According to the latest estimates by Eres from March 2012, the number of Italian DTT households (at least one receiver in the primary residence) rose to about 22.8 million. This figure represents an increase of just under 500,000 units compared to the survey in December 2011/January 2012, taking the DTT penetration rate to 91.5 per cent. Also growing is the [...]
Channel 4 group has reported a six-fold increase in losses at its main network to more than £40 million (€49m) in 2011, as ad revenues fell by almost 20 per cent. Group revenues rose 6.2 per cent year on year to £941 million in 2011, thanks to the TV ad sales contract Channel 4 has with pay-TV operator UKTV, but [...]
Comms regulator Ofcom has invited applications for 21 local TV channels across the UK. This follows new duties given to the regulator by Parliament to license local TV. The local TV channels will broadcast on a specially-reserved ‘multiplex’; this is a discrete amount of spectrum used for broadcasting over digital terrestrial TV (DTT). In addition to inviting applicants for 21 [...]
Telecom Italia has officially confirmed the sale of Telecom Italia Media, its media and broadcasting unit in which it owns a 77 per cent stake. The Board of Directors has decided to begin the process for the disposal of the activities in the media sector, in view of the refocusing of the Group on the core activities, as outlined in [...]
ITV has said TV ad revenues could be up by as much as 17 per cent in June, thanks to an advertising surge from campaigns around the Queen’s jubilee and the Euro 2012 football tournament. ITV has reported a 1 per cent fall in TV ad revenues in the first quarter but expects to see a bounceback in the second [...]
Nearly two million homes face disruption to their digital TV signal because of interference from new mobile services, with fears that a government help scheme to combat the problem will fall short. Up to 10,000 homes will no longer be able to receive Freeview at all and will have to get cable or satellite TV if they do not already [...]
Mediaset Spain, owner of Tele 5 and Cuatro, has started the HD transmissions of Cuatro, adding Cuatro HD to the existing HD nationwide offer of terrestrial channels in Spain: TVE HD, Telecinco HD, Antena 3 HD and La Sexta HD. Meanwhile Antena 3 TV is intensifying its multimedia offer with the launch of Nubeox, a new online video store with [...]
3D TV broadcaster High TV is preparing a digital-terrestrial 3D channel for Italy, CEO Erik Klein has confirmed. Klein, said the service would be launched with a local partner and would be delivered using the DVB-T2 standard, which Italy plans to migrate to in 2015. He claims it would be first localised 3D TV channel in Europe. Klein said that [...]
The European Commission has launched an investigation into the Spanish DTT migration plan over a possible violation of the European rules by granting financial aid to broadcasters to simultaneously maintain their analogue and digital broadcasts until the digital switch-off completed in April 2010. The EC will probe into whether the aid is “necessary and proportionate” for the extra costs of [...]
The Italian government has confirmed the adoption of the DVB-T2 standard for Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT) reception equipment, from January 1st 2015. Both stand-alone and integrated decoders will have to be compatible with the DVB-T2 standard, and from July 1st 2015 will become the only ones that can be sold on the Italian market. The change has become essential as [...]
