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Turner hires Disney’s Patricia Hidalgo
Turner has hired Patricia Hidalgo as its chief content officer, EMEA, filling a role vacated…
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EBU names new technology and innovation chief
The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) has named Simon Fell as its new director of technology…
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Trace Sports extends Swiss reach
Sports entertainment channel Trace Sports has secured carriage with Swiss IPTV provider Sunrise Telecom. Sunrise…
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NBC News renews broadcast deal with Civolution
NBC News has signed a renewed multi-year contract with TV technology firm Civolution to use…
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Catch-up accounts for a fifth of UK TV viewing
Catch-up or on-demand viewing from services like the BBC iPlayer now account for a fifth…
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Netflix signs exclusive deal with Fox
Netflix has inked a deal with Fox for Zooey Deschanel comedy series New Girl. The…
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Cyfrowy Polsat signs VOD deal with NBCU
Polish pay TV operator Cyfrowy Polsat has signed a deal with NBCUniversal International Television Distribution…
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Vectra adds sports channels to offering
Polish cable operator Vectra is adding more sports channels to its offering. From August 1,…
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News Corp completes split
News Corp’s entertainment and publishing arms begin trading under separate companies today following the completion…
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Cyfrowy Polsat offers Samsung tablet and new range of data packages
Polish pay TV provider Cyfrowy Polsat has launched a new series of offers that include…
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BBCWW looking to commission more content, seeking longer runs of BBC shows
BBC Worldwide is looking to commission more of its own content and is seeking longer…
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BBC to air 360 hours of digital content this weekend
The BBC is due to broadcast some 360 hours of digital content this weekend from…
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Discovery appoints content division boss
Factual channel operator Discovery has appointed Charlie Foley executive VP of its recently-created Original Content…
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Consumers moving to on-demand but bundling still makes sense, says Discovery
Polish and other central and eastern European customers are increasingly looking to non-linear and advanced…
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RTL Group invests US$36m in YouTube network BroadbandTV
RTL Group has partnered with multi-channel YouTube content network BroadbandTV, putting US$36 million (€27.7 million)…
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Fox rebrands Dutch channel, preps Fox Sports launch
Fox has continued the rebranding of its channels and roll out of Fox Sports service…
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BBC raises £170m funding for Worldwide
The BBC has raised £170 million (€199.50 million) in a seven-year US bond deal in…
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4oD launches on Freesat
Channel 4’s on-demand service 4oD has launched on UK free-to-air satellite platform Freesat. The service…
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Romania’s Cosmote partners with MTV
Romanian mobile operator Cosmote has partnered with MTV to offer a premium youth-focused entertainment offering…
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Disney Channel relaunches UK website
The Disney Channel has relaunched its website in the UK, bringing together all Disney Channel…
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Viacom ups Kerry Taylor to international MTV programming boss
Viacom International Media Networks has promoted Kerry Taylor to senior VP, Youth & Music. The…
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Digital TV Labs launches 4G interference testing service
Digital media testing company Digital TV Labs has launched a service to test UK Freeview…
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Smart TV tech firm Foxxum appoints business development exec
Smart TV technology company Foxxum has appointed former Amino Communications, ANT Software and Espial executive,…
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BBC weather app hits 1 million downloads
The BBC’s recently launched free weather app has reached 1 million downloads in just two…
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Time Warner buys US$200m CME shares
Broadcast group Central European Media Enterprises (CME) has sold 200,000 shares in the company to…
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Crime being replaced by Fox channel in Norway
Fox International Channels is replacing its Fox Crime channel with the core Fox service in…
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BBC Entertainment to launch on new Romanian platform
BBC Entertainment is among three BBC Worldwide channels launching on a new Romanian DTH TV…
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BBC One appoints new controller
The BBC has appointed Charlotte Moore as its new permanent controller of flagship channel BBC…
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BBC global news reaches quarter of a billion people
The BBC’s global news services now reach 256m people each week – their biggest ever…
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Eurosport launches Samsung TV app
Eurosport has launched an app for Samsung connected TVs, establishing itself as the first regional…