The app accompanying Channel 4’s Million Pound Drop has now been downloaded three million times since it was first released in 2012.
Archives for August 2014
City businesswoman to become BBC Trust chair
Culture secretary Sajid Javid has named Rona Fairhead CBE as the preferred candidate for the BBC Trust Chairman.
Netflix to produce German series
US video-on-demand (VOD) provider Netflix wants to develop original series in Germany in future.
CNN to cut down German DTT distribution
News channel CNN International will terminate its digital terrestrial distribution in German federal state North-Rhine Westphalia.
German KabelKiosk to expand HD line-up
German direct-to-cable platform KabelKiosk will add new HD channels to its line-up this autumn, Martina Rutenbeck, managing director of operating company M7 Deutschland, told Broadband TV News.
DOCSIS shipments pass 1.2 million
Shipments of CCAP (converged cable access platform) and CMTS upstream and downstream DOCSIS channels have passed the one million mark for the first time.
Inea makes acquisition
The Polish cable operator Inea has become the majority shareholder in WSS, a company building a NGA network in the Wielkopolska voivodship in western Poland.
Spark New Zealand selects Xstream OTT platform
Spark New Zealand (formerly Telecom NZ) has selected Xstream’s professional video management platform, Xstream MediaMaker, for delivery of their new OTT video service, Lightbox.
Telenet invests in expansion to Giga network
Over the coming five years, Belgium’s Telenet, as the first operator in Europe, is to invest a total of €500 million to upgrade the cable network in Flanders to a […]
Sanctions hit Russian satellite industry
US sanctions are having a direct impact on the Russian satellite industry, according to Igor Kot, the deputy general director for marketing and business planning at Gazprom Space Systems (GKS).