Channel 4 is to relaunch The Hits as 4Music, adding live music shows to the video jukebox, including coverage of Kylie’s Minogues XY Tour and performances from Coldplay and Sugababes.
DCMS consults on VOD and UK uplinks
The Department for Culture, Media and Sport has opened a consultation on the EU Audiovisual Media Services (AVMS) Directive. Although the Directive, introduced to replace the long standing Television Without […]
MultiChoice looks to HD to keep highground
MultiChoice has confirmed the introduction of its high definition television service. The pan-African DTH platform is facing a barrage of new competition from regional broadcasters with low cost offers.
Currencies and margins hurt Thomson STBs
Currency movements dented an improved revenue performance within Thomson’s Access Products sector in the second quarter of 2008.
Canal converts 80% of TPS subs
Eighty per cent of subscribers to the former TPS platform have now been transferred to the CanalSat package, according to parent company Vivendi. In a statement, the company said the […]
Sport TV Africa to launch August 1
Portugal’s Sport TV Africa will launch on August 1 in all of the Portuguese-speaking countries on the continent as well as in 50 other countries in Sub-Sahara Africa.
Harmonic upgrade for Astra Platform Services
Astra Platform Services is giving a boost to its HD playout facility with the installation of Harmonic Electra 7000 encoders and DiviTrackIP statistical multiplexing unit.
Pay DTT for a mature Celtic Tiger
Boxer has secured the right to run Ireland’s pay DTT service, but with 76% of the country already watching multichannel TV is cannibalisation the inevitable consequence, writes Julian Clover.
Small growth for Telia IPTV
TeliaSonera has said the number of subscribers receiving its IPTV service in Sweden now stands at 320,000 having added just 2,000 new subscriptions in the second quarter, though the year-on-year […]
First numbers for Lithuanian DTT
Lithuanian telecommunications provider TEO has given the first indications of the popularity of its pay DTT service Digital GALA.