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Year2017
SFR reorganisation to follow Paulin departure
SFR’s CEO Michel Paulin has resigned “for personal reasons”, according to the Altice-owned French service…
Facebook ‘could spend US$1bn’ on original shows
Facebook could spend up to US$1 billion on original shows for its platform between now…
New SVOD movies service for France to launch next month
A new French movies-on-demand service, e-cinema.com, will launch on October 20, bringing international movies not…
UK government: 15% of web users watch content illegally
Approximately 6.7 million UK internet users, some 15%, consumed at least one item of online…
Dutch MVNO Youfone launches OTT TV service
Dutch MVNO Youfone has launched an OTT TV service, YoufoneTV, targeting a young audience with…
TF1 chief confident of striking retrans deal
TF1 Group CEO Gilles Pélisson is confident that the French commercial broadcaster will be able…
Altice beats BeIN Media to become French home of basketball
Altice has acquired exclusive rights to Euroleague and Eurocup basketball for the next four seasons,…
SES launches O3b mPower networks system
Satellite operator SES has launched O3b mPower, a system that is designed to deliver efficient…
Iflix expands in Africa with Ghana launch
Emerging market SVOD service, Iflix, has expanded its African reach after going live in Ghana…
YouTube adds HDR to Android phones
YouTube has reportedly added high dynamic range (HDR) video playback options for a number of…
Netflix in front globally, but Amazon catching up in APAC
Netflix is still outpacing Amazon Prime Video globally in numbers of active users, but Amazon…
Discovery appoints Spotify exec to head digital strategy
Discovery Communications has appointed former Spotify executive Francis Keeling to lead its digital strategy. Keeling…
Disney confirms Stars Wars & Marvel for SVOD app
The Walt Disney Company’s upcoming international SVOD service will offer Star Wars and Marvel Universe…
VR and AR headset shipments up 25% in Q2
Worldwide shipments of virtual and augmented reality headsets grew 25.5% year-over-year in the second quarter,…
Pay TV industry to experience ‘unprecedented change’
The pay TV industry is due to face a period of “unprecedented global change”, according…
Vivendi ‘close to agreement’ with AGCOM over Mediaset stake
Vivendi is close to finding an agreement with Italian regulator AGCOM over the fate of…
DNA adds Netflix in 4K to Android TV box offering
Finnish cable and telecom operator DNA has struck a deal with Netflix and has added…
European connected TV ad market set for growth with UK leading
The European connected TV advertising market could be worth €825 million by 2020, according to…
Netflix nabs Swedish original from The Bridge scribe
Netflix has commissioned its first original series from Sweden, which has the head writer from…
HTS satellites set to take up slack as capacity price pressure bites
High-throughput satellite (HTS) services will enable growth in the overall satellite communications market despite a…
CME joins European Media Alliance
Central European Media Enterprises (CME) has joined the European Media Alliance created by ProSiebenSat.1 and…
ITV taps AWS Elemental for streaming video
UK commercial broadcaster ITV has tapped video processing specialist AWS Elemental to deliver technology to…
MTG secures exclusive boxing rights
Modern Times Group has secured the exclusive rights to the World Boxing Super Series across…
Altice passes four-million fibre milestone in Portugal
Altice-owned Portugal Telecom’s (PT) Meo-branded offering has now passed four million homes and businesses with…
Videoamp appoints former FreeWheel exec as CFO
RTL Group and Mediaocean-backed Videoamp has appointed former FreeWheel COO and CFO, as its first…
Broadcasters and SPs to get scope of new video + cloud strategy for HD/UHD/4K video at IBC
Kontron introduces new SYMKLOUD converged video solutions that feature a range of modular hardware components…
McDonough takes charge of Forbidden Technologies
Cloud video software-as-a-service specialist Forbidden Technologies has named former Turner northern Europe chief and BBC…
Blue Ant creates global networks division in expansion push
Producer, distributor and channel operator Blue Ant Media has launched a global networks division to…
Vivendi ‘merging’ Dailymotion with Watchever
Vivendi is merging its struggling YouTube rival Dailymotion with video-on-demand technology unit Watchever, according to…
Roku launches The Roku Channel
Roku has launched a free movie-streaming channel on its platform, called The Roku Channel. Available…