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Year2017
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MGM appoints Vimeo exec Sam Toles
MGM Studios has appointed the head of Vimeo’s entertainment group, Sam Toles, as senior vice…
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Arris EVP of global marketing announces retirement
Arris’ executive vice president, global marketing and customer operations, Ronald Coppock, is set to retire…
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Sky launches Fast & Furious film channel
Sky will air all seven Fast & Furious films on a dedicated channel, launched to…
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YouTube expands community translation options
YouTube has expanded its community-contributed translation options, letting content makers crowd-source different language versions of…
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France Télévisions chief highlights Netflix rival SVOD project’s progress
France Télévisions’ plans for a new SVOD service are progressing well, with agreements in principle…
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Sky buys All Time 10s channels group
UK-based pay TV broadcaster Sky has acquired Diagonal View, the digital channels company behind the…
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Verizon ‘planning its own streaming service’
US telco Verizon is the process of securing rights to launch its own OTT TV…
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Ofcom to force Openreach to cut price for 40Mbps internet
UK telecom regulator Ofcom has said that it will cut wholesale prices charged by BT…
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Quintuple-play takes first place in Portugal
Bundled offerings continue to increase in popularity in Portugal, with an additional 266,000 signing up…
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AwesomenessTV hires Red Bull, NBCU execs for UK
Multichannel network AwesomenessTV has opened a UK office and hired NBCUniversal and Red Bull Media…
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SES satellite lofted by re-usable launcher for first time
Satellite operator SES’s SES-10 satellite has been successfully launched into space onboard a ‘flight-proven’ SpaceX…
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Meo adds MTV Live HD
Altice-owned Portuguese service provider Portugal Telecom/Meo has added MTV Live HD to its TV programming…
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Freesat launches new WiFi-enabled Humax box
UK free-to-view satellite platform Freesat has launched a new WiFi enabled set-top supplied by core…
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Telefónica in deal with Real Madrid
Telefónica has struck a new collaboration and partnership agreement with the Real Madrid football club…
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YouView develops AdSmart-style targeted advertising
YouView is working on a project to offer addressable linear or dynamic ad insertion, according…
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ITV position set to worsen, say analysts
UK commercial broadcaster ITV’s performance looks set to worsen as a result of a Brexit-related…
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Liberty Global: the set-top box remains ‘a means to an end’
The set-top box remains a good means to an end, but a future move to…
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TV Connect 2017: CEE operators yet to make full use of data analytics
Pay TV operators in central and eastern Europe in the midst of rolling out non-linear…
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Channel 4: second screen experiment failed to reach scale
Channel 4’s second screen app experiment, 4Now, failed because the UK broadcaster couldn’t get the…
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TracePlay SVOD app goes live
Trace’s delayed subscription video-on-demand service, TracePlay, has launched in the US, UK, Africa, France, Benelux,…
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Ofcom to set UK originals quotas for BBC
The BBC’s new regulator, Ofcom, will demand the UK’s pubcaster produces a minimum number of…
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Switzerland’s Quickline taps SeaChange for RDK-based TV platform
Swiss cable network operator The Quickline Group has tapped SeaChange’s RDK-based platform for the launch…
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TV Connect 2017: Stofa to launch Android TV-based service with iWedia
Danish cable operator Stofa has tapped TV technology provider iWedia to provide its Teatro-3.5 software…
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AMC promotion for Alazard
AMC Networks International has named Géraud Alazard as SVP of marketing. Promoted from the position…
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Virgin Media in management shake-up after over-counting new homes
Liberty Global has suspended four Virgin Media employees after being forced to reassess the number…
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TV Connect 2017: Consumer power and cloud opening up ‘new model’ for broadcasters
Changes in content creation and distribution are being driven by “consumer pull” factors rather than…
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Channel 4 claims relocation would be ‘highly damaging’
Channel 4 has said moving out of London would be “highly damaging”, after Culture Secretary…
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‘Adjacent markets’ and ‘horizontal convergence’ opening up for operators
Media content and distribution companies have an opportunity to branch out into new markets that…
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TV Connect: TV ‘still very healthy’ with young audiences
TV is still very healthy, even among younger audiences, delegates at TV Connect in London…
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Report: ComCast plans low-cost Xfinity Instant TV offering
ComCast is reportedly planning to launch a low-cost TVpackage, called Xfinity Instant TV, aimed at…