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 […]
VOOM HD expands footprint
VOOM HD Networks signed an agreement with MEASAT Satellite Systems and Ascent Media to distribute the channel across Asia, the Middle East and Eastern Africa. The VOOM HD channel is […]
Digiturk, RCS dump IPO plans
Turkish DTH platform Digitürk and its Romanian-based counterpart RCS & RDS SA have dropped plans to list themselves on the London Stock Exchange. Both companies have put the blame on […]
O2 TV reaches 60K subscriber mark
The Czech IPTV service O2 TV now has 60,000 subscribers, according to local reports. Launched in late 2006, it currently offers viewers over 50 TV channels, 3D movies and the […]
New Polish DTT scenario emerges
Details have begun to emerge of an agreement signed by the Polish public broadcaster TVP, its radio counterpart Polskie Radio and the mobile company Polkomtel earlier this autumn. Local reports […]