Polsat has been a regular feature of the Polish media landscape for over a decade. Starting life as a satellite-delivered service up-linked from The Netherlands, it soon secured a terrestrial licence and went on to become – alongside publicly owned TVP and commercial rival TVN – one of the country’s three leading broadcasters. Although its [...]

Bulgaria’s leading MSO CableTel has revealed further expansion plans. Speaking to the local press, its chief executive Ron Finley said it is looking to buy operators in the Serbian cities of Belgrade and Novi Sad to add to the 13 recently acquired in Macedonia. A move into both Albania and Turkey can also be expected. [...]

Scientific Atlanta has announced that it will be supplying its Next Generation IP set-tops, which integrate both MPEG-4/H.264 and MPEG-2 compression capabilities, to the IPTV service operated by the incumbent Croatian telco T-HT. Known as MAXtv it made its debut in September 2006 and has just become part of a triple play package following the [...]

According to local reports, the incumbent Bulgarian telco BTC has said it expects its revenues to rise by between 4-5% this year thanks largely to strong sales in the mobile and ADSL sectors. BTC, which invested BFN345 million (€176.4 million) in 2006 and ended the year with over 90,000 ADSL subscribers, is currently the subject [...]

Preliminary data produced by TNS Emor shows that the media advertising market in Estonia was 32% larger in Q1 2007 than in the corresponding period in 2006. Spend on the Internet and TV increased the most in Q1 2007 and the least for outdoor media. All told, newspapers remained the dominant medium in the quarter, [...]

Data produced by TNS OBOP shows a sharp decline in the year-on-year audience share amongst viewers aged 4+ for the Polish public broadcaster’s second channel, TVP2. It claimed a figure of 17.70% in April this year, almost three percentage points less than the 20.64% 12 months earlier. However, in the general scheme of things there [...]