Monthly Archives: June 2009

The House of Commons Business and Enterprise Committee is toconsider whether the Digital Britain Report’s commitment to provide up to 2Mb/sec broadband to all UK homes is “ambitious enough”. It will also consider whether the proposed broadband tax is fair.  The broadband tax will mean anyone… Read the rest...

Long standing crime drama ‘The Bill’ is due to exclusively premier in High Definition on Freesat on the 1st of July. Having recently celebrated its 25th year it was probably time for the show to have a makeover and with Freesat been the only place to view HDTV without paying a… Read the rest...

In case you are looking for any stats on the digital TV market, Ofcom have released their latest quarterly review… It’s available at http://www.ofcom.org.uk/research/tv/reports/dtv/dtu_2009_01/q12009.pdf There is nothing earth moving, but key headlines are: 90% of UK homes now have multi-channel TV on main sets up… Read the rest...

Eurosport has taken up the broadcast rights to Setanta’s US PGA golf for the rest of the 2009 season.  These rights reverted back to the rights holder after the sports digital TV company Setanta fell into administration. Key events in the package include the… Read the rest...

The BBC has announced that high definition TV (HDTV) broadcasts on digital terrestrial television will start in December. The Freeview HDTV service will launch on a reconfigured version of Freeview multiplex B and will initially include HDTV channels from the BBC, ITV and Channel 4.  Like digital switchover, Freeview… Read the rest...