Commercial TV news provider ITN is to produce Setanta Sports News when it goes on air later this year. The channel, backed by Setanta Sports and Virgin Media, will be made available to the cablenet’s 3 million digital TV subscribers. 56 new editorial and production positions will be created at ITN’s headquarters in Central London. [...]
Sportdigital.tv to start October 1
September 12, 2007 09.53 Europe/London By
This morning during a press conference in Hamburg, the new German sports channel sportdigital.tv said it will launch on the Entavio platform on Astra on October 1. The new channel will offer live matches of the German handball, basketball and volleyball leagues as reported earlier in Broadband TV News. Sportdigital.tv is owned by Sportfive, an [...]
SPTI inks Polish VOD deal
September 12, 2007 07.59 Europe/London By
Sony Pictures Television International (SPTI) has signed a VOD agreement with Poland’s ITI Neovision. It will allow the latter’s DTH platform n to offer a range of SPTI blockbuster movies on its new nVOD service, which made its debut in September 7. n is one of three DTH platforms in Poland and currently has in [...]
Norway launch for Viasat 4
September 11, 2007 09.31 Europe/London By
Modern Times Group has launched its new Viasat 4 channel for the Norwegian market. The general entertainment channel got underway on Saturday evening in time to see Norway beat Moldova 1-0 in the Euro 2008 qualifier. The programme attracted an audience of 320,000 viewers. Viasat 4 has distribution on the new Riks TV DTT pay [...]
FoxLife joins Cyfra+
September 10, 2007 10.18 Europe/London By
The Polish DTH platform Cyfra+ has added FoxLife to its programme offer. The service, which is on air for 18 hours daily and fully localised, is the 16th film channel distributed by Cyfra+ and the 14th channel it has added in the the last year. The latter include three HD channels (National Geographic Channel HD, [...]
HBO Comedy set for more markets
September 10, 2007 09.35 Europe/London By
Ericsson and Endemol launch MeOnTV
September 9, 2007 18.51 Europe/London By
IBC 2007 – Amsterdam. Ericsson and Endemol have now finalized their partnership to bring MeOnTV to media companies around the world and it is ready for commercial launch. “It is our first product aimed at media companies, usually we make products for telecom operators. We show here live transmissions at three screens, it is the [...]
BT Vision fails to keep on the ball
September 9, 2007 08.35 Europe/London By
BT Vision’s proposition of Saturday night delayed coverage of matches from the Premier League has come unstuck by the demands of other TV companies. The combination of six weekly live games and clubs involved in the Uefa Cup means that on October 6 only one scheduled match – Aston Villa versus West Ham United – [...]
Dolce extends programme offer
September 7, 2007 07.33 Europe/London By
The Romanian DTH platform Dolce is to introduce two new programme packages to its existing offer on September 10. The first will be called Kids Pack and consist of the channels Baby TV, KidsCo, Jetix and Nickelodeon, and the second the Hungarian Pack and include MTV1, MTV2, RTL Klub, Film+ and Duna TV. Dolce already [...]
Apple cored as NBC goes up the Amazon
September 6, 2007 08.42 Europe/London By
NBC Universal has said it is making content available over Amazon’s Unbox digital download service just days after the peacock network failed to reach an agreement with Apple for carriage of its shows on iTunes. It is thought that a sticking point was Apple’s inflexibility over the consumer purchase price. US residents will be able [...]
