Kids channel Jetix has signed a multi-year extension to its cable carriage deal with UPC. The agreement with one of its largest distributors in the region covers Poland, Romania, Hungary, […]
BT Vision makes further gains
BT Vision added a further 58,000 subscribers on the quarter taking the IPTV service into a total of 340,000 households. At the same time BT said the number of new […]
Piracy leads Premiere to third quarter loss
Costs that can be directly attributed to the hacking of its encryption system took Premiere to its fourth consecutive quarterly loss in the third quarter. A negative EBITDA (earnings before […]
AIB recognises Media Excellence
France 24, Sveriges Television, Al Jazeera and Ross Kemp were among the winners of the Media Excellence Awards held last night in London and presented by the Association for International […]
Mediaset Premium maintains growth
Revenues at Mediaset Premium rose by 89% in the first nine months of 2008. Total revenues of €269.5 million compared with €142.8 million for the same period in 2007.
Thomson upgrades SmartVision VOD server
Thomson has launched a new version of its SmartVision video-on-demand server. The sixth version of the product enables a network personal video recorder (nPVR) for cable and IPTV networks. This […]
Sky’s Bamford becomes Premiere programming boss
BSkyB’s director of channels and operations Nicola Bamford is to take over from Hans Seger as chief programming officer of German pay-TV platform Premiere.
Com Hem to offer 3 mobile Broadband
Com Hem has become the latest cablenet to launch a mobile broadband service. The Swedish operator is collaborating with 3 to offer mobile broadband to its 1.5 million subscriber households.
Fox Life makes Greek debut
Fox International Channels is launching Fox Life into the Greek market. The female leaning channel will be available from ON Telecoms starting on December 1.
AEPOC adopts ‘Budapest Agenda’
AEPOC has approved a special action plan designed to focus on anti-piracy initiatives in Central and East Europe. In a statement following its recent meeting at the Eutelsat headquarters in […]