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Management rejig at Sweden’s TV4
Swedish broadcaster TV4 has reorganised its management team as part of its drive to refocus…
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New African pay TV service rolls out
AzamTV, a new pay TV service for East Africa, is to launch offering 55 African…
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Liberty reports results and Virgin’s TiVo numbers
Liberty Global has posted solid subscriber growth of 314,000 customers in its first quarterly earnings…
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KPN launches new SVOD service
Dutch telco KPN has launched a subscription video-on-demand service, Videoland Unlimited, for €10 (US$13.50) a…
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Lagardère hires DEMD production boss
Lagardère Entertainment has named Sébastian Pavard, an assistant producer with Ango Productions, as director-general of…
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Sky Movies and BT agree deal
Sky Movies is to be made available to BT TV subscribers as a result of…
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Connected video devices will hit eight billion by 2017
The number of internet-connected video devices globally will go passed eight billion by 2017, exceeding…
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Vivendi teams with EchoStar for Brazilian pay TV plan
Vivendi’s Brazilian telecom subsidiary GVT has formed a partnership with EchoStar Technologies to create a…
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Trust says BBC Children’s must reach out to older kids
The BBC’s kids channels CBBC and Cbeebies are performing well, but the public broadcaster needs…
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European pay TV bosses attack OTT
OTT does not offer a realistic rational alternative to established pay TV offerings and is…
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Former Lovefilm boss joins Ofcom content board
UK regulator Ofcom has appointed Lesley McKenzie, the former group digital officer at subscription video-on-demand…
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Discovery acquires rugby rights
Discovery Networks has acquired the exclusive broadcast rights to RBS Six Nations Rugby in Italy….
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Easel TV VOD service in the picture for All3Media
All3Media is set to get its own version of multi-screen software specialist Easel TV’s over-the-top…
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RTL and Deutsche Telekom settle channels dispute
RTL Group and Deutsche Telekom have settled a dispute over conditions for carriage of the…
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Rai loses legal battle with Sky Italia
Italian public broadcaster RAI has lost its appeal against a court ruling that it should…
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ProSieben Maxx launches in Germany
ProSiebenSat.1’s new channel ProSieben Maxx has launched in Germany today. The channel, aimed at males…
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Mediaset angrily denies allegations of wrongdoing
Mediaset has issued a strongly worded statement stating that it had always acted fully within…
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BSkyB completes Ultra HD test
UK pay TV operator BSkyB has conducted a test broadcast in Ultra HD at its…
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Vodafone ‘primed to acquire Liberty Global’
Liberty Global shares rose sharply yesterday on speculation that Vodafone could use cash freed up…
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OSN acquires South Asian channel provider
Middle East pay TV operator OSN has acquired South Asian channel provider Pehla Media &…
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Analyst: Studios could dismantle UK pay TV movie market with OTT
Hollywood studios could benefit from going over-the-top direct to consumers in the UK, cutting out…
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BT Sport gets UK cable deal
BT and Virgin Media have agreed a deal for the carriage of the BT Sport…
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German court questions Liberty Global’s Kabel BW deal
A German court has overturned antitrust regulator Bundeskartellamt’s 2011 approval of Liberty Global’s acquisition of…
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Fox says Sky Italia programming savings will put it back on course
21st Century Fox should be on track to achieve its goals for troubled Italian direct-to-home…
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Orange to invest extra €30m into Dailymotion
Orange’s CEO has confirmed the company will invest a further €30 million (US$39.7 million) in…
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Al Jazeera poaches ABC exec for top US role
Al Jazeera America, the Qatar-owned news broadcaster’s forthcoming US channel, has hired former ABC News…
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Dave launches catch-up on YouView
UKTV-owned entertainment channel Dave has launched a seven-day catch-up TV service on the YouView platform….
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European Court clarifies rules on Italian TV ad rates
In an case originally brought by Sky Italia, the European Court of Justice has said…
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SBS Discovery nets exclusive soccer deal
SBS Discovery Media, the unit created by Discovery following its acquisition of SBS Broadcasting, has…
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SinemaTV channels set for Turkish pay service
Turkish pay TV service provider Turkcell TV has begun offering a package of channels from…