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Italian league votes to cancel Mediapro Serie A award
Italy’s football league has agreed to annul its award of Serie A rights to Spanish…
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Comcast in ‘advanced stages’ of preparing all-cash offer for Fox
Comcast has confirmed that it is considering making an all-cash offer for the Fox assets…
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Sky Deutschland adds linear TV services to Sky Go
Sky Deutschland has expanded the range of services available via its Sky Go app to…
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Eurosport launching 4K UHD TV channel for Roland Garros
Eurosport is to launch a dedicated 4K UHD TV channel this Sunday, kicking off with…
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Boost for Comcast’s Sky bid as Hancock ‘not minded’ to intervene
Comcast has received a boost in its bid for Sky as UK secretary of state…
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Sky to build new innovation centre in London
UK-based pay TV operator Sky is to build a new dedicated innovation centre on its…
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Sky confident about royal wedding second-screen technology
Sky is confident that its second-screen facial recognition enhancement to its coverage of tomorrow’s royal…
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TV Connect: TV platforms better placed than most to survive GDPR
Interactive television platforms in Europe are well-placed to survive the imposition of the General Data…
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Comcast ‘preparing’ potential new bid for Fox
Comcast is reportedly preparing a new bid for 21st Century Fox. Separately, the US cable…
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AWS Elemental highlights benefits of royal wedding recognition tech
The image recognition technology that Sky News will use to enhance its coverage of the…
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Sky News offers machine-learning enhanced Royal Wedding with AWS
Sky News has teamed up with AWS Elemental to use new cloud-based machine learning technology…
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Eleven usurps Sky to take La Liga rights for UK and Ireland
Sports broadcaster Eleven Sports has secured live and exclusive rights to Spanish La Liga football…
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Sky Sports launching new dedicated horse-racing channel
Sky Sports is launching a channel dedicated to horse racing, the latest in a series…
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Comcast makes £22bn cash bid for Sky
Comcast has made a firm cash offer for Sky that values the pay TV operator…
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Sky overtakes P&G as UK’s biggest traditional advertising spender
Pay TV operator Sky has overtaken Procter & Gamble as the biggest spender on traditional…
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Sky sells 20% stake in Sky Betting & Gaming
Sky has agreed to sell its 20% stake in the online betting and gaming business,…
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Sky reports 10% earnings increase despite ‘challenging environment’
Sky reported a 10% increase in earnings for the nine months to March 31, despite…
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AMC Networks invests in US$75m FuboTV funding round
US sports and TV streaming service FuboTV has secured US$75 million (€60 million) in new…
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Sky Deutschland to launch Sky Q in May
Sky Deutschland is to launch the advanced Sky Q service in May, offering the full…
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BT is most complained-about UK pay TV provider
BT was the UK’s most complained about pay TV provider in regulator Ofcom’s latest quarterly…
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Mediapro Serie A deal hits hurdle
Mediapro’s successful bid for Italian Serie A football rights has hit a significant hurdle after…
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Rice: Disney/Fox acquisition to close by summer 2019
Peter Rice, president of 21st Century Fox, has told staff that the merger between Fox and…
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UK regulator: Disney must offer to buy all of Sky following 21CF deal
Disney will be required to make a mandatory offer for all of Sky after completing its…
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Sky Deutschland to air 25 World Cup matches in UHD TV
Sky Deutschland is to broadcast the top match of each match- day from the forthcoming…
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21st Century Fox proposes Sky News sale to Disney
Twenty-First Century Fox has proposed selling Sky News to Disney on completion of its buyout…
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Mediaset combines pay TV activity with Sky in wide-ranging deal
Mediaset has struck a wide-ranging pay TV deal with Sky that puts a likely end…
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Sky Italia to launch fibre offering
Sky Italia has struck a long-term deal to launch a fibre-only broadband service from next…
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ComReg: 42% of Irish homes have Netflix
More than two in five Irish households now use Netflix, according to research by Ireland’s…
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Italian watchdog green-lights Mediapro Serie A deal
The Italian competition watchdog, the AGCM, has approved the award of Serie A rights to…
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Macquarie outlines scenarios for Sky, Comcast, Disney and Fox
Analysts at infrastructure investment group Macquarie have outlined four scenarios for Sky following Comcast’s announcement…