Sky has announced that its Sky+ personal video recorder product has now been installed in two million homes. It follows a successful 2006 during which time the number of deployments grew by more than 50%. Sky+, a version of the NDS XTV feature set, is benefiting from the combination of a critical mass and the […]
Tiscali launches UK service
Italian telco Tiscali has launched its first UK IPTV service. Tiscali TV has been made available to a group of selected customers on 32 telephone exchanges in London. The customers concerned have already been contacted by the company ahead of a full UK launch later in 2 The company is aiming to be delivering the […]
Hugo Martin 1942 – 2006
Former Digital News editor Hugo Martin has died suddenly at the age of 64. Hugo was formerly the editor of Digital News, published by the Digital TV Group (DTG), and previously worked for IPC Magazines. A journalist for all of his working life, Hugo began his career on The Brighton and Hove Herald, editing directly […]
Realitatea Bites
On location in Bucharest, Romania, I found myself in the studios of The Money Channel talking about the European media scene. The appearance was live, unrehearsed and unscripted. Not that it matters what was said given that my turn was simultaneously translated into Romanian. That Romania has a finance channel at all must surely come […]
Joe Le Taxi
In the grand journalism tradition this week’s lead story in New Television Insider was sourceduring a taxi ride in Cannes. My colleague Robert Briel was returning home from Mipcom when Le Deep Throat gave him the background to the Franco Freesat plan to put the French free-to-air channels, a relay of the digital terrestrial TNT […]
Worldspace’s Italian Job
It was clear from the recent European DARS Summit in London that the main satellite radio protagonists are ready to roll (and rock). But if Worldspace is planning a launch in Italy this winter what will happen to the existing clients of Afristar 1? The answer from CEO Benoit Chereau can be found in the […]
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