LNK TV Group, Lithuania’s leading private national broadcaster, has launched its new OTT platform LNK GO, built with Backscreen. The deployment marks a significant milestone in LNK’s digital evolution, delivering a modern streaming service that combines live TV, on–demand viewing, exclusive subscriber content, and advanced advertising monetisation. The new platform brings together live TV and […]
Public service media organisations from across Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) have sent a joint open letter to the Lithuanian Seimas, expressing serious concern about recent legislative initiatives that they believe could undermine the independence and stable financing of Lithuania’s public broadcaster, LRT (Lithuanian National Radio and Television). The letter — addressed to the Speaker […]
Tele2, the Swedish multinational telco, has announced it will “carve out telecom infrastructure assets” and create the first tower company covering all Baltic countries, in a 50/50 partnership with Global Communications Infrastructure (GCI) which is backed by Manulife Investment Management. Tele 2 says the transaction will allow it “to unlock value in its mobile telecom […]
Warner Bros. International Television Production (WBITVP) kicks off its attendance at NEM in Dubrovnik with the news that Impractical Jokers, the long-running hidden camera prank show format, is heading to Lithuania. TV3 Group has commissioned a 24 x 30’ local version, making Lithuania the 14th territory to adapt the title. Production will begin later this […]
LNK, Lithuania’s leading private national broadcaster, has announced a partnership with Backscreen, a cross-gen OTT platform provider, that will see Backscreen modernise LNK’s OTT services. The project will enable multiple forms of advertising-based monetisation and support multiple screens. The deployment will be based on Tet Cloud. LNK operates five live TV channels available free-to-air through […]
Telia, the Swedish multinational telco, has announced the appointment of Bjørn Ivar Moen as Senior Vice President, Head of Telia Norway and member of the company’s Group Executive Management team, effective January 1st 2026 at the latest. Stein-Erik Vellan, currently Senior Vice President, Head of Telia Norway and member of the Group Executive Management team, […]
Redge Technologies, a leading end-to-end technology provider for streaming services in CEE and MENA, has formed a partnership with LRT, a public Lithuanian national radio and television to deliver a VoD solution. LRT is a Lithuanian public media broadcaster based in Vilnius. It began operations as a radio station in 1926, expanding its services to […]
Jan Guillou’s classic bestseller Evil will become an original series of the same name in 6 episodes on C More and TV4, produced by SF Studios. The series starts shooting this week in Vilnius, Lithuania. Erik Leijonborg and Daniel Di Grado are directing, and Fredrik T Olsson has written the screenplay, based on Jan Guillou’s […]
HBO Max, the SVoD service from WarnerMedia, is now available in 61 territories globally after launching in 15 additional European countries, including the Netherlands, Portugal, Hungary, Poland and Romania. The platform launches with a promotion offering all customers in Central and Eastern Europe and Portugal more than 30 per cent off the monthly price for […]
CommScope, a global player in home network solutions, has partnered with EKTRA to provide its Balticum TV customers in Lithuania with the VIP7100 UHD set top solution. The VIP7100 is an interactive IP set top powered by the Android TV operating system (OS) and allows subscribers to enable both linear TV and various OTT streaming […]