News

News Stay Updated Icon 1 min read

Netgem reports increased revenue

French set-top supplier and hybrid IPTV service provider Netgem reported revenues of €11m for content…

News Stay Updated Icon 1 min read

Cable passes 20 million broadband customers

The number of broadband cable customers in Europe has passed 20 million. According to industry…

News Stay Updated Icon 1 min read

Study highlights benefits of infrastructure competition

Infrastructure-based broadband competition for next-generation access services will allow migration to higher bandwidth networks, meeting…

News Stay Updated Icon 1 min read

CanalSat expects modest growth for Swiss service

French pay-TV operator CanalSat expects to sign up between 12,000 and 13,000 subscribers by the…

News Stay Updated Icon 1 min read

NOS to launch connected TV

Dutch public broadcaster NOS is to launch a connected TV service, according to local reports….

News Stay Updated Icon 1 min read

UPC Austria teams up with 3 for quick-fix business connections

Cable operator UPC Austria has teamed up with its usual mobile network partner 3 Austria…

News Stay Updated Icon 1 min read

YouTube to launch UK on-demand service next month

Online video sharing site YouTube is set to launch its advertising funded video-on-demand service for…

News Stay Updated Icon 1 min read

Digital Rapids integrates YouTube fingerprinting

Technology provider Digital Rapids is working with video sharing website YouTube to integrate support for…

News Stay Updated Icon 1 min read

Italian international soccer rights up for grabs

Lega Calcio, the governing body of Italy’s soccer leagues, is selling combined media rights to…

News Stay Updated Icon 1 min read

Cool to get more Hot

Israeli cable operator Hot Cable Media Systems is to sell a 12.68% stake of the…

News Stay Updated Icon 1 min read

Comstar acquires eight cable operators

Russian service provider Comstar-UTS has acquired the regional assets of eight cable companies operating in…

News Stay Updated Icon 1 min read

Stream TV launches religious channel

Religious channel Soyuz has launched on Russian pay-TV platform Stream TV. Founded by the Russian…

News Stay Updated Icon 1 min read

BBC’s Canvas would stifle competition says Sky

UK pay-TV operator BSkyB has delivered a strongly-worded response to the BBC Trust over Project…

News Stay Updated Icon 1 min read

Eutelsat to broadcast Magyar TV2

Satellite operator Eutelsat has been selected by Hungarian public broadcaster Magyar Televízió to broadcast its…

News Stay Updated Icon 1 min read

BT Vision will miss customer target

The head of UK IPTV service BT Vision has admitted that it will fail to…

News Stay Updated Icon 1 min read

TeliaSonera ups stakes in Teo and Eesti

TeliaSonera has increased its ownership of Lithuanian telco Teo to 68.08% after acquiring additional shares….

News Stay Updated Icon 1 min read

Viasat inks Latvia/Estonia content deal with Disney

Modern Times Group-backed pay-TV operator Viasat has agreed a wide-ranging programming deal with Disney. It…

News Stay Updated Icon 1 min read

Sky tunes up music service

UK pay-TV operator BSkyB has launched a music download service Sky Songs. It has inked…

News Stay Updated Icon 1 min read

AmberFin partners with Ascent

Video technology company AmberFin has announced that broadcast services provider Ascent Media has integrated its…

News Stay Updated Icon 1 min read

Astra reveals HD Plus details

Satellite operator SES Astra has announced that its new high-definition platform HD Plus will…

News Stay Updated Icon 1 min read

Unitymedia planning partial flotation

German cable operator Unitymedia is preparing for a partial IPO early next year, according to…

News Stay Updated Icon 1 min read

Kabel BW extends super-fast broadband to Ulm region

German cable operator Kabel BW has launched 100Mbps broadband services in the Ulm region, including…

News Stay Updated Icon 1 min read

YouTube gets one billion hits a day

Video-sharing website YouTube gets more than one billion hits a day, according to founder Chad…

News Stay Updated Icon 1 min read

ITV executive plans in flux

The senior management upheaval at UK broadcaster ITV is continuing with COO John Cresswell stepping…

News Stay Updated Icon 1 min read

Poker Channel gambles on neufbox

The Poker Channel has launched on French IPTV service Neufbox. The launch on telco SFR’s…

News Stay Updated Icon 1 min read

Mid Europa Partners acquire Bulgarian pay-TV operator

Private-equity group Mid Europa Partners has completed the acquisition of Bulgarian DTH operator Interactivni Tehnologii…

News Stay Updated Icon 1 min read

Digital reaches seven in ten French households

More than seven in ten French households took a digital TV service at the end…

News Stay Updated Icon 1 min read

Cable Europe Labs certifies new products

Cable industry standards body Cable Europe Labs has certified a number of new EuroDOCSIS-based products…

News Stay Updated Icon 1 min read

Teo launches HD DVR

Lithuanian telco Teo is launching HDTV and a new DVR service to its 40,000 Digital…

News Stay Updated Icon 1 min read

Vodafone Portugal boosts mobile TV service

Vodafone Portugal has added three new channels to its mobile TV offering. The operator has…