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Free benefits from Révolution boost
French quad-play operator Iliad Telecom has added 93,000 new subscribers to its Free service in…
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SFR and Orange team up for fibre rollout
French ISPs France Telecom/Orange, and SFR have signed an agreement to cooperate on the deployment…
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France to annul bonus channels law
The French government is preparing a law that will formally withdraw the allocation of so-called…
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French VOD market expected to pass €200 million
France’s video-on-demand market should produce revenues of €200 million this year, according to the latest…
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TF1 lowers guidance as ad market suffers
France’s leading commercial broadcaster TF1 has lowered its revenue guidance for 2011 as a result…
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Paolini: LCI likely to remain pay TV service
French news and information channel LCI, whose owner TF1 has been seeking a free-to-air slot…
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Lagardère Active reports sales boost
French media group Lagardère increased sales at its TV channels, programme production and distribution and…
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Solid quarter for Eutelsat
Satellite operator Eutelsat reported another solid set of quarterly results, with revenues up 3.4% year-on-year…
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Numericable catches up with Turner
French cable operator Numericable has added four Turner channels to its catch-up platform. The channels…
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TF1 using Elemental for multiscreen delivery
Multiscreen content delivery specialist Elemental Technologies has announced that French broadcast group TF1 Group is…
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Strong Orange TV growth fails to offset revenue slide
France Telecom/Orange’s TV base, including both IPTV and satellite customers, grew by 26.5% year-on-year to…
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Numericable adds ESPN America HD
French cable operator Numericable has added ESPN America HD to its line-up. The service, which…
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Hadopi surveys legitimate VOD market
Some 6,392 films have been made available on video-on-demand platforms in France this year, of …
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Allociné looks to DTT and international expansion for growth
French movie website provider Allociné has emerged as one of the candidates to apply to…
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France 24 editorial director resigns
The editorial director of news channel France 24, Jean Lesieur, has resigned. According to the…
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Orange launches 3D magazine show
Orange and Troisième Œil Productions are joining forces to produce Mag3D, a regular magazine show…
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CSA begins HD DTT auction
French communications regulator CSA has announced an auction for six new HD channels on the…
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Canal Plus to launch SVOD offering
Canal Plus is to launch a new subscription video-on-demand service, Canalplay Infinity, on SFR’s Neufbox…
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CSA to launch appeal for DTT channels on Monday
French media regulator the CSA is to issue its appeal for candidates to launch six…
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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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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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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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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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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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MyTF1VOD offering US shows via Facebook
French broadcaster TF1’s video-on-demand service MyTF1VOD is making US series available via Facebook for the…
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L’Equipe TV looking to go free-to-air
Following TF1’s request for information channel LCI to be moved to free-to-air on France’s digital-terrestrial…
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Free-to-air LCI would send “bad signal” on future of pay TV
Allowing TF1-owned information channel LCI to go free-to-air would send “a very bad signal” about…
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Meheut says Canal Plus will contest TPS merger ruling
Vivendi president Bertrand Meheut has said Canal Plus will contest the French competition regulator’s decision…
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Canal Plus claims record viewing for Canalplus.fr
French pay TV operator Canal Plus’s Canalplus.fr portal recorded 45 million videos viewed in September,…