The Dutch TV revenues have grown during the third quarter driven by price increases from Ziggo and KPN in July 2016.
Reports: China’s Xinwei close to Spacecom buy
Spacecom is on the verge of being sold to the Chinese-backed Luxembourg Space Telecommunications, according to local media reports.
Italy switches off harmful TV transmissions
Italy has completed the switch-off process of television broadcasting transmissions on 61 frequencies, the use of which had been causing harmful interference.
Eurosport 1 HD to join Vodafone Deutschland
Discovery Networks Deutschland will further expand the distribution of Eurosport in Germany.
Spacecom secures replacement satellite
Spacecom has signed a contract with AsiaSat to provide new capacity at 4 degrees West.
YouTube could exit Russia
Upcoming legislation addressing online video services could force YouTube to withdraw from Russia.
Russia to extend its SVOD lead in Eastern Europe
Eastern Europe will have 18.19 million paying SVOD subscribers [for TV episodes and movies – excluding sports, for example] across 18 countries by 2021, up from 3.33 million at end-2015 […]
Dutch NPO, RTL and SBS go linear OTT on NLZiet
NLZiet, the Dutch on-demand platform with programmes from all three major broadcasting groups (NPO, RTL and SBS), will introduce live OTT streams of their main channels.
European Council agrees to remove geo-blocking
The European Council agreed on a draft regulation to ban unjustified geo-blocking between member states. However, copyright protected works are not included.
Eurosport to show Olympics exclusively in Germany
Eurosport will transmit the Olympic Games between 2018 and 2024 exclusively in Germany. The negotiations with public broadcasters ARD and ZDF regarding sublicences have failed.