ART takes position at Eurobird 9

November 21, 2008 07.55 Europe/London By

The Arab premium TV packager ART has launched its Arabesque bouquet on the Eutelsat Eurobird 9 satellite. The offer consists of 16 channels, some of which are broadcast free-to-air.

Filed Under: Newsline, Satellite

Platform n subscriber target in sight

November 20, 2008 12.06 Europe/London By

Poland’s ITI Group expects its DTH platform n to reach the 500,000-subscriber mark by the end of the year despite posting a mixed set of financial results.

Filed Under: Central & East Europe, Finance, Newsline, Satellite

TeleSat selects Hot Bird for Belgian DTH platform

November 20, 2008 12.03 Europe/London By

In a surprise move, the Airfield Media Group has signed a long-term contract with Eutelsat for capacity on the Hot Bird neighbourhood and associated ground services for the distribution of its new French language TéléSat DTH platform for Belgium.

Filed Under: Newsline, Satellite

Canal Digitaal switches to MediaGuard 3

November 18, 2008 08.05 Europe/London By
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Dutch DTH platform Canal Digitaal Satelliet and its Belgian counterpart TV Vlaanderen will switch to MediaGuard 3 encoding during the next few months. The operator is following in the footsteps of Canal Satellite Numérique and Cyfra+.

Filed Under: Newsline, Satellite, Tech, Top Story

Business channel em24 launches on Astra

November 14, 2008 14.32 Europe/London By

SES Astra today announced that em24, a digital business- and lifestyle channel, has started broadcasting on the ASTRA satellite system. The new channel will broadcast its German language programme free-to-air from the 19.2 degrees East orbital position.

Filed Under: Newsline, Satellite

CanalSat à la demande goes live

November 14, 2008 09.46 Europe/London By
CanalSat

CanalSat has launched an on demand version of its basic channel packages, allowing subscribers to view content at a time of their choosing for one month after the programmes original transmission.

Filed Under: IPTV, Newsline, On Demand/VOD, Satellite, Top Story

Cyfrowy Polsat on a subroll

November 13, 2008 21.27 Europe/London By

Poland’s leading DTH platform Cyfrowy Polsat ended Q3 with 2,402,524 subscribers, or 41.7% more than 12 months earlier.

Filed Under: Central & East Europe, Newsline, Satellite

40,000 increase flows into Canal

November 13, 2008 20.29 Europe/London By

Canal+ grew its subscription portfolio by 40,000 over the past 12 months, the figures combining both the Canal+ premium channel and the CanalSat/TPS satellite platform.

Filed Under: Finance, Newsline, Satellite

IPTV bringing new customers to Portugal Telecom

November 13, 2008 12.25 Europe/London By

Portugal Telecom says its IPTV offer Meo is proving decisive in reducing churn and attracting new voice and data customers. Figures published as part of the communications company’s third quarter results show that 60% of IPTV customers are new to the operator.

Filed Under: IPTV, Newsline, Satellite

Compact growth for DStv

November 13, 2008 12.04 Europe/London By

MultiChoice says its Compact Bouquet is behind its “phenomenal growth” over the past three years.

Filed Under: Newsline, Satellite