Sky Italia’s DTT channel Cielo has confirmed it will launch on DTH platform TivuSat from October 15th. Cielo was the last major terrestrial TV channel to be lacking from the channel line-up of TivuSat, following the recent addition of MTV Italia. The channel will be available on position 19 and its programme schedule consists of […]
Spaniards will have to foot the €300 million bill to implement the DTT migration following the Administration’s reduction of the planned financial aid of €40 million to €10 million, just 3 per cent of the total cost, citing lack of funds. Around 1.2 million antennae in the country will have to be re-adapted as the […]
Intelsat, a provider of global satellite services, has announced new agreements with two Bulgarian media companies for Intelsat transponder services to enable DTT and distribution of HD programming. Under the first agreement, Nurts, the primary tower company and sole DTT operator in Bulgaria, will use capacity on Intelsat 12 at 45 deg East to contribute […]
DTT is increasingly monopolising the audience ratings in Spain. In September, DTT broke an audience record with an average share of 81.7 per cent, the highest rate since its launch, according to the consultancy firm Barlovento Comunicacion. By comparison, cable and satellite represented 14.1 per cent and 4.2 per cent in a country where Spaniards […]
Less than one week before the deadline for the submission of non-binding bids, Italian commercial broadcaster Mediaset has pulled out of the bidding to acquire the TV assets of Telecom Italia Media. In a reaction to press speculation, Mediaset issued a statement in which it formally rules itself out of the race, revealing that such […]
Al Jazeera English is to begin broadcasting 24-hours daily on Freeview from September 19th, significantly increasing the channel’s current reach and potential viewership on the platform from just five hours per evening. Freeview is currently serving almost 20 million homes, including nearly 11 million main set homes. Al Jazeera English already broadcasts 24/7 […]
French broadcasting regulator the Conseil supérieur de l’audiovisuel is taking steps to increase coverage targets of HD channels carried by the multiplex R5 (TF1 HD, France 2 HD, M6 HD). These three channels will reach, by 2015, the same coverage as other free DTT services – about 97 per cent of the population, with 1,627 […]
Ofcom has awarded the first licences to run local TV services in two areas of the UK. The new licences are for digital terrestrial TV (DTT) channels in Brighton and Grimsby. The awards follow new legislation enabling Ofcom to issue local TV licences. The channels will broadcast on a specific ‘multiplex’, a discrete amount of […]
Abertis Telecom, responsible for carrying all DTT signals, will pay a heavy toll as a result of the reduction from 10 to seven DTT multiplexes in the new DTT map. The company will lose €20 million a year in carriage revenues, according to its General Director, Tobias Martinez. “In the short term, this (the DTT […]
Pay-TV operator Sky Italia and Italian multimedia group L’Espresso are close to an agreement for the launch of a new DTT platform, according to a report in the Milano Finanza newspaper. The platform, in which the partners would have equal stakes, would use the multiplexes and digital TV frequencies already owned by the L’Espresso group. […]