“At the moment we are broadcasting test versions of three HD channels and we are going to make them available to subscribers in late March”, says Dmitry Samokhin CEO of […]
Tiscali UK targets 5 million IPTV homes
Tiscali UK has unveiled plans to extend the availability of its IPTV service to five million homes by the end of this year. The Italian broadband provider is using last […]
Pace back in profit
Pace Micro Technology has said that it has returned to profitability following an upturn in the demand for pay-TV technology. A 60% increase in shipments to clients including BSkyB, NTL, […]
Mobilkom Austria trials DVB-H
Mobile operator Mobilkom Austria A1 has launched a trial DVB-H mobile TV service in Kitzbühel, a small city in the Tyrol region of Austria, an area known for its winter […]
Boost for Serbian cable
Serbia’s Telecommunications Agency (RRA) has issued licences to 20 cable operators, including state-owned PTT KDS, and the Belgrade-based private companies AV Kom, Kopernikus, Pogled MSM, Alzovedo and Kablkom. There are […]
News Corp. maintains Bulgarian lead
According to data produced by the research and consultancy company Market Links, the TV ad market in Bulgaria amounted to Leva350 million in 2006. BTV, the News Corp.-backed market leader, […]
Verimatrix strikes Russian deal
The Russian ISP Corvette Telecom and its wholly owned content aggregation and pay-TV service subsidiary City TV have entered into an agreement with the content security company Verimatrix. Under it, […]
UPDATE: RTL confirms Prisa sale
RTL has confirmed that it is selling its holding in Portugese media company Grupo Media Capital to Grupo Prisa in a deal that will net the Luxembourg media operator proceeds […]
TVP maintains its lead
According to data produced by TNS OBOP, TVP was by far the most popular broadcaster in Poland in January 2007, its two flagship national channels TVP1 and TVP2 claiming a […]
Mixed results for BTC
The Bulgarian incumbent telco BTC has posted a profit of Leva130.4 million (€67.2 million) for 2006, or 15% more than in the previous year. Its ADSL subscriber total at the […]