Canal+ is looking for a reduction in the amount of money it pays to transmit coverage of top flight French football. The pay-TV company is due to negotiate the rights for the next three seasons in November with the French football league LFP. The previous three-year deal costs Canal €600 million per year, but subsequent [...]
Telia squeezes movie windows
August 27, 2007 10.48 Europe/London By
Subscribers to Telia’s IPTV service in Sweden will be able to enjoy video on demand movies at the same time as they are distributed to the country’s video stores. Telia, its on demand supplier SF Anytime and the film studio Warner are to trial the earlier window on a number of video releases this autumn. [...]
End of the line for Top TV
August 27, 2007 07.22 Europe/London By
The Czech leisure and shopping channel Top TV is reported to have returned its licence to country’s Radio and TV Council (RRTV) and gone into liquidation. The service, which was backed by KKCG Investments, went off the air at the end of July and was expected to remain so for a month while its future [...]
Viva Polska tops the charts
August 27, 2007 07.04 Europe/London By
Data produced by AGB Nielsen Media Research shows that Viva Polska is currently the most popular music channel in Poland. In H1 2007 it claimed an audience share of 0.51% among all viewers aged 4+ and 0.95% in the cable and satellite sector. MTV Polska was in second place (0.27%, 0.50%), followed by VH1 Polska [...]
Sky-Sony offer is Go!
August 24, 2007 07.53 Europe/London By
Further details have emerged of Sony’s forthcoming Go! Video download service that has been developed with BSkyB. The service will go live early next year and will enable over 2.3 million users of the games console in the UK and Ireland to watch video content including music, sports and movies. Once downloaded it will also [...]
Babelgum does Benicàssim
August 23, 2007 12.50 Europe/London By
Babelgum, the Internet TV network, today said it brings exclusive content from the annual FIB Heineken Festival in Benicàssim, Spain. Now in its thirteenth year, those who did not make it to Benicàssim this year can still mosh with the rest of them through accessing footage taken from the festival at Babelgum on the website’s [...]
Simply acquirires majority in Golfbug.tv
August 23, 2007 10.06 Europe/London By
Simply Media today announced its expansion into sport through the acquisition of a majority stake in GolfBug.tv parent, BrandLive. The acquisition sees GolfBug.tv relaunched as a brand new site anon-demand service, offering exclusive webTV coverage of The European Tour and footage from the Royal & Ancient archive, as well as a new design and layout. [...]
Zodiak enters Ukrainian market
August 22, 2007 16.37 Europe/London By
Zodiak Television Group has acquired a 75% stake in YS Films, the second largest production company in Ukraine, through its Russian subsidiary Dixi Media, for an undisclosed fee. YS Films, which is based in Kiev and Odessa, specialises in TV movies but will now also start producing TV series for the local market. Sweden’s Zodiak [...]
World music gets channel from Nat Geo
August 22, 2007 08.59 Europe/London By
Following the success of the world music section on the National Geographic website, the company has now confirmed reports that it will launch a dedicated music channel to be called Nat Geo Music. The channel will first launch in Europe and will be supported by a number of other multimedia products including an interactive website [...]
Narrowstep launches mountainbike channel
August 21, 2007 14.21 Europe/London By
Narrowstep, the Internet TV company, said it launchedl new Internet TV channel dedicated to the world of mountain biking, called MTBcut. This new channel will bring together film makers from around the world to deliver mountain bike footage ever caught on tape. Historically, mountain biking enthusiasts would have to wait up to a year after [...]
