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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…
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Non-advertising revenues keep TF1 on even keel
TF1 Group has maintained stable revenues for the full year for 2014 despite a continued…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Richard: Orange will be convergent player in all markets
Orange chairman and CEO Stéphane Richard has reiterated that he plans to establish the company…
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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…
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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…
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Sky Deutschland to delist as Sky begins squeeze out
Sky has confirmed it is to acquire the remaining 4% of the shares in Sky…
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Apple retains global brand lead
Apple was the most valuable brand of 2015 with a total brand value of US$128.3…
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New product and innovation chief at Deutsche Telekom
Deutsche Telekom has named Christian von Reventlow as its new chief product and innovation officer,…
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Revenue diversification lifts M6
Revenue diversification helped lift French commercial broadcaster M6 to modest year-on-year revenue growth despite a…
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Orange TV subscriber numbers up in Q4
Orange reported a total of 7.190 million IPTV and satellite customers in the fourth quarter…
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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…
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Genius Digital hires Freesat’s Cottle
Audience analytics specialist Genius Digital has hired Freesat head of strategy Giles Cottle as director…
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Euronews extends African reach ahead of new channel debut
News channel Euronews has extended its reach in Lusophone Africa thanks to a new agreement…
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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…
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The way we view now
As Amazon signs Woody Allen to make his first TV series, are on-demand services poised…
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Orange planning to launch its own HDMI dongle
Orange plans to launch an internet-connected HDMI dongle in France, following trials of the product…
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Fries outlines Virgin Media’s Lightning ambitions
Virgin Media’s £3 billion (€4 billion) Project Lightning broadband investment programme will extend the company’s…
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Global pay TV market tops 924.4m subscribers
The global pay TV market is estimated to have passed 924.4 million subscribers in 2014,…
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MTG sells Swedish cable operation
The Modern Times Group has sold its stake in Swedish cable TV business Sappa to…
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CSA mulls future of French catch-up services
Over seven in 10 French internet users now use catch-up TV services – 72% in…
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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…
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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…
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UPC Czech Republic adds Asian channels
Liberty Global-owned UPC Czech Republic has added a string of Asian channels to its line-up,…
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Teleste unit secures Kabel Deutschland contract
Finnish technology provider Teleste’s Cableway AG subsidiary has secured a contract with Vodafone-owned Kabel Deutschland…
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Sky assessing IP delivery of 4K content
Sky said that it is “not ruling out” the possibility of delivering 4K content over…
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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…
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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…