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Year2017
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Sky teams with Fitbit for short-form funded first
Sky has teamed up with connected health consumer technology outfit Fitbit to create a second…
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Quickline taps Broadpeak for OTT TV service
Swiss cable operator Quickline has tapped Broadpeak to provide the underlying technology for its Quickline…
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ShortsTV extends Dutch reach
ShortsTV has launched its linear TV channel on the Delta platform in Zeeland. The channel,…
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Liberty Global’s Fries: acquisition of ITV is ‘not interesting’
ITV’s market valuation and the premium that would be required to buy it means that…
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Meo launches live TV ‘in VR environment’
Altice-owned Portuguese telecom operator Portugal Telecom/Meo has laid claim to have become the first operator…
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Combining fixed and mobile failing to deliver synergies, says Fries
Combining fixed and mobile assets and marketing quad-play services has so far failed to deliver…
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MTG extends Champions League rights to 2021
Modern Times Group (MTG) has extended its rights to broadcast UEFA Champions League football in…
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Tubi TV raises US$20 million in funding
Ad-supported video-on-demand service, Tubi TV, has raised US$20 million in Series B funding. ‘Expansion stage’…
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MTN launches Cyprus TV service
MTN has launched a TV service in Cyprus with channels from the BBC, NBCUniversal and…
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Netflix ISP Index: Telefonica-Movistar slips in Spain
Telefonica-Movistar’s average internet speed dropped from 2.60 Mbps in March to 2.25 Mbps in April,…
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Telenor Satellite extends deal with UPC DTH
Telenor Satellite has extended its satellite distribution agreement with UPC DTH, the Liberty Global-owned DTH…
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Xstream names sales and marketing chief
OTT and TV everywhere technology specialist Xstream has named Jacob Barlebo as global sales and…
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Molotov agrees DRM deal with castLabs
French live and catch-up TV streaming service, Molotov, has agreed a digital rights management (DRM)…
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Liberty Global adds quarter of a million next-gen TV subscribers
Liberty Global added 253,000 next-generation TV subscribers in Q1, and said the UK and Germany…
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BT Sport and TV boss departs after three years
The managing director of BT Sport and BT TV, Delia Bushell, has announced plans to…
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Global pay TV revenues ‘to peak in 2017’
Global pay TV revenues will peak in 2017, but will not decline rapidly in the…
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Bennett exiting History to create production company
History chief Jana Bennett is to leave A+E Networks to create a London- and New…
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Sky creates VR highlights film of Klitscko-Joshua bout
Sky has created a virtual-reality highlights film of the April 29 world heavyweight boxing match…
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Vivendi CEO takes secondary role as Recchi confirmed as TIM chairman
Vivendi CEO Arnaud de Puyfontaine will not, after all, serve as chairman of Telecom Italia…
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Welling exits Discovery for Scripps
Discovery Communications veteran Paul Welling has joined Scripps Networks Interactive to lead content efforts in…
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Proximus sees solid TV growth on back of quad-play success
Belgian telco Proximus saw solid growth in its TV base in the first quarter, with…
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Viacom launches new MTV Play mobile app
Viacom International Media Networks has launched a new MTV Play mobile app in the Netherlands…
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Amazon’s Alexa helps out with Eurovision Song Contest discovery
The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) has developed a new Eurovision Song Contest-related skill for Amazon’s…
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BBC Advertising names business development and innovation chief
BBC Worldwide’s advertising unit, BBC Advertising, has named Errol Baran as SVP of business development…
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TRT World launches on Sky
Turkey’s English-language news channel TRT World has extended its reach in the UK and Ireland…
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Pay TV services to account for close to 90% of global video market
Pay TV services will account for 89.7% of the global US$314.3 billion video media market…
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Vivendi secures majority on Telecom Italia board
Vivendi has secured a two-thirds majority on the board of Telecom Italia (TIM). The French…
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Oculus closes VR content studio
Facbook-owned virtual reality company Oculus has announced plans to “wind down” its VR content arm,…
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Sandvine: 70% of Kodi boxes set up for pirated content
Some 68.6% of North American households with Kodi boxes also have unofficial add-ons configured to…
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Canal+ fends off competition to secure Formula 1
Canal+ has fended off competition from Altice to secure a new agreement for the carriage…