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Sharri Berg has been named as chief operating officer of news and operations at Fox…
Sky eyeing Spanish Now TV launch
Sky is planning to reportedly expand its presence in more European markets, kicking off with…
Hugh Hefner series set for Amazon
Amazon has given the green light to a new original series about the life of…
Bubbles launches Bobbles streaming service
Hamburg-based Bubbles Media has launched Bobbles.tv, a new satellite and OTT-delivered pay TV service with…
TV4 hires film chief for pay TV operations
Swedish free and pay TV broadcaster TV4 Group has named Suzanne Glansborg to the new…
Mediaset holding co. sell €740m AC Milan
Mediaset holding company Fininvest has signed a preliminary contract with a group of Chinese investors…
TV performs strongly for Altice
Altice Group second quarter financials were pulled down by continued subscriber, revenue and earnings losses…
Liberty plans content investments
Liberty Global plans to make “smart, opportunistic investments” in content following its recent announcement that…
Horizon growth helps boost Liberty Global subs
Liberty Global’s advanced TV base passed the seven million mark in the second quarter, with…
Digital delivers growth at ProSiebenSat.1
Digital revenues helped boost ProSiebenSat.1’s second-quarter performance, with the German broadcaster reporting overall revenues of…
Netflix is most popular UK on-demand service
Netflix is by far the most popular paid-for video-on-demand service in the UK, and is…
YouTube Kids to play in US, Australasia
YouTube has include its YouTube Kids app in its YouTube Red offering in the US,…
Canal+ name to go as Telefónica rebrands nets
Telefónica is rebranding its Spanish Canal+ channels in a move that will see the Canal+…
Icflix launches streaming in Iraq
Middle East subscription video-on-demand service Icflix is launching in Iraq through a partnership with the…
Mediaset and Vivendi in war of words
The war of words between Mediaset and Vivendi over the latter’s second thoughts about buying…
Mediaset threatens Vivendi with legal action
Mediaset has threatened to take legal action against Vivendi if the French media company fails…
Mediaset rejects revised Vivendi deal
Mediaset yesterday poured cold water on Vivendi’s overtures in search of a revised agreement to…
Vivendi pulls out of Mediaset deal
Vivendi has pulled out of its planned acquisition of an 89% stake in Mediaset Premium…
Programming costs weigh on TF1
French commercial broadcaster M6 overtook larger rival TF1 at the end of last week in…
Channel 5 launches linear My5
Channel 5 is launching My5, a free-to-air TV channel set to go live in early August…
Vivendi to close SVOD net Watchever
Vivendi is to shut down German OTT subscription video-on-demand service Watchever in December. Watchever’s 17-strong…
Lagardère creates female-focused network
French media group Lagardère is to launch a new female-focused channel, Elle Girl. The entertainment…
Germany tipped for pay TV growth
Pay TV and paid video-on-demand revenues in Europe’s German-speaking countries is forecast to pass the…
Euronews using Google Fund for VR push
Pan-European news channel Euronews is to launch a virtual reality news reporting project with funding…
Sky Germany makes content exec hires
Sky in Germany has made two key appointments to boost its entertainment offering. The pay…
German Netflix rival makes originals move
Germany’s ProSiebenSat.1-owned subscription video-on-demand service Maxdome has commissioned its first original series. The broadcaster-owned service…
Richard Alden granted bail in murder case
Former Wananchi CEO Richard Alden has been granted bail for KES2 million (US$19,700) by a…
Ziggo to offer Italian channels via Horizon
Liberty Global-owned Dutch cable operator Ziggo is to add an Italian package to its Horizon…
Sky Germany, Italy will ‘always trail UK’
Despite Sky’s bullish assumptions about the potential for pay TV growth in Germany and Italy,…
Netflix dominates European SVOD
Subscription video-on-demand grew by 56% in Europe between 2014-15 and is expected to reach 50…