The Bucharest Court of Appeal has set aside fines on UPC Romania totaling €7.1 million.
YouTube adds ‘automatic’ subtitling
Google has announced an automatic subtitling (or ‘captions’, as the Americans call it) service for YouTube videos, using the ‘automatic speech recognition’ (ASR) technology currently employed in the transcription feature […]
Primacom challenges KDG wholesale pricing
The German cable operator Primacom has complained to the regulator Bundesnetzagentur about the wholesale pricing of Kabel Deutschland (KDG) for the delivery of television channels to Level 4 operators.
Online TV watching continues to grow in US
Online video viewing in the US continued to reach record levels in September with nearly 26 billion videos viewed during the month by more than 168 million internet users, according […]
Dutch hit radio station to launch TV channel
Radio 538, part of RTL Nederland, plans to launch its own TV channel in early 2010. Jan-Willem Brüggenwirth, the broadcaster’s CEO, said in an interview with Broadcast Magazine that he […]
Foxlife comes to an end in France
Fox International Channels has decided to close down the French version of Foxlife on December 31. The channel was launched in 2005 but did not manage to become profitable.
Branding adds to CI Plus modules
EPG specialist Mirada has worked with the Kudelski-owned SmarDTV to port the Nagra Media Guide onto a CI Plus module.
Primacom: analogue subscribers down
The number of analogue cable subscribers on the Primacom network has fallen from 835,000 to just over 700,000 in the period from June 2009 up to the end of September, […]
VGTRK rings in the changes
The Russian state broadcaster VGTRK is to restructure its thematic channel Kultura, having already decided to close its channel Sport in January 2010.
Lattelecom grows broadband base
The Latvian incumbent telco Lattelecom ended October with 192,000 broadband internet subscribers, or 6% more than at the beginning of the year.