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Year2017
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Eleven Sports strikes Drone deal
Pay TV sports broadcaster Eleven Sports has struck a deal with the Drone Champions League…
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Disney pulls content from Netflix to launch own SVOD offering
The Walt Disney Company is pulling all of its movies from Netflix in order to…
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Liberty Global sees upside from ‘fragmented’ European OTT market
Liberty Global is benefitting from a fragmented, and in some cases still underdeveloped, OTT market…
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Fox faces Sky delay as government calls on Ofcom to look at ‘new evidence’
The UK government has said that submissions made in relation to 21st Century Fox’s planned…
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Disney ups BAMTech stake in strategic SVOD move
Disney will pay US$1.58 billion (€1.34 billion) to up its stake in video streaming technology…
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Fries: Liberty Global ‘cannot afford to stand still’ on convergence
Liberty Global remains committed to developing convergent offerings despite an ongoing industry-wide decline in mobile…
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Fox to launch SVOD service FX+ with Comcast
21st Century Fox’s US FX Networks unit has teamed up with cable giant Comcast to…
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Vodafone commits to 4K football, adds motorsports to offering
Vodafone España is to offer two football matches in 4K resolution on each match day…
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Immersive content and 360° video to generate US$6bn
Interactive and immersive content formats and 360° video will generate revenues of US$6 billion by…
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Vivacom grows IPTV base
Bulgarian service provider Vivacom grew its IPTV subscriber base to 426,000 at the end of…
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HBO to develop original series in Adria region
HBO is to strengthen its production activities in central Europe, appointing Ana Balentovic as development…
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Sony to rebrand Kix children’s channel to Pop Max
Sony Pictures Television Networks (SPTN) is set to rebrand kid’s channel Kix to Pop Max…
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Content Innovation Awards 2017: the shortlist unveiled
Digital TV Europe and TBI have unveiled the shortlist for the third annual Content Innovation…
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Liberty Global reaches 7.2m next-gen TV customers
Liberty Global added 302,000 subscribers to its next generation TV platforms in Europe during Q2,…
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Iflix closes US$133m funding round led by Hearst
Emerging market SVOD service Iflix has completed a US$133 million (€113 million) funding round led…
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Netflix makes first acquisition with Millarworld
SVOD giant Netflix has entered the mergers and acquisitions market for the first time by…
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Vivendi stands firm that it does not ‘control’ Telecom Italia
Vivendi has told Italian markets regulator CONSOB that it does not “control” Telecom Italia (TIM)….
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CBS All Access goes global
CBS’s SVOD service, CBS All Access, is headed to the global market. The service will…
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Scripps’ TVN sells Polish tele-shopping channel
Scripps Networks Interactive-owned Polish broadcaster TVN has sold tele-shopping channel Mango-Media to retail and e-commerce…
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TRT World lands on TVPlayer
Turkish international news channel TRT World has teamed up with UK OTT TV platform TVPlayer…
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South Africa edges closer towards digital switchover
South African communications minister Ayanda Dlodlo has reiterated her commitment to move the country’s sluggish…
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YouTube launches in-app video sharing
YouTube has launched new functionality that makes it possible for mobile users to share videos…
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BeIN Media secures raft of CBS content
Middle East pay TV provider BeIN Media has struck a new multiplatform licensing deal with…
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ProSiebenSat.1 could launch new JV channels with Scripps
ProSiebenSat.1 could launch one or more new thematic channels in partnership with Scripps Networks Interactive,…
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Sky-backed Caavo to start shipping first set-top boxes in autumn
Sky-backed US set-top box start-up, Caavo, is due to launch the first 5,000 units of…
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Apple to bring 4K, HDR support to new Apple TV
Apple looks set to launch a new version of its Apple TV streaming device with…
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Discovery teams up with TEN to enter US OTT market for first time
Discovery has struck a deal with TEN: The Enthusiast Network to create a consolidated joint…
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Kids SVOD service launches in France
A new subscription VOD service has launched in France. Okidoki has been available through Samsung…
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New Polish law could place strict limit on foreign ownership
Polish politicians from the governing Law and Justice (PiS) party are mulling changes in the…
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Vivendi agrees to put Mediaset shares in blind trust
Vivendi has agreed to transfer its stake in Mediaset above a threshold of 10% to…