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Stuart Thomson
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Mexican deal for CBeebies
BBC Worldwide, the UK public broadcaster’s commercial arm, has secured a deal for its CBeebies…
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MTG to launch first Nordic UHD net
Modern Times Group is to launch the first Ultra HD channel in the Nordic market….
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BBC licence fee remains, alongside subs trials
The UK government has committed to retaining the current licence fee model of financing the…
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Three quarters of TV homes are digital
Three quarters of the world’s TV homes are now digital, up from 40% of homes…
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Canal+ shedding French subs
Canal+ France lost 183,000 subscriptions in the first quarter, taking its domestic total to 8.3…
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Food Network serves up Ziggo deal
Scripps Networks’ Food Network and Fine Living channels are to be launched on Dutch cable…
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BT’s TV growth labelled ‘disappointing’
BT’s TV base grew by 66,000 in the first three months of the year, and…
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Telefónica reports TV numbers
Telefónica’s total TV base increased to 8.4 million at the end of the first quarter,…
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SFR plots extensive raft of TV services
Altice-owned SFR has confirmed plans to launch new TV services following the news that owner…
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Disney’s Pyne: TV remains indispensable
Despite growth in alternative media, “TV remains the indispensable connective tissue,” that ties people together,…
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Sony promotes Kalouria to president post
Sony Pictures Television has promoted Sheraton Kalouria to president and chief marketing officer. He will…
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Altice to roll media assets into SFR
Altice is to consolidate all of its French media assets into telecom unit SFR, according…
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YouTube launches 360-degree live-streaming
YouTube introduced 360-degree live-streamed video as part of the immersive video experience at the NAB…
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OTT churn edges up in US
About 20% of US broadband homes had cancelled at least one OTT service in the…
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E W Scripps buys satire platform Cracked for $39m
E W Scripps Company, the US publishing and over-the-air broadcasting company from which international pay…
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IPTV overtakes satellite in western Europe
The number of IPTV homes in western Europe overtook pay TV satellite households last year,…
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Netflix ‘not worried’ by Vivendi, Mediaset
Netflix boss Reed Hastings has said he is not worried by the prospect of direct…
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Cindy Rose leaving Vodafone
Vodafone UK’s consumer director Cindy Rose is leaving the group after three years amid a…
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Restructure brings together TV4 and C More
Swedish TV company TV4 Group and parent company Bonnier have the group’s broadcasting activities in…
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Game of Thrones leads Walking Dead on Twitter
Game of Thrones (top) generated the most Tweets globally among 16 of the World’s most…
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Telecom Italia chief exit talks confirmed
Telecom Italia has confirmed that it is in talks with CEO Marco Patuano over the…
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Mediaset CEO sentenced to prison
An Italian court has sentenced Mediaset CEO Pier Silvio Berlusconi (pictured) and chairman Fedele Confalonieri…
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More international rollouts for Vice
Vice Media has teamed up with Greece’s Antenna Group to expand further in central and…
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Orange and Canal+ make 4K move
Orange has unveiled a new UHD version of its Livebox platform with a promise to…
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Analysts predict CEE consolidation
A combination of high pay TV penetration and industry fragmentation mean that the central and…
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Mediaset tipped to sell pay TV to Vivendi
Italy’s Mediaset is close to striking a deal to sell its pay TV operation to…
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CTC takes female-skewed net abroad
Russian broadcaster CTC Media has launched an international version of its female-focused thematic channel Domashny…
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OSN bags exclusive MGM movies
UAE-based pay TV provider OSN has renewed an exclusive supply deal for movies with MGM….
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Clementi report: watchdog ‘should regulate BBC’
The current system of governance of the BBC is “flawed” and the public broadcaster should…
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Telefónica tops 8m TV subs
Telefónica had 8.3 million TV customers at the end of the year, up 12% year-on-year,…