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Pay TV Operators
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Cablevision’s Yvette Kanouff joins Cisco
Cablevision Systems’ executive vice president of corporate engineering and technology Yvette Kanouff is joining Cisco to…
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Nagravision and OpenTV sue Apple for patent infringement
Kudelski subsidiaries Nagravision and OpenTV have filed claims for three patent infringements against Apple in…
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New name and content for Telecom Italia’s Cubovision
Telecom Italia Media has changed the name of its Cubovision OTT TV offering to TIMvision….
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AB Group switches channels to full HD
France’s AB Group is to make its full portfolio of channels available to distribution partners…
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HbbTV names task force chief
Steve Morris, systems architect at TV technology company Espial, has been named a member of…
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Lagardère hit by lower TV production, soft ad market
Lower TV production year-on-year pushed revenues for Lagardère’s media arm down for the first quarter….
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Skylink shuts off more CryptoWorks channels
M7 Group-owned Czech and Slovak pay TV provider Skylink is moving ahead with its plant…
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BSkyB in talks to create European pay TV giant with Sky Deutschland and Sky Italia
BSkyB has confirmed it is in preliminary talks about acquiring 21st Century Fox’s 57% stake…
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Canal+ reportedly in talks to take Dailymotion stake
Canal+ Group is in talks with Orange to take a stake in Dailymotion, according to…
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Virgin extends Sky channel distribution deal
Virgin Media has signed a new five-year agreement with Sky that will allow it to…
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Magine establishes Germany as its largest market
Cloud-based over-the-top TV service, Magine now has more customers in Germany than in its home…
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Time Warner linked to web operator Fullscreen
US media giant Time Warner is reportedly seeking to follow the likes of Disney, RTL…
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Liberty Media to spin-off cable assets
Liberty Media is to spin-off its cable assets into a separate publicly-traded business. The company…
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Ericsson completes Red Bee buyout
Ericsson has completed its acquisition of Red Bee Media, adding 1,500 new employees to its…
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New co-CEOs for Comcast’s thePlatform
Comcast-owned online video technology company thePlatform has named Marty Robers and Jamie Miller as co-CEOs,…
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ER-Telecom rolls out advanced set-top in 55 cities
Russian service provider ER-Telecom, which operates under the Dom.ru brand, has launched its new advanced…
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Stofa taps Elemental for multiscreen video processing
Danish pay TV operator Stofa has signed a deal with Elemental, with the latter processing,…
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Kabel Deutschland selects S3 Group for service validation
Kabel Deutschland has selected S3 Group to help it scale and validate video services on…
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Canis Media offers new Manchester channel position
UK broadcast management company and EPG broker Canis Media is opening up a new channel…
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Skylink adds EDGEsport
M7 Group-owned Czech and Slovak satellite pay TV operator Skylink has added HD sports channel…
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European Commission launches ‘in-depth’ Liberty-Ziggo investigation
The European Commission has opened an “in-depth investigation” into Liberty Global’s planned buyout of Ziggo…
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Discovery and Liberty buy All3Media for £550 million
Discovery Communications and Liberty Global have agreed to buy UK-based TV programme maker and distributer…
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RCS & RDS denies report of imminent Vodafone deal
Romanian cable operator RCS & RDS has vehemently denied a report posted by well-known local…
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Sky forms AdSmart local ad partnership with Johnston Press
BSkyB has teamed up with UK local newspaper group Johnston Press to create a new…
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YouView to launch major recruitment drive
UK connected TV platform YouView is to launch a major recruitment drive that it says…
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RCS & RDS and SNR submit bids for Romania’s DTT platform
Romanian cable operator RCS & RDS and state-owned transmission services provider Societăţii Naţionale de Radiocomunicaţii…
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Belgacom adds 30,000 TV subs
Belgian telco Belgacom added 30,000 TV subscriptions in the first quarter, increasing its TV customer…
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Strong TV performance lifts Telefónica
Telefónica had 3.6 million pay TV customers globally, up 8% year-on-year, at the end of…
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CNN recruits digital and sales specialist Wyatt
Turner’s cable news net CNN International has hired Owen Wyatt for a newly-created digital and…
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UPC extends public WiFi initiative to Krakow
Liberty Global-owned cable operator UPC Poland has extended its public WiFi network rollout to Krakow….