RTL Group could shortly leave the Portuguese market. According to reports in the German press, the Bertelsmann company has received an offer of €206 million from Prisa to buy out its share in Media Capital. The Spanish media group already holds a stake in Media Capital. A spokesman for RTL said that a deal was […]
Inuk hires ahead of UK IPTV rollout
Inuk Networks has announced two new appointments ahead of the rollout of its Freewire IPTV service to the UK residential market later this year. Both engineering director David Evans and content manager Rebecca Dillion join from Blockbuster Entertainment International. Since November last year Inuk has delivered a digital TV service to students in their halls […]
WorldSpace moves into WRN
Satellite radio operator WorldSpace is to move its London playout facility from Soho Square to WRN’s headquarters in South London. WRN is to expand its master control room to provide studio facilities and office space for up to 10 staff. Marketing Manager Tim Aryris told Broadband TV News there would be no disruption of service […]
Cablecom continues Swiss switchover
Cablecom has announced details of the channels that will move to digital only broadcasts in German-speaking Switzerland during 2007. The migration process will be carried out in two phases in April and June 2007 and follows last November’s agreement with the price regulator. The capacity will be used for a new standard digital service, beginning […]
LNK joins Viasat Lithuania
Viasat has added a sixth local channel for subscribers to its Gold package in Lithuania. LNK went live on January 1 and is broadcast from the SES Sirius satellite at five degrees East. “LNK has been requested by our customers for some time, so we are happy to give this New Year present to all […]
Clover’s Week: In praise of Ceefax
Julian Clover finds that for the football fan, analogue Ceefax is still top of the league New Year in Windsor and my hosts were in need of a football fix. Just who was going to be in the Palace team that afternoon? The answer was found not by WAP, 3G, the Internet or digital text […]
HOT drops international channels
Three major international broadcasters are being dropped by the Israeli cable platform HOT from the beginning of February. BBC Prime, Eurosport News and National Geographic’s Adventure One are being replaced by channels from China, Georgia and Ethiopia. HOT has recently added the English language version of international news channel France 24 and plans to add […]
EuroCableLabs issues first 2007 certifications
EuroCableLabs has issued EuroDOCSIS and EuroPacketCable certification to a series of cable modem products manufactured by Motorola, Netgear and Zhondiantong Digital TV. An Arris cable modem that sports an integrated phone adaptor (E-MTA) received both EuroDOCSIS 2.0 and EuroPacketCable 1.5 certification. The equipment will now be able to carry the EuroCableLabs logo, signaling to cable […]
NHS Direct begins Freeview house calls
NHS Direct has extended its health advice service to the Freeview DTT platform. The service went live on December 20 and is using technology provided by the interactive playout and MHEG middleware specialists Strategy & Technology. Britain’s National Health Service already runs on the Sky Digital satellite platform and the Internet. The DTT version is […]
Quiz Call leaves Sky EPG
Quiz Call has left the Sky Guide EPG, two months after Channel 4 sold its Ostrich Media subsidiary to premium rate telephony provider iTouch. The broadcaster began to distance itself from the participation TV genre after media regulator Ofcom and the premium rate regulatory body ICSTIS began investigating a series of complaints into the increasing […]