Media UK

GTV - news archive

This is an archive of news about GTV. Some links may no longer work, due to the transient nature of the internet.

Third Korean telco joins IPTV fray
From Rapid TV News. Posted December 11 2007, 8.37pm
South Korean telco LG Dacom has launched its IPTV offering, myLGtv, joining Hanarotelecom’s Hana TV and KT’s Mega TV in the market. (more)

Wedigtv launches new tv2 show
From UTalk Marketing. Posted November 30 2007, 2.09pm
Show uses previously un-broadcast footage (more)

English football to spread satellite TV across Africa
From Media Guardian. Posted May 23 2007, 1.00am
UK-based GTV is to launch an 'affordable' pay-TV package featuring Premiership football in Africa next month. By Xan Rice. (more)

New sub-Saharan Pay TV service to broadcast in 18 African countries
From Media Network Weblog. Posted May 22 2007, 3.02pm
A new Pay Tv company later in the month of June begins beaming its programmes in the five East African countries before rolling out to 13 other African countries in an ambitious project. The direct-to-home, satellite-based Pan-African pay-TV, GTV, a subsidiary of UK’s Gateway Broadcasting Service will be available from June 22, with a phased [...] (more)

Gateway Communications to launch pan-African pay-TV service
From Media Network Weblog. Posted February 25 2007, 12.19pm
Gateway Communications, a leading provider of communications throughout Africa, has announced the launch of GTV, a pan-African pay-TV satellite delivered service. It will provide a unique bouquet of high quality international and local entertainment content with a subscription price aimed at penetrating the chronically underserved African television market. Africa represents the least penetrated pay-TV region in the [...] (more)

Jonathan Webb: My Life In Media
From The Independent. Posted November 20 2006, 12.00am
Jonathan Webb, 38, was this month made managing director of Flextech Television, the broadcasting company that owns the LIVINGtv, Bravo and Challenge channels. Webb, who began his career as a marketer at Unilever before entering the television industry, is a big jazz fan who once set up a Soho club called Red Johnny's. He lives in Brighton with his wife Linda and their two children. (more)

NTV-Nepal now available in Europe and Gulf countries
From Media Network Weblog. Posted September 21 2006, 10.31am
The state-run Nepal Television (NTV) will now be available for Nepalis residing in Europe and Gulf countries. This is the first time NTV transmissions are being aired live to audiences in Europe and Gulf countries, Nepal News reports. Galaxy TV (GTV) Ltd - a London-based private company - had been test transmitting programmes of NTV [...] (more)

Ashley Highfield: My Life In Media
From The Independent. Posted January 23 2006, 12.00am
Ashley Highfield, 40, is the BBC's director of new media & technology. After holding key posts with PWC Consultancy and NBC, he went to work for pay-TV operator Flextech (owner of UKGold and LivingTV) becoming MD of all their Interactive businesses, before moving to the BBC. He is responsible for the corporation's entire web presence. Although a string of BBC websites were axed in 2004 following the Graf report, new media is expected to be one of the beneficiaries of Mark Thompson's extensive cost-cutting programme. (more)

BSkyB raids Flextech for new Sky One controller
From Brand Republic. Posted January 5 2006, 9.01am
LONDON – LivingTV's director of television Richard Woolfe is quitting Flextech to take control of BSkyB's three entertainment channels Sky One, Two and Three in April. (more)