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Pay TV Operators
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Kabel Deutschland approves Vodafone takeover
Vodafone’s €7.7 billion takeover offer for Kabel Deutschland has been accepted by the required 75%…
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Amazon, Xbox cool on Netflix’s binge model
The executives running the content arms of Amazon and Xbox have separately told DTVE’s sister…
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BT Sport App nears 1 million downloads
BT TV CEO Marc Watson hailed the success of BT’s new sports app yesterday, claiming…
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Orange and HBO to launch new French network OCS City
Orange in France is launching a new channel next month in partnership with HBO, called…
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Arris partners with Zon and Stofa
Video and broadband technology company Arris has partnered with Portuguese internet and TV service provider…
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Numericable picks Envivio for HD TV service
French cable operator Numericable has selected Envivio software-based headend solutions for the SD and HD…
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Portugal Telecom field-tests Sigma Design chips
Teleco Portugal Telecom has completed a successful filed trial using Sigma Designs’ G.hn for HD…
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Tvinci to showcase personal OTT deployments
Pay-OTT Platform provider Tvinci will showcase its fully-deployed social and personal OTT 2.0 platform at…
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Vivendi to assess splitting the business
French media and telecoms giant Vivendi is launching a study into whether to split the…
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Freesat launches new low-cost HD box
UK subscription-free satellite TV service Freesat has launched a new low-cost Freesat HD box that…
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Sky Italia channels boss leaves for Tata
Paolo Agostinelli, a senior channels executive at Sky Italia, is leaving the Italian pay TV…
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Liberty partners with ActiveVideo for Horizon
Liberty Global has partnered with multiplatform technology firm ActiveVideo, opting to use the latter’s CloudTV…
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Comcast and Time Warner joint venture RDK appoints manager
RDK Management, the new joint venture formed by Comcast and Time Warner Cable, has appointed…
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Virgin and Arqiva complete ‘data superhighway’ build out
Virgin Media Business has completed the build out of a superfast fibre network for communications…
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Technicolor extends DirecTV set-top deal
French technology company Technicolor has signed a three-year extension to its deal with US satellite…
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Canal Digital to deploy ADB Wideband eight-tuner DVR
Canal Digital Kabel-tv in Norway is to be the first pay TV operator to deploy…
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Deutsche Telekom rolls out multiscreen Entertain2Go
Deutsche Telekom’s Entertain2Go streaming service, powered by mobile TV and on-demand specialist MobiTV, has completed…
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Netflix goes live in the Netherlands
Netflix went live today in the Netherlands, offering streamed access to its catalogue of movies…
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Vodafone still far short of Kabel Deutschland threshold as deadline looms
Vodafone still has a long way to go to secure sufficient shares in Kabel Deutschland…
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Discovery named as the biggest TV network in Europe
The Discovery Channel is the network with the widest distribution in Europe, according to new…
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French Senate mulls changes to media regulation
The French Senate is currently considering wide-ranging changes to the regulatory regime for audiovisual media…
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UPC DTH launches CI+ with Neotion
Liberty Global-owned DTH operator UPC DTH has launched a CI+ offering in partnership with conditional…
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Dailymotion touts Opera app success
French video site Dailymotion said that it has now exceeded 100 content partner-created TV apps…
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FilmoTV launches cloud-based SVoD
French online subscription video-on-demand service FilmoTV has launched FilmoCloud, a cloud-based TV everywhere version of…
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Virgin Media signs Netflix deal
Virgin Media has signed a deal to add over-the-top video service Netflix to its TiVo…
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Yahoo launches new video app
Yahoo has launched a new mobile video app called Yahoo Screen and has signed a…
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Eutelsat reshuffles management
Eutelsat has reshuffled its management for the Asian region, after appointing the former CEO of…
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Netflix to debut Bloomberg Businessweek Films’ first documentary
Bloomberg Businessweek Films’ debut documentary, Hank: Five Years From the Brink, will premiere on Netflix…
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Orange signs multiscreen app deal with Norigin Media
Orange Group has signed a global deal to deploy multi-screen TV everywhere apps designed by…
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BskyB selects Agama for TV quality monitoring
BskyB has partnered with Agama Technologies, which will provide its monitoring solution for TV service…