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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…
Red Bee selects PubliTronic for BBC HD playout
Broadcast services provider Red Bee Media has chosen solutions from playout provider PubliTronic for the…
AXN to join Spanish pay-DTT platform
Sony Pictures Entertainment’s entertainment channel AXN is to join Spain’s Dahlia pay-TV platform following…
Chorus NTL to carry ESPN channel
Irish cable operator Chorus NTL is to carry the new ESPN sports channel as part…
ESPN heads to Tiscali TV
Sports broadcaster ESPN has launched its two UK channels on IPTV service Tiscali TV. From…
Ondas Media strikes deal with Rotana
UK-based satellite radio outfit Ondas Media has signed a partnership with Saudi Arabian-based media group…
Lattelecom launches digital-terrestrial TV in Latvia
Latvian telco Lattelecom has launched its digital-terrestrial TV platform, Virszemes TelevÄ«ziju. The telco is currently…
Orange makes Ligue 1 available on iPhone
French telco Orange has made coverage of French Ligue 1 football matches available on 3G/3GS…
ITV falls below self imposed targets
UK commercial broadcaster ITV has seen its total audience share fall below its self-imposed targets…
MSN Video Player off to Âencouraging start
MicrosoftÂs new online TV service MSN Video Player registered nearly 170,000 views in the 11…
Tele Columbus adds HD channels
German cable operator Tele Columbus has added HD channels Das Erste HD (from ARD), ZDF…
Zon strikes VOD deal with Universal
Portuguese pay-TV provider Zon Multimédia has signed a deal with Universal Pictures to include movies…
RSCC signs deals for two new satellites
Russian satellite operator RSCC has signed a deal with manufacturer Reshetnev ISS for the construction…
EBU offers audio clip service with IAAF
The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) has formed a partnership with the International Association of Athletics…
Kabel BW grows internet base
German cable operator Kabel BW has announced that it has signed up 444,444 internet customers,…
Spain paves way for pay-DTT
Spanish broadcasters will be able to launch pay-DTT channels thanks to new changes in the…
Comstar-UTS moves forward with backbone network
Russian service provider Comstar-UTS has completed the construction of the main part of its new…
Envivo supports DVB-H in Finland
IP encoding specialist Envivio has signed a deal with Finnish digital-terrestrial TV operator Digita…
Sky Deutschland will stop supplying content to DT next month
Sky Deutschland will stop the distribution of its content to Deutsche Telekoms IPTV service next…
Unitymedia reports triple-play growth
German cable operator Unitymedia had 1.27 million digital cable subscribers at the end of June,…
TVN posts solid first-half results
TVN-owned Polish DTH satellite pay-TV platform n had 683,000 subscribers at the end of the…
Broadband per-megabit prices continue to fall
Residential DSL broadband customers are paying 40% less for each megabit of bandwidth than they…
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…
Swisscom in rural fibre initiative
Swisscom has signed a contract with the municipality of Pfyn in north-east Switzerland to build…
Dutch BVN-TV expands RRsat contract
Dutch international public broadcast channel joint-venture BVN-TV is to expand its contract with broadcast services…
Kabel BW to broadcast ZDF HD
German cable operator Kabel BW is to air public broadcaster ZDFs showcase HD coverage of…
Cyfra Plus adds Eurosport 2 HD
Polish pay-TV provider Cyfra Plus has added Eurosport 2 HD to its programming line-up. The…
TVN names Tellenbach as president and CEO
Polish broadcaster TVN Group has named Markus Tellenbach as president and CEO. The former SBS…
Hungary passes one million digital subs
The number of digital pay-TV subscribers in Hungary increased by 3% to take its total…
Telenet adds new channels to analogue
Belgian cable operator Telenet is to add three new channels to its analogue line-up. The…