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Discovery serves up 10 year Tennis Australia broadcast deal for Europe

Discovery Sports has announced a long-term deal to carry the Australian Open exclusively across Europe. …

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Sports specialist Deltatre hires former Discovery and Sky exec to oversee video business

Deltatre has announced the hire of Bhavisha Mistry as its new senior vice president of…

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Deutsche Telekom announces €5 billion T-Mobile Netherlands sale

Deutsche Telekom has agreed a deal to sell its Dutch business for €5.1 billion. The…

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Roku announces expansion into Germany

Roku has announced a plan to expand into Germany. The company on Monday announced plans…

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SPI International launches Dizi streaming service

SPI International has revealed its new streaming service. The Dizi app is an extension of…

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Virgin Media O2 reaches 10 million homes with latest gigabit network expansion

Virgin Media O2 has announced the expansion of its gigabit broadband network to more than…

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ITV to broadcast England Lionesses matches

ITV has agreed a broadcast rights deal with the FA to carry the women’s national…

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Veon announces sale of Russian tower business

Russian operator Veon has announced the sale of its mobile network towers in the country….

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Former ViacomCBS programming head in at Spotify

Julie McNamara, former EVP and head of programming at ViacomCBS-owned streamer Paramount+, has resurfaced at…

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Virgin Media boosts Ofcom complaints in Q1

Complaints to UK regulator Ofcom about broadband and landline services hit a three-year high in the first…

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Canal+ names new secretary general

Canal+ has named Laëtitia Ménasé as its new secretary general, working with CEO Maxime Saada…

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Ultimate Pool launches streaming service

Ultimate Pool Group, the organiser of Professional English Eightball Pool events, has launched a video…

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Finland’s DNA names new CEO

Jussi Tolvanen has been named as the new president and CEO of Telenor-owned Finnish service…

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Canal+ Poland names new CTO

Canal+ Polska technology chief Jarosław Kordalewski has been given a role as a consultant to…

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Curiosity takes minority stake in Nebula

Factual streaming company Curiosity – formerly known as CuriosityStream – has announced an investment in…

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Latin America to reach 130 million SVOD subs

The Latin American SVOD market will add more than 50 million paying subscribers over the…

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Star Media launches LAVA streamer

Russian production company Star Media has revealed a new streaming service. The service called LAVA…

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NENT strikes Viaplay deal with Xavier Niel’s Play in Poland

Nordic Entertainment Group (NENT Group) and Polish mobile operator Play, owned by France’s Iliad Telecom,…

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TF1 renews World Cup Rugby deal

French commercial broadcaster TF1 has secured the rights to the Rugby World Cup 2021 and…

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FilmBox to launch in Netherlands with Delta Fiber

In a move that marks the expansion of SPI’s FilmBox brand in the Netherlands, the…

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Free streamer Locast suspends operations following court ruling

US streaming platform Locast has suspended all operations following a Manhattan federal court ruling.  The…

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Commercial venue streamer Screach expands Polish offer with NFL rights 

Streaming platform Screach has acquired the commercial venue rights to the NFL in Poland. Coming…

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Tubi adds 400 hours of content from BBC Studios

Fox-owned ad-supported streamer Tubi has announced a content partnership with BBC Studios. The deal will…

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Amazon reportedly to launch own-brand TV sets in the US

Amazon is set to launch its own branded TV sets in the US next month….

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YouTube hits 50 million premium subscription customers

Google-owned YouTube has amassed 50 million subscribers to its Premium and Music services, the video…

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Salt offers UEI remote

Swiss telco Salt has announced a partnership with Universal Electronics Inc. (UEI) to offer its…

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Cyfrowy Polsat becomes Polsat Box

Poland’s Cyfrowy Polsat has now officially launched its rebranded pay TV offering under the new…

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WarnerMedia channels join AzamTV

Tanzania-based pay TV operator AzamTV has added WarnerMedia channels CNN International, Cartoon Network and Boomerang…

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EBU joins data and cloud body Gaia-X

The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) has joined Gaia-X, the Brussels-based Association promoting the establishment of…

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coocaa launches lite smart TV operating system for Southeast Asian market

New Delhi-based smart TV tech provider coocaa has announced the launch of a new operating…