Italian entrepreneur Diego Della Valle has confirmed his interest in buying the La7 network from Telecom Italia Media (TIM).
Swisscom TV reaches 791,000 subs
Swisscom has said that the number of IPTV connections increased year-on-year by 183,000 or 30.1% to 791,000 (+63,000 in the fourth quarter).
Discovery buys Italy’s Switchover Media
Discovery Communications is continuing its buying spree with the acquisition of Italy’s Switchover Media. The broadcaster runs four free-to-air channels and one pay-TV channel in the country.
Mediaset Premium Play breaks 1 million
Mediaset’s Premium Play is to be made available on connected TVs.
Italy prepares for DVB-T2 road map
DGTVi, the Italian association for DTT, is preparing for the introduction of DVB-T2 in the country.
Sky Italia expands Sky Go
Sky Italia is launching a series of innovations to its Sky Go service. Launched in Italy nine months ago, Sky Go has already been activated by 1.1 million subscribers.
ORF3 reaches into Italy
The Austrian public broadcaster’s ORF 3 Kultur und Information is now available in Southern Tyrol via the DVB-T network of RAS (Rundfunkanstalt Südtirol).
TivùSat closes in on two million
Free-to-air platform TivùSat is now in 5.6% of Italian homes following a further increase in household numbers.
Mediaset Premium begins to plateau
Mediaset’s pay-DTT platform failed to grow revenues in the third quarter.
Datapoint: Sky Italy household income profile
It may be little surprise to hear that pay-TV companies have customers with higher incomes than average.