Malcolm Wall, the chief executive of Virgin Media’s content business, is leaving the business. His departure comes as Virgin Media is said to be preparing for the sell-off of its TV channels business. Virgin Media Television’s 50% stake in UKTV could also potentially be folded into a new commercial joint venture between BBC Worldwide and […]
French telco Alice has expanded its AliceBox offering to include 70 new channels for the IPTV service ‘Alice TV’. The new channels include a greater number of news, local and foreign channels, and brings the total number of channels available on the service up to 140. Alice has also started offering 32 channels in MPEG-4 […]
Just as Comcast and other Pay TV operators have announced plans to push high-value cable network programming to the PC, research from TDG suggests that their intention to not charge for this content could be a major strategic error and leave hundreds of millions in additional fees on the table. "Cable operators are working aggressively […]
Vivendi and broadband provider Iliad have joined together to file a complaint with the European competition authorities against France Telecom claiming it has abused its dominant market position in the country's fixed-line and broadband market. Vivendi chief Jean Bernard Lévy noted that 11 years after the market was open to competition, France Telecom still had […]
UK Media regulator Ofcom has ruled that it will present “no regulatory barriers” to the development of super-fast broadband infrastructure. The ruling will allow BT to proceed with an investment of £1.5 billion (E1.67bn) in the network, giving up to 20 million UK homes access to high-speed Internet. BT made clear it only wanted to […]
Revenues in the European cable industry jumped more than 7% last year to E18.2 billion. Demand for digital television, internet broadband and telephony services grew sharply from 41 million subscriptions in 2007 to 51 million in 2008. Including the 43 million customers who watch analogue cable TV, the total number of subscriptions grew to 94 […]
Comcast and Time Warner Cable are talking with owners of the major cable television channels about ways to give subscribers online access to much of the their programming. Discussions have taken place in recent months and include network owners such as NBC Universal, and cable networks as MTV, TNT. The operators hope the Web services, […]
Shares in Belgian cable company Telenet rose 5 per cent high after the group reported 2008 earnings above market expectations and forecasts strong growth in 2009. Telenet ended 2008 with 609,000 digital TV homes, The total number of its cable TV homes, both analogue and digital, hit 2,402,000 thanks in part to the acquisition of […]
Virgin Media is expected to begin the sale of its content division within weeks hoping to raise £500m (E567m). The sale would include Virgin’s 50% stake in UKTV the JV with the BBC. Analysts have speculated Virgin will try again to sell non-core assets as it seeks to pay down debt. Interested parties are thought […]
Liberty Global posted a fourth quarter net loss of $752.6 million compared to a net loss of $197.2 million for the same period last year. The company's losses grew despite adding subscribers, increasing revenue and generating more money from operations at its cable systems in 15 countries in Europe, Asia and South America. For the […]