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Eutelsat partners with retail chain for Tooway in Spain

Satellite operator Eutelsat is to market its Tooway residential broadband satellie service in Spain via…

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Setanta talking to sports bodies and searching for cash


Irish-based sports broadcaster Setanta is talking to various sports bodies about renegotiating TV rights deals,…

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Vectra launches digital in two new towns

Polish cable operator Vectra has launched digital TV in the towns of Czeladz, near Katowice…

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Cyfra Plus adds TVP Sports

Polish pay-TV operator Cyfra Plus has added TVP Sports to its channel line up. The…

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Telecinco revenues and profits tumble in 1Q09

Telecinco has recorded a 36% year-on-year decline in first quarter revenue of €159.7m. The Mediaset-backed…

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CTC Media profits fall

Russian broadcaster CTC Media has reported total operating revenues down 23% year on year to…

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Deutsche Telekom moves forward with IPTV

Deutsche Telekom said it had sold about 600,000 IPTV subscriptions by the end of the…

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Sky Italia edges closer to five million subs

News Corp-owned Italian pay-TV operator Sky Italia reported third quarter operating income of US$63m (€47m),…

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Freesat nears 400k customer mark

A year after launch, UK free-to-air satellite service Freesat claims to have almost 400,000 customers….

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La7 advertising performance boosts Telecom Italia

Telecom Italia Media (TIM) said that its La7 channel managed to maintain advertising revenues for…

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Com Hem struck by lightning

Swedish cable operator Com Hem suffered a major outage on its network yesterday evening after…

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Liberty Global to sell UPC Slovenia

Liberty Global is to sell cable operator UPC Slovenia to private equity firm Mid Europa…

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Telenor Broadcast grows revenues despite subscriber losses

Pay-TV and broadcast infrastructure provider Telenor Broadcast managed to grow its revenues, EBITDA and operating…

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Virgin Media launches 200Mbps pilot

UK cable operator Virgin Media has launched a customer pilot of 200Mbps broadband access….

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Free subscriber growth accelerates in Q1

French broadband service provider Iliad/Free added 142,000 net new subscribers in the first quarter under…

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Euronews available in Washington DC

Pan-European news channel Euronews is now available on US cable operator Comcast’s network in the…

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Unitymedia drops price of triple-play offer

German cable operator Unitymedia has dropped the price of its Unity3Play offer with 32Mbps internet…

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Spanish government could implement telco tax to pay for TVE

The Spanish government is moving ahead with a plan to tax telecom operators as well…

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Liberty Global suffers losses despite digital subs boost

International pay-TV operator Liberty Global suffered widening losses in the first quarter of 2009….

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Zon increases triple-play base

Portuguese cable operator Zon Multimédia has tripled the number of subscribers taking triple-play services in…

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Swisscom doubles IPTV subs

Swisscom has doubled the number of subscribers to its Bluewin TV IPTV service in 12…

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French IPTV universe grows

France had 6.2 million households capable of receiving an IPTV service at the end of…

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ITV Player helps Virgin Media hit 58 million VOD views

UK cable operator Virgin Media has revealed there were over four million views of ITV…

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Bezeq gives Yes merger all-clear

Israeli telco Bezeq’s board of directors has given the proposed merger with its DTH subsidiary…

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BBC buys NBC movies for its international nets

BBC Worldwide, the commercial arm of the UK public broadcaster, has acquired a package of…

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Universal Channel on IPTV in Greece

NBC Universal Global Networks has launched the Universal Channel on Greek telco OTE’s Conn-x TV…

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SIDSA integrates Irdeto CA for Spanish DTT

Spanish technology company SIDSA has integrated Irdeto’s conditional access into its Common Interface conditional access…

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Virgin Media to add HD channels as subs rise

UK cable operator Virgin Media has revealed that it is in negotiations with several broadcasters…

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Freeview to launch HD services by June 2010

Freeview, the UK’s DTT service, has brought forward the rollout date for high-definition TV to…

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Stream-TV launches e-bookshop

Russian triple-play provider Stream-TV, owned by Comstar-UTS, has teamed up with Russian-language web books specialist…