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Pay TV Operators
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Liberty Global gears up for Polish Horizon launch
Liberty Global CEO Mike Fries says the firm is on the “right track” with its…
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Prisa accepts Telefónica’s offer for pay TV unit
Spanish media group Prisa has accepted Telefónica’s €725 bid for its 56% stake in pay…
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BT hits 19 million fibre homes target
BT has now passed more than 19 million homes and businesses with fibre broadband, reaching…
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D-Smart defends decision to drop SinemaTV channels
Turkish pay TV platform D-Smart has defended its decision to drop movie channels from distributor…
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ONO’s TiVo subs close to half of TV base
Almost half of Spanish cable operator ONO’s TV base now take its TiVo advanced TV…
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Deutsche Telekom grows TV subscribers by 20%
Deutsche Telekom said that it increased its European IPTV, satellite and cable TV customer numbers…
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General ad uplift offsets problems in France for RTL
Advertising growth in some markets helped RTL Group to offset a flat market in Germany…
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TV growth fails to address Telekom Austria woes
An overall positive picture for Telekom Austria’s TV business failed to compensate for ongoing declines…
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BSkyB launches Sky News catch-up service
BSkyB’s Sky News has launched a catch-up TV service on the Sky On Demand platform. …
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21st Century Fox hit by Sky Italia, Sky Deutschland costs
High programming costs for Sky Italia and Sky Deutschland hit 21st Century Fox’s performance in…
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Canal Digital decline continues for Telenor
Telenor’s Canal Digital satellite pay TV unit saw its subscriber base decline further in the…
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Telefónica in €725 million bid for control of Digital+
Telefónica has made a €725 million bid for a controlling stake in Prisa-backed Spanish pay…
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Liberty adds 250,000 Horizon and TiVo customers
Liberty Global added more than 250,000 next-generation Horizon TV and TiVo customers in Q1, in…
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Credit Suisse: Sky faces earnings risk as football auction looms
The next round of auctions for rights to English Premier League football will be critical…
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Sky Deutschland reports strong customer growth
Sky Deutschland reported strong customer growth and record retention levels in Q1, but said its…
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IPTV subscribers to overtake DTH in Western Europe
The number of paying IPTV subscribers in Western Europe will overtake pay satellite TV (pay…
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OTT subscribers are ‘most voracious’ TV Everywhere customers
Despite industry fears of ‘cord cutting’ or ‘cord trimming’, subscribers to OTT services like Netflix…
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Swisscom sees strong growth for cloud DVR service
Swisscom has attracted 30,000 users for its advanced TV platform a month after launch, while…
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KPN in first Dutch trial of LTE broadcast
Dutch telco KPN has carried out a trial of LTE broadcast technology using Ericsson’s platform….
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BBC Trust chairman Patten steps down
The chairman of the BBC Trust, the governing body of UK pubcaster the BBC, has…
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MTG appoints Liberty exec for emerging pay TV markets role
Modern Times Group (MTG) has appointed Liberty Global executive Rotem Hakim as its director of…
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Telenet changes its mind on retail box support
Liberty Global-owned cable operator Telenet has rowed back on an unpopular move to discontinue support…
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TIMA takes capacity from Eutelsat
Facilities and content service provider The International Media Associates (TIMA) has signed a three-year contract…
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Vodafone and Kabel Deutschland begin marketing common offerings
Vodafone Deutschland and its cable subsidiary Kabel Deutschland are to offer their first joint product…
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Freesat now reaches 1.84 million UK homes
UK free-to-view satellite platform Freesat reported “strong quarterly growth” in the first quarter of 2014,…
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Sky Deutschland streams live football in UHD
Sky Deutschland claims to have done a world first by broadcasting a football match live…
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TDC reports TV and broadband subscriber growth
Danish telco TDC reported growth in TV and broadband subscriber bases in the first quarter…
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PrimaCom hires new CTO
German cable operator PrimaCom has named Unitymedia executive Ludwig Modra as its new chief technology…
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Com Hem sees TiVo boost amidst mixed results
Approximately one in eight of Swedish cable operator Com Hem’s digital TV subscribers take its…
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Tele Columbus gives free tablet to new broadband subs
German cable operator Tele Columbus is to give free tablet PCs to new customers for…