Author: Staff Writer

Former Channel 5 CEO David Elstein has roundly condemned current UK thinking on the analogue switch-off date, which will take place when 95 per cent of homes have converted to...

TV Travel Shop Germany launched on June 1 15.30 CET to a broad analogue DTH community in German-speaking Europe equivalent to more than 13 million homes. The channel, which transmits...

The Italian financial daily Il Sole 24 Ore has officially launched a specialist business TV channel after a month’s trial. Known as Ventiquattrore.tv, the service – which has just secured...

The first fruits of Pace Micro Technology’s acquisition of French manufacturer Xcom were revealed at Mediacast in London last month, and the much-heralded ‘basic’ receiver turned out to be anything...

Italy will get a new TV channel on June 24 thanks to the acquisition of a 75 per cent stake in broadcaster TeleMonteCarlo (TMC) by Seat Pagine Gialle (part of...

Greyhound racing channel Gobarkingmadtv, owned by Gaming Internet, has become the latest broadcaster to sign a contract for transponder capacity on Eutelsat’s Eurobird, to compliment its successful Internet operation. A...

German media firm ProSiebenSat.1 has acquired a 48.4 per cent stake in HOT Networks’ TV shopping channel subsidiary Euvia Media for around E67 million. Under the terms of the deal,...

Pace Micro Technology has taken the wraps off its low-cost digital TV adapter, which it has developed with its newly acquired French subsidiary Xcom Communications. The new adapter, known as...

Sweden’s Modern Times Group (MTG) has confirmed that it has now switched off the analogue broadcasting feed for its Viasat Broadcasting satellite pay-TV channels, which include TV1000 and TV1000 Cinema....

PanAmSat is to provide full-time video link services from the Americas in support of live coverage of prominent sporting and special events to the EBU, which represents 69 national broadcasters...