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Pay TV Operators
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MTG targets US digital growth with MTGx hire
Modern Times Group has appointed Digital Artists Entertainment boss, Scott Rupp, to develop the presence…
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Bennett to lead Sky UK and Ireland after rejig
Sky Atlantic director Zai Bennett will now lead the wider Sky Entertainment business in the…
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Digitalsmiths: three fifths of US viewers watch SVOD daily
Some 61.1% of viewers watch over-the-top or subscription video-on-demand content as part of their daily…
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Amazon gears up for global launch for The Grand Tour
Amazon’s Top Gear rival show The Grand Tour will hit 200 countries later this year,…
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RTL appoints new CEE and Asia chief
Luxembourg-based broadcast group RTL has named Andreas Fischer senior VP business development and regional operations…
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Vimeo adds BBC Worldwide, All3Media titles
Vimeo has agreed content partnerships with TV distributor All3Media International and the BBC’s commercial arm…
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Virgin Media-UTV Ireland deal gets approval
Virgin Media has received regulatory and competition approval to acquire Irish free-to-air commercial broadcaster, UTV…
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EE launches ‘Watch with Twitter’
EE has become the first TV platform in the UK to partner with Twitter to…
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Vodafone grows TV base, trials continue in UK
Vodafone grew its TV customer base by 0.2 million in the first half of the…
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SNL: US multichannel TV losses ‘biggest ever’ in 2016
The first nine months of 2016 have seen the biggest ever drop in US multichannel…
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NBCU’s Hayu service launches on EE in the UK
NBCUniversal International’s reality TV SVOD service, Hayu, has launched on the EE platform in the…
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BBC preps Attenborough natural history app
The BBC will launch a new app featuring a raft of content from respected naturalist…
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Amazon offers SVOD foreign language films
Amazon has acquired a raft of foreign-language movies for its Prime Video streaming service. The…
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Virgin Media boss Mockridge to chair RTS
Pay TV veteran Tom Mockridge will chair the Royal Television Society board of trustees, replacing…
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Virgin Media outlines Scottish FTTP rollout
Virgin Media will connect “at least two thirds” of the 360,000 additional homes and businesses…
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Ampere: sports viewing on the decline among millennials
Interest in sport among young millennials is “on the decline” with many viewers lured away…
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BT to introduce ‘next generation’ YouView service
BT is due to introduce a ‘next generation’ YouView service in the coming months, while…
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Amazon music streaming service launches in UK, Germany and Austria
Amazon has rolled out Amazon Music Unlimited to the UK, Germany and Austria, taking on…
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Vimeo to power TV4 SVOD services
TV4 has struck a deal with Vimeo that will see the latter power more than…
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Now TV ‘wouldn’t have succeeded without Sky backing’
Now TV wouldn’t have succeeded without the backing of Sky, but has benefitted from not…
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Altice lifted by stronger SFR showing and solid US results
Altice has seen a solid improvement in the performance of its French SFR business, which…
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Turner adds raft of VOD content with new Virgin Media deal
Turner has renewed its carriage deal with UK cabler Virgin Media, adding a raft of…
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FCC warns AT&T on ‘zero-rating’ DirecTV Now
The US communications regulator, the FCC, has warned AT&T that it is concerned about its…
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Liberty Global’s Dutch unit rebrands Horizon as Ziggo Go
Liberty Global’s Dutch unit Ziggo, is rebranding the company’s products, including the Horizon advanced TV…
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Futuresource: 360-degree camera shipments to quadruple
Shipments of 360-degree cameras are expected to quadruple this year, compared to last, according to…
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A dose of virtual reality
Is VR the next big thing? Kate Bulkley looks at the bigger picture. The end…
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Freeview mulls ‘deeper integration’ with Netflix, Amazon, Now TV
Freeview is mulling whether over-the-top services like Netflix, Amazon Prime and Now TV should be…
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African growth helps offset domestic decline at Canal+
Strong revenue growth in Africa helped to partially offset a continued precipitous decline in pay…
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Com Hem aims for ‘complete TV environment’
Swedish operator Com Hem will focus on developing its Com Hem Play app offering in…
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Deutsche Telekom sees TV numbers grow
Deutsche Telekom now has over 2.8 million TV customers in Germany, having added 41,000 in…