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Pay TV Operators
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Discovery invests in second screen sports app WinView
Discovery has contributed to a US$12 million funding round raised by second-screen live sports prediction…
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Vodafone sees TV and convergence growth despite problems
Despite being weighed down by the write-down of its Indian business and problems in the…
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BT to provide 360° and 4K UHD Champions League final for first time
BT is to provide coverage of the Champions League football final in 360° video for…
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Proximus secures top-tier Belgian football
Belgian service provider Proximus has struck a deal with the country’s Pro League to secure…
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Blaze Italy added to DMC playout platform
Digital Media Centre (DMC) has added A+E Networks-owned channel Blaze Italy to new virtualised playout…
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Lattelecom secures World Ice Hockey rights
Latvian telco Lattelecom and national broadcaster Latvijas Televīzija have jointly secured the rights to broadcast…
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Tricolor TV names programming chief
Russian pay TV leader Tricolor TV has named Olga Molostvova as programming director in charge…
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TF1 firm debuts €50m UK fund
France’s Newen Group is created a €50 million drama investment fund. TF1 Group-owned Newen will…
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MTG extends English football offering with new deal
Modern Times Group (MTG) has secured the exclusive Nordic media rights to the FA Cup,…
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Vodafone enters growing Spanish low-cost fixed-mobile market
Vodafone España’s low-cost mobile subsidiary Lowi is launching a new ‘no frills’ converged offering –…
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Monaco Telecom taps Hubee for Replay
Monaco Telecom has tapped Hubee to develop its Replay catch-up application in HTML5 Javascript. Monaco…
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Canal+ reverses subscriber decline for first time
Canal+ subscriber additions outnumbered cancellations for the first time in many quarters in the three…
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Vivendi to acquire Bolloré majority stake in Havas
Vivendi has made an offer to Group Bolloré, the investment outfit of its chairman Vincent…
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SFR’s rivals react to Champions League blow
French service provider SFR’s pay TV rivals have reacted with surprise to the award of…
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Ex-Fox Networks chief to lead Sony
Former Fox Networks Group chief Tony Vinciquerra has been named CEO and chairman of Sony…
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Cyfrowy Polsat turns in solid quarter
Polish pay and free TV operator Cyfrowy Polsat reported a solid first quarter, with revenues…
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SFR Champions League win could deal blow to pay TV rivals
Altice-owned French service provider SFR has reportedly secured the rights to Champions League and Europa…
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Freeview Play content discovery revamp due this year
A new Freeview Play content discovery and recommendation system is currently in development and is due…
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Fox CEO Murdoch: Sky deal ‘on track’
21st Century Fox CEO James Murdoch has claimed his company’s £11.7 billion takeover of European…
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Ofcom: 700 MHz clearance on track for 2020 completion
The UK reallocation of 700 MHz spectrum from TV to mobile broadband is on track…
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BT adds to TV base in disappointing quarter
BT added 11,000 TV customers to its TV base in the first three months of…
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Deutsche Telekom sees TV growth
Deutsche Telekom had 2.955 million pay TV customers in Germany at the end of the…
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Satellite losses take Telefónica TV numbers down
Telefónica’s global pay TV base dipped slightly during the first three months of this year,…
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Mediaset bounces back to black
Mediaset has bounced back into the black in the first quarter following its €294.5 million…
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France Télévisions replaces Pluzz with France.tv
France Télévisions has launched a new online video portal combining all live, catch-up and paid…
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Sky teams with Fitbit for short-form funded first
Sky has teamed up with connected health consumer technology outfit Fitbit to create a second…
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Liberty Global’s Fries: acquisition of ITV is ‘not interesting’
ITV’s market valuation and the premium that would be required to buy it means that…
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Meo launches live TV ‘in VR environment’
Altice-owned Portuguese telecom operator Portugal Telecom/Meo has laid claim to have become the first operator…
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Combining fixed and mobile failing to deliver synergies, says Fries
Combining fixed and mobile assets and marketing quad-play services has so far failed to deliver…
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MTG extends Champions League rights to 2021
Modern Times Group (MTG) has extended its rights to broadcast UEFA Champions League football in…