National Roll-Out For Tiscali TV

Tiscali is to make its TV service available to nearly five million UK homes and plans to raise this figure to 10 million by the end of 2007.

Tiscali TV services will be available in Central, North and North West of England as well as the M25 ring for the first time.

Tiscali has already signed a deal with Sky which will see it provide the satellite broadcaster's basic channel package - including Sky One, Sky Two, Sky Three, Sky Arts, Sky Travel, Sky News and Sky Sports News.

Its new TV packages include a £5 TV Variety Pack with over 50 digital channels, as well as three additional TV packs for £6 each.

Additional pay TV subscription services include Sky Sports 1, 2 and 3, Sky Movies and Picture Box.

Mary Turner, Tiscali CEO, said: "By Christmas 2007 Tiscali TV will reach almost 10 million homes and we believe we can offer great value digital TV and the best value triple-play service in the UK for those who don't want to pay for expensive premium TV, but do want more than Freeview."

A recent NewsLine column, written by James Myring, associate director at Continental Research, examined IPTV and how it fits into the current media landscape.

Meanwhile, Cable & Wireless recently announced the launch of the UK's first national IPTV service via broadband following its signing of a £70 million deal with Inuk Networks.

Source: Media Tel