After more than 40 years of operation, DTVE is closing its doors and our website will no longer be updated daily. Thank you for all of your support.
Broadcasters
1 min read
RTL and ITV strengthen advertising partnership
German and international broadcaster RTL and UK commercial broadcaster ITV are to strengthen and extend…
1 min read
Mediaset secures Formula E rights
Italian broadcaster Mediaset has secured exclusive rights to Formula E motor-racing for the next five…
1 min read
Disney president to leave following merger with Fox
Disney president Ben Sherwood is to leave the business after it completes its takeover of…
1 min read
Histoire chief Buisson resigns
Patrick Buisson, the controversial head of TF1 Group-owned history channel Histoire, has resigned. In a…
1 min read
Funbox UHD strikes partnership with Rai for Italian opera
SPI International’s Funbox UHD channel has struck a strategic partnership with Italian public broadcaster Rai…
1 min read
UKTV Play launches on Samsung TVs
UKTV’s on demand and catch-up TV app is to be made available on all Samsung…
1 min read
Sky Deutschland launches Ryder Cup pop-up channel
Sky Deutschland is launching a pop-up Ryder Cup channel that will kick off tomorrow and…
1 min read
TV2 launches TV Play on Stofa and Boxer
Danish commercial broadcaster TV2 has entered into a strategic partnership with cable operator Stofa and…
1 min read
New chief for A+E Networks Italy
A+E Networks has named Patricio Teubal as general manager of A+E Networks Italy, starting in December. In…
2 min read
Viacom’s Bakish highlights three-pronged digital strategy
Viacom will take a three-pronged approach to the direct-to-consumer business, including plans for an advertising-supported…
1 min read
Viacom launches first streaming app in CEE
Viacom International Media Networks has launched its first mobile video streaming app in central and…
1 min read
Nordic Entertainment names pay TV chief as CEO
Nordic Entertainment Group (NENT Group) Norway has appointed its pay TV head Vegard Klubbenes Drogseth…
2 min read
Berenberg gloomy on ITV prospects
Analysts at Berenberg have reduced their price target for ITV shares and published a ‘hold’…
2 min read
ProSiebenSat.1 taps MPP Global for Discovery OTT JV
German commercial broadcaster ProSiebenSat.1 has tapped subscription and billing software specialist MPP Global to provide…
1 min read
South African minister slams SABC cut-back plans
South African communications minister Nomvula Mokonyane has pushed back against plans by public broadcaster SABC…
2 min read
David Abraham’s Wonderhood studios to focus first on factual
Wonderhood Studios, the new ‘hybrid creative company’ set up by former Channel 4 CEO David…
1 min read
BBC’s Tony Hall: FAANG needs regulation
BBC director general Tony Hall is calling for the taxation and regulation of “global giants”…
1 min read
Ernotte: French players need to retain exclusive rights
French TV industry players need to retain exclusive rights to their content rather than to…
1 min read
French government mixes messages on future of TV licence
French culture minister Françoise Nyssen used an appearance at the La Rochelle fiction festival to…
1 min read
BBC and Discovery reportedly ‘close to agreeing break-up of UKTV’
The BBC and Discovery are close to agreeing a break up of UK channel provider…
1 min read
Lescure quits Lagardère for ‘enhanced role’ with audiovisual sector player
Former Canal+ chief Pierre Lescure has resigned as president of the supervisory board of media…
2 min read
Mediaset moving towards sale of pay TV platform
Mediaset is moving towards a sale of its pay TV unit Mediaset Premium to Sky…
1 min read
BBC News to launch weekly show on Facebook Watch
BBC News is launching a weekly news programme on Facebook Watch. Set to launch later…
2 min read
Eurosport strikes deal with United World Wrestling
Discovery-owned Eurosport has struck a partnership with United World Wrestling that will see World Championship…
2 min read
Vice launches Video Everywhere advertising product
Vice Media has launched Vice Video Everywhere, a new video advertising product that it says…
1 min read
Hopster debuts on US pay TV with Comcast
Kids OTT TV service Hopster has launched via the internet on US cable giant Comcast’s…
1 min read
RTL appoints former MTV president as CEO of StyleHaul
RTL has appointed former MTV president Sean Atkins as the new CEO of its fashion,…
2 min read
Nordic Entertainment to be listed next March
Modern Times Group is to move ahead with the split-off of broadcasting and streaming arm…
1 min read
BBC plans website cuts to fight FAANG
The BBC is planning to cut sections of its website to facilitate the user experience…
1 min read
Vivid Red HD arrives on Tele2
Adult entertainment specialist Vivid Entertainment has added its Vivid Red HD channel to Dutch service…