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Middle East
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Icflix launches on Xbox One
Middle East and North African over-the-top video service Icflix is now available on Xbox One…
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SVOD market in MEA to remain ‘very immature’
The Middle East and African SVOD sector will “still be very immature by 2021”, with…
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Discovery names commercial VP for CEEMEA
Discovery has appointed James Gibbons to a new role overseeing its commercial and creative efforts…
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Discovery targets Iranian market with Home & Health Farsi
Discovery has teamed up with Dubai-based media management and playout specialist BHS Media to launch…
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Welling gets new role at Discovery
Discovery’s CEE, Middle East and Africa channels boss Paul Welling has taken on a new…
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Turner launches HD, dual language kids network feeds in MENA
Turner is launching high definition and dual language options for its Cartoon Network and Boomerang…
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Vice confirms 51 international channel launches
Vice Media’s programming has found distribution in 44 new territories, making a major step forwards…
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OSN appoints former pay TV and FA executive as CEO
Middle East pay TV operator OSN has appointed the former director general of Spain’s Ono and…
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Disney Jr available on OSN in Arabic
The Disney Junior channel is now available on the OSN pay TV platform in the…
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IHS: Number of MENA pay TV homes grew 10% last year
The number of pay TV homes in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region…
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Middle East, Africa SVOD will boom
SVOD will become a billion dollar business in the Middle East and Africa in the…
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Bloomberg expands in the Middle East
Bloomberg has launched a suite of new, regionally-focused editorial platforms in the Middle East. The…
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OSN prepares the ground for 4K UHD with Eutelsat deal
Middle East pay TV provider OSN is taking additional capacity on Eutelsat 8 West B…
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Erstream taps NexGuard for OTT watermarking
Middle East and North Africa-focused online video platform provider Erstream has chosen NexGuard to supply…
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Exclusive content ‘key for MENA pay TV’
Owning exclusive content is becoming the critical factor in driving pay TV subscriptions in the…
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Exclusive content drives MENA pay TV growth
Pay TV operators in the Middle East and North Africa region are looking to exclusive…
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Etisalat and Huawei to launch UHD TV service
UAE-based telco Etisalat has partnered with Huawei to launch what they claim will be the…
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OSN strikes Warner Bros output deal
OSN has struck a new output deal with Warner Bros. The deal gives the Middle…
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PCCW OTT service goes live, preps launches
Viu, a new OTT service from Asian telco PCCW, has launched in Hong Kong with…
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Vubiquity and TV2U team up for emerging market VoD
On-demand aggregator Vubiquity and TV2U Worldwide have teamed up to work together to roll-out transactional…
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Icflix strikes set-top box partnership with Humax
Middle East and North African streaming service, Icflix, has partnered with Humax to integrate the…
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Orange appoints African and Middle East CEOs
Orange has appointed four new CEOs for of its local subsidiaries in Africa and the…
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East Europe, MENA OTT revenue ‘to reach $2.6bn’
Over-the-top television and video revenues in eastern Europe, the Middle East and Africa will reach…
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Icflix now available via mobile operator Zain
Middle Eastern video-on-demand service Icflix is now available to customers of Kuwait-based mobile operator Zain. Zain…
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IPTV now available in nine MENA countries
Fourteen service providers across nine countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) now…
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Discovery launches Middle East free-to-air channel
Discovery is launching Quest Arabiya, a new free-to-air male-skewed channel in the Middle East. The…
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Endemol Shine strikes programming deal with Vubiquity
Endemol Shine International has licensed a package of programming to Vubiquity, the technology company behind…
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Pay TV booms in the Middle East
Pay TV revenues and subscriber numbers rose sharply across the Middle East and North Africa…
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Nilesat names contractors for advanced satellite platform
Middle East satellite operator Nilesat has announced technology partners for a next-generation satellite platform –…
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MENA pay TV numbers to top 21 million by 2020
The number of pay TV homes in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) will…