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KPN appoints BA board member as chief commercial officer
Dutch telco KPN has appointed British Airways board member Frank van der Post to the…
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Beltelecom extends DTT service availability
Belarusian service provider Beltelecom has expanded the availability of its basic digital-terrestrial TV service to…
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Travel channel launches on Magyar Telekom in Hungary
Scripps Networks UK and EMEA has launched Travel Channel on Deutsche Telekom subsidiary, Magyar Telekom’s…
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Nos shareholder Dos Santos bids for Portugal Telecom
Isabel dos Santos, the businesswoman daughter of long-serving Angolan president José Eduardo dos Santos, and…
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BT offering multi-play with Netflix included for £5.99
BT is to offer Netflix, BT Infinity and BT TV with a free YouView box,…
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Microsoft adds social TV trending to Xbox One
Microsoft is adding new features for social discovery of TV content on its Xbox One…
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Analysts downgrade BSkyB on Sky Europe concerns
Credit analysts have downgraded BSkyB after the UK pay TV platform moved a step closer…
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RSCC and Romantis launch new DTH platform for Africa
Russian satellite operator Russian Satellite Communications Company (RSCC) and Germany-based satellite capacity reseller Romantis are…
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Kabel Deutschland reports TV gains
Kabel Deutschland added 53,000 Premium TV customers in the three months ending September 30, with…
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SES launches Ebola channel
Satellite services company SES is beaming an educational channel designed to help educate people in…
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UHD TV sales up almost nine times this year
Almost nine-times the number of 4K, Ultra High Definition TVs sold in the US last…
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Ghana’s Crystal TV expands reach with Eutelsat
Ghanaian commercial broadcaster Crystal TV has signed a 10-year deal with satellite operator Eutelsat for…
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Movistar TV launches virtual reality motorcycling app
Telefónica’s Movistar TV platform has launched a new app providing a ‘mobile virtual reality’ experience…
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Sky Deutschland in 4K partnership with hip-hop band
Sky Deutschland has teamed up with Sony Music to deliver live coverage in 4K of…
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Video accounts for 6% of African mobile web traffic
In Africa streaming video now accounts for 6% of downstream traffic on mobile networks, according…
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Turner lines up US$590m Ten offer
Time Warner is set to make an offer worth A$680 million (€409 million) through its…
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Viacom appoints international comedy channels VP
Viacom International Media Networks (VIMN) has appointed Turner Broadcasting executive Jemma Yates as vice-president content,…
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CTC names new strategic communications chief
Russian broadcasters CTC Media has named Oleg Kuzmin as chief strategic communications officer. Kuzmin’s responsibilities…
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Liberty Global forecasts big benefits from Ziggo acquisition
Liberty Global could realise greater synergies than previously forecast from its acquisition of leading Dutch…
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Nos advanced TV taken by three in four multi-play subs
Portuguese service provider Nos’s advanced TV service, Iris, is now taken by over three-quarters of…
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Beamly co-founder Anthony Rose unveils new startup UTD
Former BBC iPlayer boss and the co-founder of Beamly, Anthony Rose, has unveiled UTD, a…
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WalMart to launch Chromecast rival Vudu Spark
WalMart is gearing up to launch a Vudu-branded HDMI streaming dongle, according to documents filed…
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Wuaki appoints product director for Euro expansion
Movie and TV streaming service Wuaki has appointed former Samsung executive Sidharth Jayant as global…
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BBC to launch sci-fi exclusives for iPlayer
UK pubcaster the BBC is launching three new sci-fi shows on its iPlayer streaming and…
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UK consumers look to TV as smart home centre
Two thirds of UK consumers would like the TV to be at the centre of…
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Opera partners with Viggle on ‘Add-to-DVR’ technology
Opera Mediaworks has partnered with Viggle to create a new mobile ad unit that is…
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Telekom Austria raising capital with M&A in mind
Telekom Austria is to issue up to €1 billion worth of new shares to existing…
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MTG wins one, loses one in Russia
Russian pay TV provider Orion Express has added 10 channels from Modern Times Group’s Viasat…
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Swiss operators adopt common code on net neutrality
Swiss service providers Swisscom, Sunrise, UPC Cablecom, Orange and the cable network companies’ association Swisscable…
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Ball in Ofcom’s court as CAT rules against Sky on wholesale must offer
After four years of litigation, the UK Competition Appeals Tribunal (CAT) has ruled that BSkyB…