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Lionsgate poaches Disney veteran Goetz
Lionsgate has appointed Jared Goetz, a 22-year veteran of The Walt Disney Company, to the…
Lionsgate & Liberty Global partner on thriller for Starz
Lionsgate and Liberty Global have partnered up to produce new spy thriller The Rook for…
Ex-Gaumont chief to lead Liberty-backed producer
Former Gaumont Television CEO Katie O’Connell Marsh is to lead to lead a production and…
Virgin moves into original kids commissioning
Children’s Media Conference: UK pay TV platform Virgin Media is planning to commission kids television…
Film1 to replace Sundance channel with on-demand offering
Dutch channel group Film1 has announced plans to replace its Film1 Sundance channel with an…
Adam Crozier leaving ITV
ITV boss Adam Crozier is leaving after seven years, with Sir Peter Bazalgette, the UK…
Virgin Media adds France 2, TVN & Russian nets
UK pay TV operator Virgin Media has bolstered its offer by securing distribution of channels…
IHS: content arms race is ‘squeezing margins’
The content ‘arms race’ is squeezing margins for everyone across the cable industry and operators…
Liberty Global ‘evaluating’ Amazon partnership
Liberty Global is “evaluating” whether to offer Amazon’s video service, after striking a global deal…
Asian Netflix rival raises $90m
Asian SVOD service iflix has raised US$90 million to use on international expansion. Cable giant…
Liberty boosts subs as Netflix roll out continues
All3Media co-owner Liberty Global added 313,000 next-generation TV customers in Q4 and said it plans…
Vodafone pushes back UK TV service
Vodafone has put its plans to launch a TV service in the UK on hold, according…
All3Media buys into drama producer
All3Media is funding a London-based start-up drama prodco. Two Halves Pictures was co-founded in April…
Netflix launches on Liberty Global in Netherlands
Netflix has launched on Liberty Global’s Horizon advanced TV platform in the Netherlands – the…
Russia to lead regional SVOD boom
The number of SVOD homes in the main Eastern Europe countries will rocket to 18.2…
Viacom launching new Spike channels
Viacom will launch Spike channels in the Netherlands and Hungary next month. The male-skewing cable…
Liberty CEO: content is ‘Kong’
Liberty Global CEO Mike Fries has said that the company will be “selective” about content…
Maxdome SVOD nears 900k subs
ProSiebenSat.1’s subscription video-on-demand service Maxdome grew its subscriber base by 48% in the year to…
Liberty Global slides into the red
Liberty Global fell into the red in the third quarter. The company recorded a loss…
Discovery building the ‘Netflix of sports’
With Olympics and other rights in hand, Eurosport can become the ‘Netflix of sports’, according…
HBO shutting channels in the Netherlands
HBO is set to close its channels in the Netherlands at the end of the…
Sky ‘rapidly closing the gap’ on Liberty Global
Sky is “rapidly closing the gap” on its larger rival Liberty Global in Western Europe,…
Virgin orders comedy shorts, buys Magic City
UK pay TV provider Virgin Media is pushing further into original programming, commissioning Avalon Television…
eOne turns down £1bn ITV offer
Entertainment One has rejected UK broadcaster ITV’s £1 billion (US$1.3 billion) takeover bid. The offer…
Liberty plans content investments
Liberty Global plans to make “smart, opportunistic investments” in content following its recent announcement that…
Lionsgate can ‘dramatically scale’ drama with Starz
Lionsgate chairman and CEO Jon Feltheimer has said the US$4.4 billion acquisition of premium cable…
Horizon growth helps boost Liberty Global subs
Liberty Global’s advanced TV base passed the seven million mark in the second quarter, with…
All3 agrees major drama output deal with Liberty
All3Media will produce four original drama series for cable platforms owned by its co-parent, Liberty…
Ex-BT channels boss joins Virgin content push
UK pay TV provider Virgin Media has hired a former content chief at BT TV…
TV3 poaches RTÉ2 boss for programming role
Irish broadcaster TV3 Group has replaced Lynda McQuaid with Bill Malone, the controller of rival…