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Viasat World rollsout epic drama channel across UPC platforms in CEE

Viasat World has announced that its period drama PayTV channel Epic Drama is now available on UPC’s platforms in Poland, Romania and Hungary. Adding 1.5 million subscriptions across the CEE region, Epic Drama will join a pre-existing portfolio of Viasat World channels already available through UPC’s platforms in these territories. Epic Drama launched in December […]

Sky tipped to overtake Liberty Global in Europe

Sky’s subscriber base is expected to overtake Liberty Global’s in western Europe in 2017, according to new research by Digital TV Research. The Western Europe Pay TV Operator Forecasts report claims that Liberty Global’s subscriber count will fall in the coming years as it tries to convert its remaining analogue cable subscribers by 2020, with […]

ITV in talks to buy UTV

UK broadcaster ITV is set to acquire UTV, the Northern Ireland broadcaster that owns the Channel 3-ITV franchise in the territory. UTV Media, the parent of UTV, confirmed reports over the weekend that suggested a deal to sell its television assets would be announced on the London Stock Market within days. “The board of UTV […]

Liberty Global reorganises European businesses

Liberty Global is reorganising its European businesses, merging UPC Ireland with Virgin Media and UPC Netherlands with Ziggo to create a simpler debt structure. Reuters reported that chief financial officer Charlie Bracken told an investor call yesterday that the new structure was “the culmination of a long journey” that would create a “more investor friendly […]

AMC Networks completes $1bn Chellomedia purchase

AMC Networks has closed its €750 million (US$1 billion) acquisition of global channels operator and content company Chellomedia from Liberty Global. The deal is for “substantially all” of Liberty’s interests in Chello, excluding Dutch premium cable channels Film1 and Sport1. Chello Central Europe, Chello Latin America, Chello Multicanal, Chello Zone, ad sales unit Atmedia and […]

Crime & Investigation inspecting Romania launch

Crime & Investigation Network is launching in Romania. The crime channel is operated by A+E and BSkyB joint venture A+E Networks UK, which has cut a carriage deal with UPC Romania. The channel launches in the country today as part of the cable operator’s Maxim HD package. Bogdan Bucurei, product director, UPC Romania said: “We […]

Liberty Global launches Horizon TV in Ireland

Liberty Global has launched its next generation Horizon TV set-top service in Ireland, enabled by a half billion Euro investment in fibre-powered broadband by its European division UPC. Liberty’s Irish operator UPC Ireland launched the set-top box yesterday, which allows users to record up to four programmes simultaneously while watching a fifth, and to access […]

Poland’s TVP launches entertainment network

Polish broadcaster TVP today launches a new entertainment channel called TVP Rozrywka. The channel will air comedy series, talk shows, music programmes and movies and will be available at launch via the cable operators Vectra, Toya and Petrus. TVP said it is also in talks with other cable operators, including UPC and nc +, and […]