TV consumers in Austria must pay higher taxes from Friday. The ORF licence fee increases by seven per cent as of 1 June. The rise was agreed on last November when ORF general director Alexander Wrabetz justified it as “moderate”. Political decision-makers and telecommunications regulation authority KommAustria gave the go-ahead to the disputed tax hike. […]
Peter Schöber has said that market shares should be a negligible aspect for ORF III. Schöber – who co-heads the new channel in cooperation with Helmut Kaiser – said: “Our programme attracts up to 400,000 people a day but, to be honest, I do not care about market shares a lot. (…) Quality should matter […]
A German music television broadcaster has disclosed plans to introduce Austrian contents. Viva officials said yesterday (Weds) they wanted to add more music by Austrian artists to the programme soon. The plan is to set up Viva Austria, a specialised programme which screens Austrian chart shows on the same channel as Viva. Around 15 per […]
Former Telekom Austria (TA) boss Boris Nemsic has been hired by a global investment and consulting firm, according to reports. Business newspapers claim today (Fri) that the Sarajevo-born businessman will head the emerging markets operations of Delta Partners, a firm based in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Nemsic headed TA for four years […]
Incest beast Josef Fritzl is the main focus of a new crime cases documentary on German TV.Internationally acknowledged Austrian profiler Thomas Müller has been signed up to analyse infamous crime cases such as that of 74-year-old Fritzl for “Urteil: Mord” (Sentence: Murder) on private channel Sat.1.The series, which started earlier this month, is screened at […]