Viasat has added HD content to TV1000Play, the premium area of its Viasat OnDemand service, becoming the first operator in the Scandinavian region to do so.
Mediaset Premium nudging 3m cards
Active cards for the Italian DTT pay platform Mediaset Premium added another 800,000 during 2008 to reach 2.9 million.
DTG summit tries to paint on Canvas
With an audience like the Digital TV Group you might have expected a little more detail on something as industry shifting as the Canvas IPTV proposals. Instead, like Canvas before […]
Stock rises at Disney Channels Europe
Giorgio Stock has been named as the new executive vice president and managing director, Disney Channels Europe, Middle East and Africa. The announcement comes just weeks after his predecessor John […]
VOD HOT in Israel
Increases in digital TV subscribers and the increasing popularity of video on demand helped HOT increase revenues by 13% in 2008. The Israeli cablenet reported revenues of NIS 2.97 billion […]
Cablecom adds more UK channels
Swiss cablenet Cablecom is adding nine new English language channels to its digital line-up. BBC Three, BBC Four, CBBC, CBeebies, ITV3, ITV4, E4, More 4 and Five are joining the […]
Ericsson achieves 0.5Gbps VDSL2 datarate
New opportunities for IPTV operators have been opened up by Ericsson after the company demonstrated a new VDSL2-based technology achieving data transfer rates greater than 0.5Gbps.
Sci-Fi Channel regenerates into Syfy
In one of the more curious rebranding projects the NBC-owned Sci-Fi is to rebrand as Syfy, keeping the phonetics but changing the spelling.
Zappware to build Nagra applications
Zappware has been commissioned by Nagravision to work on a suite of applications to be used around on demand services.
Setanta shareholders reach ground zero
Setanta Sport shareholders Doughty Hanson and Goldman Sachs, that between them own a quarter of the broadcaster, have written down the value of their holdings to zero.