Europe Digital TV News

Ofcom awards spectrum licence in Manchester to Channel M Television Limited
Feb 5, 2009 – Channel M Television, which provides the local television service for Greater Manchester, has been awarded a licence which will allow it to broadcast digitally over the airwaves.
News categories: Ofcom, Channel M Television, Terrestrial, TV Services, UK

Croatia's Vipnet tests DVB-H
Feb 5, 2009 – Vipnet, together with Kapsch, have launched a DVB-H mobile TV trial in Croatia with programmes from NovaTV, CNN, Eurosport, and CMC available on phones at no extra charge.
News categories: Vipnet, Kapsch, Mladen Pejković, Croatia, Digital TV, Mobile

Czech IPTV service VOLNÃ TV closes
Feb 5, 2009 – VOLNÃ has closed its IPTV service in the Czech Republic.
News categories: VOLNÝ, Czech Republic, Digital TV, IPTV

Elion DigiTV customer base grew 43% last year
Feb 5, 2009 – The number of subscribers to Elion's 'DigiTV' cable and IPTV services in Estonia grew by 43% during 2008 to reach 82,500 at the end of the year.
News categories: Elion, Cable TV, Estonia, IPTV, Results, Subscribers

TDC (YouSee) satisfied with earnings in 2008
Feb 5, 2009 – TDC (Copenhagen:TDC)'s income before depreciation, amortization and special items (EBITDA) rose by 5.4% to DKK 13.2bn in 2008. YouSee cable TV subscribers increased to 1,140 million from 1,105 million one year ago.
News categories: TDC, Cable TV, Denmark, Results, Subscribers

News Corporation (SKY Italia) Reports Second Quarter
Feb 5, 2009 – News Corporation (NASDAQ: NWS, NWSA; ASX: NWS, NWSLV) has reported financial results for its second quarter ended December 31, 2008. SKY Italia net subscriber additions were 322,000 over the past 12 months giving 4.7 million at quarter-end.
News categories: SKY Italia, News Corp, Italy, Results, Satellite, Subscribers

Macedonia Opens Bids Received for DVB-T
Feb 4, 2009 – The President of the Commission for performing the public tender for DVB-T performed the public opening of the bids and it was found that only one Bid had been submitted, by the interested company Telekom-Slovenia dd.
News categories: Telekom Slovenije, AEK, Content Distribution, Digital TV, Slovenia, Terrestrial

35% of France's ADSL subscribers have TV-over-DSL
Feb 4, 2009 – France's telecoms authority, ARCEP, has published its latest market survey up to the end of the third quarter 2008. At the end of the period, 35% of ADSL subscribers, or 5.6 million, were also subscribing to TV-over-DSL.
News categories: ARCEP, Digital TV, France, IPTV, Subscribers

ZON Multimédia (TV Cabo) 4Q08 Operating Update
Feb 4, 2009 – ZON Multimedia (Lisbon: ZON) has released an update ahead of its 4Q08 consolidated results. The number of subscribers to ZON's digital extended package increased by 50 thousand in 4Q08, to 496 thousand subscribers at the end of 2008.
News categories: ZON Multimedia, Cable TV, DVR, Portugal, Satellite, Set Top Box, Subscribers