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Pay TV Operators
MTG acquires Premier League rights
Modern Times Group has acquired the television rights to the English Premier League in Sweden…
Telefónica Europe fails to match Lat-Am pay TV growth
Telefónica’s impressive pay TV growth continued in Latin America during the first quarter of 2012,…
SeaChange completes sale of server and storage business
SeaChange has completed the sale of its broadcast server and storage business. The VOD technology…
Trace Sports launches on Free
Trace Sports, the channel dedicated to sports celebrities, has launched on Free’s TV platform in…
Eutelsat posts strong video growth
Satellite operator Eutelsat has posted revenues of €308.7 million for its fiscal third quarter, up…
Motors TV launches on Canal Plus Spain
Motorsports channel Motors TV has launched on Canal Plus’s Spanish pay TV platform. Motors TV…
Sky Italia sheds 86,000 subs, Carey backs Murdoch
News Corp blamed a challenging economic outlook in Italy for the loss of 86,000 customers…
BT Vision subs base tops 700,000
BT Vision added 28,000 new customers in the first quarter of 2012 the year taking…
DT TV base up half a million in 12 months
Deutsche Telekom added half a million T-Entertain TV customers in the 12 months ending March…
Ono stabilises base, grows revenue and profit in tough conditions
Cable operator Ono stabilised its customer base and grew its revenues and EBITDA in the…
Orange UK launch for TVcheck
Orange has launched its TVcheck app in the UK. The social TV application, which allows…
Zattoo launches in Luxembourg
European web TV service provider Zattoo has teamed up with P&T LuxGSM to launch in…
Mixed results for Lagardère Active
Lagardère Active, the arm of the French conglomerate that encompasses TV and press activities, posted…
Skylink adds two channels
Czech pay TV provider Skylink has added two new channels to its line-up. The pay…
Bundling pays off for Telekom Austria as TV numbers increase
The number of subscribers to Telekom Austria’s IPTV service A1 reached 204,700 at the end…
Zon chooses Harmonic transcoding solutions
TV technology company Harmonic has announced that Portuguese cable and satellite operator Zon Multimédia has…
TDC sees best-ever subscriber growth
Danish cable operator TDC has reported its best-ever quarterly pay TV subscriber growth. The company,…
Mediaset sees decline in ad and subscription revenue and profit
Italian broadcaster Mediaset saw year-on-year first-quarter falls in advertising and subscription revenue, EBIT and profit…
Glitz launches on Kabel Deutschland
German cable operator Kabel Deutschland (KDG) has added Turner Broadcast’s female-oriented channel Glitz to its…
TeliaSonera moves on Teo
Nordic telco TeliaSonera has agreed to acquire a 7.87% stake in Lithuanian telco and digital…
Unitymedia extends VOD availability
Liberty Global-owned cable operator Unitymedia has extended the availability of its video-on-demand offering to the…
Canal Digital loses subs but grows ARPU
Telenor-owned Nordic pay TV operator Canal Digital lost a further 11,000 DTH customers in the…
NetCologne to carry Sky Altantic
German cable and IPTV provider NetCologne has struck a deal with Sky Deutschland to carry…
Former News Corp employee to complain about football rights deal
Kelvin MacKenzie, former editor of News Corp-owned newspaper The Sun and a former managing director…
UPC Poland adds five channels
Cable operator UPC Poland is adding five new channels to its line-up. The Liberty Global-owned…
Ziggo launches music channel
Dutch cable operator Ziggo is adding a new music channel, Ziggo Xite, to its digital…
Lagardère names Qatari adviser, mulls sports tie-up
French media group Lagardère Unlimited has named Qatar national Sheikh Sultan Bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani as…
New bundled entry offering from Swisscom
Swisscom has launched a new bundled offering, Vivo Casa 2, providing access to its basic…
Sky Deutschland strikes long-term deal with Liberty Global cable units
Sky Deutschland has struck a deal with Liberty Global-owned Unitymedia and Kabel BW to distribute…
Lagardère could relaunch Canal Plus IPO
Lagardère could try again to launch an IPO of its stake in pay TV operator…