TVP sets sights on ShowMax
The Polish public broadcaster TVP has expressed an interest in buying the soon-to-close SVOD service ShowMax Poland. … [Read More...]
Newsline
FRK welcomes full EC review of Vodafone/Liberty deal
German cable operator association FRK welcomes the decision by the European Commission (EC) to launch an in-depth investigation into Vodafone's proposed acquisition of Liberty Global's German subsidiary Unitymedia. … [Read More...]
Trace acquires UK music channels from Sony Pictures Television
Trace has acquired the UK-based music channels Chart Show TV, Chart Show Hits, Starz and The Vault from Sony Pictures Television (SPT). … [Read More...]
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Russia launches STB probe
Russia’s Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) has filed a case against a number of set-top box retailers for increasing their prices in the second half of this year. … [Read More...]
PostTV launches Entertain Me! a la carte pay-TV package on IPTV
Luxemburg-based PostTV is implementing a new pay-TV feature onto its IPTV-platform, offering a la carte tiering of channels. … [Read More...]
Increasing number of streaming services in Nordic households
The appetite for streaming services among Nordic consumers continuously rises. … [Read More...]
IPTV drives Spanish pay-TV market
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Telekom Slovenije unveils ‘smart life platform’
Telekom Slovenije has launched a ‘smart life platform’ that allows users to simply manage TV and web content through voice control in the Slovenian language. … [Read More...]
Yahoo Finance launches Apple TV app
Yahoo Finance has launched its first standalone app for Apple TV. … [Read More...]
Smithsonian Networks launches premium OTT SVOD service
Smithsonian Networks is launching Smithsonian Channel Plus, a new ad-free subscription on-demand streaming service featuring over a thousand hours of content. … [Read More...]
Central & East Europe
New satellite receivers for Ukraine
The Ukrainian broadcaster 1+1 Media has announced the first delivery of equipment for the reception of encrypted satellite signals. … [Read More...]
BBC widens reach in Latvia
The Latvian public broadcaster’s channel LTV7 has started carrying Russian-language news from the BBC. … [Read More...]
TVP/nc+ win key football rights
Poland’s leading football league Ekstraklasa has signed a two year-agreement with Canal+ and the public broadcaster TVP. … [Read More...]
Channels
Okast launches 5 new SVOD services
Okast, the French data-driven OTT video platform solution has announced several SVOD platform launches as well as the development of a solution allowing content owners to access the B-to-B market. … [Read More...]
Eleven Sports UK faces closure
Online sports network Eleven Sports could shut down its UK operations after just four months. … [Read More...]
Discovery Golf expands European Tour rights package
Discovery Golf has secured a new set of multiplatform rights across a number of territories as it aims to become the ‘digital home of golf’. … [Read More...]
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EU agreement on cross-border TV access
The negotiators from the European Commission, the European Parliament and the Council have reached agreement on new copyright legislation. … [Read More...]
Number of Dutch TV homes drops to 7.46 million
The number of Dutch TV homes fell to 7.46 million in the third quarter of 2018. … [Read More...]
European Commission opens full deal review of Vodafone, Liberty acquisition
The European Commission (EC) has concerns about Vodafone's proposed acquisition of Liberty Global's subsidiaries in Germany, the Czech Republic, Hungary and Romania and has therefore opened an in-depth investigation. … [Read More...]
