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Regulation
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Euro TV VOD still only 1% of revenues, EC to launch connected TV consultation
A new study looking at the implementation of the European Commission’s Audiovisual Media Services directive…
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Former News Corp employee to complain about football rights deal
Kelvin MacKenzie, former editor of News Corp-owned newspaper The Sun and a former managing director…
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Negative parliamentary report won’t hit News Corp’s credit rating
Moody’s says that it will not change its rating on News Corp, in the wake…
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Canal Plus condemns reported CSA proposals as threat to European content creation
Canal Plus has reacted angrily to a report in Le Point magazine that revealed regulator…
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UK court orders ISPs to block Pirate Bay
The UK high court has ordered the UK’s leading ISPs to block access to the…
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BBC Worldwide wins appeal against ATVOD ruling
BBC Worldwide has won an appeal against a ruling by video-on-demand regulator ATVOD that it…
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Portugal moves forward with digital switchover
Portugal yesterday shut down analogue TV services in regions covering about 1.9 million people or…
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Ofcom warns Competition Commission not to overstate Netflix impact on Sky
UK media regulator Ofcom has urged the Competition Commission not to overestimate the impact of…
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Italy scraps DTT allocation and starts again
Italian authorities have scrapped the current plans to distribute digital terrestrial television frequencies and are…
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Canal Plus pulls TPS Star except on pay DTT
French pay TV operator Canal Plus has ceased broadcasting its TPS Star service on all…
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Deutsche Telekom hits out at NetCologne decision
Deutsche Telekom has criticised a decision by the Bundesnetzagentur, the Federal Network Agency for Electricity,…
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Kenya to ban importation of analogue TVs
Kenya is to ban the importation of analogue TV sets by June this year in…
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South Africa approves framework for DTT subsidies
The South African government has approved the general framework of a scheme to subsidies the…
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French politicians at odds over timing of digital-terrestrial decision
A political row has broken out in France over the timing of the award by…
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UK authorities include Netflix, LoveFilm in pay TV probe
The UK Competition Commission has widened the scope of its investigation in to the pay…
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UK regulator probes BSkyB ownership
Ofcom is widening an investigation into the ownership of UK pay TV operator BSkyB. The…
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Ofcom upholds ATVOD ruling on Viva TV Music
UK regulator Ofcom has upheld a decision by video-on-demand watchdog ATVOD that MTV’s online service…
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Cable Europe and ZVEI sound alarm on 700MHz proposal
Cable association Cable Europe and German electronics manufacturers’ trade body ZVEI have called on the…
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Sky Italia claims victory in World Cup case
Pay TV provider Sky Italia has claimed victory in a court case with rival Mediaset…
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CSA to launch commission on connected TV in France
French media regulator the CSA is to create a commission to study the development of…
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House of Lords to investigate superfast broadband
The UK upper house of parliament, the House of Lords, has launched an inquiry into…
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Study reveals parental attitudes to kids media
New research shows that 40% of UK parents have allowed their children to watch movies…
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Arab and African countries press for second digital dividend at WRC
A potential area of disagreement is emerging at the World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC) in Geneva…
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French watchdog unhappy with Canal Plus TPS Star move
France’s competition authority has reportedly expressed strong reservations about pay TV operator Canal Plus’s recent…
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Ofcom fines Believe TV
UK communications regulator Ofcom has fined British thematic faith healing channel Believe TV £25,000 (€30,000)…
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ICASA rejects TopTV adult channels
South African regulator The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA) has refused to grant…
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Portugal moves forward with DSO
Portugal has now completed digital switchover in 39 mainland districts covering 750,000 people, according to…
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French competition chief strikes out at criticism on Canal Plus case
French competition regulator chief Bruno Lasserre has attacked former competition chief Guillaume Cerutti’s criticisms of…
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Press TV loses UK licence
Press TV, the Iranian state broadcaster’s English-language channel, has had its licence revoked by UK…
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Ofcom: content providers responsible for Virgin Media VOD
UK media regulator Ofcom has upheld a ruling by video-on-demand regulatory body ATVOD that content…