The German public broadcaster ARD has signed agreements with Eutelsat and SES Astra to bring its main channel Das Erste to German soldiers serving in Afghanistan.
BBC iPlayer completes record year
The BBC iPlayer is celebrating its third birthday with a record number of requests totaling 141 million during November and 1.3 billion across the year.
Eutelsat Ka-Sat launch scheduled for December 26
Eutelsat has confirmed that the launch campaign of its Ka-Sat satellite by an ILS Proton Breeze M vehicle has resumed at the Baïkonour Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
Dutch regional broadcasters switch to MPEG-4
UPDATE. Dutch regional public broadcasters Omroep Zeeland and RTV Drenthe will switch to MPEG-4 satellite distribution in order to save costs on the space segment. Four out of the ten […]
BBC HD expands in Turkey
BBC Worldwide Channels has announced a number of new distribution deals to expand the availability of BBC HD across Turkey.
NTV-Plus secures football rights
The Russian DTH platform NTV-Plus has secured the rights to the country’s football Premier League, though for a much higher fee that it has previously paid.
Tivùsat closes 2010 with over 750,000 activated smart cards
Italian free-to-air platform Tivùsat received an early Christmas present with the announcement it had added another 50,000 activated smart cards since the end of November.
iPad app released for Sky+
Sky has issued an upgrade to its iPhone application, taking full advantage of the features available on the Apple tablet device, and allowing Sky+ or Sky+ HD subscribers to search […]
Russian pay-TV growth continues
Russia is expected to end the year with 20.5 million subscribers to pay-TV services, according to preliminary data produced by iKS-Consulting and published by ER-Telecom, one of the country’s leading […]
Apple TV hits a million
Apple has announced that it expects sales of its new Apple TV to top one million units later this week.