BroadbandTVNews

France 24 is to launch on Vision IPTV, the streamed service that takes advantage of the IP connectivity within Freeview HD receivers. Read the story »

Take-up of Viasat’s satellite value-added services in the Nordics grew strongly in 2011, though the total number of premium subscribers remained almost unchanged. Read the story »

The launch of HBO in the Netherlands in a joint venture with cable operator Ziggo marks an interesting move for the Time-Warner owned company. HBO has been active for many years in Central an Eastern Europe, while the broadcaster was only active as a seller of individual programme rights to local broadcasters in the Western part of the continent. Read the story »

It’s almost last orders for pubs showing unlicensed football broadcasts in the UK and not before time, writes Julian Clover. Read the story »

Da Vinci U is now available on the UPC DTH platform in Hungary, Czech Republic, Slovakia and Romania. Read the story »

Amazon has announced a licensing agreement with Viacom that will allow Amazon Prime members to instantly stream TV shows from MTV, Comedy Central, Nickelodeon, TV Land, Spike, VH1, BET, CMT and Logo. Read the story »

The Polish cable operator Multimedia Polska has issued as statement clarifying its prospective sale. Read the story »

Spain ended 2011 with 171,177 Fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) connections, or 206.4% more than a year earlier, according to data published by the regulator CMT. Read the story »

Virgin Media’s COO has defended the relatively slow rollout of applications onto the next generation platform, arguing that the cablenet would keep to heavyweight apps and not just fodder. Read the story »

NPO, the umbrella organisation of the Dutch public broadcasters, will reduce the number of thematic digital channels from 12 to eight during 2012. Read the story »

The leading Czech broadcaster TV Nova will cease its remaining analogue transmissions on Sunday, February 12. Read the story »

The new Kurdish satellite channel Stêrk TV has started broadcasting on the Eutelsat and Nilesat satellites. Read the story »

Gerhard Zeiler will join Turner Broadcasting System as president of the broadcaster’s international division. Read the story »

Sky Italia reported a modest subscriber increase in Q4, but was able to post increased profits. Read the story »

Holze: Back in the saddle

It’s as you were in the SES European sales team with Norbert Holzle returning to lead the department just three months after Ferenc Szelenyi was appointed as his replacement. Read the story »

For the first time more Germans are now watching television via satellite than over cable. Read the story »

The Latvian cable operator Izzi has announced the successful implementation of its 2011-year plan, which included the construction of 30% of its new fibre-optic network. Read the story »

Strong growth for TiVo and superfast broadband dominated in Virgin’s year-end results as advanced services compensated for a general slowdown in UK pay-TV take-up. Read the story »

Go, Malta’s leading telecommunications provider, has selected a complete Agama DTV Monitoring Solution for its IPTV ecosystem. Read the story »

Price increases and a rise in hardware sales helped Canal Digital maintain revenues amid continued subscriber falls. Read the story »