Sweden’s DTT pay platform Boxer added a further 18,000 subscribers in the first quarter of 2007. As of March 31, 2007, Boxer had 672,000 subscribers to its digital TV service, representing an increase of 103,000 year-on-year, a growth of 18%. “In recent years, many private Swedish households have switched to digital, resulting in a trend [...]

According to local reports, the Polish public broadcaster TVP has begun trial digital terrestrial transmissions of its thematic channel TVP Sport. The service is being distributed, alongside the national channels TVP1 and TVP2 and regional service TVP3, in the Wisla/Góra Skrzyczne region in the south of the country. Although TVP is currently using MPEG-2 compression, [...]

Digital rollout in Austria continues according to schedule, according to ORS, the company responsible for the transmitter network. Before the summer the cities of Innsbruck, Salzburg and Linz will only have DTT transmitters on air and no more analogue coverage. On May 7 the analogue transmitter serving Innsbruck will be switched off, followed on June [...]

Finnish pay-TV platform PlusTV has signed its 100,000th subscriber. The purchase was made in the Expert electrical store in the town of Eura. The DTT platform only has two channels, MTV3 MAX and Subtv Juniori, but crucially features Grand Prix motor racing. Later this month the package will be expanded to include film channel Subtv [...]

2.25pm  UPDATE. Finnish public broadcaster YLE has cleared the so-called central digital boxes for use in the country’s digital TV switchover. The  ministry of transport and communications requested a urgent report from YLE following a report in the national daily Helsingin Sanomat. The devices have been installed in smatv or dish sharing apartment which distribute [...]