Modern Times Group has announced a number of new senior management appointments and the reorganization of its Central Eastern European operations. Manfred Aronsson has been appointed as CEO of MTG Sweden and Anders Nilsson as Co-Chief Operating Officer of MTG. Ulrik Bengtsson has been appointed as CEO of Pay-TV Emerging Markets, and Laurence Miall-d’Aout as […]
Deutsche Telekom has concluded an agreement with the French TDF group on the sale of T-Systems Media&Broadcast. The transaction has an enterprise value of E0.85 billion. The sale of Media&Broadcast is part of the 'Focus, fix and grow' strategy presented to the public by the Deutsche Telekom in March.
Pace Micro Technology, independent developer of digital TV technologies for the global pay TV industry, has selected PartnerTech, one of Europe's leading contract manufacturing companies, to provide a fast-turnaround new product introduction (NPI) and prototyping service covering its range of digital set-top boxes. The business will be fulfilled from PartnerTech's UK facilities in Poole and […]
ITV has told the UK Competition Commission it wants Sky off its share register. The broadcaster said Sky’s ability to influence ITV’s decisions on planned investments would lead to a "substantial loosening" of competition, which required a "comprehensive and effective" remedy. In its submission to the Commission, which is currently investigating Sky’s stake, ITV said […]
US telco AT&T has declared it will need to spend more money deploying its IPTV service U-verse to reach less than the estimated number of households it predicted by the end of next year. The company said it is increasing the total capital-expenditure estimate for the period including 2007 and 2008 to $4.5 billion-$5 billion. […]
The leading Romanian cable television company and Turkey's DTH operator have dropped plans to list on the London Stock Exchange, becoming the latest big casualties of the credit squeeze. RCS & RDS, the Romanian media and telecommunications group, blamed “current market conditions”, while Digiturk of Turkey said it preferred to invest in its own business […]
Virgin Media added 13,000 new customers in the third quarter of the year, hailing a “significant turnaround” in its business. At the end of September it had an “on-net” customer base (the total number of subscribers to at least one of its cable services) of 4.8 million. Acting chief executive, Neil Berkett, said customer growth, […]
French telecommunications regulator ARCEP has published a summary of its public consultation- launched July 2007 – aimed at enlightening public authorities in their work on the digital dividend conducted under the aegis of the Comité Stratégique pour le Numérique. Several players, especially from the telecommunications sector, but also a very small number of contributors from […]
From David Del Valle in Madrid The rapid take-up of DTT in Spain is boosting the sale of DTT boxes with plans to reach 9 million DTT devices by the end of the year, according to Andres Tejero, CEO of Veo TV. The latest report from the Pro DTT Association Impulsa TDT has revealed that […]
German pay TV broadcaster Premiere, whose profits depend largely on its ability to show live Bundesliga football matches, scrapped its 2008 forecast on uncertainty over the next TV rights auction. “The bidding process will begin much later than expected and an agency has been commissioned to manage the process. We cannot rule out that this […]