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Cable Europe names annual award winners
Cable Europe awarded its 2013 Fellow award to Emma Svalin Sahlman, head of product, TV…
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Cable chiefs mull mobile future at Cable Congress
Cable CEOs debated the future of convergence between their own networks and mobile services at…
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European cable industry tipped for more consolidation
Europe’s cable industry is on the “brink of a new wave of consolidation,” according Cable…
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Canal+ testing new OTT version of service
Canal+ has been quietly testing a new over-the-top (OTT) version of its service for the…
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Disney’s Sweeney quits to become TV director
Disney/ABC Television Group president and Disney Media Networks co-chair Anne Sweeney is to leave the…
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European digital TV subscribers outnumber analogue for the first time
The number of digital TV subscribers outnumbered analogue for the first time in 2013, according…
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Numericable sees strong multi-play growth
French cable operator Numericable now has over one million multi-play customers and a total customer…
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AMC chief: technology has changed shape of TV drama
Technology including video-on-demand and digital video recording has helped change the shape and improve the…
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DNA launches TV everywhere service
Finland’s DNA has launched a TV everywhere service on its cable network Welho. The DNA…
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Get chooses Concurrent
Norwegian cable operator Get has chosen Concurrent to supply its MediaHawk VX content delivery platform…
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Disney to pay $500m for Maker Studios, say reports
Stateside reports claim The Walt Disney Company is in talks to buy YouTube channel operator…
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TV Dozhd tops Lattelecom news channels viewing
Struggling Russian independent news channel TV Dozhd topped the viewing table of news and information…
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Volia adds new channel
Ukrainian cable operator Volia has added Ukrainian news channel Espreso TV to its programming line-up…
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BBC launches updated iPlayer
The BBC is rolling out an updated version of its iPlayer streaming service in a…
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Numericable shares drop as it holds out for SFR deal
French cable operator Numericable’s controlling shareholder Altice has set a deadline of Friday for its…
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Com Hem launches 1Gbps internet
Swedish cable operator Com Hem has begun rolling out a new 1Gbps internet service. The…
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Comcast cuts House of Cards deal, mulls own YouTube-type service
US cable giant Comcast has acquired rights to sell season one of Netflix original House of…
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Nine in 10 MENA households now taking satellite TV
Over nine out of 10 housheholds in 15 countries across the Middle East and North…
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UK government aims to double spectrum revenues
The UK government has said that aims for spectrum to double its contribution to the…
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Magine appoints former Prisa exec as new chairman
Swedish cloud TV service Magine has appointed existing company board member and the former chief…
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Viaccess-Orca acquires Discretix’s SecurePlayer
Viaccess-Orca is to acquire the SecurePlayer business from Discretix Technologies, a provider of embedded security…
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Vonetize to launch 4K streaming app
US-based smart TV app specialist Vonetize is set to launch a worldwide UHD content app,…
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Belgacom extends TV everywhere to Windows Phone
Belgian telco Belgacom has made its TV Partout/TV Overal TV everywhere service available on the…
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Rostelecom offers 100 movies for RUB100
Russian service provider Rostelecom has launched a new promotional offer for its video-on-demand service, making…
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Rapper Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs ‘offers $200m for cable channel’
Hip-hop impresario Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs has reportedly offered around US$200 million (€144 million) to buy…
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MTG raises SEK1 billion in refinancing effort
European broadcasting firm Modern Times Group (MTG) has raised SEK 1 billion (€113 million) in…
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Deutsche Telekom migrates to Skylines DataMiner
Deutsche Telekom is using Skyline’s DataMiner network management platform for the end-to-end management of its…
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Narwas takes capacity on NSS-6
Oman wireless operator Nawras has taken capacity on SES’s NSS-6 satellite at 95° East to…
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Digitürk upgrades with Grass Valley
Turkish satellite pay TV provider Digitürk is to expand its broadcast facility with the addition…
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Orange CEO confirms Netflix French plan
Orange’s CEO Stéphane Richard confirmed at the end of last week that Netflix plans to…