New sports channel for Slovakia

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Slovakia’s Council for Broadcasting and Retransmission (RVR) has granted Slovak Sport a licence to operate a second channel.

Chello CE wins hockey rights

Chello Central Europe has secured exclusive broadcast rights to Kontinental Hockey League (KHL) matches in Hungary, the Czech Republic and Slovakia for the next three years.

Skylink hit by Bulgarian DTH failure

Skylink

Skylink subscribers in the Czech Republic and Slovakia are to see some of the channels they receive revert from HD back to SD.

More channels for freeSAT

FreesatUPC

The UPC DTH platform freeSAT is adding two more channels to its offer.

Megamax widens reach

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

RCS&RDS sells another Digi operation

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Slovak Telekom has agreed to buy Digi Slovakia for an undisclosed fee.

Ginx widens reach in CEE

Ginx is to make its debut in Slovakia, having signed an agreement with the incumbent Slovak Telekom.

HD boost for UPC’s freeSAT

freeSAT by UPC Direct

UPC DTH has announced that its satellite platform freeSAT is broadcasting the Ice Hockey World Championship in HD.

May changes for Skylink

Skylink

The leading Czech and Slovak DTH platform Skylink has added the kids channel Minimax to its offer today (May 1).

Slovak pay-DTT details emerge

Plustelka

Further details have emerged about the new Slovak pay-DTT platform Plustelka, which is due to make its debut on May 1.