The number of Digitenne DTT customers in The Netherlands stood at 265,000 at the end of 2006, or 44% more than a year earlier. At the same time, KPN’s new service offering Dutch Premier League football (Tele2 Voetbal) for its Digitenne customers had attracted more than 15,000 subscribers at the end of last year. With […]
Telenet posts first ever profit
The Belgian cable operator Telenet has announced the milestone of 250,000 digital homes (iDTV for interactive digital TV) was reached on February 5 this year. At the end of 2006 the company had 226,000 iDTV RGUs, or 34% more triple play customers than a year earlier. It also posted a record RGU additions in 2006, […]
New Skies adds to solid SES results
SES has closed the financial year with a 28.4% increase in revenues. President and CEO Romain Bausch said the company had built on its solid place within the industry and that the acquisition of New Skies had already delivered synergies. Revenues for the 12 months to December 31, 2006 were €1,615.2 million compared to €1,615.2m […]
Crime & Investigation Network to launch on MultiChoice Africa
The History Channel UK is to launch a version of the Crime & Investigation Network in Sub-Saharan Africa on the Multichoice DTH satellite platform DStv. The channel will broadcast in English and will be managed by The History Channel UK as part of the joint venture between A&E Television Networks (AETN) and BSkyB. The Crime […]
VT4 fined Euro 10,000 for breaking Flemish ad rules
Flemish media regulator VRM has fined VT4 for breaking the region’s ad rules, and ordered the channel to pay €10,000 in fines. The regulator considered three breaches of the advertising and sponsoring regulations by the SBS-owned channel. For the first count, not identifying break bumpers as advertising, the channel only received a warning. The second […]
MTG moves into Bulgaria
Sweden’s Modern Times Group (MTG) has acquired a 50% stake in Balkan Media Group Limited (BMGL) from London-based Apace Media for €11.6 million. BMGL has a number of broadcast interests in Bulgaria including Diema Vision (100%) and Television MM (66%), which together operate a total of six TV channels. Known as Diema Plus, Diema 2, […]
Clover’s Week: Free, but no longer easy
Could Freeview have become a victim of its own success? Julian Clover looks at why the free-to-air platform is not the only game on the UK DTT system There is no questioning the success of digital terrestrial television in the UK. The Freeview brand has become synonymous with DTT and On Digital is now but […]
Kudelski beats analyst expectations
Kudelski’s digital television business broke through the SFr500 million (€307.39) revenue mark for the first time in 2006. The security company was reporting full year net profits of SFr138.53 million, an increase of SFr86.77 million, well ahead of analysts expectations. Digital television operations alone accounted for an increase of 17% compared to 2005. Andre Kudelski, […]
Norway fuels Canal Digital growth
Norway continues to be a happy hunting ground for Canal Digital. The pay-TV platform added 37,000 new DTH subscribers in the final quarter of 2006, primairily in its home market, and a further 15,000 cable subscribers. As of December 31, 2006, Canal Digital had 943,000 DTH subscribers, in Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Finland, and 696,000 […]
Amstrad delays Sky HD deliveries
Set-top box manufacturer Amstrad has delayed the supply of HD boxes for BSkyB until the second half of 2007. Although the company has already begun delivering HD boxes, it is in the final stages of integrated the digital video recorder, which is a requirement of the Sky HD system. Receiver volumes fell year on year, […]