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Pay TV Operators
SFR boosted by media unit
Altice-owned French telco and cable operator SFR said that the revenue of its media unit…
Proximus TV boosted by high-end offerings
Belgian telco Proximus added 17,000 TV customers in the second quarter to take its total…
Sky confirms Sky España OTT plans
Sky has confirmed plans to launch a “simple and affordable” over-the-top service in Spain, marking…
Telefónica TV boosted by success of converged bundles
Telefónica saw its pay TV base rise in the second quarter for the first time…
Chernobyl drama first from HBO, Sky pact
A drama based on the Chernobyl catastrophe is the first high-end series to come out…
Sky partners with Devialet on Soundbox speaker
Sky is launching an all-in-one sound system in partnership with audio technology startup, Devialet. The…
Euskaltel completes Telecable acquisition
Spanish regional cable operator Euskaltel has completed the acquisition of Zegona Communications-owned Asturias region operator…
Orange sees strong TV growth in Spain
Orange had 8.7 million TV customers as of the end of June, up 7% year-on-year,…
Advertising strength and cost-cutting helps nudge M6 upwards
French broadcaster M6 saw its revenues for the first half nudge upwards by 2.6% to…
XITE replaces linear Ziggo channel with personalised offering
Dutch music service XITE has replaced the linear channel it currently offers via the Ziggo…
IHS Markit: linear TV viewing down in Europe last year
Linear TV viewing declined in the biggest European markets in 2016 as more TV watching moved…
Mediaset names ex-AC Milan chief as Premium president
Mediaset has named former AC Milan chief Adriano Galliani as the new president of its…
Telefónica names new COO in management shake-up
Telefónica executive chairman José María Álvarez-Pallete has instituted a major corporate management shake-up, centred on…
Greece’s Antenna makes key appointments
Greece’s Antenna Group has restructured two roles in its management team, which it said would…
Telekom Austria sees TV boost
Telekom Austria saw its overall revenue-generating unit numbers boosted by TV during the second quarter,…
KPN adds to TV base
Dutch telco KPN added 25,000 IPTV customers in the second quarter, along with 8,000 broadband…
ZoneTV taps Ooyala for channels launch
US best-of-the-web channel provider ZoneTV has hired Ooyala to provide technology to enable it to…
YouTube now at 1.5bn viewers as TV viewing surges
YouTube now has 1.5 billion monthly viewers thanks in part to a surge in big-screen…
Vivendi ‘set to launch’ Italian version of Canal+ with TIM
Locked in an epic legal battle with its original preferred partner in the Italian market,…
Tele Columbus appoints Sunrise exec as new CEO
Tele Columbus has appointed the chief commercial officer of Swiss telecoms provider Sunrise as its…
More than half of US millennials tune into SVOD daily
More than half of US millennials now tune into an SVOD service like Netflix, Amazon…
Benbow exiting in BBC Children’s shake-up
Kay Benbow is the leaving the children’s division of UK pubcaster the BBC as part…
Amazon reveals originals trends in UK
Amazon Prime Video has revealed that Bryan Cranston-created drama Sneaky Pete is its most popular…
Kids on-demand service joints Freesat
Free UK kids programming on-demand service Ketchup TV has joined free-to-view digital satellite operator Freesat’s…
Multimedia Polska sells energy unit
Orange Poland has agreed to acquire Multimedia Energia, the energy utility arm of Gdynia-based cable…
Reduced costs and digital channels boost TF1
Reduced costs thanks to be absence of the Euro 2016 football championship helped boost TF1’s…
MTG closes Kongregate acquisition
Modern Times Group (MTG) has closed its US$55 million acquisition of US games publisher and…
Amazon touts local originals as Inside Edge scores
Amazon’s first original Indian drama, Inside Edge, has quickly become the most watched title on…
Hulu launches live TV service on Amazon Fire TV
Hulu has rolled out its recently-launched live TV streaming service on Amazon’s Fire TV and…
Sky Deutschland taps Yospace for dynamic ad insertion on Sky Go
Sky Deutschland has chosen Yospace’s dynamic ad insertion platform to make money from live channels…