New online sports channel from Simply Media
July 31, 2008 by Robert Briel
Simply Sports Media has announced the launch of BreakSweat TV, an online TV channel dedicated to extreme and endurance sports. The channel will be available for free and will cover a broad range of sports including mountain biking, adventure racing and rock climbing in short-form 3-5 minute programmes. Read the story »
Canal Digitaal gets Dutch football
July 31, 2008 by Robert Briel
The Dutch DTH platform Canal Digitaal Satelliet has signed an agreement with the new Eredivisie Live channel to be available on satellite. The new channel will broadcast all Dutch premier league games live. Read the story »
German cablers offer ‘free’ Bundesliga football
July 31, 2008 by Robert Briel
The German cable companies Unitymedia and KabelBW are both offering ‘free’ Bundesliga football. Unitymedia customers receive one season of live Bundesliga matches when they buy the combined premium bouquets Digital TV Plus and Digital TV Extra with 39 channels for €12.90 monthly. Read the story »
New offer benefits Mediaset Premium
July 31, 2008 by Julian Clover
Italian DTT pay package Mediaset Premium continues to deliver strong numbers for the Italian broadcaster. In the first half of 2008 sales of pre-paid cards and top-ups (so-called recharges) generated revenues of €59.3 million, representing a significant uplift from the €36.2 million in the same period last year. Read the story »
Independence for Scotland
July 31, 2008 by Julian Clover
Julian Clover hears how STV is giving Scottish viewers their own identity through a dedicated video portal and a new library channel. Read the story »
Big time Bulgaria
July 31, 2008 by Chris Dziadul
Bulgaria appears to have made the transition from a peripheral to highly promising broadcast market in the space of a few short days. Read the story »
France Telecom reports strong IPTV growth
July 31, 2008 by Robert Briel
With the publication of its figures for the first six months of 2008, France Telecom has reported strong growth of its IPTV customer base. The company had a total of 1.54 million subscribers in Europe at June 30, 2008, or 76% more than 872,000 one year earlier. Read the story »
Video business drives Eutelsat results
July 31, 2008 by Robert Briel
Eutelsat has reported sustained revenue growth, driven by strong dynamic of video applications and value-added services. The operator said it saw a 20% increase of TV channels broadcast by Eutelsat’s fleet and an increase of 20% of D-STAR broadband terminals in the full year to June 30, 2008. Read the story »
SWell results for Welho
July 31, 2008 by Julian Clover
Subscriptions to pay-TV channels on the Finnish Welho cablenet increased significantly in the second quarter. Figures published for parent company SWelcom, part of the media giant SanomaWSOY, saw a year on year increase of 33,000 to 103,000 pay-TV subscriptions at June 30, 2008. The number of households connected has also risen from 312,000 to 321,000. Read the story »
80% taking BT Vision subscriptions
July 31, 2008 by Julian Clover
BT Vision has given the first indication of the number of people taking out additional packages when subscribing to the IPTV service. Read the story »
