Dutch DTH operator Canal Digitaal Satelliet said it has sold 100,000 so-called duo-LNBs, which enable reception of two satellites with a single dish. Including motorised dishes and third party LNBs, a total of 20% of its subscribers now have the possibility to watch both Astra 1 at 19.2 degrees East and Astra 3 at 23.5 [...]
KPN reports fastest TV growth ever
October 30, 2007 12.09 Europe/London By
Dutch incumbent telecom operator KPN said today that it had enjoyed the fastest ever growth in new TV customers during Q3, 2007. The company added 77,000 new homes during the quarter ending September 30. KPN now has a total of 414,000 TV customers, which it claims represents 17% of all digital homes in The Netherlands. [...]
Private broadcasters enter Saarland and Leipzig DTT
October 30, 2007 11.45 Europe/London By
Commercial broadcasters are preparing to join the new DTT service in the German state of Saarland and the city of Leipzig. From December 13, four multiplexes will come on line in Saarland; three of them will offer public broadcasters, the fourth will consist of regional channels SaarTV, Tele5 and QVC. Apart from the two main [...]
Coditel to boost digital offer in Luxembourg
October 30, 2007 11.45 Europe/London By
Luxembourg cable operator Coditel is planning to boost its digital offer from early next year and also start to offer digital television in those municipalities that so far only have access to analogue services: Dalheim, Frisingen, Lorentzweiler and Junglinster. The operator will offer triple play in these parts of the network. Coditel has also started [...]
Luxe.tv to join Luxembourg DTT
October 30, 2007 11.25 Europe/London By
Luxembourg thematic broadcaster Luxe TV has hired capacity from CLT on the DTT transmitter in Dudelange, which broadcasts on VHF channel 7. The channel hopes to reach an audience in both Luxembourg and the parts of Germany which can receive the signal. In analogue days, channel 7 was used to beam the first broadcasts from [...]
Prisa ups Sogecable stake
October 30, 2007 10.58 Europe/London By
Spanish media group Prisa has been slowly increasing its holding in the pay-TV operator Sogecable, taking advantage of new takeover legislation that allows the company to acquire 5% of the company a year, without having to launch a full takeover bid. Prisa’s softly softly approach began in June following the recent debacle with rival Mediapro [...]
Numericable goes wireless with Netgear
October 30, 2007 10.46 Europe/London By
Numericable has begun to offer Netgear wireless modems to its customers. The French cablenet is providing customers with Netgear’s EuroDOCSIS 2.0 compliant Wireless Cable Voice Gateway (CVG834G) as part of a package that also includes 30 Mbps broadband internet, 200 video calls and unlimited voice calls. Although the dominant cable operator in France – mergers [...]
Irdeto CEO Kill moves to Beijing
October 30, 2007 10.46 Europe/London By
Irdeto CEO Graham Kill has relocated to the company’s Beijing, China office. His role will not change, but his base will now be Beijing as opposed to Amsterdam. The move is the next step in a strategic plan to make Irdeto ready for a future where the emerging markets are more on a par with [...]
Hulu debuts in private beta; adds MGM and Sony
October 30, 2007 10.33 Europe/London By
Hulu, the new online video service from NBC Universal and News Corp, announced the beta launch of its online video service. Hulu will offer viewers a selection of streaming, on-demand, programming on a free, ad-supported basis. Hulu content includes full-length current and archived television programming as well as clips and an initial selection of feature [...]
EuroNews must carry in Switzerland; on demand on Lufthansa
October 30, 2007 10.25 Europe/London By
EuroNews announced that it has obtained must-carry channel status in Switzerland. From today, the channel will be available on all analogue networks of Cablecom, which reaches 2.5 million households. The channel is already available via digital cable networks in 342,000 homes. EuroNews, which broadcasts in Switzerland’s national languages (German, French and Italian), was awarded guaranteed-access [...]
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