Antenova, the integrated antenna and RF solutions company, has unveiled its tuneable mobile TV antenna and reference design for the reception of digital mobile TV in small form factor devices for the global markets. Antenova's tuneable Mobile TV antenna is an internal antenna designed for the reception of digital UHF TV services on small mobile […]
From Branislav Pekic in Rome Swedish AirplusTV Group is launching its digital terrestrial pay-TV platform in Italy in March. Dahlia TV will take the place of La7 Cartapiù, as a result of the December deal between AirplusTV Group and Telecom Italia Media for the transfer of all DTT pay-TV activities to the to the Italian […]
Sky and Setanta have made deposits guaranteeing the packages they won in an auction for live TV rights from 2010. Setanta plans to complain to domestic and European regulators after it managed to win only one package of 23 matches from 2010, halving its live Premier League coverage. Sky will have 115 live games from […]
From Branislav Pekic in Rome Italian public broadcaster RAI has cancelled its deal with DTH operator Sky Italia for the use of the NDS encryption standard, six months before its expiry date. As a result, from the end July, RAI's TV channels may not be visible via Sky Italia's STB, with the blacking out of […]
Premiere is to offer live web-based coverage of individual top-flight football from the Bundesliga and German second division on a pay-per-view basis, including to non subscribers. The company announced it has won the exclusive live online rights to show games in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, as well as renewing its cable and satellite TV rights. […]
From David Del Valle at MWC in Barcelona Spain’s Telefonica is launching a multi-screen interactive advertising service covering mobile, Internet and TV that will enable advertisers to insert their ads into programmes, all tailored to the channel in question, and allow users to watch the ads and get more information if requested. The service is […]
Turkey's biggest media group has fallen foul of the authorities incurring a $408m tax fine at a time when its advertising revenues are set to weaken and its parent company wants to use its cash to expand in other sectors. Dogan Yayin, which owns TV channels and daily newspapers disclosed the fine, which is bigger […]
Germany's Premiere wants a FTA channel, called Premiere Vitrine, to promote its pay TV services, and has applied to the Bavarian media authority for a licence. Premiere has struggled to make premium pay-TV a success in a country with over 30 FTA channels. Premiere closed Giga TV, a previous attempt at a stand-alone FTA channel.
French broadcaster TF1 has spooked investors with a gloomy outlook as the economy worsens and it slashed its dividend, sending shares in the country's leading commercial broadcaster down by as much as 18 per cent. TF1 said that 2009 sales would fall 9 per cent, three times more than analysts expected, and that it would […]
Due to rising incomes and greater competition, the pay-TV market in Africa and the Middle East will enjoy the world’s highest growth rate over the next five years, with subscriptions increasing at a CAGR of 13 per cent and total regional pay-TV revenue to almost double 2008 levels by year-end 2013, according to a report […]