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Providence Equity-owned Latvian service providers to merge

Providence Equity Partners-owned Baltic media and telecoms outfit Bitė Group plans to merge its Latvian…

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DAZN poaches Canal+ exec Brice Daumin as French CEO

Sports media giant, DAZN Group, has hired former Canal+ exec Brice Daumin as CEO of…

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nexfibre to invest £1bn in broadband infrastructure in 2024

Fibre network provider, nexfibre, has announced plans to invest £1 billion in the UK’s broadband infrastructure this year.

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New version of Indonesia’s Vision+ debuts, powered by Mirada

Indonesia-based multinational conglomerate MNC Group has launched the planned updated version of its streaming service…

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French service providers circle La Poste Mobile

French service providers Free, Bouygues Telecom and Orange have each made a bid to acquire…

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Parrot Analytics: ‘Hazbin Hotel’ goes strong in Italy

Amazon Prime Video’s series Hazbin Hotel has soared to the top of Parrot’s top 10…

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Liberty Global to spin off 100% of Swiss Sunrise to shareholders

Liberty Global is to spin off 100% of Swiss operating company Sunrise to shareholders. The…

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OpenAI debuts Sora to create movie-quality video from text

Generative AI pioneer OpenAI has introduced a new interface that can produce videos of up…

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TF1 records strong streaming growth in 2023, but overall revenue sees slight decline

French commercial broadcaster, TF1, has reported its former streaming offering, MYTF1 delivered a strong performance…

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Plex taps castLabs for TVOD service launch

Streaming operator, Plex has tapped video technology provider, castLabs, for its cloud-based solution DRMtoday for…

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Super Bowl 2024 attracts largest audience yet, with 123.7m viewers

The NFL’s Super Bowl LVIII 2024 event which got underway on Sunday February 11 attracted…

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BBC hires head of ITVX news to lead streaming operations across news

UK free-to-air broadcaster BBC has poached ITV News exec Chris Achilleos to head its streaming…

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NPAW: VOD engagement rises as smart TV use increases grip on viewing

Video-on-demand daily user engagement grew by 12% in 2023 for the first time in two…

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BBC Sport strikes broadcast partnership with UK Athletics for 2024 major event series

BBC and UK Athletics (UKA) have entered into a partnership which will see the UK free-to-air broadcaster show coverage of the 2024 UKA’s major events series.

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Over 5.5 million UK homes risk lack of access to traditional TV

Amidst the move of linear TV to online, over 5.5 million UK homes are predicted to be without a high-speed broadband subscription in 2040 which will see viewers struggle to watch content via traditional TV and further putting it at risk of decline, forecasts consultancy firm EY.

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Love Nature and Deutsche Telekom expand partnership to Eastern Europe

Love Nature has expanded its partnership with telecommunications company, Deutsche Telekom Group across Eastern Europe.

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Pluto TV France adds combat sports trio

FAST operator Pluto TV France has added three new combat sports channels to its offering….

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WWE and X joins forces for exclusive live wrestling online series

Elon Musk’s X, formerly known as Twitter, is broadening its presence in the live sports…

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Extreme E renews free-to-air broadcasting deal with RTVE in Spain

Extreme E, the off-road electric race series, has extended its broadcasting partnership with Spain’s pubcaster,…

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DAZN to deliver global coverage of Super Bowl via NFL Game Pass

The highly anticipated Super Bowl LVIII event, taking place on February 11, will feature on…

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Dutch Eredivisie returns to Japan’s Fuji TV

Japan’s broadcast provider, Fuji TV, has gained back the media rights to Dutch top-tier football…

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ITVX earns record 315m streams in January

ITVX, the streaming arm of UK broadcaster ITV, landed a record of 315 million streams…

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Sky hikes TV and broadband prices

UK pay TV operator and broadband provider, Sky, will increase prices across its TV and…

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Disney narrows streaming losses as it bets on investment in Epic Games

Disney lost 1.3 million Disney+ streaming subscribers in its first fiscal quarter but reduced the…

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BBC lands Super League TV rights in landmark deal

BBC has struck a three-season deal with Rugby League Commercial to live broadcast Super League…

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ITV Studios’ The Graham Norton Show channel launches on Samsung TV Plus

ITV Studios is debuting a new dedicated channel featuring episodes of the BBC One comedy…

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Disney’s ESPN holds broadcasting rights to Eredivisie until 2030

Disney-operated sports entertainment giant, ESPN, has retained the media rights to the Dutch football legaue,…

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Advertising to see sports boost but linear decline persists

Spending on TV advertising around sports will rise significantly this year, driven by the US…

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India’s Planetcast launches NexC cloud-first architecture

Indian broadcast technology and media services provider, Planetcast, has launched of its NexC cloud-first architecture…

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BBC unveils Six Nations broadcast plans

UK pubcaster, BBC, has unveiled its broadcast plans of the international men’s rugby tournament, Six…