Dutch incumbent telecom operator KPN today announced it has launched ‘day and date’ video-on-demand with selected Warner Bros titles on its IPTV service KPN Interactieve TV. (The contract was already […]
Entavio enters German cable market
Entavio is to extend its reach to Germany’s cable networks following an agreement between the SES-Astra pay-TV platform and the cable facilities company Kabel Dienstleistungs GmbH (KDL). The service will […]
German RTL Group to switch to 16:9
The German RTL Group, now called Mediengruppe RTL Deutschland, will switch its broadcast format to 16:9 widescreen on most of its channels including RTL, VOX and n-tv, as well as […]
Canal Digital launches digital Kabel TV
The Danish branch of Canal Digital is launching a digital TV service for housing corporations and SMATV installations. The new service is aimed at about one million households who subscribe […]
Belgacom TV – 249,434 homes; Telenet 340,000
During the presentation of its Q3 figures, the Belgian incumbent Belgacom said it gained 109,769 new TV customers during the first nine months of the year. This brought the total […]
Xgrad launches football fan video portal
The German company xgrad medien has launched halbzeit.in, a web portal dedicated to football fan video clips. Fans can upload any video clip they want, as long as it concerns […]
Premiere Direkt Plus reports 225,000 customers
Premiere has said it now has 225,000 customers for its Push-VOD service Premiere Direkt Plus, which it launched in 2005. The system uses a Humax PVR, where a special partition […]
New corporate identity for German RTL
All German interests of the RTL Group will from now on operate under one single corporate identity, to be known as Mediengruppe RTL Deutschland (Media group RTL Germany). This will […]
Kudelski Group revises its 2007 profit guidance
The Kudelski Group has revised downwards its 2007 profit guidance. The Group now anticipates a 2007 EBIT between CHF 85 (€51) and CHF 95 million (€57 million), while total revenues […]
PartyGaming brings poker to RTL Interactive
PartyGaming has announced it has signed a deal with RTL interactive, a subsidiary of RTL Television in Germany and part of the RTL Group, to bring a variety of poker […]