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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…
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Endemol launching soccer tournament, Sky takes UK rights
â¨Producer and distributor Endemol is creating a new pre-season soccer tournament and has licensed…
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Mediaset challenges AGCOM political bias ruling
Italian broadcaster Mediaset is to challenge a penalty imposed by regulator AGCOM for failure to…
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DNA chooses TeamCast for SFN DVB-T2 network
Finlands DNA has chosen TeamCast to provide technology to support the rollout of the latterÂs…
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First Portuguese municipality completes switchover
Alenquer, near Lisbon, has become the first Portuguese municipality to complete terrestrial digital switchover….
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Strong HD growth in Germany
Germany will end 2011 with 31 million HD ready homes, according to the countrys…
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Kabel BW strikes VOD deal with Disney
German cable operator Kabel BW has struck a deal with Disney to offer Disney movies…
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Der Spiegel to launch online channel
The company behind German magazine Der Spiegel is to launch an IP-based online TV channel,…
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Neufbox Evolution passes quarter million customer mark
French telco SFRs next generation gateway and set-top box device Neufbox Evolution has attracted over…
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Latin America leads Telefonica’s pay TV growth
Telefónica ended March with a total of 2.9 million pay TV customers, up 10%…
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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%…
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NTV Plus adds music channel A-One
Russian pay TV operator NTV Plus has added music channel A-One to its basic and…
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Rai fined for pro-Berlusconi news broadcasts
â¨Rai has been fined 100,000 for giving too much airtime to Italian Prime Minister Silvio…
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Volatile ad market impacts TF1
â¨A volatile TV advertising market and worse than expected advertising revenue receipts in the…
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Strong quarter for Canal Plus
French media giant Vivendi reported first quarter revenues of 7.2 billion, an increase of 3.8%…
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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…
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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%…
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KDG chooses Teleste for upgrade
Finnish technology company Teleste has been chosen by German cable operator Kabel Deutschland (KDG) to…
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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…
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FIFA and UEFA dispute UK listed events rules
Football governing bodies FIFA and UEFA are appealing a ruling that their major tournaments must…
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KDG boosts 3D line-up
German cable operator Kabel Deutschland (KDG) is boosting its line-up of 3D on-demand content. KDG…
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Astra revenues up 4%
Satellite operator SES increased revenues by 4.2% in the first quarter to 428.4 million. EBITDA…
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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…
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BT Vision adds 30,000
BT Vision has added 30,000 subscribers to BT Vision in the quarter to end-March. The…
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Canal Plus Cyfrowy wins football rights
Canal Plus Cyfrowy has won a tender for the broadcast rights to Polands top football…
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Numericable targets mobile market ahead of Free launch
French cable operator Numericable has introduced an aggressively priced new mobile tariff, offering unlimited calls,…
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Sky Deutschland adds subs, narrows losses
Sky Deutschland attracted 73,000 new customers during the first three months of 2011, taking its…
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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…
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Digital channels boost ITV
â¨UK commercial broadcaster ITV saw its bouquet of digital channels grow its audience share by…
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Disney XD launches Marvel block
Disney XD, the international kids channel, is launching a Marvel programming block. The network, which…