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Sky adds Bollywood channel UMP
Indian movie channel UMP Movies has launched on Sky in the UK. The Hindi language…
RTL announces board reshuffle
Pan regional broadcast group RTL Group has reorganised its board of directors following the resignation…
BBC content tops iTunes in 2011
Content from BBC Worldwide, the commercial arm of the BBC, made up half of the…
MCE TV expected to apply for DTT frequency
French student-oriented channel Ma Chaine Étudiante TV (MCE TV) is expected with the next few…
Jewish News 1 launches on the web
Jewish News 1, the 24-hour international news channel launched in September, is now available on…
SuperSport launches football channel
African sports broadcaster SuperSport is launching a pan regional 24 hours football channel after winning…
Hamish Mykura joins Nat Geo as restructuring continues
Hamish Mykura has joined National Geographic Channels as executive vice-president and head of international content….
CSA rejects Paris Première and LCI requests to go FTA
French media regulator the CSA has rejected requests by M6-owned digital channel Paris Première and…
Trace Africa gets carriage with SFR
Trace Africa, the music channel dedicated to African music, has launched in France on SFR’s…
UPC Poland offers 3D porn
UPC Poland has begun offering 3D adult video clips via its on-demand portal. The eight…
Playboy set for South African launch
South African pay TV operator On Digital Media (ODM) has struck a deal with adult…
Paramount’s Hedges steps down
Paramount Pictures International’s vice-president and managing director Chris Hedges is leaving the company and will…
Freesat gets five from Channel 5
Freesat, the UK’s free-to-air DTH platform, has added five channels from Richard Desmond’s Five to…
Al Jazeera takes French Champions League rights
Al Jazeera has been awarded the French broadcasting rights for the majority of Champions League…
UKTV appoints marketing boss
UKTV has hired Simon Michaelides as its head of marketing. The UK digital TV channels…
Mezzo Live HD launches in Israel
Jazz and classical music channel Mezzo Live HD has launched in Israel. The Lagardère-owned channel…
MTG gets new ice hockey deal
Modern Times Group has extended a deal for free and pay TV rights to the…
TF1 re-enters pay TV world with Lib’Télé
French broadcaster TF1 is set to re-enter the pay TV world five years after the…
Orange to expand 3D offering
French pay TV operator Orange is expanding its 3D content after striking a deal with…
MBC Group delivers HD bouquet to YahLive
United Arab Emirates-based YahLive, a joint venture between YahSat and SES, has signed a deal…
Eurosport and ESPN pick up Club World Cup rights
Eurosport and ESPN have jointly been awarded the rights to the FIFA Club World Cup…
Sport1 acquires Spanish football rights
Dutch sports broadcaster Sport1 has acquired the rights to show the Spanish Primera División soccer…
OTE adds BBC World News
Greek pay TV operator OTE has added the BBC World News channel to its line-up….
CSA warns channels on subtitling
French media regulator the CSA has put five channels on notice about their failure to…
Turner to boost local production in Germany
Following the announcement in September of its planned launch of a female-focused channel, Glitz, next…
Imagenio channels launch on Xbox
Users of the Xbox 360 console in Spain can now access twelve channels from the…
Al Jazeera launches live news apps
News channel operator Al Jazeera has launched new applications for Android and Blackberry mobile devices…
Canal Plus and Bolloré finalise channels deal
French pay TV group Canal+ has finalised a deal to acquire the digital terrestrial channels…
Comedy Central rolls out in Sub-Saharan Africa
MTV is launching its Comedy Central channel in sub-Saharan Africa next week on DStv. It…
INEA adds Disney Junior
Polish cable operator INEA has added Disney Junior to its programming line-up. The channel will…