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Pay TV Operators
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TeliaSonera sees modest TV growth
TeliaSonera saw respectable growth in its pay TV numbers across its domestic Swedish market and…
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Cyfrowy Polsat’s IPLA adds Viacom channels
Polish pay TV outfit Cyfrowy Polsat-backed OTT service IPLA has signed a new deal with…
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Telekom Austria sees TV boost
Telekom Austria said that TV and broadband growth partly compensated for continued losses in fixed-line…
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Globecast chooses NovelSat S3 for live events
Media services provider Globecast has chosen Israel-based NovelSat’s satellite modulation technology for global distribution of…
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Channels join Canal+ founder’s OTT service
Molotov, the upcoming French OTT service being launched by former Canal+ boss Pierre Lescure, has…
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CSA holds fresh hearings on move to free DTT
French media regulator the CSA will this week hold public hearings on the impact of…
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Unitymedia adds new Horizon apps
Liberty Global-owned German cable operator Unitymedia has launched a slate of new apps for its…
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Tele Columbus launches capital increase
German cable operator Tele Columbus has launched a rights issue to help finance the acquisition…
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Opera SDK included in Humax’s Freeview Play boxes
Opera’s HbbTV 2.0 SDK will see its first deployment in Humax’s new Freeview Play-enabled set-top…
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Vodafone Germany launches new converged package
Vodafone Germany has launched a new converged package combining internet, landline, mobile and TV, Vodafone…
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NBCU launches comedy SVoD platform
NBCUniversal has revealed a subscription on-demand platform for comedy, SeeSo. The US$3.99 (€2.78) a month…
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Sky’s entertainment channel boss steps down
Sky’s director of entertainment channels, Stuart Murphy, is stepping down after six and a half…
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Virgin Media appoints Telefonica exec as Ireland boss
Virgin Media has appointed longstanding Telefonica executive, Tony Hanway, as CEO of its Irish operations….
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Viacom to launch BET in France
Viacom International Media Networks (VIMN) and BET International are due to launch the BET channel as…
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Discovery poaches digital boss from DirecTV
Discovery Communications has hired Karen Leever as its new executive VP, digital media. She joins…
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Telefónica’s Yomvi passes milestone
Telefónica’s OTT TV service Yomvi now has over one million users with three million downloads…
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MoCA completes US MoCA 2.0 field tests
The Multimedia over Coax Alliance (MoCA) has completed field tests of the MoCA 2.0 standard…
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Netflix misses US sign-up targets in disappointing Q3
Netflix missed its US target for new customer sign-ups and reported lower than expected operating…
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Premium sports still a big draw for consumers, says Kantar
Premium sports content is still a major draw for consumers despite the proliferation of low-cost…
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Numericable-SFR to pay out dividend
Altice-backed French service provider Numericable-SFR has announced that it will pay out a dividend of…
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Vivendi takes stakes in games companies
Vivendi has take stakes in French games specialists Ubisoft and Gameloft. The media giant has…
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Canal+ faces big piracy problem in Senegal, says chief
Up to 400,000 homes in the West African state of Senegal are viewing Canal+ content…
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Tele Columbus to add Maxdome to offering
German cable operator Tele Columbus is to add ProSiebenSat.1-owned on-demand service Maxdome to its offering…
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NTV+ secures Euroleague basketball
Russian pay TV operator NTV+ has secured the rights to show matches from the Euroleague…
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Mediaset denies wrongdoing as financial police probe football deal
Italy’s financial police have initiated an investigation into allegations that commercial broadcaster Mediaset colluded with…
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Humax: Freeview Play set to boost UK retail box market
The launch of Freeview Play, the new on-demand service from UK free-to-air platform Freeview, will…
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Tele Columbus makes changes to top management team
German cable operator Tele Columbus has made a number of senior management appointments ahead of…
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Comcast taps broadcasters for major web video push
US operator Comcast has partnered with more than 30 broadcast and cable networks to launch…
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Irish Netflix web speeds the slowest in Europe
Ireland had the slowest average web speeds of all the European countries where Netflix is…
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TF1 and M6 disappointed as CSA names HD DTT candidates
French broadcasters TF1 and M6 have expressed disappointment that their proposed joint teleshopping channel has…