Just how many broadband TV portals can a single market support? A question the UK may soon be facing up to, writes Julian Clover.
Freeview’s second coming
Freeview HD is launching to a receptive audience, but should the pay-TV platforms really be worried, asks Julian Clover?
First mover status
MTG’s acquisition of a stake in the DTH platform Raduga should come as no surprise. When it comes to Russia, the company has always been something of a pioneer.
The end of mobile TV as we know it?
With the hype at an end, mobile TV operators are now facing up to a reality that far from matches the expectations
Switching off
Russia and the CIS countries are operating to a different digitisation timetable to the rest of Central and Eastern Europe, with ASO in almost all set for 2015. However, even […]
A defiant market
Hungary has been exceptionally hard hit by the global economic crisis and is, according to the EBRD, unlikely to come out of recession until next year.
And now in stereo
Julian Clover finds that the prospect of 3D TV is more realistic than he thought.
Goodbye Kiev
There’s been air of inevitability about CME’s exit from Ukraine for a number of months despite repeated claims it was committed to the country.
BT scores on the news agenda
Will BT really start a pay-TV price war if Ofcom chooses to regulate Sky Sports? Julian Clover assesses the field.
The enigma
What on earth has happened to the Polish public broadcaster TVP’s DTH platform, launched amid great fanfare only last September?