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Fox TV Stations names COO

Sharri Berg has been named as chief operating officer of news and operations at Fox…

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Sky eyeing Spanish Now TV launch

Sky is planning to reportedly expand its presence in more European markets, kicking off with…

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Hugh Hefner series set for Amazon

Amazon has given the green light to a new original series about the life of…

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Bubbles launches Bobbles streaming service

Hamburg-based Bubbles Media has launched Bobbles.tv, a new satellite and OTT-delivered pay TV service with…

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TV4 hires film chief for pay TV operations

Swedish free and pay TV broadcaster TV4 Group has named Suzanne Glansborg to the new…

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Mediaset holding co. sell €740m AC Milan

Mediaset holding company Fininvest has signed a preliminary contract with a group of Chinese investors…

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TV performs strongly for Altice

Altice Group second quarter financials were pulled down by continued subscriber, revenue and earnings losses…

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Liberty plans content investments

Liberty Global plans to make “smart, opportunistic investments” in content following its recent announcement that…

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Horizon growth helps boost Liberty Global subs

Liberty Global’s advanced TV base passed the seven million mark in the second quarter, with…

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Digital delivers growth at ProSiebenSat.1

Digital revenues helped boost ProSiebenSat.1’s second-quarter performance, with the German broadcaster reporting overall revenues of…

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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…

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YouTube Kids to play in US, Australasia

YouTube has include its YouTube Kids app in its YouTube Red offering in the US,…

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Canal+ name to go as Telefónica rebrands nets

Telefónica is rebranding its Spanish Canal+ channels in a move that will see the Canal+…

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Icflix launches streaming in Iraq

Middle East subscription video-on-demand service Icflix is launching in Iraq through a partnership with the…

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Mediaset and Vivendi in war of words

The war of words between Mediaset and Vivendi over the latter’s second thoughts about buying…

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Mediaset threatens Vivendi with legal action

Mediaset has threatened to take legal action against Vivendi if the French media company fails…

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Mediaset rejects revised Vivendi deal

Mediaset yesterday poured cold water on Vivendi’s overtures in search of a revised agreement to…

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Vivendi pulls out of Mediaset deal

Vivendi has pulled out of its planned acquisition of an 89% stake in Mediaset Premium…

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Programming costs weigh on TF1

French commercial broadcaster M6 overtook larger rival TF1 at the end of last week in…

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Channel 5 launches linear My5

Channel 5 is launching My5, a free-to-air TV channel set to go live in early August…

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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…

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Lagardère creates female-focused network

French media group Lagardère is to launch a new female-focused channel, Elle Girl. The entertainment…

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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…

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Euronews using Google Fund for VR push

Pan-European news channel Euronews is to launch a virtual reality news reporting project with funding…

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Sky Germany makes content exec hires

Sky in Germany has made two key appointments to boost its entertainment offering. The pay…

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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…

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Richard Alden granted bail in murder case

Former Wananchi CEO Richard Alden has been granted bail for KES2 million (US$19,700) by a…

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Ziggo to offer Italian channels via Horizon

Liberty Global-owned Dutch cable operator Ziggo is to add an Italian package to its Horizon…

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Sky Germany, Italy will ‘always trail UK’

Despite Sky’s bullish assumptions about the potential for pay TV growth in Germany and Italy,…

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Netflix dominates European SVOD

Subscription video-on-demand grew by 56% in Europe between 2014-15 and is expected to reach 50…