The CSA has confirmed that Canal Plus and TV Numéric and the football league, the LFP, have applied to operate a new pay-TV channel on DTT. The LFP wants to run a soccer channel with the rights currently shared between Canal Plus and Orange, as they are not bidding for the rights from 2012. Canal […]
Sky Italia does not intend to enter the DTT market with a pay-TV offer, claiming this would be technically impossible. It was refuting allegations in dialy “Corriere della Sera” which claimed that Sky Italia plans to team up with local media group Espresso as part of an “anti-Mediaset deal”. Sky Italia points out that it […]
Six months after completing the digital migration, Spain is to face a new switch-off process as all DTT (National, Regional and Local) operators will have to change their frequencies long before 2015 following the allocation of the so-called digital dividend. The Government hopes to approve the new migration plan in the first half of 2011 […]
French media regulator the CSA has extended the trial period for pay-DTT broadcaster TV Numéric and transmission provider TDF to trial on-demand services over the DTT network. The extension runs until November 30 to complete tests of the delivery of on-demand services downloaded to set-tops in Rouen.
Recent data from the MAVISE TV database, developed for the DG Communication of the European Commission by the European Audiovisual Observatory, shows the current status of the European television market. MAVISE contains data on the EU markets plus the candidates Croatia and Turkey. Regarding the roll-out of Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT), the following developments have […]
The European Commission has launched an investigation into the Spanish DTT migration plan over a possible violation of the technology neutrality principle by “favouring certain technologies to the detriment of others”. State subsidies to finance DTT migration are at the centre of the controversy. The EC will investigate the DTT migration plan to determine whether […]
MTV Spain is pulling out of the pay-TV market and making its debut in on DTT as a free-to-air channel following the deal between Viacom and Spanish media group Vocento. It is the first time MTV Spain is distributed free-to-air as since its launch 10 years ago the channel was only available on pay-TV (satellite, […]
Due to delays in setting up new digital terrestrial transmitters, Slovenia will now switch-off its existing network of analogue transmitters in the first half of 2011, instead of December 1st 2010, as initially planned. In a press statement, Slovenian public broadcaster RTV Slovenija said that it is not to blame for the delay because the […]
The New Zealand Government has announced that the country will complete the switchover to digital television by November 2013. The West Coast and Hawke’s Bay will be the first areas to be switched over. Seventy per cent of households already receive a digital television signal through Freeview, Sky or Testra Clear. A $16 million education […]
Croatia’s Council for Electronic Media has awarded one concession each to commercial broadcasters Nova TV and RTL Televizija to launch specialised channels on the so-called Multiplex B. Nova TV plans to air a specialized channel called Doma TV, while RTL will launch the RTL 2 channel. The concessions have been granted for 15 years, the […]