Virgin Media has confirmed that its chief technology officer Howard Watson has left the company to pursue other business interests. Watson joined Telewest in 1993. When Telewest merged with NTL to form Virgin Media, he took on responsibility for technical and IT strategy, architecture, development and day-to-day operations of the company's television and broadband platforms.

Kabel Deutschland (KDG) has posted its fiscal results for the year ended 31 March 2009, recording a 14.5 per cent rise in revenue to E1.37 billion. The German cable operator announced a record increase in EBITDA to E570.7 million, up 24.7 per cent compared with the 2007/08, exceeding the guidance of E565 million. At March […]

From Colin Mann in Cologne On-demand TV server systems provider Edgeware and broadband cable networks specialist Teleste have inked a partnership and global reseller agreement under which Teleste will resell Edgeware’s video server products. Edgeware’s Orbit and Web TV Server products are pre-integrated with Teleste’s MyCast hybrid IPTV/DVB middleware. The pair suggest that with the […]

Despite threats from programmers that network DVRs violate their copyrights, Cablevision plans to begin offering its Remote Storage-DVR this summer. According to programmers the technology essentially turns their content into VOD offerings, diminishing the value of linear programming and the advertising that goes with it. What’s more, the simplicity of the network DVR will just […]

From Colin Mann in Cologne Despite much of the cable network in Germany already being upgraded to digital, industry executives have criticised the lack of clear policy surrounding analogue switch-off. Thomas Braun, President of the ANGA Association of German Cable Operators told delegates at the ANGA Cable Strategy Summit that with the networks digitised and […]

A record turnout of more than 20 suppliers representing content and hardware sectors participated in a successful CableLabs-hosted tru2way interoperability event. Application developers and hardware manufacturers joined together for a week of laboratory sessions where numerous tru2way and Enhanced TV Binary Interchange Format (EBIF) applications ran across multiple headends, user agents and set-top boxes. The […]

From David Del Valle in Madrid The largest Spanish cable operator, ONO, ended the first quarter with a net profit of E12.06 million, 61.4 per cent up than the same period the previous year, in spite of the fact that its revenues fell by 3.2 per cent to E338 million and its subs dropped by […]

The Canadian cable TV and telecom company said that, in the two months ended April 30th, it added 74,833 new digital customers as well as 7,053 basic cable subscribers. It also racked up 19,006 Internet customers. “Cable subscriber results exceed the two-month customer figures from a year ago and it is clear that despite challenging […]

Channel 4, Time Warner and BSkyB have been shortlisted as potential buyers of Virgin Media’s wholly owned VMtv channels Virgin 1, Bravo and Living. Virgin Media intends to sell the channels separately from its joint venture with BBC Worldwide, UKTV, which will be sold at a later stage. The BBC has denied interest in purchasing […]

Pangea Media, a media platform for youth media and marketing professionals, has released the results of a jointly developed survey which tracked television consumption and viewing preferences of almost 2,000 of Pangea Media’s tween/teen users. The survey found that tweens/teens watch an average of five to 10 hours of TV content a week and prefer […]