV subs

Swisscom has now signed up over half a million TV customers and has announced an…

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Telekom Austria rebrands IPTV service, adds foreign channels

Telekom Austria has rebranded its IPTV offering to A1 Kabel TV and expanded the service…

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New DTH operator set for African launch

A new pay TV platform targeting East Africa will launch this summer using capacity from…

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Bouygues to provide advanced Wi-Fi streaming for Bbox

French ISP Bouygues Telecom is to introduce a new Wi-Fi-enabled version of its Bbox gateway…

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RTL confirms Indian channels plans


Pan-European broadcast group RTL will launch two channels in India with Reliance Broadcast, one of…

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Eutelsat’s Ka-Sat open for business

Eutelsat’s Ka-Sat satellite has entered into commercial service, giving a boost to the operator’s satellite…

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Middle East and Africa digital TV growing fast


Digital TV penetration will reach 81% in the Middle East and Africa region by 2016,…

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Tele Columbus names Musselman as chairman

German cable operator Tele Columbus has named former UPC Broadband chief operating officer Gene Musselman…

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AsiaSat announces major earth station expansion

Hong Kong-based satellite operator AsiaSat has announced a major expansion of its Tai Po earth…

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Primacom and Tele Columbus continue digital upgrade

German cable operator Primacom has upgraded its network in Angelbachtal near Mannheim. The operator is…

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Global TV ad market will reach US$180 billion by 2016

Cumulative worldwide TV advertising revenues will grow this year albeit at a slower rate than…

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Telenet continues wholesale fight

Belgian cable operator Telenet has said it will continue to fight regulatory proposals that would…

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Free/Iliad in bond issue

French ISP Free/Iliad Telecom has completed a €500 million bond issue.
 The five year bond,…

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Discovery launches localised mobile app

Discovery Networks International has teamed up with mobile app specialist Phunware to launch specially-languaged mobile…

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UK, France take OTT lead, Italy and Spain lag


The UK and France are the most developed of the large, western European TV markets…

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Pay TV growth for Kabel BW

German cable operator Kabel BW ended March with 308,000 pay TV subscribers after adding 98,000…

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Premium Calcio number one in Italy

Mediaset’s Premium Calcio is Italy’s most watched pay TV channel, according to ratings agency Auditel….

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Spain’s TV3 chooses Dolby Digital Plus for final

Spanish regional public broadcaster Televisió de Catalunya (TV3) is to show the UEFA Champions League…

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DTH leads Romanian pay TV rebound as cable declines

Romanian telecoms regulator ANCOM’s latest Electronic Communications report shows an overall growth in pay TV…

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S4C expected to appoint former CEO as chairman

Welsh-language broadcaster S4C is expected to appoint Huw Jones its chairman after he got…

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Viacom appoints Nick VP for Spain, Portugal and Greece

Viacom International Media Networks has named Joana Carrión Boule as vice-president, Nickelodeon Spain, Portugal and…