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Sony, Apollo and Providence circle £750m All3Media


The television arm of Sony and private equity firms Apollo and Providence are being linked…

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Zon launches multimedia music service

Portuguese pay TV operator Zon Multimédia has launched Zon Música, a new multi-platform music service,…

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ANACOM censures PT over poor DTT information

Portuguese regulator ANACOM has called on Portugal Telecom to improve the quality of information provided…

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Formula 1 races over to MaxTV

Subscribers to Croatian telco T-Hrvatski Telecom’s pay TV service MaxTV can now watch coverage of…

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Pace appoints former Asda CEO as chairman

Set-top vendor Pace has appointed former supermarket CEO Allan Leighton as its new non-executive chairman….

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Al Jazeera wins French international football rights

France’s professional football league, the LFP, has awarded Al Jazeera the rights to commercialize…

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DTH leads Romanian pay TV rebound as cable declines

Romanian telecoms regulator ANCOM’s latest Electronic Communications report shows an overall growth in pay TV…

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Spain’s TV3 chooses Dolby Digital Plus for final

Spanish regional public broadcaster Televisió de Catalunya (TV3) is to show the UEFA Champions League…

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Premium Calcio number one in Italy

Mediaset’s Premium Calcio is Italy’s most watched pay TV channel, according to ratings agency Auditel….

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Pay TV growth for Kabel BW

German cable operator Kabel BW ended March with 308,000 pay TV subscribers after adding 98,000…

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UK, France take OTT lead, Italy and Spain lag


The UK and France are the most developed of the large, western European TV markets…

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Discovery launches localised mobile app

Discovery Networks International has teamed up with mobile app specialist Phunware to launch specially-languaged mobile…

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Free/Iliad in bond issue

French ISP Free/Iliad Telecom has completed a €500 million bond issue.
 The five year bond,…

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Telenet continues wholesale fight

Belgian cable operator Telenet has said it will continue to fight regulatory proposals that would…

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Global TV ad market will reach US$180 billion by 2016

Cumulative worldwide TV advertising revenues will grow this year albeit at a slower rate than…

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Primacom and Tele Columbus continue digital upgrade

German cable operator Primacom has upgraded its network in Angelbachtal near Mannheim. The operator is…

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AsiaSat announces major earth station expansion

Hong Kong-based satellite operator AsiaSat has announced a major expansion of its Tai Po earth…

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Video to lead seven-fold internet traffic growth by 2015

The boom in online video will result in the amount of data being uploaded and…

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Pay TV revenues in eastern Europe growing strongly

Pay TV revenues across Eastern Europe have rocketed in the past five years and will…

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Poland’s ‘n’ teams up with Sony for CI Plus CAM launch

Polish pay TV operator ‘n’ has teamed up with TV manufacturer Sony to launch…

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BBC News app lands on Android

The BBC has launched its News app on Android, underlining its commitment to make online…

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IPTV boost for PTÂ’s wireline business

Portugal Telecom said its pay TV service Meo has now reached critical mass and was…

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VimpelCom makes Beeline for HD channels

Russian service provider VimpelCom has added six HD channels to its Beeline pay TV platform….

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MTG inks pan-Scandi deal with Fox

Modern Times Group (MTG) has agreed a four-year programming deal with Fox. The deal gives…

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Canal Plus to take minority stake in Orange channels

French pay TV operator Canal Plus is to take a minority stake in rival Orange’s…

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Tvinci powers new Dutch online TV platform

Over-the-top pay TV technology specialist Tvinci is powering Filmotech’s recently launched Dutch online video portal,…

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Outdoor Channel heads to Russia

Chello Zone’s Outdoor Channel has launched in Russia. The channel, which airs programming about outdoor…

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Dailymotion mulls possible pay services

French online video site Dailymotion is considering the launch of pay services as part of…

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Rostelecom success in Siberia

Russian service provider Rostelecom has doubled the number of IPTV subscribers it has in Siberia…

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Baltkom to launch 4G wireless in Riga

Latvian cable operator Baltkom has completed the installation of a 4G wireless network in the…