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 […]
TDC’s mobile TV six-pack
TDC is launching a new 3G-based mobile TV portal. The Danish communications provider is offering a pack of six of the most popular Danish TV channels; DR1, DR2, TV 2, […]
Extended cable carriage for VIVA Telenovelas
Dori Media Group has extended its agreement with the Israeli cable platform HOT for the extended carriage of its two Telenovela channels VIVA and VIVA Platina. VIVA, Dori’s main channel […]
ITV hires for broadband launch
ITV has hired Annelies van den Belt as the managing director of its broadband team ahead of the launch of its new broadband portal in 2007. The broadcaster has already […]
Discovery Channel joins Orbit line-up
Discovery Channel joined the Orbit satellite platform on January 1 in an exclusive deal for the Middle East. It will be joined in a few weeks by Discovery Science, which […]
Sky+ deployments pass 2 million mark
Sky has announced that its Sky+ personal video recorder product has now been installed in two million homes. It follows a successful 2006 during which time the number of deployments […]
Tiscali launches UK service
Italian telco Tiscali has launched its first UK IPTV service. Tiscali TV has been made available to a group of selected customers on 32 telephone exchanges in London. The customers […]
Hugo Martin 1942 – 2006
Former Digital News editor Hugo Martin has died suddenly at the age of 64. Hugo was formerly the editor of Digital News, published by the Digital TV Group (DTG), and […]
Realitatea Bites
On location in Bucharest, Romania, I found myself in the studios of The Money Channel talking about the European media scene. The appearance was live, unrehearsed and unscripted. Not that […]
Joe Le Taxi
In the grand journalism tradition this week’s lead story in New Television Insider was sourceduring a taxi ride in Cannes. My colleague Robert Briel was returning home from Mipcom when […]