Portuguese TV Cabo will launch two exclusive channels from Brazil’s TV Globo – Premiere Futebol Clube (football) and TV Globo Portugal – on October 10. This follows an agreement between […]
Bucharest cable project nears
A contract between UTI Systems and Bucharest City Hall leading to the creation of an underground fibre-optic network in the Romanian capital is likely to be signed by the middle […]
Setanta leans on Virgin package
Subscriber numbers to the Setanta Sports package have risen to two million following the sweetheart carriage deal with cablenet Virgin Media. Around 1.2 million of Setanta’s subscribers receive the premium […]
CTAM Europe Eurosummit coverage
Broadband TV News was in Barcelona last week for the CTAM Europe 2007 Cable Marketing Eurosummit. The news was posted on this website and included in our daily emails and […]
UPC adds Visiware interactive games
UPC Netherlands has launched a number of games from the French maker of interactive TV games Visiware. A series of eight games that can be played on-screen using the remote […]
Dutch football reaches cable
Dutch cable networks will now once again be able to offer their subscribers live football from the Tele2 Live Eredivisie Voetbal channels. For the past two years Dutch football has […]
BigBang for BigBand as revenue expectations deflate
Switched digital video and data head-end equipment vendor Bigband Networks has warned that its Q3 revenues will be in the $35-39 million range,as opposed to the expected $54-58 million. The […]
Orange Dutch mobile and broadband to DT
The long expected final stage of an extensive asset swap between the French and German incumbent telcos France Telecom and Deutsche Telekom, namely the sale of the Dutch Orange division […]
Sickinghe calls for more European content
CTAM CABLE MARKETING EUROSUMMIT – BARCELONA. Telenet CEO Duco Sickinghe has told content providers they should be looking to introduce more local content. Addressing channel representatives attending the CTAM Eurosummit, […]
Transitional Tihany
Chris Dziadul reviews the Hungarian cable conference. The overriding impression at the HCA/HCTA cable conference Tihany earlier this week was one of a market in transition. Hungary, like most other […]