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Year2017
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C More extends SVOD to Finland as TV4 posts growth
TV4 Group-owned C More is launching its subscription video-on-demand service in Finland as part of…
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Discovery Nordic chief leaves company
Discovery’s Norway and Sweden boss Harald Stromme has left the company amid reports of a…
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BBC to run iPlayer box-sets
The BBC is due to publish a new run of box–sets on its iPlayer digital…
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Four fifths of UK internet users watch videos online
In the UK 79.4% of internet users, some 43.2 million people, will watch online videos…
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SeaChange appoints chief operating officer
SeaChange has promoted chief information officer, Jonathan Rider, to senior vice president and chief operating…
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Telenet strikes MVNO deal with Lycamobile, sells Ortel
Liberty Global-owned Belgian cable operator Telenet has struck a deal with international mobile virtual network…
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HBO Now passes two million US subscribers
HBO has passed more than two million domestic subscribers for its over-the-top service HBO Now,…
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Twitter highlights video success but ad revenues slip
Twitter attracted 31 million unique viewers to live premium video in the first quarter of…
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Viacom outlines five-point turnaround plan
Media giant Viacom has unveiled a five-point plan to get its business back on track,…
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Discovery pushes into drama in Lionsgate partnership
Discovery is pushing further into drama with The Suck, a ten-part Vietnam war series being produced…
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Five arrested in UK clampdown on illegal TV set-top boxes
Five people have been arrested in North West of England as part of a crackdown…
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Viral Spiral founder gets heavyweight backing for new VR firm
Viral Spiral founder Damian Collier has received backing from a host of prominent media executives…
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Facebook appoints MTV exec to work on original content
Facebook has appointed MTV Networks executive Mina Lefevre as head of development for its original…
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YouTube extends mobile live streaming to creators with 10k subs
YouTube is extending the availability of its mobile live streaming feature to all content creators…
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Vevo hires Fullscreen digital exec
Music video streaming service Vevo has brought in Kevin McGurn, with the digital exec joining…
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Swisscom sees TV base grow at slower rate
Swisscom’s TV subscriber base grew by 10.9% last year to take the Swiss telco’s total…
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Eutelsat turns in better than expected results
Satellite operator Eutelsat saw a 2% like-for-like drop in video revenues in the six months…
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Viaccess-Orca teams up with ContentArmor for Ultra HD watermarking
TV technology company Viaccess-Orca has teamed up with watermarking specialist ContentArmor to strengthen the protection…
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Freesat adds 4Music as The Box Plus Network moves forward with revamp
UK free-to-view satellite platform Freesat has added music channel 4Music to its line-up, replacing The…
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Telekom Slovenije adds raft of new channels
Slovenian service provider Telekom Slovenije has added seven new channels to its programming line-up. The…
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EU reaches agreement on content portability
The European Parliament, the European Commission and member states have reached an agreement on implementing…
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Video to account for three quarters of mobile traffic by 2021
Mobile video will represent 78% of the world’s mobile data traffic by 2021, up from…
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Russian pay TV operators launching Ultra HD TV services
Russian pay TV operators NTV+ and MTS have separately unveiled plans to develop 4K Ultra…
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Jaunt VR hires former Hulu, Vessel exec to drive revenue
Virtual reality firm Jaunt has appointed former Hulu and Vessel executive Jean-Paul Colaco as first…
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Apple poaches Amazon Fire TV exec
Apple has poached the director and general manager of Amazon’s Fire TV product, Timothy Twerdahl….
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Disney boss Iger ‘open’ to staying on
The Walt Disney Company CEO Bob Iger is “open” to postponing his retirement and staying…
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OSN adding new on-demand services and movie channel from Disney
Middle East pay TV provider OSN has struck an extended deal with Disney, enabling it…
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Starz strikes deal with DirecTV streaming service
Starz has inked a deal with AT&T’s DirecTV that will see its channels launch on…
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Amino sees revenues and profit surge
UK-based TV technology outfit Amino Technologies saw its full-year revenues and operating profit surge in…
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ProSiebenSat.1 acquires Austria’s ATV
ProSiebenSat.1 has agreed to buy Austrian TV station, ATV, from its parent company Tele München…