UPC Austria reports brisk VOD usage

December 31, 2009 12.03 Europe/London By

UPC Austria has said it achieved 400,000 hours of on demand business since the inception of its VOD service in June 2009.

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Creditors secure Telecolumbus

December 31, 2009 10.02 Europe/London By

Creditors of Telecolumbus have taken over the troubled German cabler after Orion Cable sold the operation for €2.5 million. The move cancels the auction scheduled to take place in Berlin on Wednesday.

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Humax and Irdeto launch Middle East STB

December 31, 2009 09.27 Europe/London By

Irdeto and Humax have announced the launch of the first HD set top box for the Middle East region. The Humax HD STB directly targets content piracy in the region, where businesses lose $50 billion (€34.9 billion) annually

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Akado adds MTV package

December 30, 2009 11.51 Europe/London By

The Russian cable operator Akado has added a new package named MTV Europe to its offer.

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News Corp to exit Serbia

December 30, 2009 09.13 Europe/London By

Greece’s Antenna Group has agreed to buy a 49% stake in the Serbian station Fox Televizija from News Corp for an undisclosed fee.

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M7 Group claims over 100,000 homes

December 29, 2009 16.12 Europe/London By

The M7 Group has said more than 100,000 customers have now registered to its two Belgian DTH platforms, TV Vlaanderen in the Dutch-speaking Flanders and TéléSat for the French-speaking part of the country.

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Russia Today goes Spanish

December 29, 2009 10.04 Europe/London By

The international news channel Russia Today has begun broadcasting in Spanish.

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Free New Year’s Eve feed from New York

December 29, 2009 09.58 Europe/London By

It’s that time of year again – the Times Square Alliance and Countdown Entertainment will once again offer free satellite feeds of the New Year’s Eve celebration in Times Square, New York.

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Volia eyes on-demand HD

December 29, 2009 09.36 Europe/London By

Ukraine’s leading cable operator Volia has announced that it plans to launch an additional on-demand service offering HD movies in 2010.

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YouSee forced to open cablenet to competitors

December 28, 2009 11.43 Europe/London By

TDC has been told it must open the YouSee cable network to third parties. Denmark’s National IT and Telecom Agency (IT og Telestyrelsen) says TDC’s control over both the copper network and YouSee’s cable TV network has created a unique circumstance in the broadband market.

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