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Ofcom invites local TV applicants

Ofcom has today invited applications to run 21 local TV channels across the UK. The…

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BT Vision subs base tops 700,000


BT Vision added 28,000 new customers in the first quarter of 2012 the year taking…

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DT TV base up half a million in 12 months

Deutsche Telekom added half a million T-Entertain TV customers in the 12 months ending March…

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SES’s HD Plus reaches 2.6 million households.

SES’s German HD platform HD Plus reached more than 2.6 million households at the end…

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Ono stabilises base, grows revenue and profit in tough conditions

Cable operator Ono stabilised its customer base and grew its revenues and EBITDA in the…

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Orange UK launch for TVcheck

Orange has launched its TVcheck app in the UK. The social TV application, which allows…

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Zattoo launches in Luxembourg

European web TV service provider Zattoo has teamed up with P&T LuxGSM to launch in…

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Mixed results for Lagardère Active

Lagardère Active, the arm of the French conglomerate that encompasses TV and press activities, posted…

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New head for Russian regulator

Russian deputy minister of communications Aleksandr Zharov has been named as the new head of…

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Skylink adds two channels

Czech pay TV provider Skylink has added two new channels to its line-up. The pay…

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Bundling pays off for Telekom Austria as TV numbers increase

The number of subscribers to Telekom Austria’s IPTV service A1 reached 204,700 at the end…

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UEFA announces rights deals in Croatia and Azerbaijan

UEFA has awarded Europa League broadcasting rights in Croatia and Champions League rights in Azerbaijan….

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Sony hires channel sales chief for CE, opens Polish office

Sony Pictures Television Networks has hired Hubert Drabik as its first head of sales for…

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Zon chooses Harmonic transcoding solutions

TV technology company Harmonic has announced that Portuguese cable and satellite operator Zon Multimédia has…

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Red Arrow acquires two production companies

Red Arrow Entertainment, the global producer owned by German broadcaster ProSiebenSat.1 Group, is ramping up…

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ESPN eyes international exit

Disney-owned sports broadcaster ESPN is considering exiting a number of international markets as a result…

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TDC sees best-ever subscriber growth

Danish cable operator TDC has reported its best-ever quarterly pay TV subscriber growth. The company,…

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SeaChange boosts set-top performance with Nitro Now software

TV technology company SeaChange has developed a software solution for deployed set-top boxes. The company…

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Discovery committed to OWN despite US$50m cost


Discovery CEO David Zaslav has said the company is committed to Oprah Winfrey joint venture…

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TivùSat sets target of two million

TivùSat, the Italian free-to-air digital satellite service, currently has 1.4 million smartcards distributed and the…

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Mediaset sees decline in ad and subscription revenue and profit

Italian broadcaster Mediaset saw year-on-year first-quarter falls in advertising and subscription revenue, EBIT and profit…

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Germany’s VideoWeb selects ALi for OTT boxes

German OTT provider VideoWeb has selected ALi Corporation’s M3911 Network Media Processor for its new…

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Harmonic launches Iris 2.0

Video technology provider Harmonic has updated Iris, its video quality monitoring and analytics software suite….

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RTL sees revenue rise thanks to German, French ad recovery


Pan-regional European broadcaster RTL Group saw its first-quarter revenues rise as a result of strong…

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ITV reports revenue boost as a result of international commissions


UK commercial broadcaster ITV saw its first quarter revenues rise by 13% as a result…

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Glitz launches on Kabel Deutschland

German cable operator Kabel Deutschland (KDG) has added Turner Broadcast’s female-oriented channel Glitz to its…

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Turner names UK business development chief

Turner Broadcast has named Marcos Milanez as business development and distribution manager for the UK…

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TeliaSonera moves on Teo

Nordic telco TeliaSonera has agreed to acquire a 7.87% stake in Lithuanian telco and digital…

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Gibraltar signs up with Arqiva for DTT

The Gibraltar Regulatory Authority (GRA) has signed a contract with broadcast services provider Ariqiva to…

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Unitymedia extends VOD availability

Liberty Global-owned cable operator Unitymedia has extended the availability of its video-on-demand offering to the…