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EU Court rejects Mediaset’s appeal on DTT box incentives

The European Court of Justice has dismissed the appeal brought by broadcaster Mediaset and confirmed that the Italian contributions for the purchase of digital terrestrial decoders, granted in 2004 and 2005 and totalling €220 million, constitute state aid incompatible with the common market. After the 2004 budget, which had introduced the incentive, rival broadcasters Europe […]

July 28, 2011From Branislav Pekic in Rome

Solaris Mobile gets Spanish licence

Just days after announcing its first long-term contract to start pay-radio transmissions over Italy, Solaris Mobile has been awarded its operating licence for Spain. The licence covers both S-band satellite transmissions as well as matching ground transmissions. This latest European licence authorisation brings to twelve the total number of Mobile satellite service licences awarded to […]

July 22, 2011

GlobeCast delivers the Tour de France for France Télévisions for 15th consecutive year

GlobeCast has announced that it is on-site at the Tour de France to provide the French national broadcaster France Télévisions with a complete solution to broadcast every stage of the race. GlobeCast vehicles and teams are present from Saturday, July 2 to Sunday, July 24 to deliver live coverage of the world-renowned cycling competition. Each […]

July 18, 2011

Solaris Mobile signs up Italian pay-radio

Solaris Mobile, the JV between SES Astra and Eutelsat, has signed an agreement with Italian publishing giant Class Editori to launch a preliminary pay-radio service over Italy. The system will debut this year (in October) in Milan, hopefully rolling out to the rest of Italy during 2012. The service will comprise satellite-delivered and terrestrial transmission […]

July 13, 2011By Chris Forrester

Patten: “We’re keeping BBC Worldwide”

New BBC Chairman Chris Patten has advocated that the organisation should keep control of its commercial arm BBC Worldwide. In a speech to the Royal Television Society, which was mainly about tackling executive payand goverance, Patten said that a sale of BBC Worldwide was not imminent. “It makes no sense to sell Worldwide. Its symbiotic […]

July 7, 2011

CNBC’s new London studio sets the pace for business and financial news

CNBC, the specialist in business and financial news, has started broadcasting from its brand new studio facilities at its European headquarters in London. John Casey, CNBC’s Vice President of International News & Programming says, “The new studio is designed to support one ultimate goal – delivering the most essential business news to the most influential […]

May 9, 2011

Telenor explains Thor 7 plan

Telenor Satellite Broadcasting’s (TSBc) CEO Cato Halsaa joked that about the only time he formally met with his main board CEO was when he wanted “a few hundred million dollars” in funding for yet another satellite! To date, the answer has always been positive, and clearly helped by the extremely positive results Halsaa’s division has […]

March 22, 2011By Chris Forrester

Lord Sugar to head YouView

YouView, the much-delayed VOD system proposed for the UK, is to get Lord (Alan) Sugar as its new chairman. YouView, formerly known as Project Canvas, is not likely to launch fully until next year. Delegates to the Digital TV Group’s (DTG) annual summit in London on March 4th heard that a ‘beta’ test version of […]

March 7, 2011By Chris Forrester

UK Govt backs off site blocking

A UK Government working group is to be formed to try to find a “plan B” to avoid potential litigation arising from the blocking of websites accused of illegal filesharing. The group will comprise rights holders, ISPs and search engines, is being formed after culture secretary Jeremy Hunt referred the Digital Economy Act’s section 17 […]

February 25, 2011

Video consumption: DTO still rules

While streaming from “the cloud” is all the rage, when it comes to consumers managing and storing their electronic home video libraries, downloading and viewing digital video on the PC still rules the day. According to In-Stat’s consumer survey, nearly 50 per cent of US broadband households report that they store their electronic video home […]

February 25, 2011