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Russia scaling back digitisation target
Russia is scaling back its targets for digital-terrestrial TV coverage, according to local press. The…
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Digital TV penetration nears 100% in France
A report on digital reception from French media regulator the CSA has found that 99.3%…
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Telenet to launch DTT service next month
Belgian cable operator Telenet is launching a DTT service designed to reach viewers beyond its…
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Nigerian pay TV platform GOtv launches on DTT
GOtv, a new pay TV offering for Nigeria, has launched on the country’s digital-terrestrial TV…
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Channels added to Swedish DTT network
Sweden’s radio and TV authority, the MRTV, has awarded five national digital-terrestrial TV licences and…
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EC gives small comfort to broadcasters on spectrum
The European Commission’s radio spectrum chief has given partial assurance to Europe’s broadcasters over fears…
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South Africa’s subsidised DTT boxes will have return path
The South African government has confirmed that the DTT set-top boxes it intends to subsidise…
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Six new French DTT channels launching before end-2012
Six new DTT channels will launch in France on December 12, the country’s communications regulator…
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Mobile operators should pay LTE inteference costs, says Freeview
Mobile operators should bear cost of protecting viewers’ TV services from interference from LTE signals,…
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Ukraine’s Zeonbud expects seven million DTT viewers by year-end
Ukrainian digital-terrestrial TV operator Zeonbud expects seven million people in the country to be watching…
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CSA could push separation of Canal Plus FTA as condition for Bolloré acquisition
French media regulator the CSA could recommend the effective separation of Canal Plus’s free and…
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Macedonia moves forward with digitisation
Macedonia is awarding the licence to roll out digital-terrestrial TV in the country to Veselin…
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Two million UK DTT homes could be hit by 4G interference
Some 945,000 individual UK households that use signal amplifiers and a further 953,000 homes that…
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Motive in discussion with Premier League clubs
Push technology company Motive says it is in discussion with six English Premier League Football…
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FremantleMedia France creates DTT unit
RTL Group-owned production company FremantleMedia’s French subsidiary is creating a subsidiary dedicated to digital-terrestrial channels,…
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Gibraltar signs up with Arqiva for DTT
The Gibraltar Regulatory Authority (GRA) has signed a contract with broadcast services provider Ariqiva to…
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Switchover launches new Italian DTT channel
Switchover Media, the independent channel operator, will launch a crime and mystery channel next week….
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EchoStar launches ‘slimmest’ DVR
TV technology provider EchoStar has launched what it claims is the world’s slimmest digital TV…
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Canal Plus condemns reported CSA proposals as threat to European content creation
Canal Plus has reacted angrily to a report in Le Point magazine that revealed regulator…
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Netherlands sees digital growth, KPN gains ground
The number of TV subscribers across all networks in the Dutch market was 7.7 million,…
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Portugal moves forward with digital switchover
Portugal yesterday shut down analogue TV services in regions covering about 1.9 million people or…
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Boxer sees growth in Denmark
Sweden-based TV service provider Boxer had 337,000 pay TV customers in Denmark, up from 71,000…
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Sistema mulls possible DTT launch
Russian conglomerate Sistema is mulling the possible launch of digital-terrestrial TV services using a 470-694MHz…
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TV Numeric looking for new investor
French digital-terrestrial pay TV service provider TV Numeric is reportedly looking for a new investor….
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Freeview viewers give catch-up thumbs up, unsure about 3D
Freeview viewers in the UK are far more excited about catch-up services like iPlayer than…
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DTT now reaches 90% of Ukraine’s population
Digital-terrestrial TV coverage now reaches 90% of the population of Ukraine, according to Aleksandr Kurdinovich,…
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Samsung rolls out Fransat-integrated TVs
Fransat, Samsung and Neotion have launched an integrated satellite receiver and DTT module, meaning consumers…
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Italy scraps DTT allocation and starts again
Italian authorities have scrapped the current plans to distribute digital terrestrial television frequencies and are…
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Canal Plus pulls TPS Star except on pay DTT
French pay TV operator Canal Plus has ceased broadcasting its TPS Star service on all…
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UK DSO moves towards endgame as London switches over
Digital switchover begins in London this week with the switch-off of BBC 2’s analogue transmissions,…