France launches world TV channel
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France's first international news channel is launched into competition with BBC World and CNN.
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Google's video-sharing site launches country-specific YouTube sites.
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TechWeb - Kyte allows Internet users to create their own TV channel and broadcast it on Web sites, blogs, social networks, and cell phones.
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An electronic gadget that promises to  unshackle consumers from their TV sets became available in  Europe for the first time on Tuesday, opening up new ways for  users to watch television wherever they go.
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Cable companies Telewest and NTL square up to Sky with the launch of video-on-demand TV.
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Excerpt from report by Russian news agency Ekho Moskvy  Moscow, 7 September: The transmission of four 24-hour digital TV channels carrying programmes produced by Channel One has started in Russia.
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France launches its first TV channel for gay and lesbian audiences, called PinkTV.
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Viacom Inc.'s MTV Networks will next year launch its first local channel in Africa, the final global outpost for the music video and kids' broadcaster and its 100th channel worldwide.
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Swiss ISP will deliver pay-TV channels and video-on-demand service.
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Iran launched an English-language  satellite television channel on Monday saying it was seeking to  redress the balance of world news coverage which was now in the  grip of the West.
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&quot;A giant leap for television, a small step in high heels,&quot; the presenter promised, unveiling France&#39;s first gay television station which aims to make gay culture mainstream and marks a new climate of tolerance in Roman Catholic France.
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By ED HARRIS  A BROADBAND television service developed by the founders of an online telephone business is expected to be launched next year, it is reported today.   The service will offer "the best of the internet with the best of TV".
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Media watchdog Ofcom proposes a new TV channel to broadcast public service programmes in the UK.
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Text of report by Kyrgyz news agency 24.kg website  Bishkek, 5 February: A new TV broadcaster, called The Fifth Channel, will be launched in Kyrgyzstan next Monday, 12 February.  The Fifth Channel will go on air next Monday, 12 February, the TV company's press service has said.
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A French satellite designed to hunt out  new planets has started work after a series of successful  tests, the European Space Agency said on Friday.
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France's first gay TV station, which from next month will offer its viewers a heavy diet of English-language comedy and homosexual porn, has lassoed in a pop culture icon as its media mascot: Wonder Woman.
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The launch of France's first gay television channel, Pink TV, on Monday has been touted as a big step for television and a new era for homosexuality in this largely Roman Catholic country.