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Sky Sports 5 available to BT viewers
BSkyB’s new European football channel Sky Sports 5 will be available to BT’s Vision+ subscribers…
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BSkyB launches weekly pay-you-go Sky Sports option
BSkyB has launched a new pay-as-you-go variant for its Now TV OTT offering, providing a…
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Kipco rejects US$3.2 billion offer for OSN stake
Kuwait Projects Company (Kipco) has reportedly rejected a US$3.2 billion (€2.4 billion) offer from an…
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Maker sibling co-founders exit
Lisa and Ben Donovan, the siblings that co-founded multichannel network Maker Studios, have exited the…
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Birmingham’s City TV first of new local services to go bust
Birmingham’s City TV has become the first of the UK’s new local TV services to…
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Back catalogue movies are key for UK SVoD customers
The ability to access large back catalogues of movies and TV series are the top…
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IBM exec named as president of Magine TV
OTT TV provider Magine TV has named Ambuj Goyal as the company’s president and COO….
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US pay TV losses slow down in Q2
The top 10 US pay TV operators lost 165,500 digital TV customers in the second…
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Access launches multiscreen content discovery platform
Device browser provider Access has launched Access Twine, a new platform designed to enable unified…
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US studio Lionsgate moves sales HQ to London
The British government has hailed a move that will see US studio Lionsgate relocate its…
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Broadband satellite deal for Intelsat in Angola
Satellite operator Intelsat has struck a multi-year deal with Angolan national oil and gas company…
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Sundance Channel rises in Central America
Sundance Channel Global has launched in Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Panama and Paraguay…
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Telecom Italia move sparks Mediaset merger speculation
Telecom Italia has reportedly initiated talks with Vivendi, in a bid to counter Telefónica’s bid…
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Netflix boasts revenues have overtaken HBO
Netflix CEO Reed Hastings has taken to Facebook to boast that the streaming service generated…
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Microsoft to add free-to-air DTT tuner for Xbox One in Europe
Microsoft is to provide a digital TV tuner for its Xbox One gaming devices in…
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BBC launching new iPlayer on wide range of smart TVs
The BBC has begun rolling out the new version of its BBC iPlayer catch-up TV…
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DTG begins work on Freeview Connected and 700MHz migration plan
The UK’s Digital Television Group (DTG) is initiating work on the specification for the proposed…
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305,000 churn US pay TV, but cord-cutting slows
New research from the US shows that 305,000 consumers gave up their pay TV subscription…
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Unexpected boost for LCD market in first half
The global LCD TV panel market saw growth of year-on-year growth 3% in the first…
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TalkTalk adds Brazilian boost
UK service provider TalkTalk has added a new Brazilian TV mini-pack or ‘boost’ to is…
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Zenterio teams up with Viaccess-Orca for joint offering
Interactive TV specialist Zenterio has teamed up with conditional access provider Viaccess-Orca in a deal…
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FilmBox Live streaming app launches on Skylink
Channel provider SPI International’s video-on-demand and live streaming app FilmBox Live has launched on the…
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Saffron Digital to launch Superfan TV
Online video specialist Saffron Digital is to use the IBC show to launch Superfan TV,…
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Portugal’s Nos adds YouTube to Iris offering
Portuguese pay TV operator Nos, formerly known as Zon Multimédia, has launched a YouTube app…
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UPC Romania clarifies on football offering
Liberty Global-owned cable operator UPC Romania has committed to upgrading only those subscribers who notify…
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Fox International Channels takes Tiger Mom
Fox International Channels has taken international broadcast and distribution rights to Tiger Mom, the upcoming…
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Wananchi’s Zuku to upgrade cable broadband
Wananchi Programming-owned Kenya-based pay TV provider Zuku is upgrading its broadband network in the country’s…
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Chile next for Horizon as Liberty Global evolves advanced TV platform
Liberty Global is turning to Chile for its next Horizon advanced TV launch, according to…
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New OTT hybrid platform for Russia
Russian retail and banking group Trellas has launched a new hybrid OTT TV service, TVzor,…
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Bewkes sidesteps Fox questions as Murdoch has his say
Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes neatly sidestepped questions about why he walked away from a…