“Rather like newspapers, free-TV networks have been gripped by this desire to throw all their content online for free,” Mike Darcey, Sky’s chief operating officer, has told the Broadcasting Press […]
Worrying times for Israeli pay-TV
Pressure is building in Israel to increase competition in the pay-TV sector, where the market effectively operates as a duopoly served by the cableco HOT and DTH platform Yes.
Bulgarian DTH platform takes off
The Bulgarian incumbent telco BTC, which operates under the brand name Vivacom, ended 2010 as the second largest provider of satellite TV services in the country.
800,000 TNTSat receivers sold in 2010
TNTSat, the French digital terrestrial offer on satellite, reached a total of 2.65 million receivers sold at the end of 2010. 800,000 additional receivers were sold during 2010.
Albech leaves for Telenor Pakistan
Telenor Broadcast CEO Christian Albech is leaving Norway for Pakistan, where he will take over as CEO of Telenor Pakistan, the country’s second largest mobile operator.
Sky Italia to bundle Fastweb broadband
Sky Italia and Fastweb have agreed to bundle satellite television service with broadband internet and fixed line telephony, the two companies have announced.
Orion Express recruits new execs
The Russian DTH platform Orion Express has made two key appointments.
Fransat ships 800,000 receivers
Eutelsat’s Fransat subsidiary has announced that over 800,000 set-top-boxes have been shipped to receive digital terrestrial TV (DTT) channels by satellite via the Fransat platform.
Sky Anywhere launch underlines multiscreen experience
Sky is to launch a new screen proposition that will combine its Sky Mobile offer with the Sky Player catch-up TV service. A number of services, paid and unpaid, are […]
More DTH for Russia
Russia could see the launch of a new DTH platform by the end of the year. Operated by a production company named Bridge Media, it would join at least six […]