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 […]
Deutsche Telekom is selling its German media broadcast business to private equity firm in a transaction worth between E800 million and E900 million. They will chose between bids from the Macquarie Infrastructure Group and TPG private equity of the US. Deutsche Telekom’s chief executive, René Obermann, had signalled the possiblesale of the media broadcast business […]
NBC Universal and News Corp's online video venture Hulu has received praise for its ease of use and advertising structure from a group of Beta-testers following its launch last month. But the group questioned its limitations on content, such as the fact that it can't be downloaded or viewed internationally. When the site officially launches […]
blinkx is reportedly developing its own online television service, entering the broadband video market in competition with mainstream broadcasters such as Joost and Babelgum. The video search group has become the world's biggest video search engine, with 4.2 million daily searches of the 18 million hours of online broadcast content it has indexed.
LA-based interactive television company PTV Corporation is launching its wholly owned interactive television channel on the Sky DTH platform in the UK and Ireland. The company’s channel is styled as the world's first multi-play dynamic pricing television commerce platform. Its proprietary programming is a fast-paced, competitive, trading floor atmosphere that provides live, real-time auctions combined […]
VOOM HD Networks, Ascent Media and Measat Satellite Systems have agreed a deal to distribute the VOOM HD channel across Asia, the Middle East and Eastern Africa. “With the Asian market at a tipping point for HDTV adoption, the demand for compelling and high-quality HD programming has grown exponentially,” said Glenn Oakley, VOOM's Senior Vice […]