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BBC celebrates ‘best ever’ iPlayer performance
New Year’s Day was the best day ever for the iPlayer with 11 million TV…
Antenna appoints former NBC Universal, Cineflix Studios boss
Pete Smith, the former NBC Universal and Cineflix Studios boss, has been recruited as managing…
Sony collaborates with Netflix on 4K streaming
Sony is optimising its 2014 line of 4K Ultra HD TVs to support 4K streaming…
Channel 4 removes shows from YouTube
UK broadcaster Channel 4 has taken down all of its programming from Google-owned streaming service…
Liberty close to Ziggo deal
Liberty Global is reportedly close to finalising a takeover deal for Dutch cable operator Ziggo,…
Panasonic and Mozilla partner on Firefox OS for smart TVs
Panasonic and Mozilla have partnered to develop and promote Firefox OS – a new open…
SES and Eutelsat sell Solaris Mobile to EchoStar
SES and Eutelsat have sold their Dublin-based joint venture, mobile satellite services (MSS) operator Solaris…
LG launches webOS smart TVs
LG has launched its new smart TV platform webOS at the Consumer Electronics Show in…
Zenterio and Vestel partner on Africa-targeted DVB-T2 STB
Consumer electronics provider Vestel and Swedish operating system platform maker Zenterio are partnering on a…
Jinni and Ooyala partner on video discovery
Search and discovery software provider Jinni is partnering with video streaming and analytics firm Ooyala…
Cisco expands Videoscape TV platform
Cisco has expanded its Videoscape TV services platform to include new cloud video capabilities, it…
Israel’s Yes gears up for pay-OTT launch
Israeli satellite TV operator Yes has partnered with pay-OTT platform provider Tvinci to launch a new…
Roku launches first integrated TV sets
Over-the-top set-top-box maker Roku has partnered with TCL and Hisense to launch the first TV…
Ultra HD TV shipments to jump more than 500%
Ultra High Definition (UHD) display LCD TV shipments are expected to increase by more than…
Discovery extends CEO Zaslav’s contract
Discovery Communications has extended the contract of president and CEO David Zaslav to the end…
Black and white TV viewing drops to 12,000 in the UK
The number of UK homes watching TV on black and white sets has dropped below…
Swisscom hits 1 million TV customers
Swiss telco Swisscom claims its number of TV customers has passed the one million mark,…
Vine goes live on the web
Twitter’s mobile video service Vine has gone live on the web for the first time…
‘TV devices’ to reach 7 billion by 2017
The global installed base of ‘TV-addressable screens’ is in the midst of a second wave…
Lovefilm agrees exclusive Vikings deal
Amazon’s UK streaming service Lovefilm has bought rights to season two of drama series Vikings. The…
DreamWorks Animation joins tablet market
US-based DreamWorks Animation is to launch a tablet that will offer in-house content and programming…
Opera partners with Samsung
Opera Software has partnered with Samsung, marking the tenth company that has signed up to…
Technicolor partners with IBM in cloud push
Technicolor has teamed up with IBM to develop a cloud-based monitoring and management service, Virdata, targeted at…
Russian VOD service Stream.ru gears up for expansion
Russian video-on-demand service Stream.ru is gearing up for a Ukrainian launch, with more rollouts in…
LG to showcase OLED TV lineup, rumours of webOS TV launch
LG is gearing up to show off what it claims is “the most comprehensive OLED…
Netflix tests new staggered price tier
Netflix is reportedly testing a new low-cost price tier in the US, which will allow…
21st Century Fox sells Star China TV stake
Rupert Murdoch’s 21st Century Fox has sold its entire 47% stake in Star China TV…
BBC launches new The Voice app
The BBC has launched a new app for series three of singing competition show The…
Eutelsat closes Satmex deal
European satellite operator Eutelsat has closed its US$831 million (€609 million) acquisition of Latin American…
Motive Television signs VOD deal with Siyaya Free To Air TV
UK-based TV technology services firm Motive Television has finalised an operation and services deal with South…