News Corp is expected to formally notify the European Commission of its intention to purchase the remainder of BSkyB within the next few days. Industry concern centres around the potential […]
Irish DTT finally underway
RTE’s Digital Terrestrial Television service is now available to 90% of the Irish population, communications minister Eamon Ryan has announced.
Percosan takes over at Cable Europe Labs
Peter Percosan has been named as the new managing director of Cable Europe Labs (CEL), succeeding Malcolm Taylor, who stays on as an advisor.
Swedish HD DTT goes live today
Swedish terrestrial pay-TV platform Boxer has today launched two packages of HD channels onto the digital terrestrial system. The channels will use MPEG-4/T2. At launch Boxer will have an estimated […]
Steady performance from Harmonic
Harmonic slipped into a third quarter loss despite increased revenues, from the core business, and recent acquisition Omneon.
Belgacom TV nears one million mark
Belgacom’s IPTV business now has 920,000 customers after a year-on-year growth of 39%. An additional 52,000 subscribers were added in the third quarter of 2010, but the company admitted that […]
Kerr tackles Eurosport UK operations
David Kerr has been named as MD of Eurosport UK in a restructuring of the broadcaster’s UK operations.
Cabovisão fightback underway
The Portuguese cableco Cabovisão, once considered a heavy weight around the neck of Canadian parent Cogeco, has returned to subscriber positivity.
Teleste sees market improvement
Finnish cable equipment supplier Teleste says it sees an improvement in the market, after third quarter profits grew by 23.4% to €2 million, despite an 18% fall in orders.
Battle for the button
The TV will be connected, but what will viewers connect to it, asks Julian Clover?