Year2017

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Report: Ericsson looks to cut 25,000 jobs

Ericsson is reportedly considering cutting some 25,000 employees outside of Sweden in its efforts to…

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YouTube adds ex-WGN & Fox execs for originals

YouTube is bolstering its original programming team by hiring former WGN America (WGN) and Fox…

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Kudelski slips into red as TV dip and IoT investments take toll

Kudelski Group slipped into the red in the first half of this year on weaker…

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ABI: VR seeing strong interest from US businesses

Virtual Reality (VR) is seeing strong interest from US businesses, particularly in the healthcare, retail,…

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Telecable closes OTT TV service

Spanish regional cable operator Telecable, now owned by Bilbao-based Euskaltel, is closing its online TV…

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ER-Telecom secures green light to acquire Akado regional operations

Russian competition watchdog the Federal Antimonopoly Service has given a green light to ER-Telecom to…

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Clubbing TV Russia launches with Rostelecom

Dance music channel Clubbing TV has launched in Russia after securing carriage on Rostelecom’s TV…

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Discover BEEMIX, Hubee’s brand new unified modular video platform!

BEEMIX offers live, VOD/SVOD, catch-up, NPVR, analytics solutions and unedited backend modules like re-linear feature,…

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Indian police arrest four in Game of Thrones leak case

Indian police have arrested four individuals allegedly involved in the leak of episode four of…

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Parrot Analytics: Netflix dominates in-demand digital originals in Spain

Netflix dominated the list of the most in-demand digital originals in Spain in the second…

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OSN launches new streaming service

Middle East pay TV platform OSN has launched a new streaming service, Wavo, available on…

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MTG’s Zoomin.tv targets China with Tencent deal

MTG-owned online video network, Zoomin.tv, is setting its sights on China after partnering with domestic…

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US TV network veteran Cherniss joins Apple

Ex-studio and US network veteran Matt Cherniss has joined former Sony execs Jamie Erlicht and…

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AltspaceVR reverses shutdown

irtual reality social network, AltspaceVR, said it will “live on”, despite announcing its imminent closure…

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TDG: ‘skinny bundle’ TV online customers happy with value

Subscribers to virtual pay TV services “overwhelmingly consider service value to be very solid,” according…

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Ex-CBS executive joins Verizon’s Go90

Former CBS alternative programming chief, Chris Castallo, is headed to digital video platform Go90 to…

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US connected device sales ‘to reach 442m by 2020’

More than 442 million connected devices will be sold in the US by 2020, according…

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Murdoch, Bradley and Clementi among RTS speakers

The UK’s Royal Television Society (RTS) has unveiled the line-up for its forthcoming Cambridge Convention….

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Amazon to shut down Lovefilm in UK and Germany

Amazon is calling time on its Lovefilm-branded DVD-by-post service later this year, citing declining demand…

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New chief for SlingTV as Lynch exits for Pandora

DISH Network’s Erik Carlson will lead its over-the-top service, SlingTV, after Roger Lynch moved to internet…

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Pay TV numbers rise in Kenya as DTT FTA boxes decline

Digital-terrestrial pay TV subscriptions are rising significantly in Kenya, while the number of free-to-air channels…

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‘Netflix of comedy’ NextUp secures funds of £230k

NextUp, a stand up comedy VOD platform that launched in 2016, has completed its latest…

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Viacom to take MTV Germany free-to-air in 2018

Viacom International Media Networks (VIMN) is making MTV Germany an unencrypted, free-to-air TV channel in Germany…

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Hulu taps Amazon Web Services for live TV offering

Hulu selected Amazon Web Services (AWS) as the cloud provider for its recently launched Hulu…

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Ownzones launches Best Westerns Ever SVOD channel

OTT TV provider Ownzones has launched a subscription video-on-demand channel dedicated to westerns, available via…

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Croatian telecom taps Zenterio for new MAXtv

Deutsche Telekom-owned Croatian telco T-Hrvatski Telekom has tapped Zenterio to provide its operating system software…

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New chief executive for Greek pubcaster

The Greek government has appointed Vassilis Costopoulis as the new CEO of public broadcaster ERT….

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Eleven secures exclusive rights to Mayweather-McGregor bout

Pay TV sports network Eleven Sports has secured exclusive live rights for Belgium to forthcoming…

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Telefónica ‘looking to launch’ international OTT TV service

Telefónica is mulling the launch of a Netflix-like OTT TV service to target an international…

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Netflix orders supernatural UK original

Netflix has ordered a supernatural-themed original drama produced by UK-based New Pictures, DTVE sister title…