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Tele2 Estonia teams up with Viasat for TV and internet service
Mobile operator Tele2 Estonia has teamed up with pay TV outfit Viasat to launch a…
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Foxtel merging Fox Sports in Australia
Australia’s leading pay TV platform, Foxtel, is merging with its News Corp cousin Fox Sports…
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YouTube TV expands to half the US
YouTube has rolled out its subscription TV streaming service to 14 new markets in the…
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BBC iPlayer gets 236m programme requests in July
The BBC iPlayer received 236 million requests for TV content in July, with viewing on…
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AsiaSat sees profits drop as price pressure bites
Hong Kong-based satellite operator AsiaSat saw its first-half profits drop sharply thanks to adverse currency…
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Portugal’s Nowo taps Elemental for new TV service
Portuguese cable and telecom operator Nowo has tapped video technology outfit AWS Elemental to provide…
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Okko reports first operating profit as user base expands
Russian OTT TV service Okko has reported its first operating profit after first-half revenues for…
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Eurosport Player comes to Amazon Channels in Germany
Eurosport Player is joining the Amazon Channels line-up in Germany and Austria, in a move…
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EE TV launches Amazon Alexa voice control
EE TV has launched voice control through the Amazon Echo and Echo Dot devices, giving…
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Iflix revamp focuses on personalisation
Iflix has revamped its user interface with upgraded features designed to focus on the “individual…
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Report: Ericsson looks to cut 25,000 jobs
Ericsson is reportedly considering cutting some 25,000 employees outside of Sweden in its efforts to…
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YouTube adds ex-WGN & Fox execs for originals
YouTube is bolstering its original programming team by hiring former WGN America (WGN) and Fox…
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Kudelski slips into red as TV dip and IoT investments take toll
Kudelski Group slipped into the red in the first half of this year on weaker…
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ABI: VR seeing strong interest from US businesses
Virtual Reality (VR) is seeing strong interest from US businesses, particularly in the healthcare, retail,…
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Telecable closes OTT TV service
Spanish regional cable operator Telecable, now owned by Bilbao-based Euskaltel, is closing its online TV…
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ER-Telecom secures green light to acquire Akado regional operations
Russian competition watchdog the Federal Antimonopoly Service has given a green light to ER-Telecom to…
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Clubbing TV Russia launches with Rostelecom
Dance music channel Clubbing TV has launched in Russia after securing carriage on Rostelecom’s TV…
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Indian police arrest four in Game of Thrones leak case
Indian police have arrested four individuals allegedly involved in the leak of episode four of…
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Parrot Analytics: Netflix dominates in-demand digital originals in Spain
Netflix dominated the list of the most in-demand digital originals in Spain in the second…
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OSN launches new streaming service
Middle East pay TV platform OSN has launched a new streaming service, Wavo, available on…
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MTG’s Zoomin.tv targets China with Tencent deal
MTG-owned online video network, Zoomin.tv, is setting its sights on China after partnering with domestic…
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US TV network veteran Cherniss joins Apple
Ex-studio and US network veteran Matt Cherniss has joined former Sony execs Jamie Erlicht and…
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AltspaceVR reverses shutdown
irtual reality social network, AltspaceVR, said it will “live on”, despite announcing its imminent closure…
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TDG: ‘skinny bundle’ TV online customers happy with value
Subscribers to virtual pay TV services “overwhelmingly consider service value to be very solid,” according…
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Ex-CBS executive joins Verizon’s Go90
Former CBS alternative programming chief, Chris Castallo, is headed to digital video platform Go90 to…
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US connected device sales ‘to reach 442m by 2020’
More than 442 million connected devices will be sold in the US by 2020, according…
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Murdoch, Bradley and Clementi among RTS speakers
The UK’s Royal Television Society (RTS) has unveiled the line-up for its forthcoming Cambridge Convention….
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Amazon to shut down Lovefilm in UK and Germany
Amazon is calling time on its Lovefilm-branded DVD-by-post service later this year, citing declining demand…
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New chief for SlingTV as Lynch exits for Pandora
DISH Network’s Erik Carlson will lead its over-the-top service, SlingTV, after Roger Lynch moved to internet…
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Pay TV numbers rise in Kenya as DTT FTA boxes decline
Digital-terrestrial pay TV subscriptions are rising significantly in Kenya, while the number of free-to-air channels…