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Broadcasters
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Kazakh Channel 31 strikes exclusive deal with Warner Bros
CTC Media-owned Kazakh free-to-air channel Channel 31 has signed a multi-year output deal with Warner…
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Digital games smash BBC records
The BBC had 106 million requests for Olympic video content across all online platforms, more…
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BBC Trust and S4C Authority launch consultation on deal
The BBC Trust and the S4C Authority, the governing bodies of the BBC and Welsh-language…
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RCS & RDS makes History in Romania
A+E Networks’ History channel has launched on the RCS & RDS, the largest pay TV…
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CME raising €70 million
A Czech subsidiary of Time Warner-backed broadcast group CME is raising €70 million that it…
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Eurosport secures German under-21 football rights
Eurosport has acquired rights to show home qualifier and friendly matches of the German under-21…
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Court blocks plans for ProSieben and RTL’s online TV service
A German court has blocked plans by ProSiebenSat.1 and RTL to launch a catch-up TV…
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Sky Italia loses subscribers
News Corp’s Italian pay TV service Sky Italia recorded a loss of 42,000 subscribers in…
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Viasat boosts 3D output with High TV deal
3D channel High TV will be available to viewers in the Nordic region after the…
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Maxdome inks deal with NBC Universal
Video-on-demand service Maxdome has inked a content deal with NBC Universal International TV Distribution. The…
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Channel 4 appoints digital innovation head
Channel 4 has appointed Jonathan Lewis as head of digital and partnership innovation. Lewis joins…
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Fox takes control of Endemol-backed Dutch sports firm
Fox International Channels has acquired a 51% stake in EMM, a Dutch company that manages…
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UPC Romania signs Voyo deal with CME
UPC Romania has added CME’s OTT video service Voyo to its network. The cable operator…
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Church of England divests News Corp shares
The Church of England has sold its shares in media company News Corp because was…
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Ono adds Nat Geo app to TiVo service
Spanish cable operator Ono has added an app from Fox’s National Geographic Channel to its…
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Disney will focus on Latin America for ESPN International, says Iger
Latin America is now a key focus for Disney’s sports network ESPN internationally according to…
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CTC Media retargets channel
Russian broadcast group CTC Media is revamping its target demographics for two of its main…
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Interactive Olympics popular, but 3D fails to engage viewers
The BBC says that 17 million people watched 15 minutes or more of its interactive…
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Yes ends second quarter with 582,000 subs
Israeli DTH operator Yes posted modest increases in revenues, operating profit and subscriber numbers in…
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Eurovision takes extra capacity with SES for sports
Satellite operator SES has struck a multi-year capacity deal with the Eurovision network to broadcast…
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Channel 4 hits registered viewers milestone, plans ad trials
UK broadcaster Channel 4 says that over five million people will have registered with it…
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Mediaset hits out at press coverage
Italian broadcaster Mediaset has struck out at what it sees as excessively negative press coverage…
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Ex-ITV boss to probe BBC’s impartiality
Stuart Prebble, the former chief of UK commercial broadcaster ITV, will lead an investigation into…
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Analysts bullish on ITV
Financial analysts are positive on UK broadcaster ITV’s prospects. Credit ratings specialist Moody’s has raised…
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Channel 4 taps FreeWheel for unified ad platform
UK broadcaster Channel 4 is to use video technology specialist FreeWheel’s advertising management platform to…
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MobiTV extends data centre as part of international expansion
Mobile TV specialist MobiTV has extended its data centre to enable the multiscreen delivery of…
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Olympics fail to win 3D viewers in the UK
Data from UK ratings agency BARB shows that 113,000 viewers watched the Olympics Opening Ceremony…
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ZDF holds firm on carriage fees as KDG takes legal action
German public broadcaster ZDF has reacted with equanimity to the threat of legal action by…
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ProSiebenSat.1 posts growth despite Euro 2012 hit
Germany-based broadcaster ProSiebenSat.1 maintained advertising revenues in its core German-language area market more or less…
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Hollande asks CSA to name new AEF chief
French president François Hollande has written to media regulator the CSA to ask it to…