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
Greece’s Cosmote TV renews FIM MotoGP broadcasting deal
Greek pay TV platform Cosmote TV has renewed its broadcasting deal with FIM MotoGP World…
1 min read
Sky Media unveils Search Behaviour advert targeting
Sky Media, the advertising sales arm of pay TV operator Sky, has unveiled new ‘search…
2 min read
Sky tunes in to Women’s World Cup viewers with new Entertainment OS features
Sky has rolled out new features to Entertainment OS, the Sky Glass and Sky Stream…
1 min read
Telefónica secures UEFA Champions League and US Open tennis
Telefónica has secured rights to the UEFA Champions League, Europa League and Conference League football…
1 min read
Foxtel taps Ateme for content acquisition and distribution solutions
Australia’s largest pay TV provider Foxtel has tapped tech outfit Ateme to power its global…
2 min read
CNMC fines Telefónica another €5m over DTS acquisition
Spanish market regulator the National Commission for Markets and Competition (CNMC) has fined telco operator…
1 min read
Disney cracks down on password sharing in India
Disney is reportedly to follow Netflix by cracking down on password sharing in India. Disney…
1 min read
United Media secures Handball-Bundesliga exclusive rights in South-Eastern Europe
United Media, the media outfit of South-Eastern European service provider United Group, has secured the…
1 min read
Orange España to offer full line-up of football
Orange España is to distribute Spanish and international football as part of its offering for…
1 min read
Sky secures ruling to block pirate streams
Pay TV operator Sky has won a UK court order to force internet service providers…
2 min read
BT Group names Allison Kirkby CEO
BT Group has appointed Allison Kirkby as new chief executive, she replaces Philip Jansen who…
1 min read
EC presses pause on Orange-MásMovíl merger probe
The European Commission has pressed pause on its probe into the planned €18.6 billion merger…
1 min read
Satellite decline sees Telefónica TV numbers drop
Telefónica had 10.34 million pay TV customers at the end of June, down 4.4% year-on-year….
1 min read
Volia agrees deal to broadast Ukrainian Premier League football
Ukrainian cable operator Volia has agreed a deal with the Ukrainian Premier League to broadcast…
2 min read
Canal+ boosts Vivendi’s first half
Pay TV operator Canal+ contributed to a solid revenue growth performance from Vivendi in the…
2 min read
Virgin Media O2 launches suite of FAST channels
UK cabler Virgin Media O2 has partnered with A+E Networks EMEA, All3Media International, Banijay Rights, Blue…
2 min read
Comcast sees big drops in domestic TV and Sky subscribers, but highlights broadband strength
Comcast suffered a significant loss of video customers domestically and at Sky in its second…
1 min read
Vietnam’s SCTV secures exclusive five-season deal for LaLiga
Vietnamese pay TV operator SCTV has secured exclusive rights to Spain’s LaLiga for the next…
2 min read
Deutsche Telekom, SK Telecom, e& and Singtel form telco AI alliance
Telcos Deutsche Telekom, SK Telecom e& and Singtel have joined forces to form the Global…
1 min read
Foxtel extends long-standing partnership with UFC
Australia’s pay TV provider Foxtel has extended its broadcasting partnership with mixed martial arts organisation…
3 min read
Virgin Media O2 looks to lower churn after removing right to terminate after price hikes
Virgin Media O2 contracts will include the right to raise prices in line with the…
2 min read
Liberty Global will look at ‘all options’ for Benelux market
Liberty Global will “look at all options” for its operating companies in the Benelux region,…
2 min read
Fastweb taps Cisco and Qwilt for Open Caching-based CDN
Swisscom-owned Italian service provider Fastweb has tapped tech companies Cisco and Qwilt to bring their…
1 min read
Sky names new diversity and inclusion advisors
Comcast-owned pay TV provider Sky UK has named two new leaders to its independent diversity…
2 min read
Virgin Media O2 numbers hit by no-penalty terminations after upping prices
Virgin Media O2 lost 24,700 customers in Q2, a drop the company said was expected…
1 min read
United Media names new distribution director
United Media, the media arm of South-Eastern European service provider United Group, has named Pavel…
4 min read
Vodafone’s German TV base plummets, but CEO sees broadband opportunity from change in TV law
Vodafone’s TV base in Germany declined by a staggering 120,000 subscribers in the company’s fiscal…
1 min read
Virgin Media upgrades WiFi guarantee to 30Mbps
Liberty Global and Telefónica-owned UK cabler Virgin Media O2 is upgrading its WiFi guarantee to…
1 min read
Tony Werner joins Liberty Global’s board of directors
International broadband and media giant Liberty Global has announced it has appointed Tony Werner to…
2 min read
Movistar Plus+ to relaunch with OTT streaming option for non-Telefónica customers
Telefónica is to relaunch its TV service Movistar Plus+ on August 1 with an offering…