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STREAM SHAREHOLDERS TO RECONSIDER STRATEGY
A new meeting between Telecom Italia president Roberto Colaninno and News Corp boss Rupert Murdoch regarding the future of Italian digital satellite TV platform Stream is planned for this week....
NEW RAI NAMES
Giancaro Leone has taken up the post of director at Rai Uno replacing Agostino Sacca in one of a series of changes at the public broadcaster. Stefano Munafo has replaced...
PREMIERE TO REVISE D-BOX STRATEGY
German digital pay-TV platform operator Premiere World is considering a return to retail sales in addition to the currently favoured rental model. According to industry sources, it is planned to...
NEWS BYTES...
The Sky Digibox from fifth manufacturer Sony is about to be released following long delays and reported disagreements between Sony and Sky. Sony’s VTX-S760U is the first receiver for Sky’s...
BBC PRIME CONTRIBUTES, BUT WORLD FALTERS
BBC Worldwide says its aggregated distribution count for its global channels now tops 300 million homes. Revealing details from BBC Worldwide’s Annual Report & Accounts (to March 31 this year),...
VIVA PLANS TO TAKE ON US MARKET
German music channel Viva is planning to turn itself into a multimedia brand with multimedia brand with ambitions to expand into the United States. According to chairman Dieter Gorny, the...
ANTITRUST AUTHORITIES LAUNCH TELE+ PROBE
Italy’s antitrust regulator has started formal proceedings against Canal+-owned Italian digital TV platform Tele+, claiming that it used its dominant position to buy up an excessive share of TV rights...
GERMANY REVISES NATIONAL MEDIA LAW
The prime ministers of Germany’s regional states have agreed to make a number of changes to the national media law. At the heart of the new legislation is the increase...
AUGUST 1 LAUNCH FOR ITN 'CONVERGENT' NEWS CHANNEL
ITN has named August 1 as the launch date for the ITN News Channel. Describing the venture as the “World’s first fully convergent digital news channel” ITN chief executive Stewart...
EOL FOUNDER "TAKES BACK SEAT"
Europe Online founder Candace Johnson – and still President of the Board – has brought in Dennis Hightower, most recently president of Disney Consumer Products in Paris, as CEO “to...