The Polish MSO Multimedia Polska has withdrawn Eurosport from its programme offer, replacing the service with the public broadcaster’s TVP Sport.
Sporting squabbles
“Football is not a matter of life and death…it’s more important than that”.
Austrian VOD deal for On Demand Deutschland
On Demand Deutschland (ODD) is to supply VOD content to Telekom Austria’s Aon TV VOD service.
Canal+/TPSA secure football rights deal
A consortium of Canal+ and the incumbent Polish telco TPSA has won the right to screen matches from the Polish premier football league Ekstraklasa for the next three seasons.
Czech DTT worries raised
Up to 1.5 million Czechs may still not be able to receive digital TV at the end of 2010, according to Jane Hannahovou, the head of the national transmission company […]
Comstar-UTS moves into Armenia
Russia’s Comstar-UTS says that it has started to build a WiMAX network in Armenia.
UPC Romania maps out strategy
UPC is in negotiations to buy a number of small Romanian cable operators, according to Richard Anderson, CEO of the company’s operations in the country.
MegaFon ponders IPO
The Russian mobile company MegaFon may hold an IPO in 2009, according to its DG Sergei Soldatenkov.
Gaming channel for Romania
The video gaming channel Ginx TV is to make in debut in Romania.
TVP dampens DTH platform speculation
The Polish public broadcaster TVP has effectively ruled out launching a DTH platform this year, and certainly before the Beijing Olympics.