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Pay TV Operators
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Rastamouse makes tracks for Lovefilm
Amazon-owned streaming service Lovefilm has acquired a children’s programming package including Rastamouse from NBCUniversal International…
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B.net adds sports channels
Vipnet-owned Croatian cable unit B.net has added two sports channel to its line-up. The operator…
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UPC Slovakia adds music channels
Liberty Global-owned cable operator UPC Slovakia is adding two new music channels to its line-up….
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Four new channels for Belarus’s Zala TV
Belarusian pay TV operator Beltelecom has added four channels to its Zala TV service. Zala…
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Liberty posts loss but customer numbers boosted by Virgin deal
Liberty Global reported a net loss of US$12 million (€9.09 million) in its second quarter…
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BSkyB and BBC to lead UK Ultra HD forum
Representatives from BSkyB and the BBC will co-chair a new industry group, designed to help…
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Virgin Media adding 14,000 TiVo customers per week
Virgin Media said that 44% of its TV customers have now opted to take its…
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Chello appoints Tematic to handle Romanian operations
Chello Central Europe has appointed CEE TV channel distribution specialist Tematic Cable to manage its…
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Travel Channel launches Freeview block
Scripps Networks International has launched a four-hour Travel Channel programming block on UK digital-terrestrial service…
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Ofcom hails return of digital ‘1950s-style’ living room
More than half of UK adults now media multi-task while watching TV, though an increasing…
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Chello restructures CEE channels unit
Chellomedia has restructured its channels distribution unit at its CEE division. The company, the content…
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Amazon orders five more original series pilots
Amazon Studios has ordered five kids series pilots for Amazon Prime Instant Video service in…
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BT Sport goes live
BT today launches its new sports channel line-up today, along with the new BT Sport…
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Trace Group signs Beeline TV carriage deal
Music and sports channel provider Trace Group has signed a carriage deal with Russian pay-TV…
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Sky and Microsoft settle trademark dispute
BskyB and Microsoft have reached a settlement over the latter’s use of the SkyDrive brand…
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Box TV signs broadcast service deal with Red Bee
Box TV, a joint music TV venture between Channel 4 and Bauer Media, has signed…
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Channelling eastern promises
Despite the continued fallout from the global financial crisis, there are strong signs of pay…
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The eastern OTT frontier
Central and eastern Europe’s online video space is rapidly evolving. Andy McDonald looks at some…
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Fragmentation and competition in CEE’s pay TV market
The CEE pay TV market remains characterised by fragmentation and intense competition, but operators are…
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CEE Survey: The big picture
Central and eastern Europe has been hit by the economic ill-winds blowing in from the…
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Q&A: Dragan Solak, chairman, United Group
United Group, combining SBB, Telemach Slovenia, Telemach Bosnia-Herzegovina and satellite broadcaster Total TV, is one…
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Interview: György Zsembery, CEO, Volia
Volia has taken a major step to realise its ambition to be Ukraine’s leading service…
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Sky told to end public service retransmission fees
The UK government plans to end controversial retransmission fees that British public broadcasters pay to…
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BBC Three to launch all comedies on iPlayer
UK channel BBC Three will begin premiering all of its scripted comedies on the on-demand…
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Sport1 launches new channel for US sports
German sports broadcaster Sport1 is launching a new pay-TV channel for US sports in Germany,…
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BBC to examine YouView participation
The BBC’s governing body, the BBC Trust, has launched a review into the BBC’s involvement…
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Telenet cable TV churn hits five year low
Belgian cable operator Telenet said it lost 8,700 basic cable TV subscribers in Q2 2013 –…
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BT to split retail unit in two
BT is due to split its retail unit into two divisions, named BT Consumer and…
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Russia’s CTC Media appoints new CEO
Russian broadcaster CTC Media has appointed Yuliana Slashcheva, the president of Russia-based communications consultancy Mikhailov and…
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Vodafone launches its Kabel Deutschland takeover
Vodafone has started its public takeover of Kabel Deutschland after its €7.7 billion offer was…