Music Choice has extended its reach in the German market through a new deal with Unity Media. The premium audio service will be available to 5.1 million subscribers on the iesy and ish networks in the states of Hessen and North Rhine Westphalia. Although only around 360,700 customers receive the digital tiers in which Music [...]
BBC launches mobile TV trial
The BBC has revealed plans to offer a range of TV and radio networks to 3G mobile phones. The trial, scheduled to run for up to 12 months, will run on the Orange, Vodafone and 3 mobile networks. Significantly O2, which has been involved in a series of DVB-H mobile TV trials, is not included [...]
Cuatro signs with YouTube
Spanish entertainment channel Cuatro is the latest broadcaster to establish a presence on the YouTube portal. The network will screen clips of some of its most popular programmes as it looks to build a younger audience for its output. Earlier this month the BBC struck a deal with YouTube to carry content both inside and [...]
German satellite ASO to begin next year
German broadcasters are preparing to switch off their analogue signals on the Astra satellite, even though they are reluctant to commit to a public timetable, with 2010 penciled in as most likely date for analogue switchover on satellite. According to satellite operator SES there are still some 16 million homes receiving an analogue signal direct [...]
Clover’s Week: Five becomes ten
The UK’s last analogue licensee is 10 years old this week, but will it be late for its own party asks Julian Clover? Ten years ago people up and down the land received a knock on their door. A man had come round to retune the video recorder so that we could all receive the [...]
UK’s WightCable North opts for NDS
The UK cable operator WightCable North has selected NDS VideoGuard Express to replace its existing conditional access platform. WightCable North has a presence in the West of Scotland (Irvine, Troon and Kilmarnock) and North West of England (Carlisle, Lancaster and Morecambe), in the latter case through networks belonging to the former Omne Communications. Linked to [...]
Com Hem reaches Viasat digital agreement
Popular Swedish channels TV3 and TV6 are to be added to Com Hem’s digital packages from April 2 after an agreement between the cablenet and content provider Viasat. The channels had previously only been available in analogue, a source of irritation for Com Hem’s digital subscribers, since the operator ceased the availability of combined analogue-digital [...]
Le Figaro joins regional licence bid
The French daily Le Figaro has lent its support to NextRadioTV, one of a number of smaller French broadcasters, which are bidding for a DTT licence in the Ile-de-France region. Le Figaro is taking a 10% stake in NextRadioTV’s BFM Paris TV channel. The remainder of the shares will stay with NextRadioTV. The channel is [...]
Malaysia chooses DVB-T
Malaysia will start to roll out DTT transmissions using the DVB-T standard from 2009. The decision by the country’s government, which was announced during the Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union Digital TV Symposium in Kuala Lumpur, comes as result of a trial involving 1,000 users in the city. It began last November, with one multiplex operating on [...]
SlingPlayer for Palm OS released
Sling Media has announced the public availability – initially for customers in the US and Canada – of SlingPlayer Mobile for Palm OS, making it possible to watch television on the Palm OS-based Treo 700p smartphone. Support for other Palm OS-based devices will be included in future software releases. SlingPlayer Mobile is a software client [...]

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Digital TV Eastern Europe NEW REPORT by Simon Murray of Digital TV Research. 2012 is a watershed year for Eastern Europe as the number of digital homes for 15 forecast countries will exceed the analogue total for the first time. This electronically-delivered,150-page report comes in three parts, a PDF file and two Excel workbooks. Countries covered include Russia and Ukraine.