Telenor Satellite Broadcast has confirmed February 8, 2008 as the launch date for its new Thor 5 satellite. The launch had been delayed by the September 6 failure of JCSAT […]
Two million cards sold by Mediaset Premium
Mediaset Premium, the PPV service distributed over Italy’s DTT network, has passed the two million card mark for the first time. It follows a successful October for the sports and […]
Premiere Direkt Plus reports 225,000 customers
Premiere has said it now has 225,000 customers for its Push-VOD service Premiere Direkt Plus, which it launched in 2005. The system uses a Humax PVR, where a special partition […]
TDF buys Telekom’s Media & Broadcast
Deutsche Telekom has sold its Media & Broadcast transmission division to the French TDF for €700 million, according to Financial Times Deutschland. Media & Broadcast is a part of Telekom’s […]
Subtitles underline YLE licence fee gap
Finnish public broadcaster YLE has opened a viewer hotline to deal with problems arising from the country’s move to digital broadcasting. It follows a significant fall in TV licence revenues […]
Zappware launches iDTV games portal Babalooza
The Belgian SBS affiliate VT4 has launched a number of games as part of its digital teletext service on the Telenet cable network. The Belgian interactive TV developer Zappware has […]
RRsat brings Baby First TV to Asia
RRsat Global Communications Networks announced that Baby First TV Channel has chosen to expand its contract with the satellite services company. Using Loral Skynet’s Telstar 10 satellite the Baby First […]
Discounting building Virgin loyalty
Virgin Media has reported an improved third quarter with 13,000 customer additions compared to the 70,300 loss in the previous period. There was also a dramatic improvement in the number […]
German Your Family launches new pay channel
Your Family Entertainment has started its own pay-TV channel “yourfamily”, with children’s and family programming from Ravensburger. The schedule covers educational programmes for pre-school children, cartoon series for children and […]
SES-Astra ‘satisfied’ with Entavio developments
SES-Astra is ‘satisfied’ with the development of the Entavio pay-TV platform, said CEO Ferdinand Kayser to the German edition of the Financial Times. Talks are under way with more German […]