US sports network ESPN is looking to cement the forthcoming rebranding of NASN under the ESPN name with the acquisition of UK rights to Premier League football. In an interview with the Financial Times, George Bodenheimer, president of ESPN, said the company would be “absolutely interested” in bidding for the rights when the next auction […]
Canal Digital adds TV 2 Sport to smatv homes
Canal Digital Denmark is adding the new TV2 Sport channel to the network’s dish sharing smatv homes. It brings an additional 680,000 households to the channel that was launched by the quasi-commercial channel TV2 during 2006. TV2 Sport covers soccer, tennis, cycling, boxing and motor sports. It has the Danish rights to the UEFA Champions […]
Luxe.TV expands European coverage
Luxe.tv, the Luxembourg based international ‘luxury’ channel, owned by DVL.TV S.A., the mother company producing, editing and broadcasting the Luxe.TV channels, is expanding its European coverage, The channel was launched on November 26, 2007 on analogue and digital cable and on digital terrestrial, covering the so-called ‘Saar-Lo-Lux’ area with some 2 million people. This is […]
BBC looks to buy UKTV control
BBC Worldwide has made a preliminary approach to Virgin Media to purchase the cablenet’s share of the UKTV joint venture, according to The Sunday Telegraph. Formal talks are yet to commence on the stake, which is valued at £370 million. The joint venture includes the eight UKTV branded channels, though of the portfolio that includes […]
VMMa to launch kids channel
The Belgian commercial broadcaster VMMa (Vlaamse Media Maatschappij) will launch its own kids channel to better compete with Ketnet from the public broadcaster VRT and with the Dutch version of Nickelodeon from MTV Networks. The plan is to join forces with Jetix, the kids channel from The Walt Disney Company. Jetix has already been active […]
Alice grows French IPTV offer
French subscribers to the Alice Triple Play Box now have access to nine additional channels on their IPTV service. Earlier this week Baby TV was added to the line up, as well as eight other channels. Cinéma Star, Cinéma Culte and Cinéma Classic were added to the movie offer and five channels – Sport+, Piwi, […]
TVN24 surges ahead
Data produced by TNS OBOP shows that TVN24 continues to be by far the most popular thematic channel in Poland. In November it commanded an audience share of 3.5% among viewers aged 4+, or almost double the 1.85% it claimed 12 months earlier. The children’s channel Mini Mini was in second place with 0.95% (0.78%), […]
EuroNews signs Chinese programme deal
EuroNews has announced that the channel, China Central Television (CCTV) and the European Commission have signed a Memorandum of Understanding for the broadcast in Mandarin of a EuroNews magazine package about science, space activities and technology, on CCTV’s network to a potential audience of 500 million viewers. “This agreement is the first step for a […]
Canal Digital drops Extreme
Canal Digital has removed Extreme Sports Channel from its cable packages with effect from December 1. Extreme has been removed from the Familiepakken and Mine Favoritter. In its place Prime TV moves from the Select bouquet to Mine Favoritter, but remains available only in the Oslo area. Prime TV is the Pakistan-based general entertainment channel, […]
Nova Cinema boosts distribution
The new Czech film channel Nova Cinema has secured carriage on UPC’s cable network. It will also be added to the operator’s DTH platform UPC Direct in the first quarter of 2008. Nova Cinema is distributed by Astra at 23.5 degrees East and made its debut in November. It is already available to subscribers of […]
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