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Amazon takes Mad Dogs and High Castle pilots to series
Amazon Prime Instant Video has sent a pair of dramas, an unscripted series and two…
Non-advertising revenues keep TF1 on even keel
TF1 Group has maintained stable revenues for the full year for 2014 despite a continued…
MTG takes Amazon’s Mozart for Viaplay
Modern Times Group’s on-demand service Viaplay in Sweden has picked up Amazon original drama Mozart in…
Netia hit by multiroom price rise but sees TV uptick
Polish service provider Netia saw a modest uptick in TV numbers in the fourth quarter…
Sky Deutschland highlights benefits of VoD advertising
Sky Deutschland’s ad sales arm has conducted a study of the effectiveness of video-on-demand advertising…
Richard: Orange will be convergent player in all markets
Orange chairman and CEO Stéphane Richard has reiterated that he plans to establish the company…
Numericable-SFR, Altice in €3.9bn bid for Vivendi’s remaining stake
Numericable-SFR and its principal owner Altice has made a €3.9 billion offer to buy out…
Petition to save BBC Three delivered to Trust
A petition signed by more than 270,000 people, opposing plans to take youth-skewing network BBC…
Sky Deutschland to delist as Sky begins squeeze out
Sky has confirmed it is to acquire the remaining 4% of the shares in Sky…
Apple retains global brand lead
Apple was the most valuable brand of 2015 with a total brand value of US$128.3…
New product and innovation chief at Deutsche Telekom
Deutsche Telekom has named Christian von Reventlow as its new chief product and innovation officer,…
Revenue diversification lifts M6
Revenue diversification helped lift French commercial broadcaster M6 to modest year-on-year revenue growth despite a…
Orange TV subscriber numbers up in Q4
Orange reported a total of 7.190 million IPTV and satellite customers in the fourth quarter…
Kenyans left in dark as commercial broadcasters go off air
Kenya’s commercial broadcasters shut down their digital signals at the weekend in protest at the…
Genius Digital hires Freesat’s Cottle
Audience analytics specialist Genius Digital has hired Freesat head of strategy Giles Cottle as director…
Euronews extends African reach ahead of new channel debut
News channel Euronews has extended its reach in Lusophone Africa thanks to a new agreement…
Russia’s Akado taps Arris for high-speed broadband delivery
Russian cable operator Akado has signed a deal to deploy Arris’ E6000 Converged Edge Router…
The way we view now
As Amazon signs Woody Allen to make his first TV series, are on-demand services poised…
Orange planning to launch its own HDMI dongle
Orange plans to launch an internet-connected HDMI dongle in France, following trials of the product…
Fries outlines Virgin Media’s Lightning ambitions
Virgin Media’s £3 billion (€4 billion) Project Lightning broadband investment programme will extend the company’s…
Global pay TV market tops 924.4m subscribers
The global pay TV market is estimated to have passed 924.4 million subscribers in 2014,…
MTG sells Swedish cable operation
The Modern Times Group has sold its stake in Swedish cable TV business Sappa to…
CSA mulls future of French catch-up services
Over seven in 10 French internet users now use catch-up TV services – 72% in…
Liberty Global to put LiLAC spin-off to vote this month
Liberty Global’s spin-off of its Latin American and Caribbean assets with the creation of a…
Mediaset stock drops as Fininvest sells tranche of shares
Italian commercial broadcaster Mediaset’s shares dropped sharply in value at the end of last week…
UPC Czech Republic adds Asian channels
Liberty Global-owned UPC Czech Republic has added a string of Asian channels to its line-up,…
Teleste unit secures Kabel Deutschland contract
Finnish technology provider Teleste’s Cableway AG subsidiary has secured a contract with Vodafone-owned Kabel Deutschland…
Sky assessing IP delivery of 4K content
Sky said that it is “not ruling out” the possibility of delivering 4K content over…
Horizon passes one million mark as Liberty Global sees strong growth
Liberty Global’s Horizon advanced TV platform has passed the one million subscribers mark this week…
Sky looking to 4K service for Germany this year or early next
Sky could launch a 4K TV service in Germany at the end of this year…