Gary Lewis has been appointed the new Miranda Technologies sales manager for Central and Eastern Europe. Montreal-based Miranda Technologies develops, manufactures and markets high performance hardware for the TV broadcast […]
Telekom Slovenije expands in Kosovo
The Telekom Slovenije subsidiary Ipko Net has secured a wireless operator licence in Kosovo. Although recently awarded to the highest bidder Kosmocell, a company backed by the US’s Computer Science […]
New DTH platform is Gateway to Africa
A new satellite delivered pay-TV service is to launch into Africa. Gateway Communications is planning a bouquet of international and locally originated content into the pan-African market that it believes […]
Autumn launch for German DTH platform
German pay-TV platform Stargate says that an autumn launch is a realistic timescale. Stargate will play a central role in the attempts by satellite operator Astra to establish its Entavio […]
New business channel for TVN
Poland’s TVN has confirmed that it will launch a new business channel at the end of Q3 this year. According to the company’s president Piotr Walter, its start up cost […]
Earnings record for ProSiebenSat.1
Germany’s ProSiebenSat.1 has reported record earnings for the financial year just passed. EBITDA grew 16% in 2006 to €484 million as pre-tax income increased by 10% to €387m. The group […]
TPSA Internet row escalates
An extraordinary dispute between Poland’s Office of Electronic Communications (UKE) and France Telecom-backed TPSA over its Internet access charges has escalated. The regulator believes the latter to be excessive and […]
Sky News wins RTS News Channel of the Year
Sky News has been named News Channel of the Year at the Royal Television Society awards in London. Sky News correspondent Dominic Waghorn picked up both the Television Journalist of […]
SeaChange secures on-demand navigation patent
SeaChange International has registered a patent for use in the navigation of video on demand services with the US Patent Office. US Patent 7,155,674 covers a software application within SeaChange’s […]
French lead Euro HD
France has pulled ahead of other European countries by setting aside terrestrial capacity for high definition television. Strategy Analytics new research piece “Digital TV Transition: Europe Watches France’s Mandates As […]