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Accenture and KPN team up to bring TV apps to Google Glass
Accenture and Dutch telco KPN have developed a proof of concept to bring interactive TV…
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Amazon cuts UK TV content deal with Warner Bros.
Amazon Prime Instant Video has sealed a deal with Warner Bros. for UK rights to…
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Liberty Global and Ziggo making good progress on takeover
Liberty Global and Ziggo are “making good progress” on preparations for the takeover by the…
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Chello Zone taps Polsat for ad sales in renewed carriage deal
CBS Chello Zone has struck a multi-year deal with Polish pay TV provider Cyfrowy Polsat…
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Dom.ru increases share of Russian pay TV
Russian telecom provider ER-Telecom, which operates under the Dom.ru brand, increased its share of the…
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B.net adds new features
Telekom Austria-owned Croatian cable operator B.net has added a raft of new interactive TV services…
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Amazon drops Lovefilm brand for SVoD
Amazon is replicating its US SVoD offering in the UK and Germany, rebranding Lovefilm to…
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European Sky platforms in first coproduction
BSkyB-owned UK channel Sky 1, Germany’s Sky Deutschland and Sky Italia are collaborating to develop…
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Telekom Slovenije launches white-label OTT platform
Slovenian telecom operator Telekom Slovenije has launched a white-label OTT platform for operators and content…
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Vodafone named as best fibre network operator
Vodafone has been named as best fibre-optic network operator in Europe at the FTTH Council…
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Polsat temps new customers with premium channel price cuts
Cyfrowy Polsat is running a cut-price premium channel package promotion in a bid to attract…
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BeIN Sport takes World handball championship rights
Al Jazeera-owned French sports broadcaster BeIN Sport has acquired the rights to the World handball…
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CoralTree announces Sky Deutschland upgrade completion
TV software provider CoralTree has announced the successful upgrade to the Titan TV gateway, part of the daVinci portfolio,…
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TalkTalk makes new movies offer ahead of Oscars
UK service provider TalkTalk is to add the Sky Movies Oscars channel to its line-up…
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Motors TV destined for Freeview via Arqiva’s Connect TV
Motorsport channel Motors TV has signed up for carriage as part of Arqiva’s Connect TV…
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Sky Deutschland to launch three new HD stations
Sky Deutschland is due to launch three new high definition channels – TNT Glitz HD,…
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Netia CEO resigns as firm cuts 2014 guidance
Polish IPTV service provider Netia has said CEO Mirosław Godlewski is resigning from the firm,…
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Twitter flying in for MIPTV keynote
Twitter’s chief media scientist Deb Roy will give a keynote address at MIPTV in April….
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Numericable adds Benfica TV to offering
French cable operator Numericable has added Benfica TV, the Portuguese football club’s official TV channel,…
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Malone makes share plans with Discovery’s Zaslav, Liberty’s Fries
Media mogul John Malone has given right of first refusal to his holdings in Discovery…
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Buffett takes stake in Liberty Global
US investor Warren Buffett investment vehicle Berkshire Hathaway has acquired a stake in Liberty Global,…
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Ziggo replaces chief commercial officer
Ziggo’s chief commercial officer Marcel Nijhoff is due to step down on March 1, with…
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Media companies looking to HEVC, 4K, says Elemental
Media companies are moving forwards with plans to roll out both HEVC compression technology and…
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Pay TV boost for Portugal Telecom, Brazil’s Oi refocuses offering
Portugal Telecom’s pay TV base grew by 7.5% in the course of 2013 to 1.315…
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TF1 Group sees drop in pay TV and advertising revenues
French broadcaster TF1 Group suffered reversals in both the advertising market, pay TV and other…
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Dom.ru to upgrade WiFi with Ruckus
Russian service provider ER-Telecom, which operates the Dom.ru brand, has launched a programme of large-scale…
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Virgin Media in small cell backhaul trial with Sub10 Systems
Virgin Media Business has completed a live backhaul small cell trial with Sub10 Systems, a…
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Sky suffers reversal as Court of Appeal sends sports channel case back to CAT
BSkyB has suffered a reversal in its legal battle over the terms under which it…
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NTV+ teams up with Elemental, Broadcom for 4K test
Russian pay TV broadcaster NTV+ has used the Sochi Winter Olympics to test broadcast transmissions…
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Belgacom rolls out TV Replay in Flanders and Brussels
Belgian telco Belgacom has launched its TV Replay service in Flanders and Brussels, allowing viewers…