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M6 requests compensation for lost bonus channel
Commercial broadcaster M6 has reportedly requested an indemnity payment of €90 million plus interest from…
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Viacom poaches Fox, Discovery execs for Europe
Viacom has added a pair of executives to its southern Europe team, one from Discovery…
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AB Group switches channels to full HD
France’s AB Group is to make its full portfolio of channels available to distribution partners…
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Lagardère hit by lower TV production, soft ad market
Lower TV production year-on-year pushed revenues for Lagardère’s media arm down for the first quarter….
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Skylink shuts off more CryptoWorks channels
M7 Group-owned Czech and Slovak pay TV provider Skylink is moving ahead with its plant…
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Virgin extends Sky channel distribution deal
Virgin Media has signed a new five-year agreement with Sky that will allow it to…
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TV4 Sport in HD
Swedish broadcaster TV4 has begun broadcasting its TV4 Sport channel in HD on the country’s…
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Canis Media offers new Manchester channel position
UK broadcast management company and EPG broker Canis Media is opening up a new channel…
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Netflix ups subscription prices, adds price tiers
Netflix is imposing a blanket price increase for its basic service in the 41 territories…
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Skylink adds EDGEsport
M7 Group-owned Czech and Slovak satellite pay TV operator Skylink has added HD sports channel…
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Discovery and Liberty buy All3Media for £550 million
Discovery Communications and Liberty Global have agreed to buy UK-based TV programme maker and distributer…
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CNN recruits digital and sales specialist Wyatt
Turner’s cable news net CNN International has hired Owen Wyatt for a newly-created digital and…
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ProSiebenSat.1 to launch streaming app
German broadcast group ProSiebenSat.1 is set to launch a new app, called 7TV, that will…
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General ad uplift offsets problems in France for RTL
Advertising growth in some markets helped RTL Group to offset a flat market in Germany…
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BSkyB launches Sky News catch-up service
BSkyB’s Sky News has launched a catch-up TV service on the Sky On Demand platform. …
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EBU concerned over plans to dismantle Israeli public broadcaster
The European Broadcasting Union has today expressed concern over plans to disband the Israeli Broadcasting…
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Your Family Entertainment launches English-language channel for Africa
German broadcaster Your Family Entertainment has teamed up with East African broadcaster and pay TV…
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Boxer adds Horse1
Swedish digital-terrestrial TV platform Boxer has added equestrian interest channel Horse1 to its programming line-up….
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Viacom to use C5 to accelerate new global brand launches
Viacom president and CEO Philippe Dauman said that its £450 million (€550 million) acquisition of…
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Freesat adds HD category, new channels
UK free-to-air satellite platform Freesat has added a dedicated HD category to the channel category…
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Latvia’s Baltcom strikes deal with TV3
Latvian cable operator Baltcom has struck a deal to continue carrying Viasat Broadcasting-owned channel TV3…
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Viacom buys UK’s Channel 5 for £450 million
Viacom has acquired UK terrestrial broadcaster Channel 5 for £450 million (€548 million), in a…
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Time Warner in talks to distribute channels outside of pay TV
Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes has confirmed the media giant is talking to Dish about…
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S4C launches on TVPlayer
Welsh public broadcaster S4C has launched on streaming service TVPlayer, making its programming available on-demand…
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Eurovision launches new live sports app
Eurovision, the European Broadcasting Union (EBU)’s broadcast network, has launched a new app for sports…
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Greece’s Antenna poaches NBCUniversal channels MD
Greek broadcast group Antenna has appointed Tariq Syed as its managing director of thematic channels…
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BT Sport reveals numbers, renews free offering
BT has confirmed that BT Sport will be free to subscribers for a second season…
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Fine Living comes to the Balkans
Scripps Networks International has launched its Fine Living channel in the Balkans for the first…
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Crime + Investigation launches in Mozambique and Angola
Crime + Investigation (CI) has launched in the Portuguese-speaking African countries of Mozambique and Angola…
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Al Jazeera launches in Sweden
Al Jazeera has launched in Sweden as part of the Teracom-backed Boxer digital-terrestrial TV platform. …