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Spain
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Vodafone Spain suing former Ono managers
Vodafone España is suing the former management of its cable operator arm Ono over alleged…
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Bidders line up for new Spanish DTT services
Potential bidders have expressed internet following the Spanish government’s opening of the auction process to…
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CNMC approves Canal+ acquisition
Spanish competition regulator the CNMC has, as expected, approved the acquisition of Canal+ by Telefónica…
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Prisa reports Spanish, digital gains
Spanish media group Prisa reported strong advertising revenues in in its home market and said…
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Canal+ OTT service sees record use for El Clasico
Spanish pay TV provider Canal+’s Yomvi OTT TV service passed a live streaming record on…
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Telecom Italia set to strike content deal with Mediaset
Following last week’s deal with Sky Italia to market the latter’s pay TV services over…
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Telefónica reportedly ready to make concessions to secure Canal+
Telefónica is likely to secure the approval of the Spanish competition regulator, the CNMC, for…
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Vodafone tipped to adopt TiVo for Spanish TV service
Vodafone España is planning to adopt the TiVo platform used by cable unit Ono for…
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Non Stop People to launch Spanish channel
French celebrity news channel Non Stop People is to launch a Spanish version in June….
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Ukraine Today to launch in Spain
Ukrainian news channel Ukraine Today has launched in Spain on the Ono cable network owned…
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Vodafone Spain to launch converged offering next month
Vodafone España will begin offering quad-play services in Spain from April 20 in direct competition…
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CNMC report slams Mediaset España
Mediaset España has repeatedly broken promises it made to secure regulatory approval for the merger…
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Mediaset lifted by Spanish recovery
Mediaset’s Spanish unit lifted the media giant’s financials for 2014 against the background of continued…
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Abertis Telecom rebrands terrestrial telecom unit ahead of flotation
Spanish transmission services provider Abertis Telecom is to rename its terrestrial telecommunications business Cellnex Telecom…
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Mirada names new CFO
Spain-based TV software provider Mirada has named Gonzalo Babio as chief financial officer. Babio replaces…
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Vodafone loses bid to prevent Telefónica from selling converged packages
Vodafone España has lost its two-year legal bid to prevent rival Telefónica from selling converged…
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Telefónica launching Movistar TV on Samsung smart TV
Spanish telecom operator Telefónica has begun commercializing a version of its Movistar TV service on…
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Canal+ España moves deeper into the red
Canal+ España has posted a net loss of €207 million, triple the losses of €71.3…
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Netflix tipped for Italian, Spanish launches this year
Netflix is set to launch in Italy later this year, according to DTVE sister title…
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Arabsat teams up with Santander Teleport for Africa C-band
Middle East satellite operator Arabsat has tamed up with Santander Teleport to extend and improve…
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TiVo subscriptions up by 30%
TiVo now claims 5.5 million total subscriptions, up 30% year-on-year thanks in part to a…
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Telefónica to debut Movistar TV Go with voice search on Windows Phone
Spanish telecom operator Telefónica is to make its Movistar TV Go TV Everywhere service available…
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Vodafone to upgrade Ono’s TiVo platform
Vodafone Spain is set to expand ONO’s TV service and upgrade its TiVo platform, following…
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Telefónica passes five million TV subscriber milestone
Telefónica saw its global TV subscriber base grow by almost half last year to over…
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Mediaset España quits audience measurement system
Mediaset España is to leave local audience measurement body the AIMC over disagreements about the…
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Hispasat stays even despite Amazonas anomaly, European downturn
Spanish satellite operator Hispasat’s full year financials for 2014 stayed on an even keel despite…
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Thema launches Le Bouquet Espagnol on Free
Channel distributor Thema last week struck an agreement with French service provider Free to carry…
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Orange TV subscriber numbers up in Q4
Orange reported a total of 7.190 million IPTV and satellite customers in the fourth quarter…
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Sky defends Premier League spend, European backlash gathers pace
Sky’s group director, corporate affairs, Graham McWilliam, has taken to Twitter to defend Sky’s record…
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Telefónica SVoD service buys CBS, Showtime dramas
The new subscription on-demand service of Spanish telco Telefónica has close a multi-year rights agreement…