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Canal Plus grows base as Vivendi confirms outlook
Canal Plus France added 96,000 net subscriptions in the year to June. The pay TV…
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Fetch TV to launch on Panasonic connected TVs
The VOD portal of UK service provider IP Vision’s hybrid OTT/IPTV platform Fetch TV will…
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Channel 4 News arrives on 4oD
Channel 4 is adding news programming to its catch-up platform 4oD. The broadcaster’s weekday Channel…
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UPC Czech boosts HD line up
Cable operator UPC Czech Republic has expanded its channel line-up with the addition of the…
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All Go for TLC in Malta
Discovery is launching its female skewing network TLC in Malta after striking a deal with…
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Du TV offers free channels
Middle Eastern pay TV operator Du TV is offering all subscribers free access to 136…
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Slovenia VOD provider chooses open source encoder
Telekom Slovenije-owned video-on-demand provider Najdi has chosen the Open Broadcast Encoder (OBE), an open-source encoder…
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RTL to launch channels in Vietnam
German commercial broadcast group RTL is launching five German-language television station in Vietnam after striking…
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Facebook app for Elion
Estonian service provider Elion plans to introduce a Facebook application for its nutiTV IPTV service….
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Cosmos TV Belarus names new CEO
Pay TV service provider Cosmos TV Belarus has named Igor Zayanchkovsky as its new CEO….
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Astra to deliver glasses-free 3D TV
SES Astra and iPONT International, a developer of glasses-free 3D technology, will use IBC demonstrate…
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Schmidt promises European Google TV launch early next year
Delivering this year’s MacTaggart lecture at the MediaGuardian Edinburgh International Television Festival on Friday, Google…
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BBC to trial Super HD at Olympics
UK public broadcaster the BBC will air “every hour of every event” at next year’s…
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Lagardère unlikely to IPO Canal Plus stake anytime soon
French media group Lagardère is unlikely to launch an IPO of its 20% stake in…
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EBU-backed social network pilot goes live
An EBU-backed pilot that uses social networks to allow TV viewers to choose broadcasters’ schedules…
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Zon revenues boosted by triple-play and VOD growth
Portuguese cable operator Zon Multimedia is still attracting new triple-play customers, and penetration has now…
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Swisscom reveals VOD usage figures
Swisscom has revealed that it had approximately 3,000,000 VOD requests from its Swissom TV customers…
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CME launches VOD in Slovakia
Broadcaster Central European Media Enterprises (CME) has launched its Voyo video-on-demand service into its fourth…
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Eutelsat feeds Egyptian satellite demand
Eutelsat’s subsidiary Skylogic has signed a six-year distribution deal with Egyptsat enabling the Egyptian operator…
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Faroese Telecom chooses Agama
Faroese telecom provider Faroese Telecom has chosen Agama Technologies to provide quality assurance technology for…
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ONO adds Prisa’s football channel
Spanish cable operator ONO has begun offering Prisa TV’s Fútbol (Football) channel. ONO is offering…
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MoCA certification passes 100 products
The Multimedia-over-Coax Alliance (MoCA), which provides specifications for home networking over in-home coax, has announced…
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ProSiebenSat.1 to buy back up to 10% of shares
German commercial broadcaster ProSiebenSat.1 is looking to buy back up to 10% of the company’s…
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Deutsche Telekom reportedly to set up FTTH subsidiary
Deutsche Telekom is planning to create a new subsidiary specifically to look after high-speed fibre-optic…
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Travel Channel HD launches in Poland
Travel Channel HD is launching in Poland on the Vectra cable platform. The channel will…
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Euronews launches in Ukraine
International news broadcaster Euronews has launched in Ukraine. The news network had signed a deal…
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Uganda’s Vision TV launches English-language network
Vision TV is launching an English-language channel in Uganda. The company, which currently operates free-to-air…
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Kenya’s Kiss acquires soccer rights
Kenyan broadcaster Kiss TV has acquired the rights to a raft of European soccer tournaments….
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New look for Discovery Channel in CEEMEA
Discovery Communications has launched a new brand identity for Discovery Channel across central and eastern…
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EBU launches broadcast challenge study
The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) has launched new research into the key business challenges and…