More videos from the recent Cable Congress in Amsterdam have now been added to the Resources section of the Broadband TV News website. Included are George Stromeyer, Vice-President & Managing Director, Scientific Atlanta Europe; Koen Swings, managing partner, Zappware; Paul Entwhistle, chief technologist, intellectual property, Pace Micro Technology; and Ramin Farassat, vice president, product marketing [...]

According to a report in the Polish press, HBO’s new subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) service HBO Digital will make its debut in Hungary on March 1. Initially offering 50 hours of HBO movies and series, it will be included in the Maxpak package, which currently contains HBO, HBO2, HBO Comedy, Cinemax and Cinemax 2. The report [...]

Bronislaw Wildstein, the controversial head of the Polish public broadcaster TVP, has been dismissed from his post. He has been temporarily replaced by Andrzej Urbanski, an advisor to the country’s President Lech Kaczynski, until a successor is appointed in April. Wildstein was himself a political appointee, taking over the reigns at Poland’s leading TV station [...]

Virgin Media has agreed to non-exclusive rights to Buena Vista International Television’s Lost. The extension to an existing agreement with BVITV means that Series 1 and 2 of Lost, screened last year by Channel 4, will be available from the end of August. The third series will be available later this year following the completion [...]

Virgin Media’s dispute with Sky over the carriage of its basic channels has focused on the flagship channels of Sky One and Sky News. However, there are other Sky branded channels that were not offered even before the current dispute erupted, and these include Sky Three and Sky Arts (the recently rebranded Artsworld). Sky Three [...]