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Telenet sees digital growth and analogue decline
Belgian cable operator Telenet saw its analogue TV base fall to 853,300 at the end…
Disney to launch free-to-air in Russia
Disney is to begin broadcasting a free-to-air channel in Russia next year in partnership with…
Zon sees Iris growth in solid third quarter
Portuguese pay TV operator Zon Multimédia added 20,000 subscribers to its high-end Iris triple-play offering…
New 3D channel for Norway
High TV 3D, a 24-hour 3D channel for the Nordic region, has launched on Telenor…
Belgacom sees TV growth despite loss of football exclusivity
Belgian telco Belgacom saw its TV base grow by 52,000 in the last quarter despite…
Fox buys Viajar in Spain
Fox International Channels has bought Spanish travel channel Viajar. Fox acquired the channel from Spanish…
Eros sells Bollywood fare to Middle East
Bollywood producer and distributor Eros has inked a video-on-demand deal and content deals with a…
T-Hrvatski Telekom sees strong TV growth
Deutsche Telekom-owned Croatian telco T-Hrvatski Telekom had 317,847 TV customers at the end of September,…
History launches on Hungarian DTT
A+E Networks’ has inked a carriage deal for its History channel with Antenna Hungaria, which…
NTV Plus offers enhanced 3D football
Russian pay TV operator NTV Plus has teamed up with Panasonic and UEFA to offer…
Akado names commercial chief
Russian cable operator Akado has appointed Sergey Nazarov as vice-president responsible for commercial services and…
Volia boosts HD offering
Ukrainian cable operator Volia has boosted its HD offering with the addition of Modern Times…
Tele Columbus invests in Dresden headend
German cable operator Tele Columbus has installed a new headend in Dresden, providing services to…
Virgin Media boasts strong TiVo take-up
UK cable operator Virgin Media has signed up 222,000 customers to its TiVo service to…
Canal Plus Group in talks to acquire TVN
Canal Plus Group and Polish commercial broadcaster TVN have revealed that they are in exclusive…
Strong Orange TV growth fails to offset revenue slide
France Telecom/Orange’s TV base, including both IPTV and satellite customers, grew by 26.5% year-on-year to…
Viasat adds nine catch-up channels
Pan Nordic broadcaster Viasat has added nine channels to its online catch-up television service Viaplay….
Al Jazeera to launch new sports channel
Al Jazeera Media Network is launching a sports news channel across the Middle East next…
Etisalat launches new channels
Middle Eastern pay TV platform Etisalat is launching three channels from India’s Times Television Network….
Rostelecom signs strategic partnership with Sagemcom
Russian service provider Rostelecom has signed an agreement with France-based decoder provider Sagemcom to cooperate…
Lovefilm strikes Paramount deal for Germany
Digital streaming service and DVD rental firm Lovefilm has struck a deal with Hollywood studio…
BBC extends Wimbledon rights deal
The BBC has extended its deal to broadcast the Wimbledon tennis championship until 2017. The…
German 3D TV sales exceed expectations
German consumer electronics association the GFU has upgraded its expectation for 3D TV sales this…
TV Norge launching new FTA channel
Norwegian broadcaster TV Norge is launching a new free-to-air channel to appeal to an older…
Numericable adds ESPN America HD
French cable operator Numericable has added ESPN America HD to its line-up. The service, which…
Akado acquires Leningrad operator
Russian service provider Akado has acquired Leningrad region cable operator Sertolovskoe Televidenie, according to local…
ANGA Cable Show teams up with SCTE Cable-Tec Expo
German cable association ANGA and the US Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers (SCTE) have agreed…
Du teams up with Intelsat for distribution platform
UAE service provider du has teamed up with satellite operator Intelsat to jointly offer turnkey…
BBC agrees S4C funding deal
The BBC Trust, the corporation’s governing body, has agreed a funding deal for Welsh-language channel…
Sky Deutschland inks movie deal with Tele München
German pay TV operator Sky Deutschland has agreed a new movie deal with German studio…