Turner Broadcasting System (TBS) is gearing up to launch upwave, a multi-platform entertainment brand focused on health and wellness. upwave will integrate digital content and linear cable television with mobile apps, live events and social media to create a healthy living destination for consumers and advertisers.
German cable operator Tele Columbus has started offering its customers the sports channel Sport1 as a high definition simulcast.
Venezuela's national telecoms company, Cantv, has reached over 300,000 homes with its satellite television system.
As the acquisition of Virgin Media by Liberty Global falls into place, Tom Mockridge has been appointed as CEO of the UK cable provider once the deal closes.
Cable TV company Den Networks is to raise US$160 million by selling shares to institutional investors, as India embarks on the third phase of its nationwide cable TV digitisation programme.
Liberty Global subsidiary UPC has posted modest gains in its first financial quarter of 2013, with year-on-year rebased revenue growth of 3%, the seventh consecutive quarter of such gains.
As it looks forward to adding Virgin Media to its company in the second quarter of the year, Liberty Global has revealed strong subscriber volume in Q1 that has driven a 6% growth in profits.
Germany's second largest cable operator Unitymedia Kabel BW grew in Q1 2013, mainly due to Internet and telephony, with a total of 168,900 new contracts signed for the two broadband services.
