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TiVo tops 2.5 million in Europe
TiVo has passed the 2.5 million subscriber milestone in Europe for the first time. TiVo…
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Debt and public markets both benefiting cable
Debt financing is characterised by rising yields and interest going up, but debt remains very…
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LG pushes 4K with new TV line launch
LG has launched its 2014 lineup of TVs, unveiling 68 new models, its largest collection…
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Unitymedia KabelBW taps Arris for CCAP edge router
Liberty Global-owned German cable operator Unitymedia KabelBW has deployed Arris’s E6000 Converged Edge router, the…
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Discovery promotes Honeycutt to new CTO role
Discovery Communications ahs promoted John Honeycutt to the role of chief technology officer. Honeycutt was…
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Bouygues ups cash offer for SFR
French telecoms-to-construction conglomerate Bouygues has upped the cash component of its offer for Vivendi-owned SFR…
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Netflix extends UK deal with Fox
Netflix UK in the UK and Ireland has acquired Homeland and American Horror Story from…
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Du chooses ChannelSculptor to manage channel portfolio
Middle East telecom operator Du has hired ChannelSculptor to aggregate free-to-air channels for its IPTV…
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VimpelCom introduces new offer for TV
Russian service provider VimpelCom has launched a promotional offer for three new bundled pacakges free…
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Cable Europe names annual award winners
Cable Europe awarded its 2013 Fellow award to Emma Svalin Sahlman, head of product, TV…
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Cable chiefs mull mobile future at Cable Congress
Cable CEOs debated the future of convergence between their own networks and mobile services at…
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European cable industry tipped for more consolidation
Europe’s cable industry is on the “brink of a new wave of consolidation,” according Cable…
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Canal+ testing new OTT version of service
Canal+ has been quietly testing a new over-the-top (OTT) version of its service for the…
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Disney’s Sweeney quits to become TV director
Disney/ABC Television Group president and Disney Media Networks co-chair Anne Sweeney is to leave the…
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European digital TV subscribers outnumber analogue for the first time
The number of digital TV subscribers outnumbered analogue for the first time in 2013, according…
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Numericable sees strong multi-play growth
French cable operator Numericable now has over one million multi-play customers and a total customer…
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AMC chief: technology has changed shape of TV drama
Technology including video-on-demand and digital video recording has helped change the shape and improve the…
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DNA launches TV everywhere service
Finland’s DNA has launched a TV everywhere service on its cable network Welho. The DNA…
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Get chooses Concurrent
Norwegian cable operator Get has chosen Concurrent to supply its MediaHawk VX content delivery platform…
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Disney to pay $500m for Maker Studios, say reports
Stateside reports claim The Walt Disney Company is in talks to buy YouTube channel operator…
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TV Dozhd tops Lattelecom news channels viewing
Struggling Russian independent news channel TV Dozhd topped the viewing table of news and information…
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Volia adds new channel
Ukrainian cable operator Volia has added Ukrainian news channel Espreso TV to its programming line-up…
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BBC launches updated iPlayer
The BBC is rolling out an updated version of its iPlayer streaming service in a…
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Numericable shares drop as it holds out for SFR deal
French cable operator Numericable’s controlling shareholder Altice has set a deadline of Friday for its…
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Com Hem launches 1Gbps internet
Swedish cable operator Com Hem has begun rolling out a new 1Gbps internet service. The…
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Comcast cuts House of Cards deal, mulls own YouTube-type service
US cable giant Comcast has acquired rights to sell season one of Netflix original House of…
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Nine in 10 MENA households now taking satellite TV
Over nine out of 10 housheholds in 15 countries across the Middle East and North…
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UK government aims to double spectrum revenues
The UK government has said that aims for spectrum to double its contribution to the…
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Magine appoints former Prisa exec as new chairman
Swedish cloud TV service Magine has appointed existing company board member and the former chief…
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Viaccess-Orca acquires Discretix’s SecurePlayer
Viaccess-Orca is to acquire the SecurePlayer business from Discretix Technologies, a provider of embedded security…