Liberty Global has approached the Irish government to seek assurances that RTE will not be allowed to carry commercial digital television services as part of the analogue switch off process. […]
Open IPTV Forum launched to develop end-to-end IPTV specification
AT&T Inc., Ericsson, France Telecom, Panasonic, Philips, Samsung Siemens, Sony, and Telecom Italia today announced the founding of the Open IPTV Forum, an industry consortium that will work to define […]
Arqiva playout for Top Up TV Anytime
Arqiva has confirmed that it is providing content integration, playout and distribution services for Top Up TV Anytime. The DTT service originally launched in 2003 with a package of time […]
Ericsson concludes Tandberg offer
Ericsson has received acceptances and purchased shares representing 87.4% of Tandberg Television. Ericsson has waived the 90% acceptance condition, set in the original all cash NKr106 per share offer. Following […]
New structure for Amedia
According to local reports, the new ownership structure of the Amedia group of companies in Russia now has the Russian/US financier Leonard Blavatnik as a 63% shareholder and chairman Alexander […]
Kamera signs sports content deal with Sportfive
Mobile and online video content company Kamera has signed a content deal with Europe’s sports rights marketing company Sportfive to distribute its portfolio of sports programming to mobile operators and […]
German easy.tv ends services
Last Thursday the German pay TV operator easy.tv terminated their broadcasts over the Astra satellite at 19.2 degrees East. The bouquet was owned by PrimaCom and offered a number of […]
Tele2 Vision reports over 140,000 TV subs
Dutch telecom operator Versatel said it had 144,000 triple and dual play custiomers at the end of last year, most of which are also television customers. 131,600 households subscribe to […]
HD for Dutch regional broadcaster RNN7
Dutch regional commercial broadcaster RNN7 in the city of Rotterdam plans to launch an HD version of its on May 1. An investment of €700,000 has been made to make […]
Italy, France and Spain request Euronews in Arabic
The governments of Spain, Italy and France have asked the European Commission to launch an Arabic version of the European television channel EuroNews so that Muslim countries can learn more […]