On location in Bucharest, Romania, I found myself in the studios of The Money Channel talking about the European media scene. The appearance was live, unrehearsed and unscripted. Not that it matters what was said given that my turn was simultaneously translated into Romanian. That Romania has a finance channel at all must surely come [...]

In the grand journalism tradition this week’s lead story in New Television Insider was sourceduring a taxi ride in Cannes. My colleague Robert Briel was returning home from Mipcom when Le Deep Throat gave him the background to the Franco Freesat plan to put the French free-to-air channels, a relay of the digital terrestrial TNT [...]

It was clear from the recent European DARS Summit in London that the main satellite radio protagonists are ready to roll (and rock). But if Worldspace is planning a launch in Italy this winter what will happen to the existing clients of Afristar 1? The answer from CEO Benoit Chereau can be found in the [...]

Users of Terrestrial Digital Multimedia Broadcasting (T-DMB) mobile TV receivers in Korea are being asked to check with manufacturers for an upgrade as soon as possible, according to a news report from the Asia-Pacific Broadcasters Union (ABU). The Korea Times reported that most of the T-DMB mobile TV receivers sold before March are expected to [...]

Belgian cable operator Interkabel (which comprises the networks of Interelectra, Integan, PBE and WVEM) will launch the first HD platform in the country on their digital In-Di service. The first channel to be carried is the new Flemish cultural channel Exqui (from Euo 1080), which has just started broadcasting over the Astra satellite. The In-Di [...]

This promises to be a busy week. In Paris there is the Broadband World Forum, at the same time in Cannes the MIPCOM starts. The Broadband World Forum Europe is one of the largest events in the telecom sector and will host more than 100 of the world’s leading vendors and operators, including France Telecom, [...]

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