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Pay TV Operators
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Sky Q scores content deals ahead of launch
Next-generation UK streaming platform Sky Q has acquired 400 short-form videos from indie Barcroft Media,…
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Vodafone and Orange demand Telefónica shares football rights
Vodafone Spain and Orange Spain have called on Telefónica to be forced to distribute its…
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Vivendi sees cash boost from Activision Blizzard sale
Vivendi has sold its remaining shares in US games company Activision Blizzard, in which it…
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BeIN Sports takes lion’s share of World Cup rights for France
BeIN Sports France has announced that it has secured rights to football 2018 World Cup…
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Amazon offers free viewing window
Amazon is offering a free viewing window of its drama series Mozart in the Jungle…
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Canal+ names European affairs chief
Canal+ Group has named Christophe Roy as director of European affairs under Frédéric Crépin, the…
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Unitymedia offers remote recording to Horizon users
Liberty Global-owned German cable operator Unitymedia is now offering its Horizon advanced TV customers the…
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‘Unsustainable’ Al Jazeera America to shut down
Al Jazeera America will close its cable and digital operations in the coming months, citing…
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NBC reveals ‘ratings’ for Netflix series
NBC has revealed what it claims to be ratings for key Netflix series. The US…
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Arte launches Virtual Reality TV app
French cultural network Arte has launched a new virtual reality and immersive TV app. More…
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Virgin Media adds Vevo to TiVo service
Liberty Global-owned Virgin Media has added music video and entertainment service Vevo to its TiVo…
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OSN strikes new deal with NBCUniversal
Middle East pay TV operator OSN has signed a new and extended long-term deal with…
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TF1 secures World Cup rights
French commercial broadcaster TF1 has secured the rights to broadcast the 28 top matches from…
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Moody’s gives first-time B1 rating to Spain’s Telecable
Moody’s Investor Service has given a first-time credit rating of B1 to Spanish regional cable…
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BT airs 4K basketball with Rogers and the NBA
BT Sport is partnering with Canadian operator Rogers and the National Basketball Association to deliver…
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France Télévisions using OpenHeadend for catch-up
France Télévisions has chosen ingest, processing and stream delivery software specialist OpenHeadend to provide the…
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TiVo ups CFO Chopra to interim CEO
TiVo has named chief financial officer (CFO) Naveen Chopra as interim CEO, taking from outgoing…
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Telefónica strikes football deal with Mediapro
Telefónica has struck a €2.4 billion deal with broadcaster Mediapro that will enable it to…
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Canal+’s Saada takes over at Dailymotion
Vivendi has appointed Canal+ chief Maxime Saada to take over the presidency of video-sharing and…
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Amazon greenlights Jim Jarmusch movie
Amazon’s latest foray into original feature films will be Paterson from Jim Jarmusch (Ghost Dog:…
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Orange acquires more mobile assets in Africa
Orange has struck a deal with mobile operator Bharti Airtel International to acquire Airtel’s operations…
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Freesat names marketing communications chief
Free-to-air satellite platform Freesat has named Jennifer Elworthy as director of marketing and communications overseeing…
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Cable operators top Netflix December European ISP table
Cable operators topped subscription video-on-demand service Netflix’s ISP speed rankings in major European countries in…
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Altice plan for NextRadioTV moves ahead
Altice-backed media unit Groupe News Participations has kicked off the process of acquiring all of…
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Spanish commercial channels call for level playing field
UTECA, the body that represents Spanish TV commercial terrestrial channels, has called on the next…
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TeliaSonera names new COO as new structure implementation begins
Nordic telco TeliaSonera has named Anders Olsson as chief operating officer and head of global…
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Freeview promotes marketing chief
UK free-to-view digital-terrestrial platform Freeview has promoted Owen Jenkinson to the role of marketing director….
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T-Hrvatski Telekom makes Pickbox available on all screens
Deutsche Telekom-owned Croatian operator T-Hrvatski Telekom has made its Pickbox subscription video-on-demand service available via…
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Abox42 integrates PerceptionTV platform
Set-top box maker Abox42 has partnered with PerceptionTV to integrate the latter’s IPTV platform into…
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m:tel taps Keepixo for OTT offering
Bosnia and Herzegovina-based telecoms operator m:tel has selected Keepixo to provide transcoders for its new…