Mediaset Premium, the Italian broadcasters digital terrestrial pay-per-view service, sold 1.1 million cards during its first year of operation. The service has been bolstered by a wide range of content […]
Sports deal for Joost
Joost has signed a deal with the World Championship Sports Network (WCSN) to distribute short-form WCSN content via the P2P webTV service. WCSN features Olympic and lifestyle sports including track […]
Aggregator and Mercury Media launch docu webTV
Aggregator and Mercury Media announced the launch of documentary webTV service “to provide independent films for independent people” under the “joining the dots” (JTD) brand name. The new service can […]
7.7 million Freeview only homes
DTT platform Freeview continues to drive digital conversions in the UK. According to new data published by the regulator Ofcom, around 1,002,000 new digital homes were added in the fourth […]
SES confirms Astra 1L launch schedule
SES Astra has said the Astra 1L satellite will fly with the Ariane 5 rocket on May 3. It is the first time that the European spacecraft has been used […]
ITV Play replaced by ITV2 timeshift
ITV Play, the controversial participation TV channel, will not return to the air following recent criticisms of the genre. The channel’s DTT capacity will be taken by a +1 hour […]
Middle East broadcast market ‘dynamic’
The Middle East is one of the world’s most dynamic markets for broadcasting technology and content providers, delegates at last week’s Cabsat 2007 regional trade show in Dubai heard, reports […]
4Fun looks for funding
4Fun Media, the owner of the Polish participation TV channel 4Fun TV, has submitted the necessary paperwork to hold a floatation on the Warsaw stock exchange in the first half […]
Premiere Sky might run on entavio
Premiere chairman Georg Kofler has said the new Premiere Sky bouquet might run on SES-Astra’s technical pay TV platform entavio. “Constructive talks” are now going on. German pay-TV operator Premiere […]
Applications accepted for German DVB-H pilot
Today the media authority Landesanstalt für Kommunikation (LFK) in the German state of Baden-Württemberg has opened the application process for the nationwide 16-channel DVB-H pilot project. The window for applications […]