Dutch cable networks will now once again be able to offer their subscribers live football from the Tele2 Live Eredivisie Voetbal channels. For the past two years Dutch football has only been available via IPTV, DTT and DTH because there was no contract with Tele 2, which owns the live rights to the Dutch Eredivisie, [...]
Premiere unlocks channels for Cryptoworks
07.31 Europe/London, September 30, 2007 By
On November 2, 2007, a number of Premiere channels will become available to viewers in Austria using the Cryptoworks encryption system by joining the ORF DTH platform. The German pay-TV operator has reached an agreement with the Austrian public broadcaster ORF and its subsidiary ORS, which operates the national DTH platform. This translates in an [...]
BigBang for BigBand as revenue expectations deflate
18.12 Europe/London, September 28, 2007 By
Switched digital video and data head-end equipment vendor Bigband Networks has warned that its Q3 revenues will be in the $35-39 million range,as opposed to the expected $54-58 million. The lowered revenue guidance follows a profit warning issued at the beginning of August when the vendor announced its Q2 and H1 results. As a result of [...]
Orange Dutch mobile and broadband to DT
15.01 Europe/London, September 28, 2007 By
The long expected final stage of an extensive asset swap between the French and German incumbent telcos France Telecom and Deutsche Telekom, namely the sale of the Dutch Orange division to DT, has been agreed to. Deutsche Telekom will acquire the 1.9 million mobile and 458,000 broadband customer business for a total consideration of €1.33 [...]
Sickinghe calls for more European content
10.45 Europe/London, September 28, 2007 By
CTAM CABLE MARKETING EUROSUMMIT – BARCELONA. Telenet CEO Duco Sickinghe has told content providers they should be looking to introduce more local content. Addressing channel representatives attending the CTAM Eurosummit, Sickinghe suggested that with production costs per hour now sometimes as low as $2,000 local content had become more affordable. “Can’t you start setting up [...]
Sony to trial day & date in Singapore
10.37 Europe/London, September 28, 2007 By
CTAM CABLE MARKETING EUROSUMMIT – BARCELONA. Sony is to trial day & date in Singapore, said John McMahon, President and Managing Director, Europe, Sony Pictures, this morning at the CEO Forum ‘Cable From All Sides’. “All the studios are now looking at day & date and we will trial it in Singapore.” Warner Bros is [...]
Transitional Tihany
10.08 Europe/London, September 28, 2007 By
Chris Dziadul reviews the Hungarian cable conference. The overriding impression at the HCA/HCTA cable conference Tihany earlier this week was one of a market in transition. Hungary, like most other countries in CEE, has been slow to roll out digital cable and to date only one of its leading operators – T-Kábel – offers a [...]
October launch for Discovery HD on In-Di
08.30 Europe/London, September 28, 2007 By
The Belgian cable operator Interkabel will launch Discovery HD on its digital In-Di platform on October 1. The HD offer will then consist of seven channels – VTM HD, National Geographic HD, Discovery HD, HD1, Exqi and two premium movie channels and Kinepolis TV. Discovery HD will be available free to all HD customers until [...]
Multimedia Polska introduces VOD
06.57 Europe/London, September 28, 2007 By
Multimedia Polska has become the first cable operator in Poland to offer VOD. Sales of its new service have started today (September 28), with a full launch scheduled for October 1. According to local reports, the service will initially be available in the cities of Gdynia, Kalisz, Lublin, Lódz, Olsztyn and Torun, which together account [...]
Peled warns of unsettling time
06.27 Europe/London, September 28, 2007 By
CTAM CABLE MARKETING EUROSUMMIT – BARCELONA. Even though this is “the most unsettling time in the history of television,” according to NDS Group President and CEO Dr Abe Peled in his keynote address to the CTAM Eurosummit 2007, cable does have opportunities ahead, “as pay-TV operators have to become total entertainment partners of the consumer [...]
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