CACC 2007, PRAGUE – While the Czech cable industry gears up for the launch of digital TV services by the leading MSO UPC, its Slovak counterpart finds itself dealing with […]
Poland’s TVP eyes ‘Freesat’ service
CACC 2007, PRAGUE – Speaking at the Czech Association of Competitive Communications (CACC) conference in Prague, Martin Kubacki, MD, Astra CEE, said it was looking increasingly likely that the Polish […]
Telenor selects Spacebus for Thor 6
Telenor Satellite Broadcasting has commissioned Thales Alenia Space to build its new satellite Thor 6. The satellite will be based on Thales Alenia Space Spacebus 4000B2 platform and fitted with […]
UPC prepares for Czech digital rollout
CACC 2007, PRAGUE – UPC will start to roll out a digital cable service in the Czech Republic in the next two to three weeks if it gets the necessary […]
Czech mobile TV hits roadblock
CACC 2007, PRAGUE – The greatest obstacle to the introduction of mobile TV services in the Czech Republic is regulatory, according to Richard Stonavsky, the head of regulatory affairs at […]
Russia Today goes Latin
According to local reports, Russia Today will start broadcasting to Latin America in Spanish from later this year. A joint venture between the Russian public broadcaster RTR (Rossiya) and RAI-Novosti […]
Polsat/Axel Springer deal blocked
Poland’s Office of Competition and Consumer Protection (UOKiK) has blocked Axel Springer’s proposed acquisition of a 25.1% stake in the national commercial station Polsat “for formal reasons”. According to the […]
TV Nova looks to HD
According to local reports, Peter Dvorak, the general director of TV Nova, has said that the Czech national commercial station could eventually launch up to five HDTV channels. Although there […]
Branching out. Chris Dziadul looks at the activities of Comstar-UTS
A series of announcements in the last few days have served to underline the increasingly important role played by Sistema-backed Comstar-UTS in Russia’s electronic communications marketplace. Eric Franke, Comstar-UTS’s president […]
TVN takes lead in ad race
Data produced by Expert Monitor shows that TVN secured more ad revenue in Q1 2007 than any other channel in Poland, its total of PLN453,515,112 (€119,114,477) being PLN103,840,000 higher than […]