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French football league launches rights tender process
Frances professional football league (LFP) has launched the tender process for TV rights to Ligue…
Endemol launching soccer tournament, Sky takes UK rights
â¨Producer and distributor Endemol is creating a new pre-season soccer tournament and has licensed…
Mediaset challenges AGCOM political bias ruling
Italian broadcaster Mediaset is to challenge a penalty imposed by regulator AGCOM for failure to…
DNA chooses TeamCast for SFN DVB-T2 network
Finlands DNA has chosen TeamCast to provide technology to support the rollout of the latterÂs…
First Portuguese municipality completes switchover
Alenquer, near Lisbon, has become the first Portuguese municipality to complete terrestrial digital switchover….
Strong HD growth in Germany
Germany will end 2011 with 31 million HD ready homes, according to the countrys…
Kabel BW strikes VOD deal with Disney
German cable operator Kabel BW has struck a deal with Disney to offer Disney movies…
Der Spiegel to launch online channel
The company behind German magazine Der Spiegel is to launch an IP-based online TV channel,…
Neufbox Evolution passes quarter million customer mark
French telco SFRs next generation gateway and set-top box device Neufbox Evolution has attracted over…
Latin America leads Telefonica’s pay TV growth
Telefónica ended March with a total of 2.9 million pay TV customers, up 10%…
RCS&RDS joins list of Romtelecom suitors
â¨Central and eastern European pay TV operator RCS&RDS has lodged a bid for the 45.9%…
NTV Plus adds music channel A-One
Russian pay TV operator NTV Plus has added music channel A-One to its basic and…
Rai fined for pro-Berlusconi news broadcasts
â¨Rai has been fined 100,000 for giving too much airtime to Italian Prime Minister Silvio…
Volatile ad market impacts TF1
â¨A volatile TV advertising market and worse than expected advertising revenue receipts in the…
Strong quarter for Canal Plus
French media giant Vivendi reported first quarter revenues of 7.2 billion, an increase of 3.8%…
Deficom and Apax to acquire Numericable in Belgium and Luxembourg
A group of local investment companies has entered into exclusive negotiations to acquire the cable…
Zon’s triple-play penetration passes 50%
Portuguese cable operator Zon Multimedia ended March with a total of 3,181,300 RGUs, a 7.8%…
KDG chooses Teleste for upgrade
Finnish technology company Teleste has been chosen by German cable operator Kabel Deutschland (KDG) to…
Strong pay TV performance compensates soft ad market for TVN
Polish pay TV platform n saw its first-quarter revenues grow by 27% year-on-year and its…
FIFA and UEFA dispute UK listed events rules
Football governing bodies FIFA and UEFA are appealing a ruling that their major tournaments must…
KDG boosts 3D line-up
German cable operator Kabel Deutschland (KDG) is boosting its line-up of 3D on-demand content. KDG…
Astra revenues up 4%
Satellite operator SES increased revenues by 4.2% in the first quarter to 428.4 million. EBITDA…
Samsung adds Five catch-up to connected TV services
Samsung has made the catch-up TV service from free-to-air UK broadcaster Channel 5 available on…
BT Vision adds 30,000
BT Vision has added 30,000 subscribers to BT Vision in the quarter to end-March. The…
Canal Plus Cyfrowy wins football rights
Canal Plus Cyfrowy has won a tender for the broadcast rights to Polands top football…
Numericable targets mobile market ahead of Free launch
French cable operator Numericable has introduced an aggressively priced new mobile tariff, offering unlimited calls,…
Sky Deutschland adds subs, narrows losses
Sky Deutschland attracted 73,000 new customers during the first three months of 2011, taking its…
Multimedia Polska adds digital subs
Multimedia Polska ended March with 709,000 RGUs, a year-on-year increase of 46,000. Of those, 145,022…
Digital channels boost ITV
â¨UK commercial broadcaster ITV saw its bouquet of digital channels grow its audience share by…
Disney XD launches Marvel block
Disney XD, the international kids channel, is launching a Marvel programming block. The network, which…