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Super Bowl generates 1.8 billion Twitter TV impressions
Sunday’s Super Bowl generated 1.8 billion Twitter TV impressions, reaching a unique audience of 15.3…
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Brightcove opens Dubai hub for MENA
Online TV specialist Brightcove is to open a new office in Dubai as part of…
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Euronews claims record YouTube figures
Euronews logged record YouTube viewing figures in 2013, claiming a 160% rise in viewing figures…
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France Télévisions taps Hubee for Pluzz.fr on Free
Broadcaster France Télévisions has tapped existing on-demand TV partner Hubee to provide its video-on-demand and…
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NHK revamps international service
NHK is revamping its NHK World TV service with a raft of new content. The…
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Cyfrowy Polsat adds TVP Sport HD
Polish pay TV operator Cyfrowy Polsat has added TVP Sport HD from the country’s public…
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EBU taps Newtec for pan-European news exchange
The European Broadcasting Union has signed a contract to deploy technology provider Newtec’s satellite broadcast…
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SFR could launch IPO in July, says Vivendi CEO
Vivendi-owned French service provider SFR could launch its IPO as early as July, according to…
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Spain’s ONO receives TiVo boost
Spanish fibre operator ONO added 65,000 TiVo customers in the last quarter, bringing the active…
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Freetime connected TV boost for Freesat
Freetime connected TV set-tops now account for 40% of UK free-to-air satellite platform Freesat’s installed…
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Smart TV shipments grow 55% in 2013
Global shipments of smart TVs grew by 55% year-on-year in 2013, reaching 76 million units,…
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Amazon plans Prime price hike
Amazon said that it is considering upping the price of its Prime subscription service in…
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AMC Networks completes US$1bn Chellomedia purchase
AMC Networks has closed its US$1 billion (€750 million) acquisition of global channels operator and…
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Numericable to offer 4G free to subs for one year
French cable operator Numericable is making its 4G mobile service free of charge to existing…
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Russia’s Kartina VoD service and PeerTV launch OTT set-top
Russian expatriate-targeted on-demand service provider Kartina has launched the Kartina IQ set-top in partnership with…
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BBC Worldwide launches Top Gear Facebook app
BBC Worldwide has launched a Top Gear virtual Facebook app, to coincide with the start…
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Slovak Sport.TV2 delivers Premier League to freeSAT homes
Liberty Global’s satellite TV arm UPC DTH has added sports channel Slovak Sport.TV2 to its…
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Disney expands HD offering in German-speaking region
Disney XD and Disney Junior are launching in HD in the German speaking region for…
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Planet Knowledge VoD launches in UK and Ireland
Planet Knowledge, an on-demand joint venture between video-on-demand provider VOD365 and TV app provider Vonetize,…
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Cyfrowy Polsat adds HD version of news channel
Polish pay TV provider Cyfrowy Polsat has launched Polsat News HD on its platform. The…
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SES-8 satellite goes into operation
SES’s December-launched SES-8 satellite is now fully operational at the orbital location of 95 degrees…
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Motive Television joins the HbbTV Consortium
UK-based TV technology services firm Motive Television has joined the HbbTV consortium in a bid to…
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VimpelCom names sales chief
Russian service provider VimpelCom has named Filipp Sapronov as director of sales. Sapronov was previously…
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Vectra adds TV Republika
Polish cable operator Vectra is to add news and information channel TV Republika to its…
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Denmark’s NIMB TV launches UltraHD mobile unit
Danish broadcast production start up NIMB TV has launched what it claims to be the…
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Amino chooses Witbe for testing
Set-top box provider Amino has chosen quality assurance specialist Witbe’s technology to automate testing of…
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Comfortel teams up with CryptoGuard
Polish billing system provider Comfortel has chosen Swedish conditional access provider CryptoGuard as a partner. …
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IMG uses RRsat for SuperBowl
Sports media specialist IMG has used Israel-based RRsat to distribute coverage of Sunday’s American Football…
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BT Sport’s 2.5m subs deliver revenues and profits boost for telco
The customer base for BT’s sports channels passed 2.5 million by the end of the…
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Blinkbox re-launches UK VoD service with multiple studio deals
Blinkbox has signed deals with nine distributors as it brings back its ‘Try TV on…