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MTG takes full control of TV 2 Sport
International broadcast group Modern Times Group is acquiring all the remaining shares in the Danish…
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WOWtv on Samsung Smart TV and Galaxy devices
Asian broadband content provider M2B, which operates under the WOWtv brand, has teamed up with…
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France’s richest man Arnault set to invest in DTT channel
Bernard Arnault, France’s richest man, is one of a group of shareholders set to invest…
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Vision247 brings Polska Plus bouquet to Freeview
UK-based payout and content aggregation specialist Vision247 is adding a bouquet of Polish-language channels to…
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RTL 2 launches on UPC Direct
German channel RTL 2 has launched on UPC’s Hungarian DTH platform UPC Direct. The channel…
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Rightster hires ITV, Google execs, does deal with Viral Spiral
Digital video distribution specialist Rightster has hired two former ITV and one former Google executives…
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One in five Lithuanians still watching analogue
With less than a month left until digital switchover in Lithuania, some 200,000 households are…
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NetCologne names commercial chief
German service provider NetCologne has named Mario Alexander Wilhelm as commercial director. Wilhelm will complete…
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TV revenue to increase from pay and ads, says report
Revenue from the global TV industry is set reach €340.1 billion by 2016, with increases…
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Multimedia Polska cancels sale plans
Polish cable operator Multimedia Polska has cancelled plans for a sale. Following a review by…
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LG signs Disney 3D deal for Smart TV platform
LG Electronics USA has signed a deal with The Walt Disney Studios that will see…
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Three in five French DSL lines now bundled with TV
Some 12.8 million of France’s 21.5 million DSL lines installed were coupled with a TV…
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Russian public broadcast council names chairman
The newly formed Russian Public Television Council has named Oleg Tabakov, artistic director of the…
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CSA cracks down on interruption of programme credits
French media regulator the CSA has established a framework agreement setting out rules about the…
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Trace Sports goes mobile, makes Norwegian debut
Sports celebrity lifestyle channel Trace Sports has expanded its distribution following deals with mobile TV…
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LTV chief criticises new Latvian retransmission rules
New amendments to Latvia’s media law have been criticised as penalising public broadcaster LTV by…
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NTV Plus adds Travel Channel HD
Russian pay TV operator NTV Plus is adding Travel Channel HD to its programming line-up….
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VimpelCom making payment for services easier
Russian service provider VimpelCom, which operates under the Beeline brand, has introduced an automatic top-up…
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Eutelsat condemns Iranian jamming
Satellite operator Eutelsat has condemned the jamming of certain broadcasts from Iran. Following what Eutelsat…
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Connected TV services worth over $3 billion by 2016
The global market for services delivered via connected TVs will reach US$3.23 billion (€2.5 billion)…
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Hungary continues to grow digital TV subscriber base
Hungary’s leading pay TV operators had a collective digital subscriber base of 1.773 million at…
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Zeebox develops live companion app for X Factor
Companion screen social TV service provider Zeebox and its live video partner ShowCaster have developed…
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TF1 reportedly puts putative pay TV plan on ice
French news service BFM TV has reported that commercial broadcaster TF1 has put a plan…
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Rostelecom creates new media unit
Russian service provider Rostelecom has created a new department to manage media assets headed by…
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Top Secret faces closure threat after losing Rostelecom carriage
One of the few TV channels in Russia to give space to independent journalism is…
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Edgeware and Skytide enable multiscreen QoS analytics
Distributed video delivery specialist Edgeware and online video analytics company Skytide have launched a solution…
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Russian regulator calls for time to settle Telenor dispute
Russia’s Federal Antimonopoly Service has called on the Moscow Arbitration Court to postpone a hearing…
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Food available from Akado
Russian thematic channel Eda (Food) is now available on cable service provider Akado’s platform. Food…
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B&B TV chooses Thomson Broadcast for HD services
Thomson Broadcast has announced that B&B TV Communication, the entity responsible for the wireless-cable broadcasting…
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Eutelsat helps Albania deliver free broadband
The Albanian government is using capacity from satellite operator Eutelsat to connect 850 post offices,…