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Sky Sports to use live player mic for British Masters golf
Sky Sports is to take golf fans closer to the action by incorporating live player…
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TeliaSonera names acting head of new combined commercial-tech unit
Nordic telco TeliaSonera has named Sören Abildgaard as acting head of its new combined group…
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HDR still facing significant hurdles, MIPCOM attendees told
A number of significant hurdles need to be crossed before HDR TV becomes mainstream, according…
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Vivendi ups stake in Telecom Italia
Vivendi now owns 19.9% of Telecom Italia’s ordinary shares. Vivendi previously became the Italian telecom…
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Spotify continues video experiments as part of new content plan
Spotify is working on original content and experimenting with different genres, formats and lengths of…
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Fullscreen moving into SvoD
MCN Fullscreen, which is to launch its first full length movie, Lazer Team from its…
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Telenor to divest VimpelCom stake
Telenor Group has announced its intention to divest all its shares in Russian operator VimpelCom,…
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Sky to premiere new drama simultaneously across European markets
Pan-European pay TV operator Sky is to premiere its new crime drama The Last Panthers…
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Freeview kicks off ‘biggest ever’ campaign for Freeview Play
UK digital-terrestrial platform Freeview has launched what it describes as its “biggest ever advertising campaign”…
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Ultra HD: the big picture
With the first 4K channels starting to go live in Europe, Ultra High Definition has…
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LTE Broadcast: in search of a commercial application
LTE Broadcast is an impressive technology but it opens up more questions than answers, a…
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Google names Pace, Sagemcom, Technicolor and Telecom Italia as Android TV partners
Google has announced a wide range of new device and telco partners to provide Android…
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Amazon stops selling Chromecast and Apple TV products
Amazon is to stop selling media streaming devices from Google and Apple, including the latest…
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Vivendi reportedly closing in on Telecom Italia goal
Vivendi has taken a series of steps to allow it to increase its stake in…
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Mediaset audience share slips following Sky withdrawal
Italian broadcaster Mediaset’s audience share has slipped by a reported 1.56% since its channels were…
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Freesat adds five channels
UK free-to-air digital satellite platform Freesat has added five new channels to the platform. The…
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Altice successfully prices share issue
Cable and telecom investor Altice has successfully priced the share issue it announced earlier this…
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Euskaltel still interested in Telecable, says chief executive
Basque Country cable operator Euskaltel’s chief executive Alberto Garcia Erauzkin has indicated he would still…
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UPC Austria extends Wi-Free offering
Liberty Global-owned cable operator UPC Austria is to extend its Wi-Free public WiFi offering to…
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nc+ adds new channels, boosts HD offering
Polish pay TV operator nc+ has added three new channels and is boosting its HD…
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Proximus lists €500m bond issue
Belgium’s Proximus has listed a €500 million bond issue on the Euronext Brussels stock exchange….
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Altice announces new debt and shares for Cablevision purchase
Cable and telecom investor Altice has successfully raised US$8.6 billion (€7.6 billion) in new debt…
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Fox free-to-air channel YourTV goes live
Fox International Channels UK and Arqiva are today launching Fox UK’s first free-to-air entertainment channel, YourTV….
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YouTube opens French content studio
YouTube has confirmed it is opening a studio for YouTube content creators in Paris, claiming…
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Swisscom taps Verimatrix to secure UHD service
Swiss telco Swisscom is using the VCAS Ultra content security system from Verimatrix to secure…
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Atresmedia, Mediaset and Real Madrid set to secure DTT HD licences
The Spanish government is on the point of awarding licences for six new channels on…
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TDF acquires live event specialist Ad Valem
French transmission services provider TDF has acquired Ad Valem, a company specialising in live event…
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Trace expands in Denmark via Canal Digital
Trace has extended its partnership with Canal Digital in move that will see Trace Sport…
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Vodafone Spain adds Mega from Atresmedia
Vodafone Spain has added commercial broadcaster Atresmedia’s male-focused Mega channel to its Vodafone TV programming…
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Viacom appoints Asia finance boss
Viacom International Media Networks Asia has appointed Lee Shin Yng as its chief financial officer….