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TV4 strikes deal with YouTube
Swedish commercial broadcaster TV4 Group has struck an agreement with YouTube to make TV4 Play…
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Elemental delivering services for Viaplay
Compression specialist Elemental Technologies has said it is delivering live channels and video-on-demand content to…
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Virgin Media appoints former Scripps exec as legal head
Virgin Media has appointed Scripps Networks Interactive’s former senior vice president of commercial and legal…
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Lauder leaves CME after two decades
Ronald Lauder, the founder of CME has resigned from the company’s board. Lauder started CME…
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A+E Networks UK launches History on Latvian IPTV
A+E Networks UK is launching History on Latvian IPTV operator Lattelecom’s network. The channel will…
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Sullivan, Sapan and Hollinger top DTVE Euro 50 Awards 2014
Sky Deutschland CEO Brian Sullivan, AMC Networks CEO Josh Sapan and Discovery Networks International CEO…
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Freesat’s Freetime extends to terrestrial with Panasonic deal
Panasonic has struck an agreement with UK free to air satellite platform Freesat to embed…
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ProSiebenSat.1 strikes multi-platform deal with WWE
German broadcast group ProSiebenSat.1 has struck a long-term rights deal for free TV, pay TV…
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BBC Worldwide appoints SVP for high growth CEMA markets
BBC Worldwide has appointed former Fox International Channels executive Jay Tallon to the new role…
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Lattelecom and MTG locked in carriage fee dispute
Latvian telco Lattelecom could cease to carry Modern Times Group-owned channel TV3 at the end…
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EBU names finance and administration chief
The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) has named Emmanuel Frantz as its next chief financial and…
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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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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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BBC launches updated iPlayer
The BBC is rolling out an updated version of its iPlayer streaming service in a…
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MTG raises SEK1 billion in refinancing effort
European broadcasting firm Modern Times Group (MTG) has raised SEK 1 billion (€113 million) in…
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BBC appoints culture department veteran as BBC Trust director
The BBC’s governing body, the BBC Trust, has appointed culture department veteran Jon Zeff as…
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BBC lobbying for licence fee hike
The BBC will push for an inflation-based increase in its annual licence fee, according to…
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beIN Sport to roll out across MENA with Pace
Al Jazeera-owned beIN Sport has chosen Pace to deliver home media servers and HD set-top…
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Piksel restructures commercial and solutions operations
Video services firm Piksel has restructuring of its commercial and solutions operations into a “global…
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Du joins Europe-Southeast Asia cable consortium
UAE-based service provider du has joined an international consortium of telcos committed to building a…
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Cohen: budgets may threaten BBC Four future
The BBC’s director of television has warned arts channel BBC Four could go the same…
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CTC Media gets ready for Love
Russia’s CTC Media is set to launch a new female-skewing network called CTC Love at…
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Channel 4 ups head of factual to Jay Hunt deputy
UK broadcaster Channel 4 has promoted head of factual Ralph Lee to deputy chief creative…
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BBC confirms BBC Three 2015 closure plan
UK public broadcaster the BBC has confirmed that it is putting plans in motion to…
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RTL reports significant profit growth
RTL reported “significant profit growth” in 2013 with EBITA reaching a record full-year high, primarily…
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UPC Netherlands adds Fox Sports Go
Liberty Global-owned UPC Netherlands has added Fox Sports Go to its line-up of services. The…
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CNN sells Zite news reader app to Flipboard
CNN has sold its personalised news reader service Zite to news-magazine app Flipboard, in a…
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EC move to improve access for HbbTV takes step forwards
The European Commission-funded HBB4All project has started work on improving accessibility services for audiovisual content…
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BBC plan to take BBC3 online-only ‘not off the table’
The BBC has failed to rule out plans to shut down the linear version of…
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Vice news channel goes live
Vice Media has launched Vice News, its latest youth-skewing web video initiative that it says…