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The managing directors of Media Broadcast Satellite, Christian Fleischhauer and Sven Sünberg, as well as the technical director Qi Zhang-Holste, have agreed to take over the German satellite services provider from its previous parent company, a French-American private equity fund. … [Read More...]
In France, IPTV confirmed its position as the first means of reception (all sets combined), with 56.7% of households equipped with at least one television set, just ahead of DTT reception (53.7%). … [Read More...]
Russia’s Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) has criticised draft plans for the development of 5G in the country. … [Read More...]
Sky Italy will be prevented from distributing exclusive content online for a period of three years. … [Read More...]
Telia is to remove 240 jobs from its Norwegian business as part of an organisational restructure. … [Read More...]
The former chief executive of Channel 5 is to join the board of cloud video platform Blackbird as a non-executive director. … [Read More...]
Red Bee Media has been contracted to deliver Managed OTT services for live tv & video-on-demand platform NLZiet in the Netherlands, after successfully completing a proof of concept with live streams of the UEFA Champions League in May 2019. … [Read More...]
Digital kids’ network and studio WildBrain has appointed Elia Bouthors as Strategy and Innovation Director, effective immediately. … [Read More...]
Nigeria’s free-to-air local channel bouquet, Premium Free, has enabled local television broadcast audiences access to 13 new premium channels which are custom-made for African viewers. … [Read More...]
EuroVoD, the network of European independent VOD platforms, welcomed 11 new members in 2018, as well as 6 new members since the beginning of 2019. … [Read More...]
Reflecting the rising importance of the telcos, IPTV is gaining subscribers in Western Europe at the expense of the other pay-TV platforms. … [Read More...]
The president of the Polish Office of Electronic Communications (UKE) has issued decisions specifying the terms of access to the infrastructure of the country’s six largest cable operators. … [Read More...]
Gyorgy Zsembery, the CEO of Ukraine’s leading cable operator Volia, is to leave the post on July 1. … [Read More...]
TV ad spend in Russia in Q1 was 6% lower than in the corresponding period last year. … [Read More...]
NEP Switzerland will deploy a solution for transporting professional live media over the internet from Swedish media service provider Net Insight. … [Read More...]
Films with animal heroes are the focus of a pop-up channel German pay-TV broadcaster Sky Deutschland will launch on June 24, 2019. … [Read More...]
Eurosport will screen the ATP Tour in the Nordic region for four years from 2020. … [Read More...]
The first 5G service to operate in the UK will launch on May 30th in in London, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Belfast, Birmingham and Manchester. … [Read More...]
Rakuten has launched a live video streaming service, called Rakuten Live, which will allow artists, celebrities and general users to live stream videos and communicate with viewers in real-time. … [Read More...]
German media group ProSiebenSat.1 has acquired a 20% stake for a one-digit million euro amount in Holodeck VR, a German company developing advanced virtual reality (VR) applications. … [Read More...]
