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Telecom Italia names Rossi as new chairman
Telecom Italia has named Salvatore Rossi as the company’s new chairman, replacing Fulvio Conti. The…
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BSNL signs triple play deal with YuppTV in effort to halt decline
South Asian OTT platform YuppTV has signed a triple play partnership with Indian service provider…
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UPC deal in limbo after Sunrise scraps EGM
Sunrise’s CHF6.3 billion deal to acquire UPC Switzerland from Liberty Global hangs in the balance…
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Telia changes chair amid TV refocus
Swedish Telia Group wants to replace chairwoman Marie Ehling with media and telco exec Lars-Johan…
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Tricolor TV reportedly in NTV+ merger talks
Leading Russian commercial pay TV platform Tricolor TV is in talks focusing on a possible…
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Tele2 sees TV base decline
Nordic service provider Tele2 saw its Swedish digital TV base decline by 9,000 in the…
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BeIN Media Group branches out into original series with Turkish commission
BeIN Media Group has commissioned its first Turkish original series, with a commitment to launch…
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Canal+ reportedly selling Olympics rights to Discovery
Canal+ is selling its broadcast rights to the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games to Discovery for…
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Canal+ stable for Vivendi in Q3, despite subscriber losses in France
Vivendi has posted positive results for the quarter amid ongoing legal disputes with the Italian…
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Sky Deutschland expands Sky Ticket OTT offering
Sky Deutschland has expanded its Sky Ticket low-cost OTT offering by adding 13 linear channels…
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Melita passes TV milestone
Maltese cable provider Melita’s TV has now passed the 100,000 milestone, giving it the equivalent…
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Movistar+ launches new targeted ad campaign
Telefónica-owned Spanish pay TV platform Movistar+ has launched the latest phase of its drive to…
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Globecast partners with Orby TV for pay-as-you-go satellite service
Globecast has signed a deal with pay-as-you-go satellite TV startup Orby TV to provide a…
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Japan set for moderate telco and pay TV growth
Japanese telco and pay TV services are set to grow at a moderate CAGR of…
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Freenet rejects Liberty Global’s offer to take part in Sunrise-UPC Switzerland deal
Freenet, the largest shareholder in Sunrise, is still opposed to the Swiss service provider’s deal…
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Premier League pirated by 9% of Brits
The extent of sports piracy has been illustrated by a new study which has found…
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Spanish pay TV numbers revealed
The number of pay TV customers in Spain rose by 2.1% year-on-year in the first…
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Telenet unveils analogue switch off plan
Liberty Global-backed Belgian cable operator Telenet says it will switch off its analogue TV service…
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MyZen launches in Greece on Nova
Well-being channel MyZen TV has launched in Greece on DTH platform Nova. Nova is offering…
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DAZN scores Basketball Champions League rights in Spain ahead of season tip-off
Sports streamer DAZN has secured rights to the Basketball Champions League, the European club competition,…
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Virgin kicks off smart home offering in Ireland
Liberty Global’s Virgin Media has announced the launch of its Smart Home packages. Partnered with…
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Elisa to launch HD over-the-air in Estonia
Finnish service provider Elisa’s Estonian arm is to start broadcasting digital-terrestrial channels in HD as…
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Orange launches next-generation box in France
Orange has unveiled its latest-generation set-top box and gateway for the French market, the Livebox…
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Altice Labs unveils raft of RDK gateways for DOCSIS and PON
Altice Labs, the technology development arm of the European service provider, has unveiled a portfolio…
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Vodafone to shutter over 1,000 stores as CEO calls Germany the “heart of the company”
Vodafone is to close 15% of its 7,700 stores, the telco has announced. Group CEO…
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Liberty Latin America picks up AT&T’s Puerto Rican and US Virgin Islands businesses for US$1.95 billion
Liberty Latin America has agreed to buy AT&T’s operations in Puerto Rico and the US…
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BeIN Media: sports rightsholders face ‘financial cliff’ as piracy destroys market
The “media rights bubble is about to burst for sports”, with the industry “sleep-walking towards…
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Sunrise chief claims growing support for Liberty Global deal
Sunrise is gaining shareholder support for its troubled agreement to buy UPC Switzerland from Liberty…
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Polish cable operators tap Insys for TV platform
Polish system integrator Insys Video Technologies has deployed its InsysGO platform for three local cable…
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Netflix launches on Sky Italia, announces co-production deal with Mediaset and opening of Italian offices
Sky Italia has added Netflix to its Sky Q platform. At launch, Netflix will be…