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UPC Romania offers three months for free

UPC Romania is offering three months free subscription for new customers. The offer is also…

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Elion begins offering Viasat packages

Estonian service provider Elion has added thematic packages from Modern Times Group’s Viasat Broadcasting to…

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Ono adds two new channels

Spanish cable operator Ono has added general interest channel Veo 7 and educational channel Aprende…

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GE expected to close NBC Universal deal this week

US conglomerate GE’s deal to acquire French conglomerate Vivendi’s stake in NBC Universal is expected…

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Kudelski’s battle for OpenTV heats up

In the latest twist in its long-running battle to acquire the shares in OpenTV that…

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Telefónica to pay €1m for HanseNet

Spanish telco Telefónica will pay between €900m and €1bn for Telecom Italia’s German broadband operator…

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Mediaset mulls bond issue

Italian commercial broadcaster Mediaset is considering a €300m bond issue, according to local reports. According…

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Volia adds new channels

Ukrainian cable operator Volia has added a number of new channels to its premium offering…

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Cyfra Plus carries History

AETN’s History channel has today launched on Poland’s Cyfra Plus DTH platform, taking the channel’s…

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Intelsat wins ProtoStar auction

Satellite operator Intelsat has emerged as the winning bidder in an auction to buy the…

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Zon passes 600,000 broadband customers

Portuguese service provider Zon Multimédia now has over 600,000 broadband internet customers, representing penetration of…

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UPC Poland makes BBC Lifestyle available in analogue

Cable operator UPC Poland is making the BBC Lifestyle channel available on its analogue tier…

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Sonera targets Helsinki cable TV market

The Finnish arm of Nordic telco TeliaSonera has launched a new cable TV offer in…

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Pace launches FTA set-top range for France

Set-top vendor Pace has launched a new range of free-to-air retail boxes in France that…

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Eutelsat’s Tooway to assist Ireland’s broadband help scheme

Satellite broadcaster Eutelsat’s broadband via satellite service Tooway has been chosen by Ireland’s National Broadband…

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Stream TV makes channel changes

Russian pay-TV platform Stream TV has added two new channels to its line-up – Russia…

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TVN sees slow pay-TV growth

Polish broadcast group TVN has posted lacklustre growth of at pay-TV service ‘n’ for the…

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Cabovisão facing tough competition

Cogeco-owned Portuguese cable operator Cabovisão ended August with 102,753 digital TV customers after adding 23,456 …

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Thor 6 launch furthers Telenor’s CEE ambitions

Telenor Satellite Broadcasting has successfully launched Thor 6 from the Guiana Spaceport in Kourou. …

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Belgacom adds 220,000 TV subs in 12 months

Belgian telco Belgacom added 75,000 new IPTV customers during the third quarter, giving it a…

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EQT acquires Bulgarian cable operators

Swedish private equity form EQT has acquired Bulgarian cable operators CableTEL and Eurocom and is…

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Prisa ends Mediaset merger talks

Spanish media company Prisa has ended merger talks with Italian media group Mediaset after the…

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MAXtv ‘Croatia’s largest pay-TV service’

Deutsche Telekom-owned T-Hrvatski Telekom ended September with almost 190,000 subscribers to its IPTV service MAXtv,…

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Telenet adds subs, increases triple-play penetration

Telenet’s subscriber base increased by 29% to 4,163,000 in the 12 months to the end…

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BSkyB launches ITV appeal

UK pay-TV operator BSkyB has launched a High Court appeal against an order for it…

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Canal Digital revenues grow but DTH subs fall

Telenor’s Canal Digital pay-TV arm lost 8,000 DTH customers during the third the quarter, taking…

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Sky Deutschland leases capacity for HD

German pay-TV operator Sky Deutschland has leased more satellite capacity from SES Astra and will…

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Unitymedia owners ready for year-end IPO

BC Partners and Apollo Management will float German cable operator Unitymedia by the end of…

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Kabel Deutschland signs On Demand Deutschland VOD deal

German cable operator Kabel Deutschland has signed a deal with On Demand Deutschland to launch…

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Virgin Media increases quad-play penetration

Ten per cent of Virgin Media’s customers now take quad-play services. The cable operator reported…