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Melodie TV debuts on German cable with Tele Columbus
Austrian schlager and folk music channel Melodie TV is launching on German cable operator Tele…
Viceland to launch in France with Canal+
Vice has partnered with Canal+ Group to launch a French version of its TV network…
Euronews’ sister channel Africanews to launch this month
Euronews’ sister TV channel, Africanews, is due to launch across sub-Saharan Africa on April 20,…
Ukraine Today goes online only to save costs
Ukraine Today, the international news channel set up by commercial broadcaster 1+1 Media Group to…
Channel 4 model ‘sustainable’ in its current form
Channel 4’s future is “sustainable”, provided it can still respond to market developments by keeping…
New structure for TV4 and C More
Swedish TV company TV4 Group and parent company Bonnier have the group’s broadcasting activities in…
e-TF1 takes majority stake in digital marketing outfit
e-TF1, the new media unit of French commercial broadcaster TF1, has taken a majority stake…
Inea adds three channels
Polish cable operator Inea has added movie channel Paramount Channel HD, Comedy Central Polska HD…
Viacom strikes cross-platform measurement deal with comScore
Viacom has signed a multi-year deal with comScore that covers cross-platform audience measurement. Viacom says it…
Canal+ ups Appietto to D8 chief
Canal+ has named Franck Appietto as managing director of free-to-air channel D8, replacing Xavier Gandon,…
Euskaltel boosts TV offering
Spanish regional cable operator Euskaltel has boosted its local channels offering by adding DOTB –…
Milan court sentences Berlusconi and Confalonieri to prison
An Italian court has sentenced Mediaset CEO Pier Silvio Berlusconi and chairman Fedele Confalonieri each…
Sky makes basic tier sports move
Sky is launching Sky Sports Mix, a new basic tier channel that will have some…
RTL Deutschland launches new free-to-air channel
RTL Deutschland has launched a new free-to-air channel focusing on general entertainment. RTL Plus will…
Crime + Investigation launches on UPC Czech Republic
A+E Networks’ Crime + Investigation channel has launched on UPC’s cable platform in the Czech…
Viacom: linear and word of mouth still dominate content discovery
Content discovery has changed less then might be expected and is still heavily reliant on…
Free-TV Lifetime launching in Turkey
Lifetime is launching as a free-to-air channel in Turkey at the end of next month….
CBeebies to make Middle East and North Africa debut
BBC pre-school channel CBeebies is due to launch in the Middle East and North Africa…
Zee names forthcoming news channel WION
Zee Media has named its forthcoming global English news channel WION (World is One News). The…
DJAZZ.TV launches on Bouygues Telecom
Stingray Digital Group’s DJAZZ.tv station is now available as part French pay TV provider Bouygues…
Al Jazeera makes DVB-T2 transition as Sweden begins 700MHz clearance
Al Jazeera has started broadcasting in the DVB-T2 format and in MPEG-4 on the Boxer…
NBCUniversal launches 13th Street Universal HD in Poland
NBCUniversal has launched its 13th Street Universal HD channel in Poland on the Cyfrowy Polsat…
CTC Media in digital audience measurement initiative
Russian broadcaster CTC Media has teamed up with audience measurement specialist TNS Russia and technology…
A+E Networks names ad sales chief
A+E Networks UK has named Luke Duffy as vice-president, ad sales, tasked with driving UK…
Thema secures Canadian deal for Canal Algérie
French channel distributor Thema has secured a carriage deal for Algerian public TV channel Canal…
Viceland launching in UK, Ireland on Sky
Vice Media’s new linear TV channel is launching in the UK and Ireland on pay…
RTL says ‘owning content is key to growth’
RTL has reported a full-year uptick in profit and revenue as the company’s German operation…
T-Hrvatski Telekom adds Fight Channel
Croatian telco T-Hrvatski Telekom has added Fight Channel Group’s Fight Channel and Fight Channel World HD…
RTVE appoints new TV chief
Spain’s pubcaster, RTVE, has named the head of its Catalonia division has its overall television…
SPI International launches FilmBox Live VoD with Orange Poland
Orange customers in Poland can now access SPI International’s FilmBox Live VoD app via their…