SES Astra and Astrium have announced that Astrium will purchase a 75.1% stake in SES Astra’s satellite equipment provider and ground system integrator ND SatCom, based in Friedrichshafen, Germany.
ZON achieves 50% triple play penetration
More than half of cable customers subscribing to the ZON network take a triple play bundle.
US networks block programmes from Google TV
The three major US networks, ABC, CBS and NBC, are blocking their programmes from access by Google TV, writes The Wall Street Journal. Full-length episodes of shows like NBC’s The […]
Euronews to launch in Ukraine
Euronews and National Television Company of Ukraine (NTU), one of its shareholders, will launch a Ukrainian version of the news channel in 2011.
Sogecable restructuring on hold
The entrance of Mediaset’s Spanish subsidiary Telecinco into Prisa’s pay-TV business Sogecable has been dealt a major blow after the competition authority (Comisión Nacional de la Competencia) announced plans to […]
Serbian telco tender under way
The Serbian government has officially launched a tender for the sale of a 51% stake in the country’s incumbent telco, Telekom Srbija.
Ziggo: more than 1 million triple play homes
Dutch cable operator Ziggo has reported it reached 1,045,000 triple play customers, up from 859,000 last year (+21.7%) at the end of September 2010. During the third quarter, there were […]
Mixed fortunes for Lithuanian TEO
The Lithuanian incumbent telco TEO LT ended the third quarter with 121,600 subscribers to its GALA-branded IPTV and DTT services, or almost 33% more than a year earlier.
Man-X goes on Skylink
The European adult gay TV channel Man-X has secured carriage on the leading Czech/Slovak DTH platform Skylink.
French digital homes surpass 85%
At the end of the first quarter of 2010, 85.8% of the 27 million television households in France had at least one digital receiver in the home, be it DTT, […]