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Hulu reveals subs growth and new original series
US streaming service Hulu’s premium subscription service topped four million customers in the first quarter…
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MTG appoints Virgin Media exec to Viasat COO role
Modern Times Group (MTG) has appointed former Virgin Media executive Aleks Habdank as chief operating…
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Nielsen launches online TV ratings pilot
US-based rating agency Nielsen has launched a pilot programme that will see measure audiences for TV…
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Disney Channel launch prompts ESPN switch at Super RTL
Disney has replaced its representatives on German family network Super RTL’s board with the managing…
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Sky now UK catch-up leader, says Decipher
Sky’s catch-up service is now the “most comprehensive in the UK” according to digital media…
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US pay TV penetration flat, revenues to fall by US$5 billion
Pay TV penetration has reached saturation point in the US and Canada and pay TV…
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BBC lines up 15 Commonwealth Games live-streams
The BBC is set to air 15 separate streams from 17 locations in its coverage…
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Skylink adds new channels
Czech pay TV operator Skylink has made a number of changes to its programming line-up….
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Vivendi approves board changes
French media and telecoms group Vivendi’s annual shareholders’ meeting has approved the appointment of five…
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NetCologne advances fibre penetration, grows TV base
German hybrid network operator NetCologne now serves over a third of its customers via its…
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Media Broadcast names new TV business chief
German broadcasting and media services provider Media Broadcast has named Holger Meinzer as head of…
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Vivacom sees TV customer growth
Bulgarian telco Vivacom said that it saw a 76% growth in TV customers for the…
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Two new Beeline packages for VimpelCom
Russian service provider VimpelCom has launched two new bundled TV and internet packages as part…
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SeaWell names Mediaroom executive to board
Video distribution technology provider SeaWell Networks has named a Microsoft Mediaroom executive to its board…
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Inter Media names new NTN chief
Ukrainian broadcaster Inter Media Group has named Aleksandr Melnichuk as general director of entertainment channel…
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Augustin succeeds Le Lay as Eurosport chief executive
Pan-European sports channel Eurosport has named Philippe Denery as chairman and Jean-Thierry Augustin as CEO…
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Shazam appoints new chief exec ahead of IPO
Second screen app and media recognition specialist Shazam has appointed former Yahoo! executive Rich Riley…
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Liberty increases Ziggo stake
Liberty Global has increased its stake in Dutch cable operator Ziggo from 12.65% to 15%…
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Dailymotion reportedly ends deal talks with Yahoo!
Orange-France Telecom has reportedly ended discussions with Yahoo! about the latter buying a majority stake…
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DNA acquires Plus TV
Finnish telco, broadcaster and cable TV operator DNA has acquired digital-terrestrial pay TV service Plus…
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MTG launches Viasat premium package on Russia’s MTS
Modern Times Group’s Viasat Broadcasting is to launch a Viasat Premium HD package on Russian…
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T-Hrvatski Telekom grows TV amidst broadband and mobile gloom
Deutsche Telekom-owned Croatian telco T-Hrvatski Telekom saw its TV base grow amidst year-on-year declines in…
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TV advertising outlook brightens but UK, France and Canada slide
The mature markets of North America, Western Europe and Japan, which have been buffeted by…
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RTL Group raises €1.4 billion through secondary IPO
RTL Group’s owner Bertelsmann has raised €1.4 billion through a secondary public offering of shares…
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Mobile video viewing jumps 215% in Germany
Some 11.5 million people in Germany viewed video on mobile phones in Germany in February…
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Pace chooses Myriad for RDK Java Virtual Machine
UK-based set-top box provider Pace has chosen Myriad Group’s Java technology for use in its…
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Hungarian digital TV subscriptions climb
The number of households in Hungary with digital TV subscriptions climbed 1.7% year-on-year in March,…
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Lagardère names channels executive
Lagardère has named Gérald-Brice Viret as deputy head of TV channels at its Lagardère Active…
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BeyonDSL to market SES broadband in UK and Ireland
Satellite operator SES has signed a deal with BeyonDSL for the distribution of its broadband…
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Competition for DTT slot as TV Centre moves to Russia’s first multiplex
The Russian government is to open up a vacated space in its proposed second digital-terrestrial…