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 […]
Dutch SBS launches mobile TV
Dutch SBS and IceMobile have launched a new on-demand service for mobile TV. Viewers can download clips from a number of popular programmes including the news, weather, show business news […]
Dutch launch for Comedy Central
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 […]
Fibre to Slovak and Norwegian homes
France Telecom subsidiary Orange Slovensko has said it intends to invest approximately SKK1 billion (€32 million) on a fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) network in Slovakia that will cover almost 200,000 household in […]
GlobeCast in five-year Setanta deal
GlobeCast has signed a five-year distribution deal with Setanta Sports. The new agreement continues a 13-year relationship that extends back to the days when Setanta broadcast a closed circuit sports […]
Hungary prepares for digital licences
Daniel Pataki, the president of the National Communications Authority of Hungary (NHH), has said that the country will start to sell digital TV licences next year. However, this will only […]
Last Tango for Luxembourg’s T.TV
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 […]
Multimedia/TPSA ink deal
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 […]
Austria’s RTR to subsidise set-top boxes
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 […]
Swisscom hikes access fees
Swisscom’s local loop will be unbundled on April 1, when the new Swiss telecom law comes into effect. In the run-up to the development, the telco has announced that the […]