The Spanish Telecommunications Market Commission (CMT) is reported to be angry at the prospect of the EC imposing a huge fine on the telco Telefónica later this week. In the regulator’s view, European anti-trust authorities will be overstepping the mark through such an action. The CMT launched an investigation into complaints that Telefónica was charging […]
TVN24 tops thematic charts
According to data produced by AGB Nielsen Media Research, news-based TVN24 was the most popular thematic channel in Poland in the first half of the year. Its national audience of 2.65% was up from 1.62% in the corresponding period in 2006 and considerably ahead of joint second placed Cartoon Network/TCM (0.71% v 0.83%) and Jetix […]
Zattoo TV launches UK version
Online web TV provider Zattoo TV has launched a localised version for the UK. For the moment all the BBC channels have been made available (BBC One, BBC Two, BBC Three, BBC Four, CBBC, CBeebies, BBC News 24 and BBC Parliament). Up until now the BBC channels were only available from the main Zatto site. […]
New Dutch culture channel BravaHDTV launches
The culture channel BravaHDTV has started test transissions on the CAIW cable network in The Netherlands. It is an initiative of Jur Bron and Gerard Ardesch, the people behind the Dutch music channel TV Oranje. BravaHDTV specialises in classical music, ballet, operette and opera and will be carried on the planned Canal Digitaal HD bouquet […]
Russia moves up the ad table
A new study from GroupM suggests that media investment in Russia will grow by 26% this year to $9 billion (€6.61 billion) and by a further 21% in 2008. It also says that Russia will overtake Spain to become a top five European ad market in 2009. GroupM adds that TV ad spend in Russia […]
New directors for SES
SES has appointed the business figures Bob Ross and Dr Ashok Ganguly to its board of directors. Ross has extensive executive experience in the media industry, having previously held senior positions at the National Cable Television Association (NCTA) and Turner Broadcasting System (TBS), as well as being CEO of New Skies Satellites. Dr Ganguly’s former […]
KRRiT delivers double whammy
Poland’s National Broadcasting Council (KRRiT) has announced that it is to scrap an agreement with the Polish Post Office allowing it collect receiver licence fees. It is expected that deal, which apparently secured the Post Office PLN50 million (€13.3 million) a year, will be replaced by a new one offering less favourable terms to the […]
Emuse to power BT interactive advertising
Emuse Absolutely has been named as a preferred supplier if interactive advertising services to the BT Vision IPTV platform. Emuse and BT Vision will operate the service jointly. It will run on the Microsoft Mediaroom application programming interface that has been designed to offer a richer support for Web services and applications. Emuse Absolutely CEO […]
Hungary prepares for mobile TV
Antenna Hungária and Vodafone have signed a letter of intent to jointly frame the technical conditions and business model for a DVB-H-based mobile TV service in Hungary. If all goes according to plan, they will undertake a joint user test this autumn before launching a full commercial service. Antenna Hungária has until now been undertaking […]
Top Up TV goes retail
Top Up TV is to make its personal video recorder available through the UK retail chain John Lewis. The combined DTT receiver and 160GB hard drive is being priced at £139. An optional subscription to the Top Up TV Anytime video download service is also available and one month’s free trial is included in the […]