Broadband TV News launches German service

Broadband TV News has launched a dedicated German language website and daily newsletter.

BBC abandons £100 million digital production system

BBC Broadcasting House: new newsroom

The BBC has dropped a £100 million project to digitise its production systems and suspended its chief technology officer John Linford.

Clover’s Week: Microsoft launches TV, again

The BBC is currently running a neat little promotion for the iPlayer, the premise of which is to tell civillians that they can watch their favourite BBC show on the iPlayer, on the television, writes Julian Clover.

TRACE Sports debuts in Israel

Trace Sports

TRACE Sports has signed a carriage agreement with the Israeli cable operator HOT.

Next Gen box launched by GET

Get Box II

Norwegian operator GET has launched its new GET Box II, initially for customers on the IP part of its network, the set-top will be made available to cable homes in the summer.

Com Hem still increasing reach

Tomas Franzen

In the otherwise mature cable market of Sweden, Com Hem has added another 40,000 households year-on-year.

World-wide pay-TV continues to grow

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Following a year of solid 8% growth, the worldwide pay-TV subscriber market has reached 804 million worldwide pay-TV subscriber households.

Megamax widens reach

The kid’s channel Megamax has secured carriage on the Magio DTH service in Slovakian and Czech cable network Rio Media.

Digital cable surges in Romania

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Digital take-up is growing in the Romanian subscription TV market, with the total number of homes receiving services amounting to 3.4 million as of the end of 2012.

Green signal for Moscow 24

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Moscow 24 has received the right to install a TV network in the city’s metro.

More HD for UPC Czech

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UPC Czech Republic has increased the number of HD channels in its offer to 24.