Mobile TV has suffered another blow after top French commercial channel TF1 announced it was shutting down its mobile TV services. TF1 Mobile launched last May, but five months on […]
SES Astra passes 2,000 channels
More than 2,000 channels can now be received from SES satellite positions over Europe. In the last year the number of broadcast channels broadcast from the 19.2 degrees East, 28.2 […]
Viacom in Joost content pact
Viacom has signed a deal with new broadband TV project Joost, just days after ordering that its content be pulled from YouTube, following the collapse of similar talks. Joost will […]
US satellite radio’s “merger of equals”
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 […]