The Dutch cabler Caiway has become the first in the country to start carrying the art house movie channel Sundance Channel HD.
Thor 6 ready for shipment
09.38 Europe/London, September 25, 2009 By
The Thor 6 satellite will be shipped to Arianespace’s launch facility in Kourou this coming Monday (September 28), according to Thales Alenia Space.
Meet CTAM’s Gold stars
09.16 Europe/London, September 25, 2009 By
CTAM EuroSummit – Lisbon. Creative excellence in cable marketing has been honoured in CTAM Europe’s annual Creative Awards Program (CAP).
Success in Sofia
07.33 Europe/London, September 25, 2009 By
Acquiring Bulgaria’s bTV would undoubtedly be a good move for CME in what has so far been a highly eventful year.
Cable holds onto fiber
18.02 Europe/London, September 24, 2009 By
CTAM Eurosummit – Lisbon. Cablenets are maintaining their use of the term fiber as they look to promote the technological superiority of EuroDOCSIS 3 broadband against telco-delivered ADSL product without the use of confusing jargon.
More details on Slovak DTT revealed
17.28 Europe/London, September 24, 2009 By
Commercial digital terrestrial television broadcasting (DVB-T) in Slovakia will begin at the end of this year, according to Radio Nederland’s Medianetwork.
DTH platform for Georgia at 36 degrees East
17.24 Europe/London, September 24, 2009 By
Georgia will get its first digital satellite TV platform on Eutelsat’s video neighbourhood at 36 degrees East. Due for launch by the end of 2009, it will comprise Georgia’s two public channels: GPB TV and Adjara,
Under the Microscope
17.21 Europe/London, September 24, 2009 By
Micropayments, tiny fees for current and library content, are the flavour of the moment. Julian Clover studies the options.
Numericable delivers TV 2.0
16.09 Europe/London, September 24, 2009 By
CTAM EuroSummit – Lisbon. France’s Numericable is developing new TV 2.0 applications to take better advantage of the quality of its network, according to Pascal Dormal, MD Belgium and director group development.
CanalSat to offer short-term subscriptions
16.08 Europe/London, September 24, 2009 By
The French CanalSat platform is offering for the first time short-term subscriptions to owners of the new Sagem Canal Ready DTT receivers.
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