Nokia has teamed up with Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) to offer the new Nokia N95 8GB multimedia phone pre-loaded with the full-length feature film Spiderman 3 in Europe and selected […]
Canal Digitaal to expand DTH offer at 23.5 East
Dutch DTH operator Canal Digitaal and its Belgian sister company TV Vlaanderen are to expand their offer at 23.5 degrees East. Although the full line-up of channels will be announced […]
Cablecom begins maintenance outsourcing
Cablecom has begun the outsource of its transfer and installation work to eight private companies. In future the Swiss cablenet will instead concentrate on the prioritisation and quality control of […]
Two new channels for Canal
Two new channels will be launched in France this month as well as a new pay-per-view service, Rugby+. Canal+ will introduce Canal+ Family later this week, and the Canal Group […]
Laurent Solly to run TF1 Digital
Laurent Solly, the former joint campaign director for Nicolas Sarkozy, who joined the board of directors of TF1 in June, has now also been named president of TF1 Digital. The […]
Nat Geo secures RCS/RDS deal
Nat Geo Wild has secured carriage on the cable and DTH platforms owned by Romania’s RCS/RDS throughout CEE. It will launch in fully localised form in six countries – Romania, […]
YLE plans to charge for online access
Finland’s public broadcaster YLE is to restrict some of its online services to licence fee payers after 26,000 households cancelled their payments. From early next year users of YLE’s Arena […]
Invitel secures Tele2 acquisition approval
The Hungarian Competition Office (GVH) is reported to have given its approval to the sale of Tele2’s Hungarian business to Invitel. The deal, worth €4 million in cash, was announced […]
New German book channel to launch
Jan Henne De Dijn has used the Frankfurt Book Fair to announce the launch of the first literary and book channel in the world: called Lettra the thematic TV channel […]
BBC launches key Radio 4 podcasts
The BBC is to introduce a new podcast of its long running radio serial The Archers. Dubbed “an everyday podcast of country folk” the first broadcast of the popular Radio […]