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Vivendi’s Bolloré reportedly in talks for beIN Sport acquisition
Vivendi chairman Vincent Bolloré has set his sights on the acquisition of Canal+ rival beIN…
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TF1 completes Newen deal
TF1 has completed its controversial 70% buyout of French producer and distributor Newen Group. In…
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African OTT service iROKO raises US$19m
African over-the-top video service iROKO has raised a total of US$19 million (€17.6 million) and…
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AB Group launches kids channel and SVoD offering
France’s AB Group is to launch a kids educational channel and associated subscription video-on-demand service…
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Wuaki.tv reaches 3 million global users
Movie and TV streaming service Wuaki.tv has reached 3 million users globally, after growing its…
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Combes hails ‘dream team’ as new SFR CEO named
Altice-owned French service provider SFR has named Michel Paulin as its new CEO. Paulin was…
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Vivendi sees cash boost from Activision Blizzard sale
Vivendi has sold its remaining shares in US games company Activision Blizzard, in which it…
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BeIN Sports takes lion’s share of World Cup rights for France
BeIN Sports France has announced that it has secured rights to football 2018 World Cup…
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Canal+ names European affairs chief
Canal+ Group has named Christophe Roy as director of European affairs under Frédéric Crépin, the…
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Arte launches Virtual Reality TV app
French cultural network Arte has launched a new virtual reality and immersive TV app. More…
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TF1 secures World Cup rights
French commercial broadcaster TF1 has secured the rights to broadcast the 28 top matches from…
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France Télévisions using OpenHeadend for catch-up
France Télévisions has chosen ingest, processing and stream delivery software specialist OpenHeadend to provide the…
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Canal+’s Saada takes over at Dailymotion
Vivendi has appointed Canal+ chief Maxime Saada to take over the presidency of video-sharing and…
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Altice plan for NextRadioTV moves ahead
Altice-backed media unit Groupe News Participations has kicked off the process of acquiring all of…
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Orange to acquire Cellcom Liberia
Orange has entered an agreement to acquire 100% control of mobile operator Cellcom Liberia via…
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Numericable-SFR takes on Canal+ with competition watchdog
Numericable-SFR has lodged a complaint against Canal+ with France’s competition regulator, the Autorité de la…
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Altice names B2C and strategy chiefs
Cable and telecom investor Altice has named Eric Klipfel as group head of business-to-consumer and…
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Details emerge of new France Télévisions new service
France Télévisions’ planned new digital news channel will employ 75 people and will comprise linear…
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Altice to launch SVoD service Zive internationally
Altice plans to launch its subscription video-on-demand service Zive in all markets in which it…
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Molotov signs partnership with Samsung in France
Molotov, the new French OTT service from former Canal+ boss Pierre Lescure, has signed a deal…
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More than half of new TV buyers plan to go 4K in Europe
Some 54% of Western European shoppers who plan to buy a new flatscreen TV in…
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Orange confirms talks to take over Bouygues Telecom
Orange has confirmed that it has renewed preliminary discussions with telecoms-to-construction conglomerate Bouygues Group to…
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ETSI begins work on next-generation TV device standardisation
Technical specification group ETSI’s new Industry Specification Group on intelligent Compound Content Management (CCM) has…
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Molotov signs smart TV deal with LG
Molotov, the new French OTT service from former Canal+ boss Pierre Lescure, has signed a…
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CSA confirms plans for public channels in HD after MPEG-4 switch
French media regulator the CSA has confirmed that public broadcaster France Télévisions’ France 3, France…
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Canal+ strikes exclusive deal with Disney for new services
Canal+ Group and Disney have struck a deal that will see Canalsat become the exclusive…
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Globecast appoints former Orange exec as new CEO
Globecast has appointed former Orange Group executive Philippe Bernard as its new chairman and chief…
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Vivendi chief defends Telecom Italia plan
Vivendi’s CEO has said the group has no plans to “exercise a relevant influence” on…
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Altice and Alain Weill take majority control of NextRadioTV
Cable and telecom investor Altice has taken a 50.42% stake in French media group NextRadioTV,…
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Telecom Italia shareholders advised against Vivendi plan
Investment advice and corporate governance specialist Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) has advised Telecom Italia investors…