The future of Five will reportedly be settled on Friday when the broadcaster’s parent company RTL will decide which bidder to advance to exclusive negotiations. A meeting on the sale will be held at the end of this week between … Continue reading →
New broadcaster Electric Sofa has confirmed plans to launch three new entertainment and movies channels on Sky in the autumn. The company intends to launch a film channel devoted to showcasing British-funded or produced movies, along with “rarely-seen gems”. It … Continue reading →
UK cable operator Virgin Media has completed the sale of Virgin Media Television to BSkyB following regulatory approval. VMtv has been renamed the Living TV Group. Sky has acquired Living, Livingit, Challenge, Challenge Jackpot, Bravo, Bravo 2 and Virgin1 and … Continue reading →
Sky Italia, the Italian satellite platform, has recenly started to test new encryption coding provided by NDS. NDS4 / Videoguard 4 is expected to help stop cardsharing of the Sky Italia viewing cads. Cardsharing and cardsharing networks are becoming an … Continue reading →
Five HD launched on Sky HD today. The RTL-owned channel had previously shunned the offer of capacity on the UK terrestrial platform Freeview HD. Five, the last of the UK legacy broadcasters to launch a high definition channel, will broadcast … Continue reading →
After the ‘war’ over soccer rights between Spain’s two major audiovisual producers Sogecable (Cuatro & Digital+) and Mediapro (laSexta) the judges decided Sogecable has the right to exploit the soccer. So the company will have to pay �90 million to … Continue reading →
Al-Jazeera English was named ‘Best News Channel’ at the second annual Freesat Awards last night in London. The Qatar-based news channel, which launched today on Freeview, beat the BBC News channel, Bloomberg, CNN and BBC Radio 5 Live to the … Continue reading →
The original Sky HD boxes, manufactured by Thomson (model number DSI8215 or 902020 or with serial numbers beginning 4E300) are notorious for developing problems between 12 and 36 months old. This is usually due to capacitors dying on the power … Continue reading →
According to early reports, from 1 September the cost of a basic subscription plus Sky Sports 1 or 2 will increase from �26 a month to �29 a month. The cost of a basic subscription plus all its sports channels … Continue reading →
Big Brother creator John De Mol has been linked with a bid for Channel Five, which has been put up for sale by RTL. De Mol is understood to be working with Greek broadcaster Antenna on a joint bid that … Continue reading →