After more than 40 years of operation, DTVE is closing its doors and our website will no longer be updated daily. Thank you for all of your support.
Pay TV Operators
2 min read
EE personalises ‘mobile first’ TV service
UK mobile operator EE is set to add personalisation and social sharing features to its…
2 min read
Sky introduces restart for movies and new recommendation service
Sky in the UK has added restart, recommendation and other features to its Sky Movies…
1 min read
‘Quintuple-play’ growth drive Portuguese multi-play market
The number of multi-play packages taken by Portuguese consumers reached 3.1 million at the end of…
1 min read
Vivendi exits Numericable-SFR with €2 billion payment
Vivendi has received €1.974 billion from Patrick Drahi’s investment group Altice in part-payment for Vivendi’s…
1 min read
DirecTV launches 4K set-top
US pay TV operator DirecTV, now owned by AT&T, has launched its first 4K ultra…
1 min read
Mubi to launch on EE TV
Arthouse film service Mubi is one of a host of new content applications that are…
1 min read
New men’s movie channel launches on NTV+
Russian cultural channel Interesnoye TV has changed its name to Muzhskoye Kino (Men’s Movies), targeting…
1 min read
Switzerland’s Sunrise grows TV base by 37%
Swiss service provider Sunrise increased its IPTV base by 37% year-on-year in the second quarter…
1 min read
Inea adds more AXN channels
Polish cable operator Inea is now carrying the full portfolio of AXN channels from Sony…
1 min read
Vodafone teams up with NetRange in Germany
Vodafone Germany has added white label smart TV and OTT specialist NetRange’s smart TV portal…
11 min read
Ad and multiply: OTT and multiscreen advertising
Broadcasters and pay TV operators are increasingly looking to the web for models about how…
1 min read
BBC unveils ‘transformational’ iPlayer revamp
The BBC has unveiled a host of new features for the iPlayer, which it claims…
2 min read
Telefónica makes pitch in aggressive pay TV discount battle
Telefónica has launched an aggressively priced new TV offering, providing its Movistar Fusión+ Premium Extra…
1 min read
Netflix raises prices in Eurozone and Switzerland
Netflix has raised the price of its service in Europe for new subscribers, upping the…
1 min read
NBC Universal invests US$200 million in Buzzfeed
NBC Universal has invested US$200 million (€180 million) in news and viral media site Buzzfeed,…
2 min read
Swisscom sees strong TV 2.0 growth, declines to make provision for fine
Swisscom had signed up 564,000 customers to its TV 2.0 service by the end of…
1 min read
CBS Drama joins Freeview in the UK
Drama is to launch on digital free-to-air platform Freeview in the UK, and has acquiredthree…
1 min read
Akado offering sports services à la carte
Russian service provider Komkor, which operates in Moscow and St Petersburg under the Akado brand,…
1 min read
Orange completes Spanish squeeze-out
Orange has completed the acquisition of the 5.25% of Spanish alternative telco Jazztel that it…
1 min read
Vivendi takes control of Canal+ premium channels unit
Vivendi has secured overall control of Société d’Edition de Canal Plus (SECP), the company that…
2 min read
Germany’s BBV signs up for white label TV service, plans October launch
German broadband service provider BBV is the first customer for a new white-label IPTV service…
2 min read
US pay TV providers lose 470,000 subs in Q2
The 13 largest pay TV providers in the US, representing roughly 95% of the market,…
1 min read
Fairhead: BBC future shouldn’t be subject to ‘vested interest’
The future of the BBC needs to be driven by “evidence and fact, not by…
1 min read
Boxer Denmark and Stofa embrace à la carte to head off OTT
Eighty per cent of new customers to Nordic pay TV operator Boxer’s Danish service have…
1 min read
Orange adds Eurochannel to TV line-up
Orange in France is to add Eurochannel to its TV line-up from August 20. The…
1 min read
NTV+ secures Serie A football
Russian pay TV operator NTV+ has followed up its deal to acquire Ligue 1 French…
1 min read
Comcast to launch Watchable video platform
US cable provider Comcast is reportedly gearing up to launch a major new digital video…
2 min read
Top Gear team’s show will be ‘very expensive’, says Amazon’s Bezos
Jeff Bezos has said Amazon’s upcoming motoring series with the former Top Gear team will be “very,…
1 min read
Zegona completes Telecable acquisition, issues shares
UK-based investment group Zegona Communications has completed the acquisition of 100% of Spanish regional cable…
1 min read
NTV+ secures French Ligue 1 football
Pay TV operator NTV+ has secured the rights to French Ligue 1 football in Russia….