News

News Stay Updated Icon 1 min read

Vodafone sets sights on Orion

British telco Vodafone has entered the race to acquire German cable operator Orion. The company…

News Stay Updated Icon 1 min read

MTG acquires football rights for Baltics

Modern Times Group (MTG) has acquired the exclusive live broadcasting rights to the UEFA Champions…

News Stay Updated Icon 1 min read

Canal Plus Cyfrowy to launch multiroom

Polish satellite pay-TV operator Canal Plus Cyfrowy is launching a new multiroom service and…

News Stay Updated Icon 1 min read

Tough times continue for Sky Deutschland

German pay-TV operator Sky Deutschland (formerly Premiere) lost 7,000 subscribers during the second quarter of…

News Stay Updated Icon 1 min read

Ericsson signs Georgian IPTV contract

Ericsson’s Croatian affiliate Ericsson Nikola Tesla has signed a contract to supply IPTV equipment to…

News Stay Updated Icon 1 min read

Swisscom adds IPTV subs

Swisscom doubled the number of subscribers to its Bluewin IPTV service during the 12 months…

News Stay Updated Icon 1 min read

AsiaSat 5 successfully launched

Satellite operator AsiaSat’s latest satellite, AsiaSat 5, has been successfully launched on board a Proton…

News Stay Updated Icon 1 min read

KDG and Unitymedia confirm Orion interest

German cable operators KDG and Unitymedia have confirmed their interest in acquiring rival operator Orion….

News Stay Updated Icon 1 min read

RNIB leads ‘talking chipset’ development

The UK’s Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB) has teamed up with a consortium…

News Stay Updated Icon 1 min read

Akado makes AXN Sci-Fi available on analogue

Russian service provider Akado is making Sony Pictures Entertainment’s AXN Sci-Fi channel available on its…

News Stay Updated Icon 1 min read

Open TV teams up with Jinni

Interactive TV specialist Open TV has teamed up content discovery specialist Jinni to collaborate in…

News Stay Updated Icon 1 min read

YouSee turns in positive financial performance

Danish telco TDC reported 1.195 million TV customers at the end of June, up 6.3%…

News Stay Updated Icon 1 min read

RGB upgrades to MPEG 4

Network video processing company RGB Networks has upgraded its dynamic bandwidth manager (DBM) VOD transrater…

News Stay Updated Icon 1 min read

Vectra launches triple-play in Ostrowca Swietokrzyski

Polish cable operator Vectra has launched triple-play services in the city of Ostrowca Świętokrzyski in…

News Stay Updated Icon 1 min read

Deutsche Telekom launches interactive TV competition

Deutsche Telekom has launched its second annual interactive TV award, offering prizes totalling €110,000 to…

News Stay Updated Icon 1 min read

UPC Netherlands launches Music Zone

Cable operator UPC Netherlands last week launched Music Zone, a new music package available to…

News Stay Updated Icon 1 min read

KDG licenses Rovi EPG

German cable operator KDG has licensed Rovi’s EPG patent portfolio. KDG has licensed Rovi’s EPG…

News Stay Updated Icon 1 min read

Berlusconi criticises Rai

Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi has once again hit out at commercial broadcaster Rai…

News Stay Updated Icon 1 min read

Canal Plus analogue switch-off dates confirmed

French pay-TV provider Canal Plus is to cease analogue transmissions in the country’s northern reception…

News Stay Updated Icon 1 min read

Ziggo CI Plus to be available by month-end

Dutch cable operator Ziggo expects that Common Interface Plus CAM modules will be available in…

News Stay Updated Icon 1 min read

UK reaches six million unbundled lines

Unbundling of telephone lines in the UK has led to greater take up of broadband…

News Stay Updated Icon 1 min read

Stream offers free broadband upgrade

For a limited period, Russian pay-TV provider Stream TV is offering its customers broadband speeds…

News Stay Updated Icon 1 min read

Wind and Fastweb sign network sharing deal

Italian telcos Wind and Fastweb have signed a network sharing agreement. The agreement covers local…

News Stay Updated Icon 1 min read

Telenet extends loans

Belgian cable operator Telenet has announced that it has completed the process of extending its…

News Stay Updated Icon 1 min read

Saudis shut down LBC after talk show scandal

Authorities in Saudi Arabia have closed down the local office of the LBC channel after…

News Stay Updated Icon 1 min read

Spanish government expected to approve pay-DTT

The Spanish government is expected to approve the launch of pay-TV services on the country’s…

News Stay Updated Icon 1 min read

Faster broadband has little effect on online TV viewing

Nearly a third of UK people feel online TV viewing is unimportant, according to a…

News Stay Updated Icon 1 min read

OmniBus enhances internet TV functionality

Broadcast automation specialist OmniBus has added new internet TV and streaming capabilities to iTX, its…

News Stay Updated Icon 1 min read

Karaoke Channel launches on Sonaecom

Canadian interactive music specialist Stingray Digital’s Karaoke Channel has made its European debut by launching…

News Stay Updated Icon 1 min read

Comstar-UTS progresses with regional consolidation

Russian service provider Comstar-UTS has competed the first phase of the reorganisation of its regional…