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Teracom maintains operating profit despite pay-TV competition

Swedish transmission services and pay-TV operator Teracom turned in operating profit of SEK259m (€25.4m) for…

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Red Bee selects PubliTronic for BBC HD playout

Broadcast services provider Red Bee Media has chosen solutions from playout provider PubliTronic for the…

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AXN to join Spanish pay-DTT platform

Sony Pictures Entertainment’s entertainment channel AXN is to join Spain’s Dahlia pay-TV platform following…

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Chorus NTL to carry ESPN channel

Irish cable operator Chorus NTL is to carry the new ESPN sports channel as part…

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ESPN heads to Tiscali TV

Sports broadcaster ESPN has launched its two UK channels on IPTV service Tiscali TV. From…

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Ondas Media strikes deal with Rotana

UK-based satellite radio outfit Ondas Media has signed a partnership with Saudi Arabian-based media group…

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Lattelecom launches digital-terrestrial TV in Latvia

Latvian telco Lattelecom has launched its digital-terrestrial TV platform, Virszemes TelevÄ«ziju. The telco is currently…

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Orange makes Ligue 1 available on iPhone

French telco Orange has made coverage of French Ligue 1 football matches available on 3G/3GS…

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ITV falls below self imposed targets

UK commercial broadcaster ITV has seen its total audience share fall below its self-imposed targets…

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MSN Video Player off to “encouraging” start

Microsoft’s new online TV service MSN Video Player registered nearly 170,000 views in the 11…

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Tele Columbus adds HD channels

German cable operator Tele Columbus has added HD channels Das Erste HD (from ARD), ZDF…

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Zon strikes VOD deal with Universal

Portuguese pay-TV provider Zon Multimédia has signed a deal with Universal Pictures to include movies…

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RSCC signs deals for two new satellites

Russian satellite operator RSCC has signed a deal with manufacturer Reshetnev ISS for the construction…

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EBU offers audio clip service with IAAF

The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) has formed a partnership with the International Association of Athletics…

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Kabel BW grows internet base

German cable operator Kabel BW has announced that it has signed up 444,444 internet customers,…

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Spain paves way for pay-DTT

Spanish broadcasters will be able to launch pay-DTT channels thanks to new changes in the…

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Comstar-UTS moves forward with backbone network

Russian service provider Comstar-UTS has completed the construction of the main part of its new…

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Envivo supports DVB-H in Finland

IP encoding specialist Envivio has signed a deal with Finnish digital-terrestrial TV operator Digita…

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Sky Deutschland will stop supplying content to DT next month

Sky Deutschland will stop the distribution of its content to Deutsche Telekom’s IPTV service next…

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Unitymedia reports triple-play growth

German cable operator Unitymedia had 1.27 million digital cable subscribers at the end of June,…

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TVN posts solid first-half results

TVN-owned Polish DTH satellite pay-TV platform ‘n’ had 683,000 subscribers at the end of the…

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Broadband per-megabit prices continue to fall

Residential DSL broadband customers are paying 40% less for each megabit of bandwidth than they…

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MENA to reach 11 million pay-TV subs by 2014

The Middle East and North Africa will be home to 11 million pay-TV subscribers by…

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Swisscom in rural fibre initiative

Swisscom has signed a contract with the municipality of Pfyn in north-east Switzerland to build…

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Dutch BVN-TV expands RRsat contract

Dutch international public broadcast channel joint-venture BVN-TV is to expand its contract with broadcast services…

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Kabel BW to broadcast ZDF HD

German cable operator Kabel BW is to air public broadcaster ZDF’s showcase HD coverage of…

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Cyfra Plus adds Eurosport 2 HD

Polish pay-TV provider Cyfra Plus has added Eurosport 2 HD to its programming line-up. The…

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TVN names Tellenbach as president and CEO

Polish broadcaster TVN Group has named Markus Tellenbach as president and CEO. The former SBS…

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Hungary passes one million digital subs

The number of digital pay-TV subscribers in Hungary increased by 3% to take its total…

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Telenet adds new channels to analogue

Belgian cable operator Telenet is to add three new channels to its analogue line-up. The…