An extraordinary dispute between Poland’s Office of Electronic Communications (UKE) and France Telecom-backed TPSA over its Internet access charges has escalated. The regulator believes the latter to be excessive and […]

Moscow CableCom Corp (MCC) is to be taken over by the Russian private equity group Renova in a deal worth around $152 million (€115.7 million). Renova currently holds a 40.5% […]

Poland’s third leading MSO Multimedia Polska has acquired a smaller operator named Automatic Service for PLN56.5 million (€14.5 million). The deal will allow Multimedia Polska to enter several markets in […]

The Czech public broadcaster CT has filed lawsuits totalling CZK35 million (€1.24 million) against almost 28,500 viewers defaulting on receiver licence fee payments. CT is gradually withdrawing advertising and will […]

According to local analysts, the Polish national commercial broadcaster TVN is likely to have made a consolidated profit of between PLN119 million (€30.59 million) and PLN142.3 million in Q4 2006. […]

Sweden’s Modern Times Group (MTG) has acquired a 50% stake in Balkan Media Group Limited (BMGL) from London-based Apace Media for €11.6 million. BMGL has a number of broadcast interests […]

The news that TEO LT’s bid to buy Mikrovisatos TV has fallen through is undoubtedly a blow for the Lithuanian telco but will hopefully not have a detrimental effect on […]

Sweden’s MTG has reported generally positive results for its operations in Central and Eastern Europe. Its Viasat FTA and pay-TV operations in the region saw their income in Q4 2006 […]

Two further Discovery Networks channels – Discovery Science and Discovery Civilisation – have made their debuts in Poland. With Discovery History and Discovery HD also having been introduced late last […]

The Hungarian MSO TVNetWork has posted a net income of HUF1.35 billion (€5.36 million) for 2006, or 54% more than the previous year. At the same time, its operating profit […]