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France Télévisions taps Hubee for Pluzz.fr on Free
Broadcaster France Télévisions has tapped existing on-demand TV partner Hubee to provide its video-on-demand and…
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Cyfrowy Polsat adds TVP Sport HD
Polish pay TV operator Cyfrowy Polsat has added TVP Sport HD from the country’s public…
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SFR could launch IPO in July, says Vivendi CEO
Vivendi-owned French service provider SFR could launch its IPO as early as July, according to…
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Spain’s ONO receives TiVo boost
Spanish fibre operator ONO added 65,000 TiVo customers in the last quarter, bringing the active…
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Freetime connected TV boost for Freesat
Freetime connected TV set-tops now account for 40% of UK free-to-air satellite platform Freesat’s installed…
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Amazon plans Prime price hike
Amazon said that it is considering upping the price of its Prime subscription service in…
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AMC Networks completes US$1bn Chellomedia purchase
AMC Networks has closed its US$1 billion (€750 million) acquisition of global channels operator and…
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Numericable to offer 4G free to subs for one year
French cable operator Numericable is making its 4G mobile service free of charge to existing…
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Russia’s Kartina VoD service and PeerTV launch OTT set-top
Russian expatriate-targeted on-demand service provider Kartina has launched the Kartina IQ set-top in partnership with…
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Slovak Sport.TV2 delivers Premier League to freeSAT homes
Liberty Global’s satellite TV arm UPC DTH has added sports channel Slovak Sport.TV2 to its…
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Cyfrowy Polsat adds HD version of news channel
Polish pay TV provider Cyfrowy Polsat has launched Polsat News HD on its platform. The…
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SES-8 satellite goes into operation
SES’s December-launched SES-8 satellite is now fully operational at the orbital location of 95 degrees…
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Motive Television joins the HbbTV Consortium
UK-based TV technology services firm Motive Television has joined the HbbTV consortium in a bid to…
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VimpelCom names sales chief
Russian service provider VimpelCom has named Filipp Sapronov as director of sales. Sapronov was previously…
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Vectra adds TV Republika
Polish cable operator Vectra is to add news and information channel TV Republika to its…
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BT Sport’s 2.5m subs deliver revenues and profits boost for telco
The customer base for BT’s sports channels passed 2.5 million by the end of the…
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Numericable owner Altice launches IPO
Altice, the investment vehicle of Patrick Drahi and main shareholder of French cable operator Numericable,…
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New film channel for Poland debuts with Cyfrowy Polsat
A new film channel for Poland from channel provider SPI international-owned Kino Polska, FilmBox Arthouse,…
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GOtv launches in Rwanda
South African pay TV operator MultiChoice’s digital-terrestrial pay TV service GOtv has launched in Rwanda….
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Belgacom ready to participate in football JV
Belgian service provider Belgacom has said it is ready to participate in a non-exclusive multi-party…
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Eurosport hails record digital month
Pan-European sports channel Eurosport, currently celebrating its 25th year, has aid it achieved its best-ever…
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S4C launches on YouView
Welsh-language channel S4C is now available on the UK’s YouView connected TV platform. The service…
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Sky reports ‘explosive’ connected TV growth
UK satellite TV operator Sky reported “explosive growth” in its connected TV subscriber base, adding…
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At800 scales back UK DTT service disruption efforts
At800, the UK body set up to test for interference from 4G networks on DTT…
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Sky, HBO target co-production in content deal renewal
The UK’s BSkyB and pay TV counterpart HBO are to up their partnership by co-developing…
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Yahoo! shuts second-screen service IntoNow
Yahoo! is closing down its second-screen TV app IntoNow, less than three years after buying…
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De Agostini launches second-screen app for Super!
Italian publisher, content creation company and channel provider De Agostini has launched a second-screen app…
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MTG on-demand to get Viacom shows
Viacom International Media Networks will supply Modern Times Group with programming for the latter’s numerous…
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Teo sees IPTV growth but DTT numbers slide
Lithuanian service provider Teo’s base of IPTV subscribers grew by 12.2% last year to 172,300,…
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Russian operators drop Dozhd after Leningrad siege survey
A number of Russian pay TV operators including NTV+, Akado and Rostelecom have dropped culture…