Liberty Global has completed the take-over of the Czech Republic’s second largest MSO Karneval. The €322.5 million deal, which was first announced last August and subsequently investigated by the Czech Anti-Monopoly Office (UOHS), creates a company with around 600,000 cable TV, 200,000 broadband Internet and 15,000 VoIP customers, along with some 120,000 receiving the UPC […]
EuroCableLabs issues first 2007 certifications
EuroCableLabs has issued EuroDOCSIS and EuroPacketCable certification to a series of cable modem products manufactured by Motorola, Netgear and Zhondiantong Digital TV. An Arris cable modem that sports an integrated phone adaptor (E-MTA) received both EuroDOCSIS 2.0 and EuroPacketCable 1.5 certification. The equipment will now be able to carry the EuroCableLabs logo, signaling to cable […]
NHS Direct begins Freeview house calls
NHS Direct has extended its health advice service to the Freeview DTT platform. The service went live on December 20 and is using technology provided by the interactive playout and MHEG middleware specialists Strategy & Technology. Britain’s National Health Service already runs on the Sky Digital satellite platform and the Internet. The DTT version is […]
Quiz Call leaves Sky EPG
Quiz Call has left the Sky Guide EPG, two months after Channel 4 sold its Ostrich Media subsidiary to premium rate telephony provider iTouch. The broadcaster began to distance itself from the participation TV genre after media regulator Ofcom and the premium rate regulatory body ICSTIS began investigating a series of complaints into the increasing […]
TDC’s mobile TV six-pack
TDC is launching a new 3G-based mobile TV portal. The Danish communications provider is offering a pack of six of the most popular Danish TV channels; DR1, DR2, TV 2, TV 2 News, Kanal 4 and Voice TV. Subscribers can opt for a daily, weekly or monthly subscription, priced at DKr29 (€3.89), DKr49 and DKr69 […]
Extended cable carriage for VIVA Telenovelas
Dori Media Group has extended its agreement with the Israeli cable platform HOT for the extended carriage of its two Telenovela channels VIVA and VIVA Platina. VIVA, Dori’s main channel with no connection to the MTV Networks’ owned channel, is carried in HOT’s basic package. VIVA Platina is a premium channel and broadcasts on weekends […]
ITV hires for broadband launch
ITV has hired Annelies van den Belt as the managing director of its broadband team ahead of the launch of its new broadband portal in 2007. The broadcaster has already announced the expansion of its ITV Local broadband service and last November appointed US creative technology house Schematic to work on the new portal. Van […]
Sky+ deployments pass 2 million mark
Sky has announced that its Sky+ personal video recorder product has now been installed in two million homes. It follows a successful 2006 during which time the number of deployments grew by more than 50%. Sky+, a version of the NDS XTV feature set, is benefiting from the combination of a critical mass and the […]
Tiscali launches UK service
Italian telco Tiscali has launched its first UK IPTV service. Tiscali TV has been made available to a group of selected customers on 32 telephone exchanges in London. The customers concerned have already been contacted by the company ahead of a full UK launch later in 2 The company is aiming to be delivering the […]
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