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Stuart Thomson
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Roku dominating Apple in US streaming market
Roku has widened its gap over rival Apple TV in the US market and accounted…
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Orange to pre-empt Netflix with Orangecast launch
Orange is preparing to take on the imminent threat of Netflix’s arrival in France by…
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Telefónica takes Mediaset stake
Mediaset has agreed to sell an 11.11% stake in its Italian pay TV unit to…
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Mediaset set to offload Canal+ stake
Mediaset executive vice-president Piersilvio Berlusconi has given the strongest indication yet that his group will…
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Netflix driving digital revenues in Sweden
Digital video revenues is expected to exceed packaged video revenues in Sweden for the first…
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Leclerc launches French OTT service
Ahead of Netflix’s planned launch in France this autumn, French supermarket chain Leclerc is launching…
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Sky Deutschland and ARD making original drama
German pay TV operator Sky Deutschland is teaming up with public broadcaster ARD to collaborate…
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Mainstream channels ‘losing their grip’ in CEE
Mainstream national TV channels are losing their grip on viewers across central and eastern Europe…
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DTT remains top in France, CSA stats show
Digital-terrestrial TV remained the primary mode of reception of television for French households at the…
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Canal+ adds new YouTube comedy channels
French pay TV provider Canal+ has added two new comedy channels to its YouTube multi-channel…
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Netflix ‘planning French original series’
Netflix will commission an exclusive drama series in France next year following the launch of…
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Telefónica moves for Mediaset’s Canal+ stake
Telefónica has offered €295 million (US$400 million) to acquire Mediaset’s 22% stake in Spanish pay…
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Ex-MTG boss resurfaces at C More
TV4 Group-owned Swedish pay TV channel provider C More has named former Modern Times Group…
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Deal for pan-European Sky moves forward
UK pay TV operator BSkyB has hired Morgan Stanley and Barclays to advise on its…
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Dutch broadcasters take on Netflix with SVOD service
A new Dutch subscription video-on-demand service, NLziet, has launched, with a range of programmes from…
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MTG writes down Ukraine pay service
European broadcaster Modern Times Group has decided to write down the value of its Ukrainian…
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Telefónica seals €750m deal for Canal+ Spain
Prisa and Telefónica have definitively agreed the sale of Prisa’s 56% stake in pay TV…
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Erik Huggers exiting Verizon
Erik Huggers, the former chief of Intel’s OTT TV initiative, is to leave Verizon five…
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Turner Laing leaving Sky after 11 years
UK satcaster BSkyB’s managing director of content, Sophie Turner Laing, is to step down from…
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Sony and Disney sell FilmFlex VOD service
Video platform provider and content aggregator Vubiquity has acquired UK-based white label video-on-demand provider FilmFlex….
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Fox launches Nat Geo channels on Orange
Fox International Channels’ National Geographic Channel and Nat Geo Wild have launched on the Orange…
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ESPN mulling OTT service
US sports network ESPN is mulling a plan to provide access to US Major League…
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Swedish cabler Com Hem preps US$800m IPO
Swedish cable operator Com Hem has unveiled plans to raise about SEK5.5 billion (US$832.7 million)…
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Sky Deutschland boss makes local content pledge
Pay TV operator Sky Deutschland will invest in local content when the operator begins to…
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Turner to launch truTV in UK
Turner Broadcasting UK is launching a new general entertainment free-to-air channel, truTV – it’s first…
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BBC pushing ahead with new version of iPlayer
The BBC is going ahead to make the new version of iPlayer it has been…
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Revenue dip hits Lagardère Active
Lower TV production year-on-year pushed revenues for French conglomerate Lagardère’s media arm down for the…
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RCS & RDS denies Vodafone takeover rumours
Romanian cable operator RCS & RDS has vehemently denied a report posted by well-known local…
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Ad market upturn keeps RTL stable
Advertising growth in some markets helped RTL Group to offset a flat market in Germany…
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Telefonica’s €725m Spanish pay TV takeover offer accepted
Spanish media group Prisa has accepted Telefónica’s €725 bid for its 56% stake in pay…