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Pay TV Operators
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Streaming dominates in Digital TV Europe Industry Survey 2020
Digital TV Europe has unveiled the findings of its fifth annual industry survey. Several hundred…
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Virgin Media awards new network contracts in major revamp
Liberty Global-owned UK service provider Virgin Media has awarded new five-year contracts worth £500 million…
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Deutsche Telekom wants Disney+ deal
Deutsche Telekom is reportedly in talks with Disney for distribution of Disney+. According to Bloomberg,…
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Cord-cutting AT&T TV rolled out across US
AT&T TV, the cord-cutting product of the operator of the same name, has launched across…
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Tele Columbus announces ZDF cooperation deal
German cable provider Tele Columbus and pubcaster ZDF have announced a distribution agreement for the…
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Six Nations could go to pay TV from 2022 in UK
Rugby Union’s Six Nations could move to pay TV from 2022 in the UK. According…
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Discovery to ‘supercharge’ Dplay, mulls aggregated OTT offering as streaming offensive gets underway
Discovery CEO David Zaslav has said his company is looking seriously at the possibility of…
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BT Sport and Samsung team up for ‘UK’s first public live 8K sports broadcast’
BT Sport and Samsung have teamed up to screen what the pair say is the…
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Vivendi makes fresh legal move in Italy to stop Mediaset merger
Vivendi and Simon Fiduciaria, the company in which it has put the bulk of its…
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Dutch court rejects Vivendi move to stop Mediaset merger
Vivendi has suffered a reverse in its ongoing battle to prevent the creation of a…
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Telenet sells Luxembourg operation to Eltrona, takes stake in combined company
Liberty Global-backed Belgian cable operator Telenet is to fold its Luxembourg subsidiary into the country’s…
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Altibox taps Technicolor and 3SS for Android TV deployment
Norwegian service provider Altibox, which also operates in Denmark, is to deploy Technicolor’s Android TV-based…
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Sports bodies call on US to keep Saudi Arabia on piracy priority list
FIFA, the International Olympic Committee (IOC), UEFA and a range of US sports bodies have…
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Digital TV Research: North American pay TV revenues to fall by US$50 billion
Pay TV revenues in North America are set to decline by US$50 billion by 2025….
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Altice launches Altice One on Apple TV
Altice has launched its Altice One service on Apple TV in the US. Altice One…
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Euskaltel ‘returns to growth’ as national expansion plans take shape
Spanish regional operator Euskaltel posted a return to revenue growth in the fourth quarter, despite…
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Albania’s TiBO taps Verimatrix for SaaS-based content security
Albanian IPTV and OTT service provider TiBO has deployed technology from content security specialist Verimatrix…
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Sports fans willing to pay more for personalised streamers
Almost two thirds (63%) of sports fans would pay for a personalised streaming service. According…
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Sky considering broadcasting Derby d’Italia on free-to-air amid coronavirus scare
First plays third when Inter Milan travels to Juventus on March 1 in one of…
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T-Hrvatski Telekom launches new TV packages
Deutsche Telekom-owned Croatian telco T-Hrvatski Telekom has refreshed its TV offering with the launch of…
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TV and cloud gaming market to reach US$25 billion by 2025
The value of the TV and cloud gaming hardware market will hit US$25 billion by…
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Jefferies: Sky more likely to team up with BT Openreach than Virgin Media for fibre
Sky is more likely to partner with BT Openreach to extend its fibre broadband reach…
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Telefónica ‘working actively’ on Latin American consolidation plans
Telefónica is “working actively” on plans that could see consolidation and a change in the…
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MultiChoice names Kenya managing director
South Africa-based pay TV operator MultiChoice has named Nancy Matimu as its managing director for…
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NBCU reportedly in talks to buy Walmart’s VUDU
Comcast’s NBCUniversal is reportedly in talks to acquire Walmart’s Vudu TVOD service. According to a…
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Cellcom Israel chairman Erel resigns
Ami Erel, the chairman of Cellcom Israel, has resigned. In a succinct statement, the telco…
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Is BT’s flexible offer the answer to pay TV’s ills?
“As long as the pay TV incumbents continue to innovate, their services will remain sufficiently…
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Sky launches new packages with BT Sport
Sky has launched two new sports packages that combine Sky Sports and BT Sport channels…
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Proximus TV growth fails to offset prepaid mobile and fixed voice losses
Growth in Belgian service provider Proximus’s TV and broadband subscribers and revenues failed to compensate…
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NOS sees improved growth in TV numbers
Portuguese service provider NOS saw its pay TV base increase by 7,300 in Q4, with…