Amos-3 has been successfully launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome site in Kazakhstan.
VT4 to launch HD channel this summer
The Belgian commercial broadcaster VT4 will launch an HD channel this summer in order to screen the Euro 2008 games in the format. The broadcaster will be the third national […]
TVP goes down Internet/VOD route
The Polish public broadcaster TVP will launch an experimental Internet portal for its thematic channel TVP Historia this summer.
Virgin Media loses worth for Branson
The value of Sir Richard Branson’s stake in Virgin Media has fallen to £240 million. The Sunday Times Rich List 2008 says Sir Richard’s stake in the cablenet has “suffered […]
Strong growth for Belgian iWatch VOD
The Belgian VOD iWatch, the branded service from commercial broadcaster VMMa, says it has enjoyed strong growth from the beginning of the year. In Q1, the number of requested streams […]
One million cards for Dutch Canal Digitaal
The Dutch DTH provider Canal Digitaal Satelliet says it has now reached one million active smart cards, making it once more the largest digital provider. However, the number of cards […]
France: number of DTT receivers doubled
In the past year, the number of DTT receivers sold or rented out in France more than doubled to 17.4 million, according to research from GfK. Since March 2005, 13,006,000 […]
Mixed picture for European VOD
CABLE CONGRESS 2008 – MADRID. Virgin Media’s VOD service had 38 million views in March, according to Kevin O’Neil, the company’s head of on demand.
20,000 homes for Alice Home TV
The German IPTV provider Alice Home TV, part of Hansenet in Hamburg and a fully owned subsidiary of Telecom Italia, has said it has now reached 20,000 connected homes.
Hungarian DTT bidders revealed
The Hungarian National Communications Authority (NHH) says that it has received a total of four bids for the DVB-T and T-DAB licences it is advertising.