The Russian IPTV service Beeline TV has added 16 new channels, 11 of which are in HD, to its offer. As a result, the service now provides over 200 channels, of which 33 are in HD. The new channels are initially being made available in Moscow and St Petersburg, as well as the Moscow and …
Russia’s national telecom operator Rostelecom saw its total pay-TV subscriber base increase by 11% year-on-year in the third quarter to 6.4 million. Of these, 1.2 million were interactive TV subscribers. The telco passed a total of 33.4 million households, of which 15.7 million (47%) were via FTTx technology, while its total broadband subscriber base grew …
Russia’s MTS and Channel One have joined forces with Disney to create an interactive TV service aimed at children. According to MTS, it is integrated into the series ‘After School’ and combines the capabilities of mobile internet and TV.
Russia’s CTC Media and National Media Group have announced the creation of a joint online video resource on the base of the Videomore portal, which was launched by CTC Media in December 2010. Under the terms of the deal, a significant amount of Ren TV and Channel 5 content, including both new releases and library …
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Russia now expects to undertake the transition from analogue to digital broadcasting gradually between 2014-17. At the same time, it may postpone the transition from DVB-T to DVB-T2. The news was given by Viktor Pinchuk, the deputy DG of the Russian Television and Radio Broadcasting Network (RTRS), in a statement published on the company’s website.
The Russian research and production company General Satellite Corporation is expanding its pay-TV activities outside the country. According to Kommersant, the company, which is believed to have ownership links with the leading Russian DTH platform Tricolor TV, has entered into a 51/49 joint venture with the Royal Group of Companies (RGC) to launch what will be …
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The Russian DTH Platform NTV-Plus is definitely interested in multiscreen and at some point will merge all its services into one system, according to Lev Petukhov, head of web projects development and maintenance department. Speaking in a panel entitled Delivering Advanced Services: HD, 3D, VOD and DVR, he added that the company is still quite …
The Russian holding company ProfMedia is combining all its TV assets into one group. According to the Russian business daily Kommersant and Profmedia’s corporate website, TV3 , MTV and 2×2 will now be parts of a single structure. These channels will be headed by Nikolai Kartozya, formerly a director of prime time programs at NTV. …
Russia’s MTS will make digital TV services available across its entire network on July 1. Quoted in Vedomosti, Dimtri Bagdasaryan, director of the company’s fixed line and TV business, said that MTS expects to have 500,000 digital subscribers by the end of 2012 – it served a total of 2.99 million homes at the beginning …
Vedomosti reports that Orion Express has approached MTS, VimpelCom and Megafon and that Fund Service Bank-backed STK Soyuz, a 50% shareholder in the platform, has held talks with all three. However, according to Yuri Khitrov, the owner of the remaining 50%, no firm offers have yet been received.
The Russian DTH platform Orion Express faces a major obstacle in its expansion plans. According to Vedomosti, a decision on whether the platform can use frequencies on the Horizons 2 satellite, which is owned by Intelsat, has been postponed until a meeting of the General Radio Frequency Centre (GFRC), called at the initiative of the …
Eurosport has extended its partnership with MTS, a leading Russian mobile operator, thereby providing the latter’s mobile TV subscribers with access to Eurosport and Eurosport 2. In a statement, MTS says it has one of the most developed 3G networks in Russia, covering around 80% of the population and that the number of users of …
