The Slovakian telecommunications and TV operator Towercom has contracted a further transponder at the Astra orbital position 23.5 degrees East. Towercom, until recently known as TRI R, owns and operates […]
Archives for September 2008
News Corp bTV sale approaches
News Corp has selected a new company to advise it on the sale of the Bulgarian national commercial station bTV.
Freesat releases first figures
The Freesat free-to-air satellite platform has notched up 100,000 sales in the first five months following its launch. Freesat has also announced that its personal video recorder (PVR) product will […]
200,000 homes for Premiere Star
The German pay-TV bouquet Premiere Star has reached 200,000 homes, according to MD Wolfram Winter, speaking to the German trade publication Digital Insider. The company also reports figures in the […]
Channels.com lets viewers find web videos
Channels.com said it launched “the web’s first free service for discovering and subscribing to video feeds” calling itself a video feed “aggregator”, helping users stay up-to-date with the new videos […]
Eredivise Live scores 200,000 subs
The Dutch live football channel Eredivisie Live has said it has reached 200,000 subscribers three weeks after the start of the new season. The channel is jointly owned by the […]
IPTV for Serbia
Telekom Serbia is to launch what will be the country’s first IPTV service on October 15.
Kino Polska eyes HD launch
The Polish film channel Kino Polska is to become available in HD next year.
Cablenets warned on carriage charges
CTAM EUROSUMMIT ’08 – BERLIN. Cable operators have been warned that programmers may look elsewhere if they are unable to reach agreements on their carriage.
Record HD package for Toya
The Polish MSO Toya will start offering its subscribers a package containing 11 HD channels on October 1.