On the basis of monthly adoption data for all commercial Mobile TV networks since May 2005 up until March 2008 or later, TeleAnalytics Mobile TV

The adoption of Russia’s state-funded programme for the switch to digital TV, scheduled for completion in 2015, is to be postponed. The information technology and The most crucial unsolved issue is whether all the population will be supplied with digital equipment free of charge, as earlier announced. Meanwhile, industry players say that technological challenges also […]

Oz government seeks to boost DTV take-up Australian Communications Minister Stephen Conroy says restrictions on televised sports will be reviewed in an effort to encourage the Conroy stated the success of digital television depended on changes to sport broadcasting rules, and the rule that bans major sporting events from being broadcast on any digital channels […]

A major consumer study into VOD by Essential Research has been developed in consultation with industry players – including the BBC, Virgin, C4, ITV and – Current VOD services are the tip of the iceberg. VOD – in its broadest sense – will have a seismic impact on TV viewing – but this will be […]

Liberty Media Corporation announced that it has authorised its management to proceed with development of a plan to distribute to the holders of Liberty Entertainment The transaction would be effected as the redemption of all outstanding shares of Liberty Entertainment tracking stock in exchange for shares of the subsidiary. The subsidiary, which would become a […]

GTV is currently available in Botswana, Cameroon, DRC, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe, and is commencing a phased rollout across sub-Saharan Africa. At the same time, Gateway is selling its telecommunications business to the African mobile operator Vodacom.

More than 70 per cent of DVR owners say that they cannot live without their DVR, according to a survey commissioned by NDS, provider of According to the survey, which asked respondents to rank relative importance of a list of household appliances, apart from the washing machine and the microwave oven, no other household item […]

China and India have the largest mobile TV audiences, according to a new global survey carried out by Telegent. Close to three quarters of respondents Following the opening of the Olympics, Telegent conducted a global survey to discover people's attitudes towards mobile TV and their attitudes to watching coverage of the games on their mobile […]

The proportion of digital households varies with reception methods: 95.1 per cent of terrestrial households have moved to digital TV compared with 86 per cent in 2007. The remaining analogue terrestrial channels will be switched off by the end of this year. The proportion of digital satellite households rose eight percentage points from 2007 figures […]

Royal Philips Electronics has assumed full ownership of its former joint venture Teletrax, the world's first global broadcast intelligence company. Philips plans to combine Teletrax