The German incumbent telecom operator Deutsche Telekom has announced it has reached 100,000 customers for its IPTV service T-Home Entertain. Today, in a Deutsche Telekom T-Point shop in Frankfurt, the 100,000th customer will officially be welcomed. The T-Home Entertain service was officially relaunched last September during the IFA consumer electronics show. Other IPTV providers in [...]
Morse extends Jetix marketing to Nordics
December 21, 2007 07.53 Europe/London By
Jetix Europe has promoted Nicole Morse to its newly combined role of marketing director, Jetix UK, Nordic and Europe. Morse will have responsibility for strengthening the Jetix brand in the UK and Nordic regions, improving the channels reach and driving audiences for individual programmes. Morse has previously been marketing director for Jetix in the UK [...]
Bertelsmann will not proceed with full RTL acquisition
December 21, 2007 07.43 Europe/London By
Bertelsmann will not proceed with the public offer for the outstanding shares of the broadcaster RTL it does not own. Bertelsmann says it had now “established that there is currently insufficient certainty that the Luxembourg Takeover Law would apply to its contemplated offer” and that, as a result, the company has now decided not to [...]
Europe 2 switches to Virgin brand
December 21, 2007 07.35 Europe/London By
On January 1, the French commercial broadcaster free-to-air Europe 2 TV will switch its name to Virgin 17. The number 17 denotes the position of the channel on the DTT line-up. At the same time, Europe 2 radio will also switch its name to Virgin Radio. The name change is a result of a licence [...]
Dutch Caribbean island Bonaire gets its IPTV
December 21, 2007 07.30 Europe/London By
The incumbent telecom operator Telefonia Bonairiano (Telbo) on the Dutch Caribbean island of Bonaire has said it has launched IPTV under the name of “mitv” to its residential and business subscribers. Telbo is the first in the Caribbean and Central America to establish a triple play (video, voice and data) offering. Using an ADSL 2+ [...]
Christmas Publishing Schedule
December 21, 2007 00.00 Europe/London By
Broadband TV News is taking a festive break. We will resume daily publication on Monday January 7, 2008. In the meantime we will be updating this website regularly. We would like to take this opportunity to thank you for your support this past year and wish all our readers a Merry Christmas and a Happy [...]
Norway to have 2nd DTT pay network
December 20, 2007 12.44 Europe/London By
Norges televisjon (NTV) has announced plans to license a second pay-TV operator in the Norwegian DTT system. A half multiplex will be made available from 2010, following the completion of analogue switch off (ASO). NTV has issued an expression of interest for the capacity that will broadcast using the advanced MPEG-4 system that has been [...]
Croatian telco dispute erupts
December 20, 2007 12.44 Europe/London By
A legal dispute is reported to have broken out between a number of small alternative providers and the incumbent Croatian telco T-HT. The former, which include Markotel.te, Megafon and Kreativne Tehnologije, allege that the Deutsche Telekom backed company violates the country’s telecom law by requiring them to sign restrictive contracts for access to its infrastructure. [...]
Russia imposes moratorium
December 20, 2007 12.43 Europe/London By
Russia is reported to have suspended the award of TV broadcasting licences until a new frequency distribution plan is fully in place. The plan is likely to secure final approval in H1 2008, with the award of digital licences set to follow in the second half of next year. A plan for the transition to [...]
Toya boosts its offer
December 20, 2007 12.43 Europe/London By
The Polish MSO Toya is reported to have added nine channels to its programme offer, bringing the total to 108. The services in question are: Comedy Central, Movies24, JimJam, Disney Channel, Extreme Sports Channel, TVN CNBC Biznes, France 24, Spice and XXL. Toya is a triple play company and offers three analogue and eight digital [...]
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