The Latin American news and infomation channel Telesur has started free-to-air transmissions on the Astra satellte at 19.2 degrees East. The Caracas, Venezuela, based channel broadcasts a mix of news, […]
Sony brings SET and Animax to Africa
Sony Pictures Television International will today launch the general entertainment channel Sony Entertainment Television (SET) and the anime channel Animax in Africa on MultiChoice’s digital pay-TV satellite platform DStv. Launching […]
Piracy hits Asian pay-TV market hard
In the latest survey of revenue leakage over the last 12 months to the regional pay-TV industry, conducted by the Cable & Satellite Broadcasting Association of Asia (CASBAA) and Standard […]
Babelgum partners with short film festival Encounters
The Internet TV network Babelgum has announced a partnership with the Encounters Short Film Festival as it celebrates its 13th year. Encounters participants will now be able to broadcast their […]
Top Gear for download on Playstation 3
Connecting the Playsation 3 game console to the Inernet creates a new way of distributing television content to the TV screen in the home. BBC Worldwide, Polyphony Digital and Sony […]
Zappware launches digital teletext for S.televisie
S.televisie, one of the new digital thematic channels in Belgium, has launched a digital teletext service in cooperation with the cable operator Telenet and Zappware, a Belgian solution provider for […]
Mixed quarter for CME
The Czech station TV Nova remained by far the most lucrative in CME’s Central and East European portfolio in Q3, accounting for $51,140,000 (€35,400,558) of revenues totalling $174,836,000. Its Romanian […]
ADB reduces Polish n payments
Set-top box manufacturer ADB has revealed that payments from ITI Neovision, operator of Poland’s n DTH platform, will be reduced by $30 million. In a trading statement ADB says that […]
85% coverage for Norway DTT
Digital terrestrial coverage in Norway will be available to 85% of the country when the latest wave of transmitters goes live next week. Transmitters serving Sør-Trøndelag in the centre of […]
Polsat 24 aims for quick break-even
Polsat 24, the new info channel soon to be launched by the Polish national commercial broadcaster Polsat, will take 3-4 years to break even. It will also, according to Polsat’s […]