After more than 40 years of operation, DTVE is closing its doors and our website will no longer be updated daily. Thank you for all of your support.
Pay TV Operators
1 min read
Vivendi slams Mediaset internationalisation plan
Vivendi has explicitly criticised Mediaset’s plans to combine its Italian and Spanish units in a…
1 min read
Amazon and Vodafone Spain kick off ‘pioneering’ Prime collaboration
Amazon and Vodafone España have kicked off what Vodafone describes as a “pioneering agreement” that…
1 min read
Zegona consolidates influence over Euskaltel with Samuelson appointment
Cable and telecom investor Zegona Communications has consolidated its control of the direction of Spanish…
1 min read
Canal+ confirms restructuring plan
Canal+ has confirmed that it is to reduce its headcount by 492 people as part…
1 min read
Fix&Foxi launches in Luxembourg
Your Family Entertainment-owned kids channel Fix&Foxi is to launch in Luxembourg on Post Luxembourg’s IPTV…
1 min read
New pay-as-you-go satellite TV service launches in US
A Los Angeles-based start-up led by a former Starz executive has launched a new hybrid…
2 min read
Serie A postpones decision on Mediapro offer
Italy’s Serie A has pushed back a decision on whether to accept Spanish broadcaster and…
1 min read
NOS launches multiscreen picture-in-picture
Portuguese pay TV provider NOS has launched multiscreen picture-in-picture mode, allowing users to view content…
1 min read
BARC India to separate free and pay viewership in reporting
BARC India has announced that it will start reporting viewership from free and pay platforms…
2 min read
MTM hires ex-Sky COO Mike Darcey
Research and strategy consultancy MTM has hired former Sky strategy director, chief operating officer and…
1 min read
Vodafone Deutschland teams up with DFL for 5G Bundesliga stadium experience
Vodafone Deutschland has signed a two-year agreement with Germany’s top-tier football body the DFL to…
1 min read
Rakuten TV launches subscription offering with TalkTalk
Movies-on-demand provider Rakuten TV is to launch its recently launched subscription video-on-demand service with UK…
1 min read
Russia’s Akado names technology and operations chief
Russian service provider Akado has named Dmitry Alekseyevich Sinitsyn as its new general director of…
2 min read
120 Nexstar channels blacked out overnight by AT&T in the US
AT&T’s contract dispute with Nexstar has spilled over to consumers, with 120 stations across 97…
1 min read
TVI and Eleven Sports renew deal for Champions League broadcast rights
Portuguese Eleven Sports and TVI have extended their FTA carriage agreement for the 2019/20 and 20/201…
1 min read
Africa pay TV outfit Kwesé goes into administration
African pay TV operator Econet Media, which operates under the Kwesé brand, has put its…
1 min read
SES ‘too optimistic’ on future prospects
Satellite operator SES’s full-year financial guidance is “too optimistic” and the operator faces further challenges…
1 min read
Australia reaches 14 million pay TV subscribers
Over half the Australian population pays for TV or SVOD services. According to new research…
1 min read
Insight TV launches in Greece on Nova
UHD TV factual channel provider Insight TV has launched the HD version of its channel…
1 min read
Virgin Media beats rivals to air Wimbledon tennis in 4K UHD and HDR
Liberty Global-owned Virgin Media is to air the Wimbledon tennis tournament in 4K UHD and…
2 min read
Euskaltel hails court decision as operators face up to data threat from production outfits
Spanish regional cable operator Euskaltel has expressed satisfaction with the legal outcome of a case…
1 min read
Telefónica reportedly to tap Mediapro for La Liga production
Telefónica has contracted production company and broadcaster Mediapro to produce its coverage of La Liga…
1 min read
Italian court rejects Rai appeal over Champions League
An Italian court has rejected an appeal by public broadcaster Rai over a disputed right…
1 min read
Genish resigns from Telecom Italia board
Amos Genish, the Vivendi-backed former CEO of Telecom Italia (TIM) who was ousted in a…
1 min read
Operators remain bitter as Germany’s €6.6 billion 5G auction comes to an end
Deutsche Telekom has secured mobile frequencies worth €2.17 billion for its planned 5G rollout, bringing…
1 min read
EC ‘set to green light’ Vodafone-Liberty Global deal
The European Commission is set to give a green light to Vodafone’s plan to acquire…
1 min read
Alchimie to provide VOD content to SFR
Content aggregator and distributor Alchimiehas signed a three-year agreement with Altice France/ SFR to provide…
1 min read
Sky Italia confirms Ibarra as CEO
Sky Italia has confirmed that KPN chief executive Maximo Ibarra is to be its new…
1 min read
Euskaltel names former Jazztel exec as strategy chief
Spanish regional cable operator Euskaltel has named Alfonso Enríquez as group manager for strategy and…
1 min read
French police arrest beinsport-streaming.com piracy ring
French police have broken up a Rennes-based piracy ring that was operating about 20 sites…