Fetch TV, the vendor of hybrid STBs that included UK DTT, iPlayer, Sky Player and its own VoD service, has gone into administration. A statement on its site says IP Vision, the parent company, has appointed administrators. The company employs 20 staff. The CEO, Eddie Abrams, issued a statement: “IP Vision is a recognised innovator […]
The Regional Government of Cantabria, north of Spain, has been ordered to pay €3.5 million to SES Iberica, the subsidiary company in Spain of SES, after being found guilty by a local Court of unilaterally breaking the contract to extend the DTT service to the Region through satellite distribution. SES had claimed damages of almost […]
Italy’s government has called a halt for the time being on the sale – or otherwise – of spare digital frequencies. The probability is that Italy will start charging for these new operating TV licences, but Industry Minister Corrado Passera told parliament on January 20th that he would suspend any decision for 90 days to […]
Corrado Passera, Italy’s minister with responsibility for Industry, says he will present his formal proposals for the allocation of new DTT frequencies to parliament on January 20th. Currently frequencies have been give free of charge, but the reports are that the cash-strapped Italian government wants a fee-based system to be implemented. Speaking to parliamentary delegates […]
Mediaset’s vice chairman, Pier Silvio Berlusconi, says Italy’s planned auction of six new digital terrestrial frequencies is “wrong and unfair”. Berlusconi, son of Italy’s former Prime Minister, said similar DTT frequencies in the rest of Europe had been awarded without fees. He told Italian news daily La Stampa: “An auction would not only be wrong […]
India’s public broadcaster Doordarshan has generated 736 million Rupees ($14m) by auctioning off 29 transmission slots on its digital terrestrial service, DD Direct Plus. The amounts generated are some three times higher than a previous auction which sold off 21 channels for a total of 168 million Rupees. It is now reported that Doordarshan will […]
France’s broadcasting regulator the Conseil supérieur de l’audiovisuel (CSA) has received 31 applications for six, free-to-air, high definition channel slots available on the country’s digital terrestrial platform. The CSA launched the tender October 18th 2011, with bids to be submitted this week. Hearings with eligible bidders will be held between March 5th and 9th, with […]
KIT digital, a cloud-based software solutions and technology services provider for multi-screen video delivery, has confirmed that it has acquired certain assets and liabilities of Sezmi Corporation, the provider of broadband-broadcast hybrid TV solutions based in Belmont, California. Sezmi pulled the plug on its consumer operation September 23. Sezmi’s subscription video service was available in […]
Technical problems and the lack of new TV channels have so far marred the introduction of DTT in Portugal. On January 5th, the country’s Parliament started an urgent debate to discuss the migration of Portugal’s TV system to digital, as a result of motions filed by the Communist Party (PCP) and the Socialist Party (PS). […]
Lattelecom’s latest figures has led the telco to claim it is now the largest TV operator in the Baltics. The Latvian IPTV and DTT operator ended 2011 with 230,000 TV subscribers, compared to Lithuania’s TEO with 147,100 and Estonia’s Elion with 134,600 subscribers. “Lattelecom as the industry leader is working on product development and provides […]