The Croatian pay-TV market earned €31.3 million in revenues during the second quarter of 2023, down 1.21 per cent on the previous quarter but up 4.84 per cent year-on-year, according to data from the Croatian Regulatory Authority for Network Industries (HAKOM). IPTV services led with €18.1 million (+9.67 per cent year-on-year), followed by cable TV […]
An Open Broadcast Systems decoder, plus Croatian live sports production house MSTV and a Kymeta terminal, helped deliver live coverage of a UEFA football match from the Faroe Islands using OneWeb’s satellites to viewers “around the world”. The game was a UEFA Euro 2024 qualifying game, which the Islanders lost against Albania on June 20th. […]
Appear, a player in media processing and delivery technology, has been chosen by A1 Croatia to transform and optimise its live OTT channel encoding and distribution workflow to include fully on-premise transcoding. A1 Croatia, one of Croatia’s largest telecommunications companies owned by A1 Telekom Austria Group and serving over 24 million customers, has migrated its […]
Amagi, the global leader in cloud-based SaaS technology for broadcast and connected TV, has announced the opening of its first European R&D centre in Zagreb, Croatia. The new centre will elevate the quality and speed of the technical support Amagi offers to its European customers while advancing product development efforts. The development centre will be […]
RTL Group has closed the transaction to sell RTL Croatia to Central European Media Enterprises (CME). The transaction, which was first announced on February 14th 2022, was approved by the Croatian competition authority on May 27th 2022. “The sale of RTL Croatia is in line with our strategy to lead TV consolidation in Europe,” stated […]
Iskon Internet, a Croatian company that forms part of Deutsche Telekom Group, has again innovated with Beenius, an advanced Interactive TV platform provider. In 2021, the Beenius Android TV Operator Tier OTT solution was presented as innovation and novelty by Iskon Internet to the Croatian market. Iskon Internet wanted to introduce a new service and […]
Bestselling author Sarah Alderson will adapt her novel The Weekend Away into a feature film for Netflix. Cast announced for the psychological thriller includes Leighton Meester, Christina Wolfe, Ziad Bakri and Luke Norris. Kim Farrant will direct. Alderson commented: “I am so excited to see The Weekend Away make it to the screen. To have […]
The transition from DVB-T to DVB-T2/HEVC in Croatia will start on October 27th and last until November 12th. The information has been announced by DTT network operator Odasiljaci i Veze (OiV) which has also published a timetable for the switchover for the country’s nine digital regions. The DVB-T2/HEVC signal will cover 97 per cent of […]