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Pay TV Operators
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Spanish cable operator Euskaltel’s CEO replaced
Fernando Ojeda, the CEO of Spanish Basque Country cable operator Euskaltel, which also owns Galician…
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Altice to bring holographic handsets to SFR customers
Media and telecom investor Altice has teamed up with HP Labs technology spin-off LEIA Inc…
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Swisscom to appeal sports rights ruling
Swisscom has said it will appeal a fine imposed on it by the Swiss competition…
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Eurosport launches VR app to coincide with French Open
Eurosport has launched a virtual reality (VR) app to coincide with this year’s French Open…
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MTG completes sale of CTC stake
Modern Times Group (MTG) has completed the sale of its 38% stake in Russian broadcasters…
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TF1 agrees new deal with French producers
French broadcaster TF1 has agreed a new deal with local producers’ organisations that will see…
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Vodafone number two Bertoluzzo leaving company
Vodafone’s group chief commercial operations and strategy officer Paolo Bertoluzzo is leaving the group to…
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Virgin Media names UK villages due for fibre upgrades
Virgin Media has named 10 communities in England and Scotland that will benefit from an…
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IMAX unveils VR plans, signs deal with games studio Starbreeze
IMAX Corporation has announced a major virtual reality push, which includes a joint venture agreement…
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BPI blasts YouTube for ‘meagre’ music revenue contribution
YouTube contributed a “meagre” 4% of music sales and streaming revenue last year, despite representing…
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Vivendi moves closer to taking control of games company
Vivendi has moved closer to taking full control of Gameloft after the French games company’s…
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Orange to extend fibre network to 10 more cities
Orange in Poland is to extend its fibre network to 10 additional cities, the company…
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Tele Columbus extends HDTV promo period
German cable operator Tele Columbus has extended a three-month free HDTV offer until the end…
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Report: Samsung in talks over web TV service
Samsung is reportedly exploring plans to launch an online TV service, in partnership with cable…
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US multichannel video subscriber losses ‘pick up speed’
The decline in US multichannel video subscriptions picked up speed in Q1 2016, despite a…
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Al Jazeera’s AJ+ launches Android app
Qatar-based news service Al Jazeera has launched an Android app for its digital service, AJ+….
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Vivendi ups stakes in Gameloft battle
Vivendi’s long-running hostile attempt to take over French games company Gameloft has entered a new…
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Eurosport teams up with Tennis Channel for Roland Garros
Discovery-owned Eurosport has teamed up with Tennis Channel to enhance its coverage of the forthcoming…
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Going off grid: Changing viewing habits
TV viewing habits are changing and so is the television user experience. Andy McDonald looks…
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Data is King
Data is the currency on which TV Everywhere players depend but service providers are facing…
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Discovery’s Shark Week goes VR
Discovery will embark on its annual Shark Week in late June and will add a…
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Nos and Vodafone Portugal to share sports rights
Portuguese service providers Nos and Vodafone have struck a deal to share their national and…
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MTG reorganises online services under Viafree
The Modern Times Group is reorganising its online and ad-funded services, replacing the Play brand…
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Comcast invests in ex-DreamWorks exec’s VR start-up
Comcast has led a round of investment in Spaces, a VR firm founded by entrepreneurs…
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Roku still most popular streaming media player
Roku is still the most popular streaming media player in the US, accounting for 30%…
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ProSiebenSat.1 pay TV channels to disappear from Sky
German broadcaster ProSiebenSat.1 is pulling its three pay TV channels from the Sky platform after…
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UPC Czech Republic introduces seven-day catch-up
Liberty Global-owned cable operator UPC Czech Republic has launched seven-day catch-up TV as part of…
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Volia adds women’s interest channel Milady Television
Ukrainian cable operator Volia has added locally-produced women’s interest channel Milady Television to its programming…
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Hubee hires Arkena executive as CEO
Interactive TV technology provider Hubee has named Jean Sebastien Petit as its new CEO. Petit…
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BitTorrent launches live OTT platform with free channel line-up
Peer-to-peer video sharing platform BitTorrent has launched a multichannel app for live and linear programming…