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Canal Plus grows base as Vivendi confirms outlook
Canal Plus France added 96,000 net subscriptions in the year to June. The pay TV…
Fetch TV to launch on Panasonic connected TVs
The VOD portal of UK service provider IP Vision’s hybrid OTT/IPTV platform Fetch TV will…
Channel 4 News arrives on 4oD
Channel 4 is adding news programming to its catch-up platform 4oD. The broadcaster’s weekday Channel…
UPC Czech boosts HD line up
Cable operator UPC Czech Republic has expanded its channel line-up with the addition of the…
All Go for TLC in Malta
Discovery is launching its female skewing network TLC in Malta after striking a deal with…
Du TV offers free channels
Middle Eastern pay TV operator Du TV is offering all subscribers free access to 136…
Slovenia VOD provider chooses open source encoder
Telekom Slovenije-owned video-on-demand provider Najdi has chosen the Open Broadcast Encoder (OBE), an open-source encoder…
RTL to launch channels in Vietnam
German commercial broadcast group RTL is launching five German-language television station in Vietnam after striking…
Facebook app for Elion
Estonian service provider Elion plans to introduce a Facebook application for its nutiTV IPTV service….
Cosmos TV Belarus names new CEO
Pay TV service provider Cosmos TV Belarus has named Igor Zayanchkovsky as its new CEO….
Astra to deliver glasses-free 3D TV
SES Astra and iPONT International, a developer of glasses-free 3D technology, will use IBC demonstrate…
Schmidt promises European Google TV launch early next year
Delivering this year’s MacTaggart lecture at the MediaGuardian Edinburgh International Television Festival on Friday, Google…
BBC to trial Super HD at Olympics
UK public broadcaster the BBC will air “every hour of every event” at next year’s…
Lagardère unlikely to IPO Canal Plus stake anytime soon
French media group Lagardère is unlikely to launch an IPO of its 20% stake in…
EBU-backed social network pilot goes live
An EBU-backed pilot that uses social networks to allow TV viewers to choose broadcasters’ schedules…
Zon revenues boosted by triple-play and VOD growth
Portuguese cable operator Zon Multimedia is still attracting new triple-play customers, and penetration has now…
Swisscom reveals VOD usage figures
Swisscom has revealed that it had approximately 3,000,000 VOD requests from its Swissom TV customers…
CME launches VOD in Slovakia
Broadcaster Central European Media Enterprises (CME) has launched its Voyo video-on-demand service into its fourth…
Eutelsat feeds Egyptian satellite demand
Eutelsat’s subsidiary Skylogic has signed a six-year distribution deal with Egyptsat enabling the Egyptian operator…
Faroese Telecom chooses Agama
Faroese telecom provider Faroese Telecom has chosen Agama Technologies to provide quality assurance technology for…
ONO adds Prisa’s football channel
Spanish cable operator ONO has begun offering Prisa TV’s Fútbol (Football) channel. ONO is offering…
MoCA certification passes 100 products
The Multimedia-over-Coax Alliance (MoCA), which provides specifications for home networking over in-home coax, has announced…
ProSiebenSat.1 to buy back up to 10% of shares
German commercial broadcaster ProSiebenSat.1 is looking to buy back up to 10% of the company’s…
Deutsche Telekom reportedly to set up FTTH subsidiary
Deutsche Telekom is planning to create a new subsidiary specifically to look after high-speed fibre-optic…
Travel Channel HD launches in Poland
Travel Channel HD is launching in Poland on the Vectra cable platform. The channel will…
Euronews launches in Ukraine
International news broadcaster Euronews has launched in Ukraine. The news network had signed a deal…
Uganda’s Vision TV launches English-language network
Vision TV is launching an English-language channel in Uganda. The company, which currently operates free-to-air…
Kenya’s Kiss acquires soccer rights
Kenyan broadcaster Kiss TV has acquired the rights to a raft of European soccer tournaments….
New look for Discovery Channel in CEEMEA
Discovery Communications has launched a new brand identity for Discovery Channel across central and eastern…
EBU launches broadcast challenge study
The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) has launched new research into the key business challenges and…