The Austrian government will quickly introduce mobile TV in the country using the DVB-H standard. The timing will be such that the new services will be on air during next year’s Euro 2008 football championship, to be held in Austria and Switzerland. A new law, which will come into effect on August 1st, will limit [...]

Results published by the Greek telco OTE show that Dolce, the DTH platform operated by its Romanian subsidiary Romtelecom, had 163,000 subscribers as of the end of Q1 2007. The service, which competes with four other DTH operations in the crowded Romanian market, only made is debut in December 2006. Romtelecom also had 137,000 ADSL [...]

The Bulgaria-based satellite channel Balkanika Music Television (BMT) is reported to have secured a cable distribution licence in Croatia. The 24-hour service, which is owned by a company named Fen TV, can already be received throughout the Balkan region and in Turkey.

Spanish police have arrested 50 people in 15 provinces as part of an operation against the piracy of TV signals and sale of unauthorised decoders. Those arrested have been accused of crimes against intellectual property and telecommunications fraud, including managing Internet pages, distributing pirate decoders, managing local cable and TV networks and illegal distribution of [...]

Newly launched music channel NRJ Hits is joining CanalSat’s basic package on June 1. NRJ Hits is a dedicated music channel aimed at 15-34 year olds and will celebrate its launch on Friday evening with a live concert from Manchester featuring the Pussycat Dolls. This will be followed by a concert from Pink. The appearance [...]

The Polish DTH platform Cyfra+ has added the tabloid style entertainment channel Superstacja to its programme package. The service, which is on air for 24-hours daily and allocates at least half of its airtime to live shows, is also being made available on Cyfra+ DSL. Cyfra+ has now added 10 new channels to its line-up [...]