Virgin Media looking for quality TiVo apps
Virgin Media’s COO has defended the relatively slow rollout of applications onto the next generation platform, arguing that the cablenet would keep to heavyweight apps and not just fodder. … [Read More...]
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Netflix under the Microscope
With deals secure with six Hollywood majors why would any company want to take on Sky? But new delivery mechanisms, not least smart TVs and connected games consoles, are giving new entrants such as Netflix a new platform. … [Read More...]
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Multimedia clarifies sale position
The Polish cable operator Multimedia Polska has issued as statement clarifying its prospective sale. … [Read More...]
Holzle back at SES sales
It’s as you were in the SES European sales team with Norbert Holzle returning to lead the department just three months after Ferenc Szelenyi was appointed as his replacement. … [Read More...]
Mixed year for MTG
Take-up of Viasat's satellite value-added services in the Nordics grew strongly in 2011, though the total number of premium subscribers remained almost unchanged. … [Read More...]
France 24 takes IP route to Freeview homes
France 24 is to launch on Vision IPTV, the streamed service that takes advantage of the IP connectivity within Freeview HD receivers. … [Read More...]
Amazon announces Viacom streaming deal
Amazon has announced a licensing agreement with Viacom that will allow Amazon Prime members to instantly stream TV shows from MTV, Comedy Central, Nickelodeon, TV Land, Spike, VH1, BET, CMT and Logo. … [Read More...]
Da Vinci U expands over UPC DTH
Da Vinci U is now available on the UPC DTH platform in Hungary, Czech Republic, Slovakia and Romania. … [Read More...]
FTTH takes off in Spain
Spain ended 2011 with 171,177 Fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) connections, or 206.4% more than a year earlier, according to data published by the regulator CMT. … [Read More...]
TV Nova goes digital
The leading Czech broadcaster TV Nova will cease its remaining analogue transmissions on Sunday, February 12. … [Read More...]
Kurdish Sterk TV starts broadcasting
The new Kurdish satellite channel Stêrk TV has started broadcasting on the Eutelsat and Nilesat satellites. … [Read More...]
Dutch reduce public digital channels
NPO, the umbrella organisation of the Dutch public broadcasters, will reduce the number of thematic digital channels from 12 to eight during 2012. … [Read More...]
Editor’s Choice
SBS to launch HbbTV in the Netherlands
Dutch private broadcaster SBS has announced it will start to offer HbbTV services from Q2 2012. Public broadcaster NPO and RTL will follow suit. … [Read More...]
TalkTalk: YouView launch on track
TalkTalk CEO Dido Harding says the ISP has begun end-to-end consumer acceptance testing of its YouView product as the precursor to a full consumer trial. … [Read More...]
M6 questions future of pay-DTT
Pay television over digital terrestrial looks like being in serious trouble in France. Nicolas de Tavernost, CEO of M6, is sounding the alarm bell. … [Read More...]
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