New sports packages combined Sky Sports and BT Sports on Sky
Sky has launched two new sports packages that bring together both the Sky and BT Sport channels. … [Read More...]
Newsline
Netflix reveals new Polish strategy
Netflix is planning to introduce a mobile-only offer in Poland. … [Read More...]
CTO Nick Thexton leaves ProSiebenSat.1
Nick Thexton, Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of ProSiebenSat.1, is leaving the German media company after less than a year. … [Read More...]
Proximus job cuts will be made by March
Proximus says it will only make a “very limited number” of compulsory redundancies. … [Read More...]
Molotov reports Salto partners to competition authority
Streaming service Molotov has reported French commercial broadcasters TF1 and M6 to the Competition Authority. … [Read More...]
Spanish regulator makes football rights appeal
The Spanish regulator CNMC has issued a report urging the National Professional Football League (LNPF) to modify is international proposal for exploitation of La Liga audiovisual rights. … [Read More...]
Digi doubles profit, gains cable TV customers in Romania
Digi Communications has posted a net profit of €41,787,000 for 2019, or over twice the €18,022,000 it made a year earlier. … [Read More...]
Ukraine bans Viasat channel
The Ukrainian regulator National Council has removed TV 1000 East from the list of foreign channels that complies with the requirements of the European Convention on Transfrontier Television and Ukrainian legislation. … [Read More...]
Rakuten TV debuts AVOD channel
Rakuten TV has announced the launch of new dedicated AVOD channel. … [Read More...]
HISTORY to become Sky HISTORY in UK market
Twenty-Five years making its debut in the UK through a joint venture between A+E Networks UK and Sky, HISTORY is changing its name to Sky HISTORY as part of what the two broadcasters are calling a "strengthening of their partnership. … [Read More...]
Telefónica makes steady progress
Telefónica ended 2019 with 4.7 million convergent customers in its home market Spain. … [Read More...]
Central & East Europe
Pierre-Etienne Cizeron joins Orange Romania
Orange Romania has appointed Pierre-Etienne Cizeron its new CMO, effective March 16. … [Read More...]
Russian channel offensive hits Slovakia
Antik Telecom has become the first operator in Slovakia to offer its users a specially prepared package of Russian TV channels. … [Read More...]
Magyar Telekom grows IPTV base
The Hungarian incumbent Magyar Telekom gained nearly 100,000 IPTV subscribers in its home market in 2019. … [Read More...]
Channels
GENT joins collective agreement as Belgian football rights head to Eleven Sports
Top-flight Belgian football club KAA Gent has agreed to sign up to a new exclusive rights contract with Eleven Sports. … [Read More...]
Russia to reciprocate Ofcom action
The Russian regulator Roskomnadzor has said it will mirror actions taken by Ofcom against the licence holder of the channel NTV-Mir Baltiya. … [Read More...]
Raindance partners with indy film streamer paus
A new streaming service featuring independent cinema has agreed a partnership with the UK’s largest independent film festival. … [Read More...]
Editors’ Choice
Herbert L. Kloiber launches Night Train Media
After Tele München Group was sold to US financial investor KKR last year, Herbert L. Kloiber, long-term managing director of the German media company, has launched his new venture Night Train Media. … [Read More...]
Deutsche Telekom adds 74,000 TV customers
German telco Deutsche Telekom has added 74,000 new subscribers to its domestic TV platform MagentaTV in Q4 2019. … [Read More...]
Upturn for Telekom Romania
Telekom Romania turned the financial corner in 2019, with its best performance in over three years. … [Read More...]
IBC 2019 – Roundup
IBC 2019 Roundup Interviews – SERAPHIC
Julian Clover finds out about SERAPHIC’s latest product development from Xinwen Xue, VP Product Management, while CEO Ye Wang talks about Talk about the influence of AI, 5G and IoT on TV and, OTT operation.
IBC 2019 Roundup Interviews – Plume
Julian Clover speaks to Plume founder Adam Hotchkiss about the importance of security in the smart home and how any threat can be counteracted.
IBC 2019 Roundup Interviews – Netgem
Sylvain Thevenot, managing director, Netgem and Alex Benjamin, Sales Director, Elisa BingeTV tell Julian Clover how Netgem technology can help run a future-proof and cost-effective TV service.