The French Community of Belgium will gradually increase its funding for the francophone channel TV5 Monde to €7.75 million in 2012, against €4.79 million this year, the regional government said […]
Platform n subscriber target in sight
Poland’s ITI Group expects its DTH platform n to reach the 500,000-subscriber mark by the end of the year despite posting a mixed set of financial results.
Amino acquires Tilgin STB business
Cambridge-based Amino Communications has purchased the set-top box division of the Swedish company Tilgin. The purchase will give Amino immediate access to additional middleware solutions, including those supplied by Ericsson […]
Teracom takes Boxer control
Teracom has become the sole owner of Swedish DTT operating company Boxer after buying out the 30% of the company held by private equity firm 3i. No financial terms have […]
Primacom compensates lower analogue revenues
German cable operator Primacom has reported a slightly lower turnover during Q3 2008, mainly due to a decrease in analogue customers after selling the cablenets in Aachen and Wiesbaden. The […]
Unitymedia delivers 18% revenue increase
Unitymedia continues to grow its Unity3Play triple play retail offer, using digital TV pay services, broadband internet and telephony to compensate for the loss of basic subscribers.
Romanian cable turns a profit
ACC Broadband Convention – Bucharest. Cable remains a lucrative business in Romania.
BSkyB launches $600m bond issue
BSkyB has made a private placement with institutional investors to raise $600 million (€474m). The Notes will pay 9.5% interest and mature on November 15, 2018.
Com Hem grows digital audience
Com Hem continues to grow take-up of its pay-TV services, the Swedish cablenet added another 22,000 digital subscribers on the quarter, to reach 450,000 at the end of September.
Telefónica IPTV passes 2 million
Telefónica’s pay-TV business has passed two million connections; 2.1 million subscribers were hooked up to the IPTV service by the end of the third quarter, representing a 54% increase on […]