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Sidsa threatens Nagravision & Abertis

agata@efiplus.com (Iñaki Ferreras) — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:07:05 +0000

Spanish conditional access manufacturer Sidsa is threatening to report Nagravision and Abertis Telecom to Spain's National Commission for Competitiveness (CNC).

Rotana buys Harris’ ‘One’

chris@rapidtvnews.com (Chris Forrester) — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:05:48 +0000

Fast-growing Middle East broadcaster Rotana has selected a Harris Corp ‘One' end-to-end channel playout system for its central master control, located at Cairo's NileSat.

Pepsi boss wants DirecTV expansion

chris@rapidtvnews.com (Chris Forrester) — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:04:29 +0000

DirecTV's new CEO, Michael White, hired from PepsiCo, is seeking to expand DirecTV overseas. Moreover, his boss John Malone agrees.

Charlie Ergen steps down from EchoStar

chris@rapidtvnews.com (Chris Forrester) — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:03:08 +0000

EchoStar's founder and president/CEO Charlie Ergen has stepped down.

Spain’s ONO struggles

agata@efiplus.com (Iñaki Ferreras) — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:01:50 +0000

Spain's main cable operator Ono's EBITDA improved 3.5% helped by a lowering of the company's expenditure in the first nine months this year.

KDG welcomes Unitymedia sale

agata@efiplus.com (Jörn Krieger) — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:00:35 +0000

Germany's largest cable company, Kabel Deutschland (KDG), has welcomed the sale of Unitymedia to US media concern Liberty Global owned by John Malone.

BBC goes internet radio crazy

chris@rapidtvnews.com (Chris Forrester) — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:59:15 +0000

Web ‘radios' that exploit a home's broadband ‘always on' connection have suddenly captured the BBC's imagination.

Record period for TV sales

chris@rapidtvnews.com (Chris Forrester) — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:57:55 +0000

It's proving to be a record year for TV sales. But the value of the shipments made has fallen.

ITV appointing Archie Norman

chris@rapidtvnews.com (Chris Forrester) — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:22:20 +0000

The wire services are full of reports that UK network broadcaster ITV has decided on a new chairman in the shape of ASDA (the UK retailer owned by Walmart) former CEO Archie Norman.

Sirius Radio “planning acquisitions”

chris@rapidtvnews.com (Chris Forrester) — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:19:31 +0000

Sirius Satellite Radio CEO Mel Karmazin made an appearance on Fox News (on the Neil Cavuto show) and chatted about the undoubted progress Sirius is now making following on from its near-death brush with bankruptcy.