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Deutsche Telekom puts money into social TV player Kwarter
US firm Kwarter, a startup based in San Francisco which partners with broadcasters and TV…
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Canal Plus sells events arm to management
Canal Plus has sold its sports marketing and events arm Canal Plus Events to the…
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Com Hem launches home phone via mobile service
Swedish cable operator Com Hem has launched Hemtelefon i Mobilen (Home Phone-Mobile), an app that…
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Vectra boosts HD offering
Polish cable operator Vectra is to launch a number of new HD channels as part…
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Music service WiMP launches in Poland, signs up second service provider
Music streaming service WiMP is now available as a commercial service in Poland following an…
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New Liberty Global TV role for Giesbers
UPC Netherlands’ head of marketing and content, Mark Giesbers, is to join parent company Liberty…
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Mediaset launches new multiplatform weather service
Italian media group Mediaset has launched a new multiplatform version of weather service Meteo.it that…
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Eutelsat 70B begins operation
Eutelsat 70B, the Paris-based satellite operator’s latest spacecraft, has gone into commercial service at 70.5°…
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Eutelsat chooses Harmonic
Satellite operator Eutelsat has chosen technology provider Harmonic’s ProStream 1000 stream processing and transcoding platform…
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Hisense chooses PacketVideo for Google TV and Smart TV
Chinese consumer electronics provider Hisense has chosen PacketVideo’s Twonky software for use in Google TV…
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WRN Broadcast upgrades media centre
Broadcast services provider WRN Broadcast is investing over £1 million (€1.2 million) in its London-based…
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Turner slashing its European workforce
Turner Broadcasting System (TBS) announced this morning that it will reduce the headcount across its…
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Liberty Global increases stake in Telenet ahead of planned reorganisation
Liberty Global has increased its stake in Belgian cable operator Telenet to over 58% after…
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Discovery buys Italian broadcaster Switchover
Discovery has continued on its recent acquisition spree, buying Italian kids and general entertainment broadcaster…
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M6 open to SVOD partnership with rival
French commercial broadcaster M6 is open to the idea of a subscription video-on-demand partnership with…
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Comcast takes stake in Arris following Motorola Home deal
Technology provider Arris, which acquired the Motorola Home business from Motorola Mobility in December, is…
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Dormal leaves Numericable, takes role with OTT venture
Pascal Dormal has formally left his position as CEO of cable operator Numericable in Belgium…
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Grass Valley names Thorsteinson as chief executive
TV technology specialist Grass Valley has named former Harris Broadcast president Tim Thorsteinson as president…
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UPC Cablecom announces new bundled offerings
To accompany its launch of the Horizon set-top, Liberty Global-owned UPC Cablecom is launching new…
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Zon adds Woohoo to line-up
Portuguese pay TV operator Zon Multimédia has added Brazilian extreme sports and youth culture channel…
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Cabovisão chooses Nagra for next-generation TV service
Portuguese cable operator Cabovisão has deployed Nagra conditional access technology to secure premium content on…
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Canal Plus Spain adds Sol Música
Canal Plus Spain has added music channel Sol Música to its programming line-up. The Chello…
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ATVOD ruling overturned on appeal
UK video-on-demand regulator ATVOD said it would consider carefully a court appeal that overturned its…
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UPC Cablecom launches Horizon
Switzerland’s UPC Cablecom today becomes the second Liberty Global-owned cable operator to launch the next-generation…
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News Corp takes majority stake in Sky Deutschland
News Corp is to take a majority stake in Sky Deutschland for the first time…
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Vivendi launches OTT service Watchever in Germany
France-based entertainment conglomerate Vivendi has launched an over-the-top service in Germany called Watchever. The subscription…
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TF1 in pay DTT partnership with Leclerc telecom unit
French commercial broadcaster TF1 could be planning to team up with a subsidiary of supermarket…
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Telenor de-orbits Thor II after 15 years’ service
Telenor Satellite Broadcasting has successfully de-orbited its Thor II satellite to a so-called ‘graveyard’ orbit….
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Russia’s General Satellite in Pakistan pay TV plan
Russian satellite reception equipment provider General Satellite is to invest in a new pay TV…
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Court rules Netflix enjoyed preferential treatment
A US federal appeals court has ruled that Netflix has been getting preferential treatment for…