The Netherlands-based interactive entertainment company 2waytraffic has signed commercial deals relating to its recently acquired format Who wants to be a Millionaire with two broadcasters in Central and Eastern Europe. In Slovenia, publicly owned RTV will produce a minimum of 40 episodes of the show, while in Slovakia its counterpart STV will make at least [...]

Ofcom has told the BBC that its plans to place its TV and radio services on the Internet could have a “negative effect” on its commercial rivals. The regulator fears that although the BBC’s involvement would encourage public interest in the services it also risks reducing the amount of commercial investment. The BBC’s plans for [...]

The French media authority CSA has approved of a name change of the pay-per-view service Kiosque. The service offered on the combined Canalsat/TPS bouquet will from now be on called Cine+. It is available to all people subscribing to the service on the Canalsat DTH sevice.

Julian Clover finds that for the football fan, analogue Ceefax is still top of the league New Year in Windsor and my hosts were in need of a football fix. Just who was going to be in the Palace team that afternoon? The answer was found not by WAP, 3G, the Internet or digital text [...]

ITV has hired Annelies van den Belt as the managing director of its broadband team ahead of the launch of its new broadband portal in 2007. The broadcaster has already announced the expansion of its ITV Local broadband service and last November appointed US creative technology house Schematic to work on the new portal. Van [...]