National Geographic Channels International has given further details of the availability of National Geographic Channel HD in Austria and Switzerland.
Orange tests Slovak HD
Orange has begun an HD trial in Slovakia.
Naxoo unveils HD offer
Geneva-based Naxoo has revealed a six-channel HD package in time for Switzerland’s co-hosting of the Euro 2008 football championship. The package comprises public channel HD Suisse alongside Arte HD, Luxe […]
KidsCo appears in Spain
New launch KidsCo has signed its first distribution deals in Western Europe through carriage agreements with Spanish operators Teuve, Ono, Orange and R Cable. The launch is being followed up […]
Pay-TV boost for Finnish Welho
Pay-TV homes on the Finnish cablenet Welho increased by almost a third in the first quarter. The halo effect brought about by the compulsory digital switchover of Finland’s cable networks […]
CaixaBI to hold Zon’s stakes in cable operators
Portuguese media conglomerate Zon Multimedia has announced that CaixaBI will hold Zon’s shares in three cable TV companies until the Portuguese competition authority Autoridade da Concorrencia approves the transaction.
Strong growth for Croatian IPTV
Croatia’s incumbent telco T-HT ended Q1 with 56,000 subscribers to its MAXtv IPTV service, or 3.5 times more than the 16,000 only 12 months earlier.
Lattelecom promotes exec
Juris Gulbis has been appointed the executive director and board chairman of Latvia’s Lattelecom.
Boom time for Bulgarian telco market
The Bulgarian telco market was worth BNG3.9 billion (€2 billion) in 2007, or almost 30% more than the previous year, according to data supplied by the country’s Communications Regulation Commission […]
Magyar Telekom paints mixed IPTV picture
The incumbent Hungarian telco Magyar Telekom’s fixed line division T-Com ended Q1 with 735,000 broadband subscribers.