There is confusion in Romania over the election of a new president for the National Audiovisual Council (CNA), the country’s main regulatory body. Following the death of Ralu Filip in May, Valentin Nicolae provisionally occupied the post up until last week, when parliament declared him the new president. However, Nicolae resigned yesterday and the council [...]
Murdoch sets sights on Poland
June 28, 2007 06.31 Europe/London By
Rupert Murdoch has held talks with the Polish Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski and visited TV Puls, a regional station backed by News Corp. There is speculation that News Corp. may be granted additional frequencies – it currently only reaches around 16% of TV households terrestrially – that were only due to be released following Poland’s [...]
US household HD set ownership reaches 30%
June 27, 2007 20.03 Europe/London By
According to a survey by the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA), 30% of US households have HD sets but only 44% of these receive HD programming. The main reasons consumers state for not receiving programming is that it was too expensive or they are not interested. The CEA predicts 16 million HD sets will sell in [...]
Eurosport serves up football feast
June 27, 2007 18.44 Europe/London By
Eurosport 2 is to air live and exclusive coverage of the Barclays Premier League to viewers in Hungary and Romania. As from the start of the 2007/8 season on August 11, the channel will offer an average of six games per weekend, complemented by preview and highlights programmes. Eurosport 2, which shows a wide variety [...]
New milestone for AXN
June 27, 2007 18.28 Europe/London By
Sony Pictures Television International (SPTI) has announced that its “high energy, general entertainment channel” AXN now has 8 million subscribers in Central and Eastern Europe. The service, which is available in six countries, has recently boosted its coverage thanks to carriage agreements with UPC on its networks in Hungary and the Czech Republic. AXN has [...]
Sky basic channels launch on Tiscali
June 27, 2007 17.04 Europe/London By
Virgin Media customers may still be pining for the return of Sky shows such as 24 and The Simpsons, but until now Tiscali TV viewers have never had the pleasure. The IPTV operator confirmed today that it will add the full set of Sky basic channels – including Sky One, Sky Two, Sky Three, Sky [...]
BBC iPlayer launch date fixed
June 27, 2007 10.12 Europe/London By
Ashley Highfield the BBC’s director of future media & technology, has announced that the on-demand service BBC iPlayer will make its debut on July 27. Available free of charge to UK licence payers, it will allow them to download programmes from all of the network’s channels and watch them for up to 30 days before [...]
EuroNews looks to Czech DTT
June 27, 2007 08.13 Europe/London By
Speaking to the local press, EuroNews president Philippe Cayla has said that the channel aims to secure distribution on one of the DTT multiplexes in the Czech Republic. He added that although the service is no longer carried on the public broadcaster’s second channel CT2, it is still distributed by cable and cooperating with the [...]
Baeble music on Babelgum
June 27, 2007 08.02 Europe/London By
Baeble Music, a unit of Baeble Media LLC, announced it has partnered with Internet TV network Babelgum to syndicate its catalogue of live concert programming. Under the agreement, Babelgum will stream multiple selections from Baeble Music’s own library of 70+ live concert films from emerging indie-rock, pop, heavy metal and experimental artists via its Music [...]
Formal complaints against BBC iPlayer
June 27, 2007 07.49 Europe/London By
The Open Source Consortium (OSC) will take action against the BBC this week because of the use of Microsoft Media Player in the corporation’s iPlayer. The OSC will raise a formal complaint with UK broadcast and telecoms watchdog Ofcom, and threaten to take the case to the European Competition Commission if domestic regulators do not [...]
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