Belgacom TV has said it reached 139,665 connected homes at the end of 2006. “We beat our own projections of 100,000 homes by year’s end,” declared CEO Didier Bellens. Monthly […]
Europe by Satellite now on Sirius
SES Astra has announced that it has started to transmit the “Europe by Satellite” service, a multilingual TV news service from the European Commission. The service is available from satellites […]
Indian MSO Manthan Broadband chooses Irdeto
Manthan Broadband Services Pvt. Ltd, a cable television company in India, has chosen the Irdeto Digital TV content security system to be used in the city of Kolkata, the State […]
Clover’s Week: On Virgin territory
Julian Clover unpicks the carriage fee dispute between Sky and Virgin Media There’s nothing like a cable spat to set the juices flowing and as the clock ticked past midnight […]
At the Races reaches breakeven
At the Races reduced its operating loss in 2006 as the racing channel moved reached breakeven in the second half of the year. According to finanicials released by Arena Leisure, […]
Virgin Central 2 replaces Sky One
Virgin Media has rearranged its channel line-up following the removal of Sky’s basic channels from the cablenet. Out goes Sky One to be replaced by Virgin Central 2, a reversioning […]
Sky basic channels dropped from Virgin
Sky’s basic channels from Virgin Media cable systems at midnight on Thursday (March 1). Whether Sky ceased the delivery of the channels or Virgin pulled the plug is a matter […]
PTCL to launch Pakistan’s first IPTV network
Irdeto and Huawei Technologies today jointly announced they have signed an agreement with Pakistan Telecommunication Co Ltd (PTCL) to provide an end-to-end IPTV solution to the 1 tier telecom operator. […]
Boom time for Polish Internet
According to a report by CR Media Consulting, the ad market in Poland is set to grow by 8.5-9.5% a year between 2007-9, or slightly less than the 9.9% recorded […]
Changes start at TV Joj
Milan Knazko is to stand down as general director of the Slovak national commercial station TV Joj after four years in the post. Earlier this year TV Joj, which commands […]