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DNA sees TV base decline
Finnish service provider DNA saw its TV base decline by 13% year-on-year to 293,000, while…
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BeIN Sports launches archive on-demand service
Middle East pay TV provider BeIN Sports has launched a sports archive service as part…
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Canal+ and BeIN Sports make peace with French football league
French pay TV operators Canal+ and BeIN Sports have struck a deal with the country’s…
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Sky reveals streaming impact of coronavirus lockdown
European pay TV operator Sky has published a raft of data revealing how viewing habits…
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Verizon loses 84k TV subs as lockdown hits new additions
US telco Verizon lost 84,000 Fios TV subscribers in the first quarter, which the company…
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UPC Poland adds casting capability for homebound Horizon Go customers
Liberty Global-owned cable operator UPC Poland has extended the functionality of its Horizon Go mobile…
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Ukraine’s Volia launches Shakhtar TV for football fans
Ukrainian cable operator Volia has started broadcasting Shakhtar TV, the TV channel from the football…
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John Stankey to replace retiring Randall Stephenson as AT&T chief
Randall Stephenson is to retire as AT&T CEO and will be replaced by president and…
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Russia’s Tricolor launches coronavirus lockdown educational service
Russian pay TV operator Tricolor has teamed up with the country’s ministry of education to…
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Spanish pay TV passes 7.2 million milestone
Spanish pay TV subscriber numbers passed the milestone of 7.2 million at the end of…
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Nordic Entertainment sees Viaplay numbers jump, but crisis hits advertising
Nordic Entertainment Group’s (NENT Group) Viaplay streaming service saw an impressive jump of 102,000 subscribers…
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Mediaset takes ProSiebenSat.1 stake up to concentration threshold
Mediaset has purchased an additional 4.1% of Germany’s ProSiebenSat.1 in a move that takes the…
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SES satellites grow their reach
The number of homes reached directly or indirectly by satellite operator SES grew by 12…
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Telia hit by exposure to TV market
Nordic telco Telia’s exposure to the TV and media business through its ownership of TV4…
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Euskaltel ‘ready to kick-off’ Virgin-branded national campaign
Northern Spanish regional cable operator Euskaltel has said it is ready to kick-off its national…
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AT&T continues to shed TV subs with HBO Max launch on horizon
AT&T lost a little under 900,000 TV subscribers in Q1 2020 in a continued downward…
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Vivendi takes 10.6% stake in Lagardère
Canal+ owner Vivendi has taken a 10.6% stake in troubled French media conglomerate Lagardère. The…
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5G: The transformation of video distribution is underway
2019 was a pivotal year for 5G: operators began launching commercial services, enterprise use cases…
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Tele2 pulls financial guidance as coronavirus and TV decline takes toll
Nordic telco and cable operator Tele2 has withdrawn its financial guidance for the year and…
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Vodafone Deutschland and Arte bury hatchet and strike long-term deal
Vodafone Deutschland and cultural channel Arte have formally ended their long-running dispute over carriage terms…
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International growth cements solid quarter for Canal+
International subscriptions helped boost Canal+’s revenues in the first quarter, with the pay TV outfit…
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Altice Europe unveils new Portuguese fibre wholesaler
Altice Europe has unveiled the creation of Fastfiber, the fibre wholesale outfit for Portugal formerly…
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Canal+ Polska launches esports version of national football league
Polish pay TV outfit Canal+ Polska is making the best of the absence of primetime…
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Coronavirus to see telecommunications industry to drop by 3.4%
The effect of the coronavirus on the telecommunications industry has been laid bare by a…
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Western European pay TV households to dip below 100 million
Pay TV subscriber numbers in Western Europe will drop below 100 million by 2025 claims…
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German watchdog drops Sky-DAZN probe
German competition watchdog the Bundeskartellamt has closed its proceedings against pay TV operator Sky and…
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Waoo taps Verimatrix for content security
Danish service provider Waoo has tapped content security specialist Verimatrix to secure its streaming TV…
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Virgin Media adds to no-extra-cost channel line-up
Liberty Global-owned UK service provider Virgin Media is giving its TV customers access to a…
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Nordic Entertainment proposes ex-TDC chief to board
Ahead of its planned AGM on May 19, streaming, free and pay TV outfit Nordic…
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TV industry feeling ‘devastating impact’ as advertisers slash budgets
The coronavirus has felt a “devastating impact” on the TV broadcasting industry with companies less…