• Subscribe
  • Advertise
    • Media Info
    • Terms & Conditions for Advertisers
    • Mechanical Data

Broadband TV News

Independent. Since 2003

  • Home
  • News Line
    • Central & East Europe
    • People
  • TV
    • On Demand/VOD
    • IPTV
    • Cable
    • Satellite
    • Terrestrial
    • Distribution
  • Business
  • Tech
  • Columns
    • Chris Dziadul
    • Julian Clover
    • Robert Briel
  • Events
    • Events Diary
    • BTN Events
    • Events Coverage
    • Submit the details of your event
  • Features
  • Resources
    • White Papers

Chris Dziadul Reports: CEE stories you may have missed

January 6, 2023 11.23 Europe/London By Chris Dziadul

It’s been an extremely busy holiday period for media and telecom news stories across Central and Eastern Europe.

In Russia, where Christmas Day is in fact celebrated early this month, it was business as usual in late December. Tricolor, the country’s leading pay-TV operator, announced that the number of consumers of non-linear viewing of its online platform increased by 48% in the second half of the year. It also said that viewing of the platform was growing, especially on smart TVs and mobile devices, and the number of paying users had increased by 100% over the same period.

Meanwhile, Gazprom-Media announced that its subsidiary Central Partnership had signed a two-year agreement with Four Star Films, the largest distributor in the Middle East, and NTV-Plus, Russia’s longest-established DTH platform, said that it had added three more channels ¬– Fashion TV Network (FTV), Trace Sports Stars and Central Television – to its line-up.
Elsewhere, Hungary’s 4iG made the news in two countries, being, along with Crnogorski Telekom (CT) and MTel, one of three companies to secure a 5G licence in Montenegro and merging its Albanian operations One Telecommunications and ALBtelecom into a single company named ONE Albania.

In Poland, Viaplay Group and T-Mobile entered into a distribution partnership that will result in the latter’s Swap customers having free access to the streaming service until the end of February. After that, they will be able to add a Viaplay subscription to their package and access the Polish Formula 1 premier on Viaplay on March 5.

In Ukraine, inext announced the successful implementation of modern media players into the Telecommunications Kazakhstan network, while in the Baltics the Lithuanian operator Bite said it would merge its broadband internet subsidiary Mezon into the parent company later this year.

The holiday period saw two important appointments in the CEE region, with the highly experienced Linda Jensen becoming CEO of Antenna Group with immediate effect and Ralf Bartoliet the new CEO of the Bulgarian broadcaster bTV on January 1.

For more information about Chris Dziadul, please visit https://www.chrisdziadul.com

  • Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window)

Related

Filed Under: Chris Dziadul Reports, Columns, Featured Right Edited: 6 January 2023 11:23

Avatar photo

About Chris Dziadul

Chris is our Central & East Europe Editor. You can talk to Chris on Twitter @chrisdziadul or by email at cdziadul@broadbandtvnews.com

Latest News

  • A1 Telekom Austria shareholders agree to spin off tower assets
  • Erik Huggers appointed Chairman of Everyone TV
  • GB News presenter told he’d have to ‘pay own Ofcom fines’
  • Spanish SVOD analysed in SVOD Tracker report
  • Poland’s “Lex pilot” law suspended

Free Ebook

Whitepaper: Why Wi-Fi 6 is Key for ISP Success

Wi-Fi 6 and Wi-Fi 6E client devices are entering the home in an unprecedented way, surpassing 50% market share since their introduction in 2019 (compared to four years for Wi-Fi 5). … [Download the eBook...]

Columns

Avatar photo

Chris Dziadul Report: FAST channels in CEE

3 February 2023 By Chris Dziadul

What are the prospects for Free-Ad supported Streaming TV (FAST) channels in Central and Eastern Europe? … [Read More...]

View more columns

Q & A

Q&A with Przemyslaw Frasunek, Redge Technologies

Broadband TV News speaks with Przemyslaw Frasunek, the CEO of Redge Technologies, about the CEE region OTT landscape and the most effective video security solutions.

Broadband TV News

  • Subscribe
  • About us
  • Contacts
  • Logos & Pictures
  • Privacy Policy
  • Terms and Conditions

Advertising

  • Media Info
  • Terms & Conditions
  • Mechanical Data
  • Video Services

News

  • Latest
  • Central & East Europe
  • TV
  • Tech
  • Streaming
  • Cable
  • Satellite
  • Terrestrial
  • IPTV
  • Business
  • People

Events

  • Events Diary
  • BTN Events
  • Submit the details of your event
  • Media Meet & Greet

Broadband TV News

PO Box 499
Cambridge
United Kingdom
CB1 0AH
news@broadbandtvnews.com

Connect with Us

 

Copyright © 2023 Broadband TV News LLP · Log in

 

Loading Comments...