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Nickelodeon UK partners with web video network Viral Spiral
Nickelodeon UK has partnered with management company and video network Viral Spiral, in a bid…
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Barb taps into timeshifted data
Barb, the official source of TV viewing figures in the UK, has started reporting timeshift…
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BT Sport App nears 1 million downloads
BT TV CEO Marc Watson hailed the success of BT’s new sports app yesterday, claiming…
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Ivi.ru picks up Red Bull Media House content
Russian on-demand service Ivi.ru and the Russian Extreme TV channel have each cut programming deals…
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Orange and HBO to launch new French network OCS City
Orange in France is launching a new channel next month in partnership with HBO, called…
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Viacom appoints former NBCU exec to head ad sales
Viacom International Media Networks (VIMN) has appointed former NBCUniversal International Television exec, Chris Shaw, as…
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Europe sees record number of HD channel launches
Last year was a record year for HDTV channel launches in Europe, driven by adult,…
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Vivendi to assess splitting the business
French media and telecoms giant Vivendi is launching a study into whether to split the…
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Former Turner MEA boss joins ShortsTV channel
Alan Musa has joined Liberty Global-backed short-form movie service ShortsTV. Musa will be president of…
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Freesat launches new low-cost HD box
UK subscription-free satellite TV service Freesat has launched a new low-cost Freesat HD box that…
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Sky Italia channels boss leaves for Tata
Paolo Agostinelli, a senior channels executive at Sky Italia, is leaving the Italian pay TV…
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Liberty partners with ActiveVideo for Horizon
Liberty Global has partnered with multiplatform technology firm ActiveVideo, opting to use the latter’s CloudTV…
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Comcast and Time Warner joint venture RDK appoints manager
RDK Management, the new joint venture formed by Comcast and Time Warner Cable, has appointed…
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Virgin and Arqiva complete ‘data superhighway’ build out
Virgin Media Business has completed the build out of a superfast fibre network for communications…
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Technicolor extends DirecTV set-top deal
French technology company Technicolor has signed a three-year extension to its deal with US satellite…
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Eurosport takes UEFA Youth League football rights
Eurosport has taken the media rights to UEFA Youth League football tournament for the years…
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Netflix goes live in the Netherlands
Netflix went live today in the Netherlands, offering streamed access to its catalogue of movies…
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Vodafone still far short of Kabel Deutschland threshold as deadline looms
Vodafone still has a long way to go to secure sufficient shares in Kabel Deutschland…
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Discovery named as the biggest TV network in Europe
The Discovery Channel is the network with the widest distribution in Europe, according to new…
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French Senate mulls changes to media regulation
The French Senate is currently considering wide-ranging changes to the regulatory regime for audiovisual media…
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Over half of German cable homes now digital
Over half of German cable households are now watching digital TV after the number of…
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Kevin MacLellan replaces Jeff Shell at NBCUniversal
NBCUniversal has confirmed that Kevin MacLellan has been elevated to chairman of its international operations….
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Baltcom acquires Latvian rival IZZI
Latvian cable operator Baltcom has acquired all shares in Latvia’s second-largest cable provider, IZZI. Announcing…
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Discovery acquires Six Nations Rugby in Italy
Discovery Networks has acquired the exclusive broadcast rights to RBS Six Nations Rugby in Italy….
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UPC DTH launches CI+ with Neotion
Liberty Global-owned DTH operator UPC DTH has launched a CI+ offering in partnership with conditional…
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Alcatel-Lucent wins tech Emmy for Cloud DVR
Alcatel-Lucent has received an Emmy award for technology and engineering for “pioneering work in implementation…
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Dailymotion touts Opera app success
French video site Dailymotion said that it has now exceeded 100 content partner-created TV apps…
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Amis adds to multiscreen VoD with Zappware
Slovenian and Croatian internet service provider Amis is launching additional features on its Zappware-based TV…
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FilmoTV launches cloud-based SVoD
French online subscription video-on-demand service FilmoTV has launched FilmoCloud, a cloud-based TV everywhere version of…
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Eutelsat 25B/Es’hail 1 reaches geostationary orbit
Eutelsat Communications’ and Es’hailSat’s jointly owned Eutelsat 25B/Es’hail 1 satellite has now reached geostationary orbit….