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Walloon cable consolidates

March 26, 2007 16.01 Europe/London By Donald Koeleman

VOO, a consortium of Brutélé and ALE, is to acquire the other eight cable operators in the French-speaking half of Belgium in a deal worth at least €475 million. The operators are controlled by the municipalities in partnership with utility company Electrabel, now owned by France’s Suez. Attempts to create a single Walloon triple-play provider, […]

Filed Under: Cable, Finance, Newsline, Regulation Edited: 27 March 2007 06:38

Ethnic bouquets for ish and iesy

March 26, 2007 07.07 Europe/London By Robert Briel

German cable operators ish and iesy have introduced three foreign language bouquets. Launched on Friday (March 23) the bouquets are for Serbian, Croatian and Bosnian viewers. The Serb package is called Pink consists of Pink Extra, Pink Plus and Pink Radio and costs €15.90 a month. The Croatian offer is called Tividi Croatia and contains […]

Filed Under: Cable, Newsline, TV Edited: 26 March 2007 08:26

Greek IPTV market takes off, Vivodi launches service

March 23, 2007 17.59 Europe/London By Donald Koeleman

Vivodi Telecom has said its ‘cable TV by Vivodi’ service is now up and running. Using a MEDIAstream platform supplied by MCOM, a leading Greek company in television technology over IP networks, it offers both live TV and VOD services via an ADSL2+ network. Vivodi also claims the network to be the largest privately owned […]

Filed Under: Cable, IPTV, Newsline, On Demand/VOD, Tech, Web TV Edited: 23 March 2007 22:44

US court: no network-DVR for Cablevision

March 23, 2007 16.58 Europe/London By Robert Briel

The US District Court for the Southern District of New York has ruled that Cablevision will not be allowed to roll out a network-based DVR. The decision comes as blow to operators who have wanted to deploy such services rather than have DVRs in the home. “We are disappointed by the judge’s decision and continue […]

Filed Under: Cable, Newsline, Regulation, Tech Edited: 26 March 2007 11:43

Dutch launch for Comedy Central

March 23, 2007 16.06 Europe/London By Robert Briel

Viacom’s Comedy Central will launch in The Netherlands on April 30. The channel will broadcast in the evenings only in a channel share with the Dutch version of Nickelodeon and will be available on cable, satellite, DTT and IPTV. Following Germany and Poland this is the third localised version of Comedy Central in Continental Europe. […]

Filed Under: Cable, IPTV, Newsline, Terrestrial, TV Edited: 26 March 2007 11:27

Last Tango for Luxembourg’s T.TV

March 22, 2007 08.59 Europe/London By Julian Clover

Luxembourg broadcaster T.TV (Tango TV) has closed and the station and its assets have been put up for sale. Broadcasts at the Tele2 venture ceased last Friday (March 16) amid reports that the company had racked up losses of €18 million. The entertainment channel launched in February 2002 as a competitor to the national broadcaster […]

Filed Under: Cable, Newsline Edited: 22 March 2007 08:59

Multimedia/TPSA ink deal

March 22, 2007 07.30 Europe/London By Chris Dziadul

The Polish MSO Multimedia Polska is reported to have signed a fixed line telephony interconnection agreement with the country’s incumbent telco TPSA. It will come into effect on July 1 and be valid indefinitely. Multimedia Polska is Poland’s third largest cable operator, claiming 575,000 subscribers as of the end of last year.

Filed Under: Cable, Central & East Europe, Newsline Edited: 22 March 2007 07:30

Austria’s RTR to subsidise set-top boxes

March 22, 2007 03.11 Europe/London By Donald Koeleman

The Austrian media regulator RTR is to spend €5 million on subsidising 66,666 boxes at €60 each to encourage the transition to digital broadcasting. Currently, subscribers of 25 operators serving 440,000 of the country’s 1.2 million cable households are able to switch to digital. The cable boxes in question cost around €125 without a subsidy, […]

Filed Under: Cable, Central & East Europe, Newsline, Regulation Edited: 22 March 2007 06:20

Telenet posts 800,000 broadband subs

March 21, 2007 23.45 Europe/London By Donald Koeleman

Telenet, the Flemish cable operator controlled by Liberty Global, now has 800,000 broadband Internet subscribers. This represents a penetration rate of 30%, or the same figure as for cable homes in the territory as a whole. The 800,000 subscribers include 43,700 that were formerly served by UPC Belgium, which Telenet took control of at the […]

Filed Under: Cable, Newsline Edited: 22 March 2007 06:25

Israeli VOD launch for Hallmark

March 21, 2007 19.50 Europe/London By Julian Clover

Hallmark Channel is to introduce a video on demand service on the HOT cable network in Israel. Commencing in April, subscribers will be able to choose from a library that includes mini-series Alice in Wonderland, Larry Mcmurtry’s – Dead Man’s Walk  and  A Girl Thing; series McLeod’s Daughters and movies Hound of the Baskervilles, Nowhere […]

Filed Under: Cable, On Demand/VOD, TV Edited: 21 March 2007 19:50

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