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Google launches music streaming service in Europe
Google’s new music streaming service, Google Play Music All Access, has launched in nine countries…
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Red Bee Media expands BT Sport partnership
Red Bee media will provide additional broadcast services, including access services, rich metadata and sports…
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Fox to get Sky Italia on track by cutting programming costs
21st Century Fox should be on track to achieve its goals for troubled Italian direct-to-home…
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UPC Cablecom unveils details of Horizon improvements
Liberty Global’s Swiss unit UPC Cablecom has unveiled some of the improvements to the Horizon…
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Liberty Global restructures CEE management following Virgin deal
Liberty Global has reshuffled management at its Central and Eastern Europe division as it seeks…
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Samsung offering OSN Play VOD on Smart TV platform
Samsung is to offer a range of on-demand services from Middle East pay TV provider…
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Swisscom sees 30% growth in TV base
Swisscom has seen 30% growth in its TV base over the last year to end…
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MTG names new Baltic chiefs, expands production unit
Modern Times Group (MTG) is making a series of changes to the management of Viasat…
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Skype co-founder Friis’s Vdio expands into Canada
Vdio, the new video rental service for movies and TV shows from Skype co-founder Janus…
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Playboy TV Europe to outsource broadcast, expand VOD
Playboy TV Europe is outsourcing its broadcast operations to Los Angeles-based Encompass and has announced…
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South Africa’s Saffron shuts down
South African DTH operator DStv, owned by MultiChoice, has dropped locally produced channel Saffron from…
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Sky Deutschland boosted by football coverage
Sky Deutschland reported strong growth in its second quarter, with viewer numbers boosted by the…
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MTG makes digital acquisition in CEE
MTG has inked a deal for a controlling share of Bulgarian digital conglomerate Darik News…
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Demand 5 launches on Freesat’s freetime
UK commercial broadcaster Channel 5’s catch-up service Demand 5 has launched on freetime, the connected…
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BBC Knowledge and HD launch on Digiturk
BBC Worldwide has signed a deal with Digiturk that will see its BBC Knowledge and…
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DStv replaces ESPN with SuperSport 9
MultiChoice-owned South African pay TV provider DStv has added sports channel SuperSport 9 to its…
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Belgian online portal goes HD
Belgian telco Belgacom has added high definition feeds of 13 channels to its TV Partout/TV…
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S4C makes digital push
Welsh-language broadcaster S4C will make all of its content available on the BBC iPlayer from…
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The multiscreen and OTT TV survey
In the final part of this week’s series of features about multiscreen and OTT TV,…
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Multiscreen routes: problems and solutions to IP-based content delivery
From the straightforward business of delivering TV services to set-top boxes, pay TV operators now…
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The evolution of the second screen app space
The ‘second screen’ app space has grown up in recent years, but how are these…
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Five go over-the-top: OTT service case studies
Over-the-top business models are many and varied – and still largely subject to trial and…
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Liberty promises further Horizon improvements
Liberty Global CEO Mike Fries has said that the company is working to introduce improvements…
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Sky invests in video delivery firm 1 Mainstream
BSkyB has acquired US$2 million (€1.5 million) of convertible debt security in US-based distribution platform…
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Pace strikes deal to make MultiChoice DVRs in South Africa
Set-top manufacturer Pace has struck a deal with South African pay TV broadcaster MultiChoice to…
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Eurosport signs Italian distribution deal with Mediaset
Eurosport Group has signed a deal with Mediaset that will see the Eurosport and Eurosport…
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Dailymotion airs doc on London riots
Video portal Dailymotion will launch Riot from Wrong, a new documentary about the riots that…
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ESPN channels go off air
ESPN Classic and ESPN America have gone off air outside the US and the UK…
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Amazon picks up Emmy for video discovery
Amazon Instant video has picked up a 2013 Technology and Engineering Emmy Award for its…
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Belgacom unit launches low-cost triple-play
Belgacom has launched a new triple-play package for subscribers to its Scarlet low-cost telecom subsidiary….