The French Parliament has passed legislation confirming digital switchover in November 2011. The analogue television service will undergo a phased switchover plan commencing in March 2008, by when it is […]
Virgin prepares to offer Sky discounts
Virgin Media is planning to offer its subscribers discounts of up to £9.75 in compensation for the loss of Sky-branded channels from its basic packages following the breakdown of carriage […]
Clover’s Week: Let it FLO
MediaFLO is undoubtedly on a European charm offensive. The impression is that between commercial trials and actual deployments, the open standard DVB-H already has the market sewn up. Qualcomm is […]
New DTH platform is Gateway to Africa
A new satellite delivered pay-TV service is to launch into Africa. Gateway Communications is planning a bouquet of international and locally originated content into the pan-African market that it believes […]
Autumn launch for German DTH platform
German pay-TV platform Stargate says that an autumn launch is a realistic timescale. Stargate will play a central role in the attempts by satellite operator Astra to establish its Entavio […]
Earnings record for ProSiebenSat.1
Germany’s ProSiebenSat.1 has reported record earnings for the financial year just passed. EBITDA grew 16% in 2006 to €484 million as pre-tax income increased by 10% to €387m. The group […]
Sky News wins RTS News Channel of the Year
Sky News has been named News Channel of the Year at the Royal Television Society awards in London. Sky News correspondent Dominic Waghorn picked up both the Television Journalist of […]
SeaChange secures on-demand navigation patent
SeaChange International has registered a patent for use in the navigation of video on demand services with the US Patent Office. US Patent 7,155,674 covers a software application within SeaChange’s […]
French lead Euro HD
France has pulled ahead of other European countries by setting aside terrestrial capacity for high definition television. Strategy Analytics new research piece “Digital TV Transition: Europe Watches France’s Mandates As […]
‘Free’ Sky Sports for Virgin VIPs
Virgin Media has added ‘free’ Sky Sports to its so-called VIP as the company continues its marketing blitz following the integration of NTL Telewest with Virgin mobile. The ‘Very Impressive […]