The European Court of Justice (ECJ) threw out an appeal from Italian media group Mediaset today (June 15), ordering that the illegal state aid must be recovered. The case was […]
Virgin Media reduces Sky premium pricing
Virgin Media, which once said it lost money on every Sky premium subscription it sold, has announced plans to reduce the cost of the Sky Sports and Sky Movies channels.
BSkyB, BT and FAPL join Ofcom appeal
In their separate responses to Ofcom’s ruling on the wholesaling of BSkyB’s premium sports channel, there is one point of agreement: the regulator got it wrong.
TF1 complains about commercial TV tax
Nonce Paolini, the chairman and MD of TF1, has criticised the ‘crazy’ taxation of private broadcasters when they are supporting creativity and has slated what he called an “economic imbalance” […]
High court dashes Springer’s TV plans
The Federal Court of Justice in Karlsruhe confirmed an earlier lower court ruling prohibiting Germany’s largest publisher Axel Springer Verlag to acquire the ProSiebenSat.1 television group.
RTVV analyses Swedish interactive market
The Swedish Radio and TV Authority (RTVV) has published its seventh annual report on electronic programme guides and application programming interfaces. While the authority has not seen any radical changes […]
Virgin launches Sky wholesale appeal
Virgin Media has launched an appeal against Ofcom’s wholesale must offer obligation, arguing that the regulator did not consider all of the appropriate facts.
CSA confirms its belief in mobile TV
The 16 French channels with a mobile TV licence have chosen Mobmux, a subsidiary of TDF, as the operator of their DVB-H multiplex, the media authority CSA has announced. It […]
No third party billing for Dutch cablers
Dutch cable operators UPC and Ziggo do not have arrange the carriage contracts and payments with broadcasters for third party resellers of the analogue cable product, a The Hague judge […]
South Africa’s e.tv wins mobile TV licence
The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA) said that three of the four applications for licences have been disqualified for not following the instructions in the invitation to apply. […]