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RTE commits €70m to Irish switchover
Sue Tabbitt 01-08-2010
RTE, Ireland’s national TV and radio broadcaster, is poised to roll out a €70m digital TV infrastructure across the Republic, under plans just approved.
3DTV shipments: 42.9m by 2014Sue Tabbitt | 01-08-2010 Forecasts of 3D TV shipments continue to flow thick and fast from the US, the latest from DisplaySearch suggesting that some 3.4m units will ship this year, swelling to 42.9m in 2014. |
HanseNet unveils IPTV figuresJörn Krieger | 01-08-2010 German ADSL provider HanseNet has for the first time disclosed its number of IPTV customers: Alice homeTV had 58,000 subscribers on June 30 2010. |
Luxe.TV to cut jobsJörn Krieger | 01-08-2010 Luxe.TV, the European thematic channel covering the world of luxury, seems to be in financial difficulties and needs to save costs. By August 15, 24 of its 37 employees are going to be made redundant, reports Luxembourg-based newspaper “Luxemburger Wort” citing federal trade union OGBL. |
New pay-TV plans for ITV?Sue Tabbitt | 01-08-2010 ITV has pay-TV plans up its sleeve, including a new channel as well as HD versions of its existing services, ... |
Sky Deutschland secures Wimbledon rightsJörn Krieger | 01-08-2010 German pay-TV company Sky Deutschland will continue to show the Wimbledon tennis tournament for the next three ... |
US broadcast stations on the riseSue Tabbitt | 01-08-2010 The number of US broadcast stations has risen by almost 4% since June 2008 to 30,855 stations, according to new ... |
Spain's commercial sector sparklesIñaki Ferreras | 30-07-2010 First results from a clutch of Spanish broadcasters after the cessation of advertising on public broadcaster RTVE show that the ... |
Sky HDTV profits rise, 3D TV date confirmedSue Tabbitt | 29-07-2010 BSkyB’s expansion into value-added TV services continues to pay dividends, boosting subscriptions and yielding a three-fold rise in profits.... |
Spain's Vocento loses €3.7 millionIñaki Ferreras | 30-07-2010 One of Spain's main media groups and owner of Net TV, Vocento, registered net losses of €3.71 million in the ... |
BT Vision suffers sluggish quarterSue Tabbitt | 29-07-2010 BT signed only 14,000 subscribers to its hybrid DTT/IPTV service, BT Vision, during the second quarter of this year, giving ... |
Telefónica's profit upIñaki Ferreras | 30-07-2010 Spanish telco Telefónica saw its net profit rise 9.4% in the first half this year to reach €3,775 ... |
Zon subscriber base fallsIñaki Ferreras | 30-07-2010 Portugal's pay-TV operator Zon reached 1.576 million subscribers at the end of June, 0.9% less than at the same time ... |
Internet TVs to be more popular than 3D TVs?Sue Tabbitt | 29-07-2010 Analyst firm Isuppli is warning against 3D TV sets, believing internet-receiving sets will be more popular with consumers, even as ... |
Hybrid TV conquers German living roomsJörn Krieger | 29-07-2010 TV sets with inbuilt internet access are quickly gaining popularity in Germany: A total of 1.2 million hybrid-TV sets have ... |
Sky Deutschland confirms ad sales repurchaseJörn Krieger | 29-07-2010 German pay-TV provider Sky Deutschland has confirmed that it will take its advertising sales business back ... |
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