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ITV4 going 24/7 ITV is to expand its digital programming by making its ITV4 channel into a 24-hour service. The broadcaster said that ITV4 would also receive a cash injection to produce more original programming as the company tries to make up for the fragmenting audience of its flagship...

Latest Kingofsat / Flysat 07.02.08 News (Updated 22.35pm GMT) New updates: Colour Red Recent updates: Colour Magenta Other updates: Colour Black (old) ~~~~~~~~~~~~ Astra 1G, 19.2°E (00h24) Digital+ (Astra) & MTV Networks: MTV Spain is now encrypted in Cryptoworks & Mediaguard 2 &...

Antena 3 progresses on DTT Spanish media group Planeta's Antena 3 TV wants to demonstrate it bets on DTT more than ever through its two DTT channels Antena.Neox and Antena.Nova. Last month Antena.Neox’s viewing share surpassed, for the first time, Spain’s pay-TV thematic channels. It came...

Current TV gets Sky Italia carriage As widely expected, Current TV is to launch on Sky Italia. The deal will add 4.2m homes to Current TV’s overall distribution making Current TV available in 56m homes worldwide. “By being the world’s peer-to-peer news and information source, Current is an...

Glasgow: Crackdown on software piracy hotspot Flouters must "now face the consequences" A piracy crackdown is to target companies in Glasgow after the city was pinpointed as being a hotspot for illegal software. Hundreds of businesses in the city escaped punishment during a 30-day amnesty...

TV4 Sweden goes sci-fi Swedish commercial network TV4 is adding sci-fi to its suite of thematic channels. TV4 Science Fiction will beam down from February 29 and the broadcaster has already secured a two-year distribution agreement with the pay-TV platform Canal Digital. TV4 Science Fiction...

KinoTV pulls in Finnish audiences Finland’s newly launched pay-TV channel KinoTV had reached 61,000 subscribers by the end of December, just three months after launch, according to SWelcom. The Finnish media giant, which also runs the fourth channel Nelonen, has also launched a web-based ‘day...

UK TV viewing to rise by 4% Total television viewing is likely to increase by over 4% in the next five years. Forecasts from research group Attentional suggest that the amount of viewing will rise as a consequence of the rapid conversion of older audiences to multichannel television combined...

Growth returns to Digital+ Spanish DTH platform Digital+ has dragged itself out of mire caused by the ongoing football rights dispute, adding 19,000 new subscribers in the last quarter of 2007, to reach a total of 2,065,000 households. However, the net additions for the year remained low at...

BT seeing double Vision BT Vision more than doubled subscriber numbers in the last quarter with 120,000 households connected to the IPTV service at the end of 2007. In a statement issued to accompany the telco’s 3rd quarter financials, the company said that subscriber numbers had now reached...

Canal+ and Orange get French football The French football association LFP has said it has awarded the rights to live football coverage from Ligue 1 to Canal+ and Orange for a period of four years starting this summer. The broadcasters will pay a total of €668 million per season between 2008...

BBC iPlayer boosts Free TV The BBC iPlayer streaming service is dramatically changing the way viewers consume network TV. In fact the numbers are quite staggering. Last year (when iPlayer itself was still in Beta mode) some 800m free-to-view online TV streams and downloads occurred from UK...

True Movies / True Movies 2 07th February Eurobird 1 - 28.5E 11642V SYM:27500 FEC 2/3 SID52320 VPID2308 APID2309 Eng ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ True Movies 1 12:30 For the Love of a Child (Film) This award-winning drama tells the story of two exceptional women whose lives were transformed by...

Premiere listings 07.02.08 The listings are only meant has a guide the broadcaster can change the film or films at short notice. Premiere Direkt 06:30 - 07:55 Shrek the Third 06:30 - 08:20 Black Snake Moan 07:00 - 08:25 Shrek the Third 07:00 - 08:35 Saw III 07:00 - 08:50 One Way...

FilmFour & Film Four +1 07.02.08 Astra 2D at 28.2E 10729 V SYM:22000 FEC 5/6 Film Four SID8335 VPID2312 APID2313 Eng Film Four +1 SID8330 VPID2332 APID2333 Eng 13:00 If You Could Only Cook (1935) William A Seitler's comedy stars Herbert Marshall as Jim Buchanan, a successful car...