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Pay TV subs projected to rise, revenues to dip
Pay TV subscriptions are set to rise by 60 million over the next five years. …
Flix Snip teams up with Mediacorp for Singapore launch
Short-form content app and VOD service Flix Snip has announced a partnership with Mediacorp to…
Elliott invests US$3.2bn in AT&T, slams DirecTV investment and WarnerMedia strategy
Activist investor Elliott Management’s funds have invested US$3.2 billion in AT&T and called for a…
Disney leases bulk of UK’s Pinewood Studios
Disney has become the latest US-based outfit to secure a long-term arrangement for production space…
Altice Portugal signs new deal with SIC
Altice Portugal/Meo has signed a new distribution deal with Portuguese commercial broadcaster SIC. Altice Portugal…
Proximus’s Leroy ‘regrets perception’ created by share sale ahead of KPN move
Proximus CEO Dominique Leroy has come under fire over the sale of shares in the…
Cellcom Israel VP marketing quits
Yoni Sabag, the VP of marketing at Cellcom Israel, is to leave the company, a…
Altice France’s Weill concedes defeat in battle with Orange
Altice France CEO Alain Weill has admitted defeat and will make the group’s TV channels…
KPN names Proximus’ Dominique Leroy as CEO
Dutch telco KPN has named Proximus chief Dominique Leroy as its new CEO, replacing Maximo…
Canal+ gets green light for M7 acquisition
Pay TV operator Canal+ has received a green light from the European Commission to acquire…
Deutsche Telekom lines up VR and AR over 5G for Bayern Munich
Deutsche Telekom and football club FC Bayern Munich have teamed up to deploy 5G mobile…
Digi/RCS & RDS taps Nagra for first cardless CAM
Central and eastern European cable and satellite pay TV operator Digi/RCS & RDS has tapped…
New French media law to oblige Netflix to invest in local production
French minister of culture Franck Riester has presented his plans for a new media law…
Sunrise bolsters case for UPC deal with new fairness opinion
Swiss telecom operator Sunrise has boosted its case in its battle with its biggest shareholder…
Nc+ changes name to Canal+ and launches series of promos
Polish pay TV operator nc+ has changed its name by adopting the Canal+ brand, with…
Sky Deutschland enables viewing of recordings offline on the go
Sky Deutschland is enabling customers of its Sky Q advanced TV offering to consume recorded…
Dish TV India turns to Broadpeak technology for OTT service Watcho
Satellite pay TV operator Dish TV India has turned to France’s Broadpeak to provide technology…
Telia ‘offers concessions’ to secure green light for Bonnier acquisition
Telia is reportedly offering to give rival service providers access to its free-to-air and basic…
Free posts mixed results, moves towards fibre partnership
French service provider Iliad Telecom/Free lost 77,000 mobile and 15,000 fixed broadband customers in France…
Sri Lanka’s Dialog taps Kaltura for cloud TV service
Sri Lankan service provider Dialog Axiata has tapped technology outfit Kaltura to provide the underlying…
Vivendi secures right to vote in MediaForEurope battle with Mediaset
Vivendi has secured a victory in its battle to secure representation of its views on…
Sky ‘in talks’ with Liberty Global to invest in fibre JV
Sky is in talks with Liberty Global to invest in Virgin Media’s new fibre venture…
More Sunrise shareholders reportedly leaning towards opposing Liberty deal
Additional shareholders in Sunrise are leaning towards joining German service provider and Sunrise’s largest shareholder…
Vodafone and Unitymedia begin joint marketing of products
Vodafone and Unitymedia, the former Liberty Global German operation it took control of last month,…
Post Luxembourg adds Spanish international drama channel to line-up
Telecom operator Post Luxembourg has struck a deal with Spanish public broadcaster RTVE to bring…
Canal+ ‘finalising’ distribution deal with Netflix
Canal+ is in advanced talks about a deal to distribute Netflix on its platform, according…
Cyfrowy Polsat boosted by multi-play and contract services growth
Polish pay TV operator Cyfrowy Polsat was boosted by solid growth of multi-play customers and…
Tele2 loses international chief as it focuses on home market
Tele2 international chief Guillaume van Gaver is to leave the company as the operator refocuses…
Dataxis: pay DTH on the slide, IPTV eclipses cable and OTT surpasses DTT
DTH satellite remains the most-used technology for subscription TV in Europe by revenue, but its…
Orange may follow Free in dropping Altice France channels
Orange may follow rival French service provider Free in dropping Altice France’s TV channels over…