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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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, […]
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 […]
Stumbling block. Chris Dziadul looks at DTT in Lithuania
The news that TEO LT’s bid to buy Mikrovisatos TV has fallen through is undoubtedly a blow for the Lithuanian telco but will hopefully not have a detrimental effect on […]
Viasat pay-TV benefits from Swedish switchover
Viasat Broadcasting is continuing to underpin the activities of Sweden’s Modern Times Group. The combined DTH satellite platforms in the Nordic and Baltic regions recorded a combined 15% year-on-year growth […]