The BBC has confirmed Danny Cohen as the new controller of BBC Three. Cohen joins the BBC’s digital channel after seven years at Channel 4 including a recent spell as head of BBC Three competitor E4 and as head of Channel 4 Factual Entertainment. He was responsible for the commission of Skins, Supernanny and The […]
Sony re-brands anime channel
Sony Pictures Television International (SPTI) has announced that its anime (dedicated Japanese animation) channel A+ has been re-branded Animax. SPTI is the international arm of Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) and acquired A+, which has some 4 million viewers in Hungary, Romania, the Czech Republic and Slovakia, last October. The Animax brand is already well established […]
C4 nabs online Grand National rights
Channel 4 is to stream the three-day Aintree Grand National meeting live on its website. The transmission has been made possible through an agreement with pay-TV channel Racing UK, even though the BBC holds the broadcast rights for the prestigious meeting. The online rights are being geographically restricted to the UK and will only be […]
Al Jazeera debuts in Turkey
The Turkish DTH platform Digiturk has signed a carriage agreement with Al Jazeera English, the English language service of the Al Jazerra Network. The service will now be made available as part of Digiturk’s basic package, which includes a number of other international news channels. Digiturk is owned by the Cukurova Group and has over […]
Virgin ready for day in court
Virgin Media is preparing to submit a writ in the High Court in the latest phase of the cablenet’s carriage fee dispute with BSkyB. Virgin’s lawyers Ashurst are expected to deliver the writ as early as this week disputing BSkyB’s rejection that it had acted in an uncompetitive manner by removing its basic channels from […]
Liberty TV launches Dutch feed
Liberty TV has today launched a dedicated Dutch version of its travel channel. Until now the Flemish version of the channel was carried by a number of Dutch cable operators. Liberty TV said it will work together with travel agency Advanced Travel Partner (ATP) and Google Video Nederland for its programming. Liberty TV is already […]
Xie rolls out first digital channel
Xie, the joint venture between Dutch incumbent telecom operator KPN and Endemol, is rolling out its first thematic digital channel called Planet Prime. The channel will offer ‘gold’ programming from the archives of Endemol and will be available via DTT operator Digitenne, the KPN IPTV service Mine and as a web TV stream. The channel […]
History Channel comes to Benelux
The History Channel is finally coming to the Benelux. A launch is planned in the second quarter of this year beginning with the UPC Netherlands network. Other agreements will be announced soon. Chellomedia’s Digital Media Centre (DMC) will transmit the signal for The History Channel from its technical facility in Amsterdam to the Benelux as […]
BBC Arabic TV launch this autumn
BBC World Service is to launch its new channel, BBC Arabic TV in autumn 2007, broadcasting in Arabic to 22 countries across the Middle East. The €1.8 million euro installation will be a tapeless facility. It’s the second stab at an Arabic channel for the BBC, its earlier incarnation ran between 1994 and 1996, funded […]
Q2 launch for Dutch Sci-Fi, 13th Street
The two NBC-Universal channels Sci-Fi and 13th street are to launch on the UPC platform in the Netherlands in the second quarter of the year. Wider distribution is expected in the Netherlands and Flemish-speaking Belgium by the end of 2007. In the Benelux the channels will be represented by Chellomedia, a sister company to cable […]
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