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Pay TV Operators
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Bouygues Telecom turns in solid Q2
French service provider Bouygues Telecom has posted solid Q2 numbers, with growth in both its…
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Meo bundles sport and movies in promotional drive
Altice Portugal/Meo has announced detals of a new offering that will bundle sports, movies and…
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Cyfrowy Polsat launching catch-up TV, time-shifting and restart on Evobox HD
Polish pay TV provider Cyfrowy Polsat has added catch-up, time-shifted TV and restart TV functionality…
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A1 tests 8K streaming over 5G
Austrian telco A1 is today debuting a test of 8K video streaming via its 5G…
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TDC taps Agama for video assurance
Danish telco TDC’s consumer facing business Nuuday has tapped quality assurance specialist Agama’s video assurance…
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SFR to be first French operator to integrate Amazon Prime Video
Altice Europe has signed up to a partnership deal with Amazon Prime Video to make…
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Liberty Global rejects changes to Sunrise deal
Liberty Global has rejected making any changes to its agreement with Sunrise for the sale…
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Vivendi takes legal action to preserve right to vote against MediaForEurope plan
Vivendi has confirmed that it plans to vote against the planned merger of Mediaset into…
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Denmark’s YouSee taps Media Distillery for AI-infused video-on-demand
Danish telco TDC’s YouSee cable division has tapped artificial intelligence specialist Media Distillery to help…
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TV 2 calls on Norigin Media for TV app development
Norweigan broadcaster TV 2 has signed a deal with Norigin Media to build and launch…
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Swiss strife: Sunrise, Freenet and Liberty Global
Swiss telco Sunrise has fallen out spectacularly with its biggest shareholder, Germany’s Freenet, over the…
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Latin American pay TV operators optimistic about OTT and sports streaming
Latin America pay TV executive are more optimistic about the impact of the shift to…
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Sunrise at war with Freenet over Liberty Global deal
The battle between Swiss service provider Sunrise and its largest shareholder Freenet over the former’s…
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Sky Deutschland to offer PPV Bundesliga 2 matches via Onefootball app
Sky Deutschland has struck a deal with football fansite and app Onefootball to make Bundesliga…
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Beeline Kazakhstan taps Kaltura for new TV offering
Veon/Beeline Kazakhstan has tapped technology provider Kaltura’s cloud TV platform to deliver its newly-launched TV service,…
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Vodafone Deutschland follows Deutsche Telekom with cloud gaming service
Vodafone Deutschland has launched a cloud gaming platform that it says is optimised for 5G…
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AT&T begins beta rollout of new TV service
US telco AT&T has rolled out beta launches of its new streaming TV offering, AT&T…
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Telenor completes acquisition of majority stake in DNA
Telenor has completed the acquisition of a majority stake in Finnish cable and telecom operator…
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Tele Columbus posts improved financials but loses TV customers
German cable operator Tele Columbus, which trades under the PŸUR brand, has reported improved financials…
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Sky expands channel line-up with new entertainment brands
Sky has announced the addition of two new own-brand channels to its entertainment portfolio: Sky…
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Altice France launches SFR Box 8 for €5 a month
Altice France/SFR has launched its latest box, the SFR Box 8, commercially for €5 a…
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Jefferies: Telefónica making ‘rational’ response to aggressive football promos
Analysts at investment bank Jefferies have given an upbeat assessment of Telefónica’s prospects and has…
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Telia Denmark chief to quit
Telia Denmark CEO Morten Bentzen is to leave the company at the end of this…
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Altice USA pens deal with factual streamer CuriosityStream
John Hendricks’s factual streamer CuriosityStream is getting wider distribution in the US via broadband operator…
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Vodafone Portugal and TVI in holographic 5G first
Vodafone Portugal and Portuguese public broadcaster TVI have teamed up to transmit a holographic broadcast…
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Rai loses last appeal on Sky football decision
Italian public broadcaster Rai has lost a second appeal against an earlier court decision that…
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Macquarie completes acquisition of KCOM
Private equity outfit Macquarie Infrastructure and Real Assets (MIRA) has, via Macquarie European Infrastructure Fund…
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Portuguese-language trio of channels joins Post Luxembourg line-up
Lusophone TV channels RTP3, Sic Noticias and Globo International have joined Post Luxembourg’s growing TV…
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Virgin Media and eir to carry each other’s sports channels
Irish telco eir and Virgin Media have penned a deal that will see an exchange…
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ViacomCBS and the ‘channelising’ of streaming platforms
With an on-again, off-again saga longer than many sit-coms, CBS and Viacom finally confirmed their…