The launch of a new national TV network, a key plank of culture secretary Jeremy Hunt’s plan for new local TV services, is to be delayed and may even be scrapped. Licensing of a new network to provide a national “spine” for the local TV services was due to commence next month, to be followed […]
QVC Beauty has launched on Freeview reaching a further 10.8 million primary homes and 23 million secondary sets. Transmitted by Arqiva, QVC Beauty will broadcast from 08:00 to 13:00, 365 days a year. QVC Beauty broadcasts one hour programmes of video clips from the most recent live presentations on QVC UK, enhanced with original content […]
The Ministry of Industry is to devote €800 million to finance DTT retuning following the re-allocation of DTT multiplexes’ frequencies as a result of the so-called digital dividend. That amount will be allocated from the public tenders to allocate the digital dividend with which the Government plans to collect between €1.5 billion to €2 billion. […]
Cablevision Systems has confirmed the launch of its “Ultimate Triple Play” service For new customers in the US. It consists of: – More than 275 channels of digital cable TV, including free HD, access to video on demand, including thousands of free titles, local programming from News 12 and MSG Varsity and other benefits. – […]
The United Arab Emirates will switch to digital terrestrial television by 2013 offering new opportunities to operators and broadcasters and diversifying TV content, the country’s telecoms regulator said April 26th. The move from analogue broadcasting will smooth the path for new TV channels, including video-on-demand, home cinema and other pay-per-view models, telecoms director general Mohammed […]
Italy is likely to hold a tender for awarding digital TV frequencies vacated with the analogue switch-off in June. The whole procedure can be initiated only after Italy’s Ministry of Economic Development receives the green light on the draft regulations that have been submitted to the EU Competition Commissioner, Joaquin Almunia, which is expected by […]
Dutch telco KPN added 58,000 subscribers for its IPTV service Interactieve TV in the first quarter of 2011, reaching a total of 360,000. KPN lost 13,000 subscribers for its DTT TV service Digitenne in the first three months of this year to bring the total to 882,000, meaning the telco had an overall TV subscriber […]
Take-up of digital television in UK households is at 92.5 per cent, up by 1.1 percentage points year on year, according to Ofcom’s consumer survey results for the fourth quarter of 2010. Ofcom found that 75.8 per cent of all secondary TV sets had been converted to digital by the end of December 2010, up […]
D-Book 7, the detailed interoperability specification for digital terrestrial television with extended Connected TV functionality, is now available from the UK’s the Digital Television Group website. D-Book 7 is the product of 18 months of industry collaboration between manufacturers, service providers and technology companies. The seventh edition builds on previous editions of the D-Book and provides an […]
Spain’s pay television sector has more and more subscribers who pay less and less. Year on year in 2o10 pay-TV gained 218,830 subscribers, up 5.36 per cent, to 4,296,434 according to the latest report from the CMT, the Telecommunications Market Commission. Pay DTT, with a 127 per cent growth from 153,151 subscribers in 2009 to […]