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BSkyB Receives More Profits

January 31, 2010

The satellite, broadband and phone provider BSkyB has once again defied the recession and posted an increase in revenues and at the same time have been signing up new customers. If ever a business was recession proof Sky TV would have to be up there with the leaders. Sky TV is now within sight of [...]

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Happy New Year to all our readers

January 3, 2010

Sat4fun wishes all of you a Happy New Year.

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New Freesat set top box from Humax

December 12, 2009

The new Freesat set top boxes announced this week by Humax will not only offer the user access to free to view satellite TV through Freesat but, like many of the boxes coming to the market recently, will also offer access to the BBC iPlayer and possibly the ITV Player. There will be two versions [...]

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A third of Brits listen to Internet radio

December 12, 2009

A survey undertaken by RAJAR (Radio Joint Audience Research) has revealed that a third of those questioned said they have listened to an Internet radio station. The poll, conducted in November, questioned 977 UK adults on their listening preferences. The figure of a third extrapolated would represent 17.4 million people who’ve tuned into net radio [...]

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BBC Worldwide can go ahead with UKTV purchase

November 28, 2009

Just as Virgin Media pulls out from its decision to sell the Virgin Media TV channels, it would seem that the BBC Trust has finally given BBC Worldwide, the corporation’s commercial division, the go ahead to purchase the other 50 per cent of UKTV. UKTV is a joint venture between BBC Worldwide and Virgin Media, [...]

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Sky Deutschland starts HDTV promotion

November 28, 2009

Sky Deutschland is making a decisive push into the HD TV satellite market by offering consumers a reasonably priced HD TV Starter box. Priced at just 199 Euros, the HD TV Starter pack includes the HD set top box and a pre paid HD TV subscription. There are two different types of starter pack, the [...]

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Digital switchover complete in North Wales

November 28, 2009

Another part of the UK has completed the digital switchover, with households across north east Wales now having access to digital TV or, to look at it another way, no access to analogue TV at all. Engineers worked though the night to complete the work on the Moel y Parc transmitter group. Those viewers that [...]

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Eutelsat and ABS strike agreement for 75° East

November 17, 2009

Eutelsat Communications and Asia Broadcast Satellite (ABS) today announced the execution of a strategic agreement for commercial cooperation at the 75 degrees East orbital location. Within the framework of this agreement Eutelsat is colocating its Eurobird™ 4 satellite at 75 degrees East with the ABS-1 and ABS-1A satellites operated by ABS. Feel free to post [...]

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After Eight on BSkyB

November 14, 2009

After Eight mints have not been seen on the TV for eight years surprisingly, but they are set to make a return in a brand new advertising campaign, just in time for the festive season and beyond if, the marketing is to be believed. The £2.6 million campaign by Nestle will see the chocolate brand [...]

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3 and Orange battle over coverage

November 14, 2009

It seems that broadband firms are more worried about what the competition are doing and saying, then they are about improving the services they offer customers. The latest battleground is advertising, not so much the adverts themselves but rather the content, which has been seen before with BSkyB, BT and Virgin Media. Now it looks [...]