CABLE CONGRESS 2011 – LUCERNE. The launch of UPC’s new home gateway known as Horizon has been delayed for several months, Broadband TV News has learnt. Earlier this week Liberty […]
2011: European cable’s ‘year of harvesting investments’
CABLE CONGRESS 2011 – LUCERNE. Europe’s cable industry is back on track, its revenues of €18.8 billion in 2010 being 6% higher than the previous year. As a result, Manuel […]
Fries: “TV Anywhere will be Google TV killer”
CABLE CONGRESS 2011 – LUCERNE. Liberty Global CEO Mike Fries is confident that the new Horizon box offering TV Anywhere will be the Google TV killer the cable industry needs […]
Sky and Deutsche Telekom close to a deal
Sky Deutschland and Deutsche Telekom are about to close a deal to offer a complete TV package to headends of housing associations and city networks, according to a spokesperson from […]
Telenor to launch Thor 7 for CEE expansion
Telenor Satellite Broadcasting is to expand its capacity at one degree West with the launch of a new satellite. Thor 7, which will feature both Ku- and Ka-band transponders, is […]
YouView delayed until early 2012
YouView has confirmed what most people in the industry already suspected, that the hybrid platform has been delayed until early 2012, missing the key pre-Christmas selling reason. Describing its statement […]
Competition Commission sees Color of Money on Sky Movies
The Competition Commission has begun its inquiry into Sky’s movie deals with an analysis that BSkyB has consistently earned excess profits, both in the recent past, and over a long […]
Eutelsat Kabelkiosk to introduce CI Plus module
Eutelsat’s headend-in-the-sky service Kabelkiosk will introduce its own CI Plus module to be used in cable (DVB-C) tuners. The module will be available in retail for a price of around […]
Darcey questions online strategies
“Rather like newspapers, free-TV networks have been gripped by this desire to throw all their content online for free,” Mike Darcey, Sky’s chief operating officer, has told the Broadcasting Press […]
Advocate General intervenes on pub football case
The Advocate General of the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has said broadcasters cannot stop people from buying cheaper foreign satellite packages. Julianne Kokott said smart cards could not be […]