Sports broadcaster Setanta has failed to make a routine payment of approximately £3m (3.5m) to the Scottish Premier League (SPL), according to media reports. The pay-TV broadcaster has defaulted on the payment owed for broadcasting live SPL matches and the future of the contract between Setanta and the SPL, which was due to expire at […]
France had 18.35 million high-speed internet subscribers at the end of the first quarter, of which 17.3 million received services via ADSL, according to the latest survey by telecom regulator ARCEP. The figures represent growth of 3.7% on the previous quarter and growth of 13% year-on-year. The year-on-year rate of growth has now slowed down […]
French cable operator Numericable has named Daniel Fava as deputy director-general in charge of commercial and marketing activities. Fava was previously deputy director-general at Telecom Italia, in charge of its Alice residential service and enterprise division.
Disney has confirmed that childrens channel Jetix in Spain will change its name to Disney XD in September. The channel will continue to be carried by pay-TV platforms including Digital Plus, Imagenio, ONO and R, and will continue to be available via Digital PlusÂs mobile TV service. Disney already operates Disney Channel, Playhouse Disney and […]
A localised version of History has launched in Bulgaria and History HD is set to follow. The standard definition version of History today launched on Eurocom Cables network, while History HD will be available on the platform during the third quarter. Both versions of the channel are also set to launch in Slovenia on Planet […]
Cable operator Virgin Media is to premier Canadian comedy drama JPod in the UK on its video-on-demand platform in HD. Virgin Media will make all 13 episodes of the series, adapted from the Douglas Coupland novel and distributed in the UK by Fireworks International, on its TV Choice service for two months from June […]
Croatian ISP Iskon has extended its promotional offer of providing HBOÂs premium service for only HRK1 (Â0.13) for the first three months, and has announced plans to add a new locally produced movie channel, Cinestar TV, to its recently launched IPTV offer. Iskon will extend the HBO promotion until the end of June. The service […]
British commercial broadcaster ITV is considering turning its bouquet of digital channels from free-to-air to digital and has had initial exploratory talks with satellite pay-TV operator BSkyB, according to a report in The Guardian newspaper. The radical move would cut the broadcasters reliance on advertising revenues and move it towards a subscription model. â¨The switch […]
Russian pay-TV platform Akado has launched a multiroom service for its digital TV customers. Subscribers to the service can connect an unlimited number of TVs at a cost of RUB100 (2.30) for each additional connection. Customers will also need to buy new set-top boxes for each TV.
The Poker Channel has announced distribution agreements in Germany, Portugal, Poland, Cyprus and Croatia. From June 1, The Poker Channel will be available via cable operators Cablenet in Cyprus, BNet in Croatia and UPC in Poland. It will also be carried by Eutelsats German headened-in-the-sky Kabelkiosk and on Portuguese IPTV service Clix. Following these agreements, […]
ICYMI: @FIFAcom streams Club World Cup to 50 territories via in-house platform FIFA+ digitaltveurope.com/2023/02/02/fif… https://t.co/7BrJQobrFk
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ICYMI: Mobile revenues boost Telenor performance as it executes ‘strategic roadmap’ digitaltveurope.com/2023/02/02/mob… https://t.co/OOrotB2r3c
02 February 2023 @ 21:00:01 UTC
ICYMI: Comcast’s @peacock scraps free tier for new subscribers digitaltveurope.com/2023/02/02/com… https://t.co/iZl8L5p2W4
02 February 2023 @ 20:00:05 UTC
US consumes 123% more data than Europe, says @plume digitaltveurope.com/2023/02/02/us-…
02 February 2023 @ 19:27:00 UTC
.@SkyUK launches Entertainment OS 1.1 digitaltveurope.com/2023/02/02/sky… https://t.co/Sn0QejwabU
02 February 2023 @ 19:00:02 UTC
