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Pay TV Operators
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BT boosted by Sport and fibre broadband
BT reported a 10% increase in profits at its consumer division during the fiscal first…
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BeIN Sport secures suspension of Canal+’s rugby deal
Al Jazeera-owned sports networks BeIN Sports has secured the suspension of rival Canal+’s exclusive five-year…
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Zon successor Nos sees converged offerings success
Portuguese operator Nos – the combined brand for Zon Multimédia and Optimus that was launched…
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France’s competition watchdog to investigate Numericable-SFR deal
France’s competition authority has announced a wide-ranging investigation into cable operator Numericable’s proposed acquisition of…
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Swisscom passes ultra high-speed milestone
Swisscom has now connected over a million homes to its ultra fast broadband network, the…
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Eutelsat signs long-term deal with MultiChoice
Eutelsat Communications has agreed a multi-transponder deal with MultiChoice Africa, designed to secure the “continuing…
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Telenet suffers slight TV downturn
Belgian cable operator Telenet reported a 1% dip in total cable TV customers in the…
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Vivendi mergers chief to leave
Vivendi’s senior vice-president for mergers and acquisitions, Régis Turrini, is to leave the group to…
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Telefónica sees TV growth
Telefónica Spain said it added 350,000 pay TV customers in the quarter to June. The…
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T-Hrvatski Telekom grows TV base
Deutsche Telekom-owned Croatian telco T-Hrvatski Telekom had 393,525 TV customers at the end of June,…
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Crispin Odey rejects BSkyB’s Sky Deutschland bid
Sky Deutschland minority shareholder – and Rupert Murdoch’s former son-in-law – Crispin Odey has rejected…
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Netflix cuts AT&T deal
Netflix has agreed an interconnection deal with AT&T designed to reduce buffering problems for its…
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French regulator rejects move by three to free-to-air DTT
French media regulator the CSA has rejected moves to take TF1-owned news channel LCI, M6-owned…
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Now TV launches on Xbox One
Sky’s over-the-top video service Now TV is now available on the Xbox One in the…
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Volia launches new movie services
Ukrainian cable operator Volia is launching its own range of movie channels, with content from…
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KPN passes TV milestone
Dutch telco KPN passed the two million TV customer milestone in the second quarter, giving…
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Spanish write-down takes Mediaset into the red
Mediaset turned in a net loss of €20.5 million for the first have after taking…
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Astorg Partners takes majority stake in M7 Group
Private equity group Astorg Partners is acquiring a majority stake in pan-European pay TV provider…
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Orange grows TV subscriber numbers by 10%
Orange reported 6.77 million IPTV and satellite customers in the first quarter of the year,…
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Liberty reorganises Austrian and Swiss operations
Liberty Global has appointed UPC Cablecom managing director, Eric Tveter, as CEO of a newly…
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UPC Czech Republic adds HBO Go
Liberty Global-owned cable operator UPC Czech Republic has HBO Go, the pay TV broadcaster’s TV…
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Primacom passes internet milestone
German cable operator Primacom has signed up its 100,000th internet customer. The milestone comes 15…
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RTS names Young Technologist
The UK Royal Television Society (RTS) has named BT graduate software engineer Bobby Moss as…
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Telefónica taps Alcatel-Lucent for cloud DVR
Telefónica’s Movistar TV is delivering its cloud DVR service using technology supplied by Alcatel-Lucent, the…
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BSkyB invests in virtual reality cinema specialist
UK pay TV operator BSkyB has made an equity investment of US$400,000 (€300,000) in US-based…
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Hungarian ad tax is “attack on democracy” says Kroes
Hungary’s new advertising tax is a politically motivated attempt to drive RTL out of the…
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Freetime close to half of new Freesat box sales
UK free-to-air satellite platform Freesat has added an extra 24,000 new households in the first…
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Digiturk chooses AirTies and Octoshape for new OTT service
Digiturk, Turkey’s leading satellite pay TV provider, has selected AirTies and Octoshape to deliver premium…
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Eurosport sale boost for TF1, but ad market still uncertain
French broadcaster TF1 Group received a boost of €293.8 million from the sale of Eurosport…
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Altice ups stake in Numericable to 74.6%
Altice has bought a 34.6% stake in Numericable from investment firms Carlyle and Cinven, increasing its…