A record 313,000 cable MSO subscriptions added in the fourth quarter helped advanced television entertainment market specialist TiVo report its best-ever full-year Service and Technology revenues. Reporting financial results for the fourth quarter and Fiscal Year ended January 31, 2014, Tom Rogers, President and CEO of TiVo, said this was another solid quarter for TiVo […]
Kabelnoord, one of the largest independent cable operators in the northern part of the Netherlands, has selected FTTH home gateway supplier Genexis for the delivery of Gigabit fiber gateways. Kabelnoord will activate the first connections in the second quarter of 2014, commencing with a rollout to at least 8,000 homes in 2014, and 28,000 homes […]
Swedish cable operator Com Hem has appointed Anders Nilsson as its new CEO. He will replace Tomas Franzén, who leaves the company in March. Nilsson is currently the company’s executive VP, commercial and services. He previously worked for MTG as managing director of its Swedish operations and CEO of its online division. Com Hem has […]
Vivendi has confirmed it has been approached by private equity group Altice over a possible alliance between its SFR telecoms operator and Altice’s Numericable cable unit. In a statement, the French media and telecoms giant confirmed press reports signaling a possible tie-up but said it had not received a formal offer. French newspaper Les Echos […]
Following the January 27th €10 billion bid by Liberty Global for Dutch cable MSO Ziggo, the pair have issued a joint status update in accordance with Dutch regulatory requirements. The pair confirm they are making good progress on the preparations for the Offer. Liberty Global expects to submit a request for review and approval of […]
Dish Network’s founder and chairman Charlie Ergen, speaking to analysts following his company’s results announcement, talked positively about the prospects of getting a long-anticipated merger between his company and arch-rival DirecTV. Addressing the merger proposal between Comcast and Time Warner Cable, which he is against, he nevertheless accepted that “if you take the Number 1 […]
Some 40 Pakistan cable operators were hit in police raids authorised by the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) last week. Operators in the Rawalpindi and Islamabad areas received visits from PEMRA personnel over carriage of unauthorised channels. Hardware equipment was seized, as well as confiscation of ad-insertion systems, following – said PEMRA – a […]
UK cable giant Virgin Media has again incurred the wrath of London roads regulator Transport for London (TfL) by digging up 5 lanes of the hugely busy A316 arterial road into London ahead of the morning rush-hour. Virgin Media had permission to dig up one lane at a time and to carry out the works […]
Indian MSO Siti Cable, backed by the giant Zee TV/Essel media conglomerate, says it had 3.7 million subscribers at December 31st, and revenues which had grown 42 per cent year-on-year, and moved EBITDA positive during the quarter-year (EBITDA up 73 per cent).. “Digital cable television is a major engine of growth for Siti Cable across […]
The Opera TV Store is set to bring hundreds of apps to all TiVo set-top boxes for US cable operator RCN. It is the first pay-TV cable operator to launch Opera Software’s app platform on its TiVo devices, and the first TiVo operator deployment following the partnership to bring the Opera TV Store to TiVo […]