HellasSat, part of Greece’s OTE telecoms company, is being bought by Saudi Arabia-based Arabsat. The Arab satellite company is paying $157 million for HellasSat plus a payment of $53.4 million for the cash reserves held by HellasSat. The total of $208 million will give Arabsat 99.05 per cent of the Greek business. The remaining 0.95 […]
Mediaset-owned TV channel Tele 5 will have to pay a €15.6 million fine imposed by the competition watchdog CNC for a serious violation of the conditions imposed in 2010 over its merger with Cuatro. The CNC has determined that Mediaset did not comply with the obligation of separating the two advertising companies Publiespaña and Publimedia […]
Up to 40 hours of BBC programming will be premiered on the BBC iPlayer this year prior to its first TV broadcast. The BBC Trust approved the plans to premier TV shows on the iPlayer late last year but the BBC has not yet decided what the shows will be or when experiment will begin. […]
KPN is launching a new pay TV service for Belgium. Snow, will combine a TV, Internet and telephony bundle competing with existing providers Telenet and Belgacom. Snow will be marketed separately from KPN Belgium’s existing mobile offering Base, it will offer 33 channels including public broadcast channels from France and the UK. Snow includes French […]
Ofcom has awarded the licence to run the local TV service in Manchester on digital terrestrial TV to YourTV Manchester. The award follows legislation enabling Ofcom to issue local TV licences. The channels will broadcast on a specific ‘multiplex’, a discrete amount of spectrum reserved for local TV broadcasting on DTT. Licences are awarded for […]
Eutelsat is beginning to make progress with its giant Ka-Sat broadband satellites. It says it now has 72,000 ‘active’ Tooway terminals as at December 31st, up from 52,450 in June last year. Eutelsat modified and simplified its pricing structure for Tooway last month. The increased subscriber levels on broadband means that iEutelsat’s Value-Added Services division […]
The Croatian Post (Hrvatska Posta) has launched an advertising campaign for its pay-TV service on Digital Terrestrial Television, as part of a full commercial launch, following a low key rollout in November 2012. Evotv is broadcast in DVB-T2 technology, with signal coverage of 80 per cent of Croatian households (increasing to 95 per cent in […]
Although US network CBS generated nearly $240 million in gross ad revenues from last week’s Super Bowl, after factoring in licence fees and production costs the event likely broke even or lost a little money for CBS according to SNL Kagan. However, the network can also generate higher ad dollars for the pre- and post-game […]
Eutelsat Communications and Arianespace have announced the signature of a long-term multiple launch services agreement which guarantees launch capacity and flexibility to Eutelsat for its industry-leading expansion programme. The agreement covers up to four launches in the 2016 and 2017 timeframe, with the assignment of each satellite to a launch vehicle to be made at […]
Motive Television, the London-based television software and services company, has entered into an agreement with Siyaya Free To Air TV of Johannesburg, South Africa. Motive will provide advisory services to Siyaya in conjunction with Siyaya’s application to the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA) for a broadcasting services licence. This agreement follows the Memorandum […]