The two US satellite radio players Sirius and XM have announced a $13 billion merger bringing together the unlikely combination of Howard Stern and Oprah Winfrey. The involvement of self-styled […]
Premiere reaches 60,000 HD subs
Premiere has announced improved figures for its high definition service following two financial quarters when HD barely rated a mention. According to Premiere’s HD newsletter, 60,000 subscribers had signed up […]
Red Hot IPO
Portland, the company that owns a string of adult channels including Television X and Red Hot, is examining the possibility of a flotation. The Financial Times reports that Portland, owned […]
Sweden to relax advertising rules
Sweden’s national commercial channel TV4 is to be allowed to increase the number of commercials it broadcasts in line with those screened by TV3 and Kanal 5. The Swedish government […]
New Skies adds to solid SES results
SES has closed the financial year with a 28.4% increase in revenues. President and CEO Romain Bausch said the company had built on its solid place within the industry and […]
Crime & Investigation Network to launch on MultiChoice Africa
The History Channel UK is to launch a version of the Crime & Investigation Network in Sub-Saharan Africa on the Multichoice DTH satellite platform DStv. The channel will broadcast in […]
Clover’s Week: Free, but no longer easy
Could Freeview have become a victim of its own success? Julian Clover looks at why the free-to-air platform is not the only game on the UK DTT system There is […]
Kudelski beats analyst expectations
Kudelski’s digital television business broke through the SFr500 million (€307.39) revenue mark for the first time in 2006. The security company was reporting full year net profits of SFr138.53 million, […]
Norway fuels Canal Digital growth
Norway continues to be a happy hunting ground for Canal Digital. The pay-TV platform added 37,000 new DTH subscribers in the final quarter of 2006, primairily in its home market, […]
Amstrad delays Sky HD deliveries
Set-top box manufacturer Amstrad has delayed the supply of HD boxes for BSkyB until the second half of 2007. Although the company has already begun delivering HD boxes, it is […]