Author: Staff Writer

CANAL, TELEPIU INVEST IN CINEMA

Canal Plus-owned Telepiu has pledged to increase its investment in Italian cinema from L60 billion (Euro 30 million) to L90 billion over the next two years. A 1998 film financing...

FOX KIDS CONFIRMS GERMAN LAUNCH

Fox Kids Europe confirmed it will launch a German version this October on Premiere World, the Kirch Group/BSkyB-backed digital platform. Ynon Kreiz, Fox Kids Europe’s CEO, at the MIPtv market...

DISCOVERY GOES INTERACTIVE

Discovery Channel is to become the first thematic channel to offer enhanced programming for the UK market, reports our sister publication Inside Digital TV. The enhancements will be made available...

OFTEL FORCES BSKYB TO OPEN... UP

UK telecommunications regulator Oftel is set to force BSkyB’s SMS division Sky Subscriber Services Limited (SSSL) to publish what it charges for access to the Open… interactive shopping mall. Other...

VIA TRAFFIC SERVICE

Via Digital has launched a new interactive traffic service called Trafico Activo (Active Traffic). The service allows the subscriber to find out in real time about conditions on Spanish roads...

EM-TV OUTLINES FORMULA 1 PLANS

EM-TV CEO Thomas Haffa spoke exclusively about his plans for Formula 1, in which his company has taken a 50 per cent stake, to Interspace at last week’s MIPtv. “We...

E! "CLOSER THAN EVER TO UK"

For the past three or four MIPtv markets E! Entertainment Television’s senior vice-president, international development Jon Helmrich has told Interspace that a UK launch for the channel is “close”. But...