Samsung Electronics has said the company has reached agreement with BSkyB to supply set-top boxes to the pay-TV operator. The first receivers will be for the Sky HD service, which […]
Archives for August 2007
Early EPG placing for Zone Romantica
Zone Romantica is to make its long awaited debut in the UK market on September 3. The Chellomedia channel is being parachuted into Channel 146 in the Sky EPG, currently […]
Guggenheim quits OpenTV
OpenTV’s chief executive officer Alan Guggenheim has stepped down as the company’s chief executive officer of the technology company for what is being described as “personal reasons”. The technology company […]
TV Guide launches on Spanish DTT
Gemstar-TV Guide is to launch its so-called Interactive Programme Guide (IPG) in the Spanish market. It follows an agreement with local broadcaster Veo Television. Gemstar’s IPG technology has already been […]
Premiere: 80,000 HD subs
Subscriptions to Premiere HD have reached 80,000, according to the German pay-TV platform. It has been slow going for the two-channel package that comprises Premiere’s own HD premium channel and […]
Spanish football dispute heads to competition authority
Mediapro is stepping up its football rights dispute with Spanish pay-TV operator Sogecable. The Catalan production company is taking Sogecable and its Audiovisual Sport subsidiary to the competition authority. It […]
Subtitles vanish from Finnish cable
Subtitles on channels operated by the Finnish public broadcaster YLE have disappeared from cable networks. Operators still transmitting analogue signals have been experiencing problems in downconverting YLE’s digital signals to […]
Government approval for Portuguese DTT
The Portuguese government has approved a draft bill that will lead to the launch of a tender to operate digital terrestrial television in the country. According to an official from […]
HTTC opts for Invitel name
The Hungarian Telephone and Cable Corp. (HTTC) has announced that it will market all of its products and services under the brand name Invitel. HTTC lists Denmark’s TDC as a […]
Mobile leads Bulgarian telco market
According to date published by the Bulgarian telecom regulator, the country’s cable industry was worth BGN165.1 million (€84.5 million) in 2006, or 6% more than in the previous year. The […]