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…