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Pay TV Operators
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Trace delivers sports and music to Zon
Portuguese pay TV operator Zon Multimedia has added music and sports channels Trace Urban HD…
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BBC says £10m Sky fees should be dropped
The BBC is lobbying for the estimated £10 million (€11 million) it pays BSkyB for…
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NTV Plus adds Nick HD
Russian pay TV operator NTV Plus has added Nickelodeon HD and Russian channel RTD to…
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Virgin Media adds Sky Anytime to on-demand platform
Virgin Media is adding thousands of hours of content from rival operator BSkyB to its…
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French government abandons bonus channels plan
The French government has abandoned plans to award so-called bonus channels on the digital-terrestrial platform…
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Beeline launches TV social networking
Vimpelcom-owned IPTV operator Beeline TV has launched a social network option that enables users to…
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M-Net and e.tv in dispute over DTT set-top plans
A dispute has blown up in South Africa between Naspers-owned pay TV service M-Net and…
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France 24 toasts Arabic successes
A year on from France 24’s launch of its 24-hour Arabic channel, the news broadcaster…
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Free adds Flash to Révolution
French service provider Free has added a number of new features to its Freebox Révolution…
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NDS provides technology for Sky Deutschland Anytime service
Conditional access and interactive TV technology company NDS is providing the technology behind Sky Deutschland’s…
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French government mulls expansion of free DTT offering
The French government wants to authorise the launch of six new channels on the country’s…
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Sky Italia tops five million
News Corp-backed pay TV platform Sky Italia has exceeded the five million subscriber mark and…
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Portugal’s Zon goes Outdoor
Chello Zone is launching its Outdoor Channel HD in Portugal. The outdoor activity-focused service will…
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Ofcom clears Al Jazeera
UK communications regulator Ofcom has cleared Al Jazeera of any infringement of the broadcasting rules…
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Travel Channel HD launches on Zon
Travel Channel has launched the HD version of its channel on Portuguese pay TV provider…
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France Telecom launches Orange Switzerland sale
France Telecom has launched the sale of its Orange Switzerland subsidiary. Possible candidates for Orange…
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Inea in successful 3D trial
Poland’s Inea broadcast a movie in 3D for the first time on Saturday. Subscribers to…
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Q&A: Aleks Habdank, director, digital entertainment product, Virgin Media
Digital TV Europe talked to Virgin Media’s digital entertainment chief about the operator’s launch of…
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TF1 reportedly ready to abandon free-to-air plan for LCI
French commercial broadcaster TF1 has abandoned its attempt to migrate its information channel LCI from…
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UPC Polska extends VOD platform and high-speed network
Polish cable operator UPC has extended its VOD platform to the cities of Lublin, Wałbrzych…
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MTS to invest in Nizhny Novgorod
Russian service provider MTS has signed a deal with local authorities in the city of…
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Deutsche Telekom adds new Entertain channels
Deutsche Telekom’s Entertain IPTV service has added toddler channel BabyTV and Spiegel TV Wissen HD…
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Microsoft names European content partners for XBox Live TV
The BBC, Lovefilm, Telefónica and Mediaset will be amongst the European content providers offering…
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SFR adds France Télévisions’ Pluzz to on-demand service
French service provider SFR has made public broadcaster France Télévisions’ catch-up TV service Pluzz available…
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Red Bee to playout PBS UK
Red Bee Media has signed a multi-year deal to provide broadcast services for the new…
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ER-Telecom targets TV growth
Russian service provider ER-Telecom plans to connect 1.7 million TV and over 250,000 telephony users…
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Akado to complete EuroDOCSIS migration by end of year
Moscow-based cable operator Akado has said it will complete the migration of its access network…
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Virgin Media boosts HD line-up with UKTV additions
Virgin Media is expanding its HD line-up with the addition of UKTV’s five HD channels….
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ProSiebenSat.1 strikes deal with Unitymedia, prepares growth plan
Liberty Global-owned German cable operator Unitymedia has struck a long-term cooperation agreement with commercial broadcaster…
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MTG extends presence in Africa
Modern Times Group (MTG) has launched its Viasat History and Viasat Nature pay TV channels…