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TalkTalk fined £100,000 over data security
UK service provider TalkTalk has been fined £100,000 (€110,500) by the Information Commissioner’s Office for…
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Vivendi taking steps to ward of Italian move against TIM involvement
Vivendi has reportedly written to the Italian prime minister’s office in an attempt to ward…
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MTG extends grip on KHL rights
Modern Times Group (MTG) has extended its grip on exclusive rights to the Kontinental Hockey…
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Britbox launches on Amazon Channels in the US
BBC Worldwide and ITV’s US subscription video-on-demand service, Britbox, is now available via Amazon’s Channels…
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Virgin Media Ireland adds UKTV to on-demand platform
Virgin Media Ireland has added UKTV Play to its line-up of on-demand services, boosting its…
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Hispasat prepares for September Amazonas 5 launch
Hispasat’s Amazonas 5 satellite has arrived at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan ahead of it’s planned…
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Altice ‘looking at Charter bid’
Altice and its US offshoot Altice USA are in the initial stages of putting together…
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NBCU comedy SVOD service Seeso shutting
NBCUniversal is shutting its comedy-themed SVOD service Seeso. The US service’s future has been in…
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Altice looking to buy out and de-list SFR
Altice now has 95.9% of SFR’s shares and is to file a buyout offer with…
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TDG: more than half of US millennials binge-watch content daily
More than half of US millennial broadband users binge watch content on a daily basis,…
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Finland’s DNA launches Android set-top box
Finnish service provider DNA has launched the DNA TV-hubi, its Android TV-based box that comes…
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TDC to take steps to address TV decline
Danish telco TDC lost 23,000 TV customers in the second quarter, in part due to…
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Liberty Global sees upside from ‘fragmented’ European OTT market
Liberty Global is benefitting from a fragmented, and in some cases still underdeveloped, OTT market…
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Fox faces Sky delay as government calls on Ofcom to look at ‘new evidence’
The UK government has said that submissions made in relation to 21st Century Fox’s planned…
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Fries: Liberty Global ‘cannot afford to stand still’ on convergence
Liberty Global remains committed to developing convergent offerings despite an ongoing industry-wide decline in mobile…
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Fox to launch SVOD service FX+ with Comcast
21st Century Fox’s US FX Networks unit has teamed up with cable giant Comcast to…
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Vodafone commits to 4K football, adds motorsports to offering
Vodafone España is to offer two football matches in 4K resolution on each match day…
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Vivacom grows IPTV base
Bulgarian service provider Vivacom grew its IPTV subscriber base to 426,000 at the end of…
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Liberty Global reaches 7.2m next-gen TV customers
Liberty Global added 302,000 subscribers to its next generation TV platforms in Europe during Q2,…
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Iflix closes US$133m funding round led by Hearst
Emerging market SVOD service Iflix has completed a US$133 million (€113 million) funding round led…
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Vivendi stands firm that it does not ‘control’ Telecom Italia
Vivendi has told Italian markets regulator CONSOB that it does not “control” Telecom Italia (TIM)….
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Sky-backed Caavo to start shipping first set-top boxes in autumn
Sky-backed US set-top box start-up, Caavo, is due to launch the first 5,000 units of…
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Kids SVOD service launches in France
A new subscription VOD service has launched in France. Okidoki has been available through Samsung…
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Vivendi agrees to put Mediaset shares in blind trust
Vivendi has agreed to transfer its stake in Mediaset above a threshold of 10% to…
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Al Jazeera denounces Israeli shutdown
Al Jazeera has denounced the Israeli government’s decision to close Al Jazeera Media Network’s bureau…
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Discovery sidesteps Sky to offer Bundesliga football on HD+
Discovery Networks Germany is to launch a Eurosport package on satellite operator SES’s HD+ platform…
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Parrot Analytics: Netflix drama supplants The Grand Tour in German Q2 ranking
Netflix’s teen suicide drama 13 Reasons Why was the most ‘in-demand’ digital original in Germany…
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TalkTalk launches kids TV remote
UK service provider TalkTalk has launched a TV remote designed for children to easily find…
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Rostelecom takes lion’s share of Russian IPTV adds
Russian service provider Rostelecom added half a million TV subscribers in the year to June,…
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SFR adds premium Chinese bouquet to offering
Altice-owned French service provider SFR has added a new package of Chinese channels to its…