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Altice taps Cisco for DOCSIS 3.1 and CCAP upgrade
Cisco has struck a deal with Altice to provide its DOCSIS 3.1-enabled CCAP cable access…
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MTG reports strong sales, Nordic gains
Modern Times Group (MTG) reported record sales in the first quarter, with lower revenues in…
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Telekom Austria sees TV growth
Telekom Austria saw 6.6% year-on-year growth in its domestic IPTV base for the quarter, which…
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Sky Deutschland to offer archive football VoD service
Sky Deutschland has teamed up with German football league the DFL to add a video-on-demand…
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Ziggo squeeze-out price set out by Dutch court
A Dutch court has ruled that €39.78 per Ziggo share is a fair “squeeze-out price”…
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Qatar selling down stake in Vivendi
Qatar’s sovereign wealth fund has reduced stake in Vivendi, according to business news service BFMTV,…
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Cyfrowy Polsat studying debt options
Polish pay TV operator Cyfrowy Polsat has confirmed that it is studying the feasibility of…
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Com Hem in housing association deal
Swedish cable operator Com Hem has struck a new distribution agreement with the country’s largest…
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Prisa reports Spanish, digital gains
Spanish media group Prisa reported strong advertising revenues in in its home market and said…
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Kaltura launches new HTML5 app for Amazon Fire TV
Online video platform provider Kaltura is providing a new HTML5 app for Amazon Fire TV. …
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Sky reports highest UK customer growth in 11 years
Sky reported its highest third quarter customer growth in 11 years in the UK and…
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OTT to ‘end broadcast TV as we know it’
The emergence of the likes of Netflix and Amazon Prime Instant Video signals “the end…
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CSA tells France Télévisions to make services available to OTT provider
French media regulator the CSA has ordered public broadcaster France Télévisions to make its channels…
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Elliott to pursue Kabel Deutschland in court
Hedge fund Elliott Management is continuing to pursue German cable operator Kabel Deutschland in the…
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Altice gets conditional green light for PT acquisition
The European Commission has given a green light to Altice’s €7.4 billion acquisition of Portugal…
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Canal+ OTT service sees record use for El Clasico
Spanish pay TV provider Canal+’s Yomvi OTT TV service passed a live streaming record on…
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Slovak Telekom sets IPO price, firm valued at up to €2 billion
Slovak Telekom has set its initial public offering price range at €17.7 to €23.6 per-share,…
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Sky and Telecom Italia select Wyplay to power TV decoders
Sky, in cooperation with Telecom Italia, are deploying a broadband HD TV decoder powered by…
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TeliaSonera sees TV growth
Nordic telco TeliaSonera has seen modest growth in TV numbers across the territories in which…
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Vivendi chief secures victory in double vote battle, promises more media acquisitions
Vivendi chairman Vincent Bolloré on Friday secured victory in his battle with rebellious shareholders over…
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Telenet buys Belgium’s BASE Company for €1.3 billion
Liberty Global-backed Belgian cable operator Telenet has agreed to buy domestic mobile operator BASE Company…
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Vessel raises US$57.5 million in new funding round
Vessel, the new online video start-up co-founded by former Hulu boss Jason Kilar, has raised…
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Telecom Italia set to strike content deal with Mediaset
Following last week’s deal with Sky Italia to market the latter’s pay TV services over…
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Al Jazeera’s BeIN Sports set to take over Digiturk
Al Jazeera’s BeIN Sports is expected to acquire Turkish pay TV operator Digiturk for between…
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Playboy launches new European channel with M7 Group
Adult content provider Playboy Plus is launching a new channel, Reality Kings TV (RKTV) in…
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Akado reportedly planning OTT launch
Russian service provider Akado plans to launch an OTT TV offering in the near future,…
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One in 10 users could not live without broadband, says study
One in 10 UK broadband users say they could not live without broadband, while one…
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Internet TV to replace linear in 20 years, says Netflix
Over the next 20 years internet TV is going to replace linear TV as the…
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Decision day for Vivendi as Bolloré pushes for double voting rights
Vivendi chairman Vincent Bolloré is set to discover today whether he will secure enough votes…
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Telefónica reportedly ready to make concessions to secure Canal+
Telefónica is likely to secure the approval of the Spanish competition regulator, the CNMC, for…