Following the news that further HD channels are set to become available on the UK’s DTT platform, the BBC has announced it will launch five new subscription-free BBC HD channels. The new channels – BBC News HD, BBC Three HD, BBC Four HD, CBeebies HD and CBBC HD – will launch by early 2014 and […]
Thomson Broadcast has started delivering the technology for the next stage of Israel’s national DVB-T/DVB-T2 infrastructure project, with the implementation of fifty new 100W UHF channel repeaters across the country. Enhancing the coverage of the existing multiplex and laying the foundation for the development of the second and third multiplexes, the project is part of […]
Canis Media, the UK’s leading independent broadcast consultancy and TV services group, today made new ‘City’ based DTT video streams available for long term lease. Canis Media is acting on behalf of multiplex owner, Comux UK, and is offering broadcasters and channel owners access to approximately 10 million DTT homes on two brand new 24/7 […]
TalkTalk is offering customers three months of free TV, broadband and phone. The offer, branded “The Big Free”, gives TalkTalk customers three months of free YouView TV, unlimited broadband use and phone calls. The offer is available to both new and current TalkTalk customers. The package normally costs £15.50 (€18.2) per month and the £299 YouView […]
Spanish pay-TV is outperforming FTA TV in terms of revenues. For the first time in its history, pay-TV turnover exceeded FTA TV revenues in 2012, according to the annual report from the CMT, the Telecommunications Market Commission. Total pay TV turnover amounted to €1.7 billion in 2012 surpassing FTA TV revenues of €1.6 billion. Pay-TV […]
Portugal’s Competition Authority has recommended more free-to-air TV channels on DTT, both public and private, as well as national and regional. In a report on the state of the DTT market in Portugal, the Authority concludes that the current channel offer is “manifestly beyond the means” of potential operators and it recommends evaluating the interest […]
Croatia’s Council for Electronic Media has confirmed that seven bids have been received on the public tenders that will award national TV licences. One licence each will be awarded for a general entertainment channel in Multiplex A and Multiplex B, as well as one licence in Multiplex D for a thematic TV channel. RTL Televizija, […]
The number of pay-TV households (analogue and digital) reached 772 million by 2012, up from 585 million in 2008, according to a report from Digital TV Research. Asia Pacific increased by 126 million – or two-thirds of the global additions – during this period to bring its total to 433 million. North America (112 million) […]
The forthcoming film release – A Field in England – is coming out simultaneously July 5th in the cinema, on DVD, Freeview and Video on Demand, the first British film to do so. The English Civil War-set film was commissioned by Film4.0, with Film4, Picturehouse Entertainment, 4DVD and Film4 Channel partnering for this ‘watch-it-where-you-want’ experiment. […]
Thousands of BT Vision pay-TV customers face losing access to Sky Sports from this weekend, as BT prepares to launch its own sports services ahead of the new Premier League football season. BT is to make its two new BT Sport channels available to BT Vision customers on DTT. In doing so, the channels it […]