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Pay TV Operators
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TV Connect: TV platforms better placed than most to survive GDPR
Interactive television platforms in Europe are well-placed to survive the imposition of the General Data…
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Vodafone to pay €18.4bn for Liberty Global assets in Europe
Vodafone has agreed to acquire Liberty Global’s operations in Germany, the Czech Republic, Hungary and…
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Liberty Global increases revenue, but subscriber growth slows sharply
Liberty Global beat expectations by delivering its strongest quarterly revenue growth in close to five…
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Tele Columbus makes changes to management line-up
German cable operator Tele Columbus is making a series of changes to its senior executive…
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Deutsche Telekom adds to TV base
Deutsche Telekom added 54,000 TV customers in Germany and 27,000 in the rest of Europe…
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Comcast ‘preparing’ potential new bid for Fox
Comcast is reportedly preparing a new bid for 21st Century Fox. Separately, the US cable…
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Vivendi loses control of Telecom Italia, but Genish stays on
Vivendi lost control of Telecom Italia (TIM) at the end of last week, with its…
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Mediapro mulls ‘pulling out’ of Spanish football as rights battle gears up
Spanish broadcaster, producer and pay TV channel provider Mediapro is mulling a plan to pull…
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Sunrise sees TV rapid growth in TV base
Swiss alternative telecom operator Sunrise saw its TV subscriber base grow by 25.7% in the…
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Smithsonian Channel launches on DirecTV Latin America
Smithsonian Channel has continued its international rollout by unveiling a new Latin American channel. Following…
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Inea taps AirTies for WiFi
Polish cable operator Inea has tapped technology outfit AirTies to deliver in-home WiFi to its…
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Euskaltel grows subscriber base and revenues
Spanish regional cable operator Euskaltel increased its subscriber base and grew revenue and profit in…
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Proximus fixed base boosted by TV
Belgian telecom operator Proximus added 14,000 TV customers in the first quarter to take its…
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Altice Portugal launches millennials-focused Meo By
Altice Portugal has launched a new à la carte TV service aimed at millennials, Meo…
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AWS Elemental highlights benefits of royal wedding recognition tech
The image recognition technology that Sky News will use to enhance its coverage of the…
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TDC TV hit by changing viewing habits
Danish telco and cable operator TDC says that its Q1 performance was hit by changing…
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Cord-cutting now taking toll outside US – IHS Markit
Cord-cutting began to take a more significant toll on pay TV outside the US last…
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BeIN Media slams Arabsat over BeoutQ pirate service
Qatar-based pay TV operator BeIN Media has slammed Arabsat’s sponsorship of today’s MENA Anti-Piracy Conference…
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SVOD accounted for majority of pay video growth in 2016
Subscription video-on-demand services in Europe accounted for 60% of the growth in pay video services…
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Sky News offers machine-learning enhanced Royal Wedding with AWS
Sky News has teamed up with AWS Elemental to use new cloud-based machine learning technology…
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Eleven usurps Sky to take La Liga rights for UK and Ireland
Sports broadcaster Eleven Sports has secured live and exclusive rights to Spanish La Liga football…
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TV driving Swisscom’s broadband growth
Swisscom’s TV service continues to be the driving force behind growth in broadband subscriptions, according…
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Lattelecom launching new advanced TV platform
Latvian telco Lattelecom is to launch a new TV platform combining its entertainment offerings spanning…
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Cosmote TV secures Greek rights to La Liga
Greek telco OTE’s Cosmote TV service has renewed the exclusive TV broadcasting rights for Spain’s…
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Pay TV still seeing growth, driven by Asia Pacific
Pay TV operators globally are still seeing growth, the subscriber additions for the last quarter…
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YouSee launches comedy channel as it invests further in content
TDC Group-owned Danish cable TV service provider YouSee is launching an own-branded comedy channel that…
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Sky Sports launching new dedicated horse-racing channel
Sky Sports is launching a channel dedicated to horse racing, the latest in a series…
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Vodafone in eSports partnership with ESL
Vodafone has struck an eSports partnership with Modern Times Group (MTG)-owned ESL that will see…
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Canal+ teams up with sister company for classical music channel
French pay TV provider Canal+ has teamed up with Vivendi sister-company Universal Music to launch…
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Russian pay TV growth slows as uptake reaches 75%
Pay TV penetration in Russia reached 75% in Q1 2018, but the rate of growth slowed…