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BBC says £10m Sky fees should be dropped
The BBC is lobbying for the estimated £10 million (€11 million) it pays BSkyB for…
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Grass Valley acquires PubliTronic, moves into playout
Video technology company Grass Valley has acquired Netherlands-based playout technology provider PubliTronic for an undisclosed…
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Recession fears spark revised TV ad forecasts
Fears of a double-dip recession have caused some advertisers to reduce their spending and forecasters…
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NTV Plus adds Nick HD
Russian pay TV operator NTV Plus has added Nickelodeon HD and Russian channel RTD to…
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TV advertising growth will pass pay TV growth, says IDATE
Growth in over-the-top TV advertising will begin to accelerate faster than pay TV growth from…
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Motive Television moves forward with CME
Motive Television, the hybrid TV technology company backed by former Central European Media Enterprises (CME)…
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Hungarian fixed broadband grows
Hungary now has over two million fixed broadband subscribers, according to the latest survey by…
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Virgin Media adds Sky Anytime to on-demand platform
Virgin Media is adding thousands of hours of content from rival operator BSkyB to its…
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Arris agrees US$172 million BigBand acquisition
Cable technology group Arris is set to acquire video networking specialist BigBand Networks. Arris has…
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OTT revenues will top US$21 billion by 2016
Revenues from over-the-top (OTT) services will reach US$21.5 billion (€15.8 billion) by 2016, according to…
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French government abandons bonus channels plan
The French government has abandoned plans to award so-called bonus channels on the digital-terrestrial platform…
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Yahoo pulls out of Hulu bidding
Online giant Yahoo has withdrawn from the bidding for Hulu. The online video company is…
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Liverpool FC moves against collective deals for English soccer rights
A move by Liverpool FC to look at selling its international TV rights individually could…
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Beeline launches TV social networking
Vimpelcom-owned IPTV operator Beeline TV has launched a social network option that enables users to…
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M-Net and e.tv in dispute over DTT set-top plans
A dispute has blown up in South Africa between Naspers-owned pay TV service M-Net and…
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TV 2 becomes Norway’s first live 3D broadcaster
TV 2 became Norway’s first broadcaster to air live 3D last night when it delivered…
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ProSiebenSat.1 strikes Disney digital deal
German commercial broadcaster ProSiebenSat.1 has struck a deal with Disney that will see over 500…
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Turner renews SES deal
Turner Broadcasting System (TBS) has renewed its capacity agreement with SES for almost seven transponders…
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France 24 toasts Arabic successes
A year on from France 24’s launch of its 24-hour Arabic channel, the news broadcaster…
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Digital TV Labs teams up with Opera for HbbTV
Standards conformance specialist Digital TV Labs has partnered with browser provider Opera to provide consumer…
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Convergys strikes reseller deal with Sigma Systems
Billing systems provider Convergys has struck a global reseller agreement with OSS provider Sigma Systems…
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Troubled Netflix scraps Qwikster plans
Netflix has backed down from plans to separate its video streaming and DVD rental businesses….
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Bertelsmann CEO replaced by Rabe
The head of German media conglomerate Bertelsmann, Hartmut Ostrowski, is stepping down. Ostrowski, who joined…
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Free adds Flash to Révolution
French service provider Free has added a number of new features to its Freebox Révolution…
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Lovefilm Germany launches iPhone app
Lovefilm Germany has launched an app for the Apple iPhone and iPod Touch. The app,…
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Norway’s TV 2 to air 3D football match online
Norway’s TV 2 will broadcast a live football match in 3D to its IPTV and…
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Ireland’s Magnet launches online player
Irish operator Magnet Networks has launched an online television service that will air a raft…
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Samsung strikes first Arabic connected TV deal
Middle Eastern channel operator Dubai Media (DMI) has struck a deal with Samsung that will…
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Discovery hires digital chief
Discovery Communications has appointed former NBC Universal executive Jean-Briac Perrette as chief digital officer. Perrette,…
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NDS provides technology for Sky Deutschland Anytime service
Conditional access and interactive TV technology company NDS is providing the technology behind Sky Deutschland’s…