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Scrap BBC licence fee, give Worldwide greater role says UK think tank
UK public broadcaster the BBC should give up its licence fee and instead rely on…
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KDG plans to pay dividend despite acquisition plans
German cable operator Kabel Deutschland (KDG) plans to pay a dividend next year despite planning…
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MTG renews motorsport and golf deals
Modern Times Group (MTG) has renewed a raft of major sporting rights that will see…
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Cosmos TV Belarus adds TNT to line-up
Service provider Cosmos TV Belarus has added Russian national channel TNT to its digital-terrestrial and…
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Romtelecom acquires Champions League rights
Romanian telco Romtelecom has acquired rights to broadcast UEFA Champions League football on its Dolce…
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Akado adds three new channels
Russian service provider Akado has added three new TV channels to its line-up today. …
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Hot chooses Teleste for fibre upgrade
Finland based broadband technology provider Teleste has been chosen to supply fibre-network equipment to Israeli…
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Half of Zon subscribers now take triple-play
Almost half of Portuguese pay-TV leader Zon Multimédias subscriber base now take triple-play services from…
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Comstar names Tenzor Telekom chief
Russian service provider Comstar-UTS has named Evgeny Lapshin as director-general of its Tenzor Telekom subsidiary….
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Pinon to quit GlobeCast
Christian Pinon, the chairman and CEO of France Telecom-owned media services company GlobeCast is to…
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Orange CEO confirms in talks with Canal Plus
Orange CEO Stéphane Richard has said that his group is still in discussion with Canal…
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LoveFilm partners with Widevine
Move rental service LoveFilm has signed a deal with Widevine to make the content security…
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Dori extends Hot Israeli deal
Telenovela producer and distributor Dori Media has extended an agreement with Israeli cabler Hot to…
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Antena 3 adding Nitro to Neox and Nova
Spanish broadcaster Antena 3s new channel, Nitro, will launch next month with a programming line-up…
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Belgacom grows TV and multi-play sub base
Belgacom ended June with 868,000 TV subs, up 47% year-on-year. This comes after the Belgian…
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Unitymedia upgrades Witten
Liberty Global-owned German cable operator Unitymedia has completed the upgrade of its network in the…
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No end in sight to growth for Eutelsat and SES
Satellite operators Eutelsat and SES have both released their latest quarterly financial results. Paris-based…
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BT pins hopes on Sky Sports for sub growth
BT is hoping the launch of Sky Sports on its pay-TV platform BT Vision will…
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Triple-play and digital boost Ziggo
Digital TV sales and the migration of customer to its triple-play offer helped push Dutch…
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Humax launches Freeview Plus HD set-top
Humax has launched a HD DVR for the UKs Freeview platform. The HDR-FOX T2 for…
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Topfield chooses ANT for hybrid broadcast broadband boxes
Set-top box supplier Topfield has chosen UK-based software provider ANTs Galio HbbTV platform for its…
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Mediaset ups first-half profit and revenue
Italian broadcast group Mediaset has reported a 16.7% increase in first-half net revenues of 2.3bn…
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T-Hrvatski Telekom sees growth slow in second quarter
Deutsche Telekoms Croatian subsidiary T-Hrvatski Telekom had 256,846 IPTV subscribers at the end of June,…
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Frank swaps ESPN for Warner Bros
ESPNs EMEA managing director Lynne Frank is swapping her UK-based role at the sports broadcaster…
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ITV appoints its first CTO
ITV has created a new position of chief technology officer and appointed former Sky and…
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Virgin Media admits it might sell UKTV stake
Virgin Medias CEO Neil Berkett has made it clear that the cable operator could sell…
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Orange sees strong TV subscriber growth
France Telecom/Orange had a total of 3.6 million digital TV customers at the end of…
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Sky fleshes out 3D programming plans
Pay-TV operator BSkyB in the UK has given details of its forthcoming 3D TV service…
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Telefónica adds pay-TV subscribers
Telefónica, which has pay-TV operations in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Columbia, the Czech Republic, Germany, Peru,…
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Latvian cable operators seek permission to merge
Latvian cable operators Baltkom and Izzi have applied to the countrys competition regulator for permission…