Year2017

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Eleven secures Serie A football streaming rights for Italy

Eleven Sports has secured live rights to Serie A football in Italy and will air…

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Amazon Web Services to open Middle East data centres by 2019

Amazon Web Services is due to build new infrastructure and open data centres in the…

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Proximus becomes shareholder in Belgian start-up community

Belgian service provider Proximus has come onboard as a new shareholder in Belgian startup community…

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Report: Intel shelves ‘Project Alloy’ VR headset plans

Intel is reportedly shelving plans to launch Project Alloy as an open platform for developers…

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Czech cable consolidation in train with Rio acquisition

Investment group Kaprain has acquired the number three Czech cable operator Rio Media, according to…

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YouSee rewarding multi-play customers with flexible benefits

TDC-owned multi-play service YouSee has unveiled a new packaging structure designed to provide more flexibility…

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BuzzFeed News partners with Grabyo on Twitter Live show

BuzzFeed News has partnered with cloud-based video platform Grabyo to broadcast daily news show AM…

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Modern Times Group secures ATP tennis rights

Modern Times Group (MTG) has struck a deal to secure the ATP tennis rights for…

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YouTube updates Studio app

YouTube has renamed its Creator Studio app to YouTube Studio and is adding new features…

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CSA boss opposes reintroduction of advertising on pubcaster

Olivier Schrameck, the chief executive of French media regulator the CSA, has expressed his opposition…

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T-Hrvatski Telekom names new CFO

Deutsche Telekom-owned Croatian telco T-Hrvatski Telekom has named Daniel Daub as its new chief financial…

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UK creative industries ‘could be worth £128bn’ in 10 years

The UK’s creative industries could be worth £128.4 billion (€145.8 billion) by 2025 and create…

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Amazon serves up new ATP tennis tournament

ATP and ATP Media have confirmed that Amazon will be an official worldwide streaming partner…

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Deutsche Telekom orders first original series

German pay TV provider Deutsche Telekom (DT) has commissioned its first original series, a French-coproduced…

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Chromecast dominates among EMEA video developers

Google Chromecast is the dominant over-the-top device in EMEA with 37% adoption among developers, according…

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Disney gets new EMEA chief

The Walt Disney Company has a new president for the EMEA region. Rebecca Campbell (pictured)…

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Finland’s terrestrial TV to go all-HD in 2020

TV operators in the Finnish terrestrial broadcasting network have agreed to move entirely to HD…

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France’s NRJ looking to sell Towercast transmission outfit

French radio and TV group NRJ is planning to sell its transmission arm, Towercast, and…

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BBC Brit goes high-definition on DStv

BBC Worldwide’s flagship entertainment channel, BBC Brit, will become available in HD on DStv channel…

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Arianespace sets new date for Intelsat and BSAT craft

Arianespace’s delayed launch of the Intelsat 37e and BSAT-4a satellites has been rescheduled for September…

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Russian OTT services see subscription revenue outpace advertising

Subscription and transactional income for Russia’s streaming services surpassed advertising revenues in the first half…

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BBC Worldwide hires royalties collection specialist

BBC Worldwide has hired royalties collection specialist 560 Media to collect rights revenue on its…

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Liberty Global: ‘GigaWorld’ to create €250bn European market by 2025

Gigaspeed technologies could generate a market worth at least €250 billion per year in Europe…

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Telefónica launching 4K UHD TV service in beta

Telefónica is planning to launch its Movistar+ UHD service in beta, making its new UHD…

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Western European SVOD subscriptions ‘to reach 65m by 2022’

The number of Western European SVOD subscriptions is due to reach 65.07 million by 2022…

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Liberty Global launches ‘converged connectivity’ app

Liberty Global is launching a ‘converged connectivity’ app that it says will enable users to…

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SVOD service Afrostream shutting down

African-themed subscription video-on-demand service Afrostream is shutting down two years after its launch. The service,…

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CMA names investigation group for Fox-Sky deal

The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has appointed the investigation group that will put together its…

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Mediaset strikes deal to launch international channel on DirecTV

Mediaset has struck a deal with US telecom and pay TV operator AT&T to include…

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A+E content chief joins Nat Geo

A+E Networks’ Christian Drobnyk has joined National Geographic Global Networks as executive VP of programming…