- Date.
- 11 May 2008
- Publication.
- News
- Author.
- Balderton
TOP UP TV'S European push
TOP Up TV, the pay-television broadcaster available on Freeview, is launching in France and is in talks to unveil its service in another dozen overseas markets. Chairman and cofounder David Chance says interest from abroad has been considerable.'We are finding lots of international markets in the process of switching off the analogue television signal and moving to digital,' he says. 'We are talking to broadcasters in another ten or 12 international markets.'
Top Up offers viewers access to Freeview channels on digital terrestrial television along with programming from Disney, Paramount, Discovery and sports broadcaster Setanta for a monthly fee. Programmes can be sent to customers' digital recorders overnight on the Top Up TV Anytime video-on-demand service, where they are stored for later viewing.
The company is understood to have about 300,000 subscribers of which about half are 'Anytime' customers. Chance, former deputy managing director of BSkyB, co-founded Top Up with Ian West, ex-MD of Sky Entertainment, four years ago.
