BT Vision added a further 58,000 subscribers on the quarter taking the IPTV service into a total of 340,000 households. At the same time BT said the number of new […]
Tender for Slovenian telco
Telekom Slovenije will shortly have an ownership change.
Piracy leads Premiere to third quarter loss
Costs that can be directly attributed to the hacking of its encryption system took Premiere to its fourth consecutive quarterly loss in the third quarter. A negative EBITDA (earnings before […]
Poland faces 2009 slowdown
TV remains by far the most lucrative medium in Poland, accounting for around half of the country’s PLN1.5 billion (€398.2 million) ad spend in Q3.
New DTT tender for Slovenia
The Slovenian Post and Electronic Communications Agency (APEK) has opened a tender for the country’s second DTT multiplex.
AIB recognises Media Excellence
France 24, Sveriges Television, Al Jazeera and Ross Kemp were among the winners of the Media Excellence Awards held last night in London and presented by the Association for International […]
Dutch public broadcasters go HD in 2009
The three Dutch national public channels Nederland 1, 2 and 3 will start to broadcast in HD during the second quarter of 2009. About 15% of all prime time content […]
Mediaset Premium maintains growth
Revenues at Mediaset Premium rose by 89% in the first nine months of 2008. Total revenues of €269.5 million compared with €142.8 million for the same period in 2007.
Thomson upgrades SmartVision VOD server
Thomson has launched a new version of its SmartVision video-on-demand server. The sixth version of the product enables a network personal video recorder (nPVR) for cable and IPTV networks. This […]
Sky’s Bamford becomes Premiere programming boss
BSkyB’s director of channels and operations Nicola Bamford is to take over from Hans Seger as chief programming officer of German pay-TV platform Premiere.