SES Astra has signed an important capacity agreement for video delivery via its 31.5 degrees orbital position.
Chello rebrands Zone Club
Chello Central Europe has rebranded its lifestyle and entertainment channel Zone Club in Poland to Club TV.
VimpelCom eyes Serbian telco
Interest in the upcoming privatisation of Telekom Srbije is growing, with Russia’s VimpelCom and Turkey’s Turkcell being the two latest parties about to purchase tender documents.
CME completes HD rollout
CME has announced that it will have HD channels available in all its markets from January next year.
More Romance for Poland
Romance TV will officially make its debut in Poland on December 17.
Boost for DTT in Ukraine
Ukraine’s National Council on Television and Radio Broadcasting has kick-started the transition to digital broadcasting by awarding a 10-year licence for four national MPEG-4 multiplexes.
Done deal
Liberty Global’s decision to buy Aster is likely to have far-reaching implications for the Polish cable industry.
Spotlight falls on UK connectivity
A third of Sky and Virgin Media subscribers no longer bother connecting to a UHF aerial, according to Mark Oliver, chief executive, Oliver & Ohlbaum Associates.
YouView unlikely to start cord cutting
UK pay-TV subscribers are not particularly minded to give up their pay-TV subscriptions for YouView, as they currently understand it, with only 3% (about 800,000) of all UK TV homes […]
Broadband grows in Russia
Russia ended the third quarter with 14,151,000 broadband internet subscribers, or 7% more three months earlier.