Sky households in Germany will no longer need a cable TV subscription or DTH satellite reception to use Sky Q from August 3, 2021.
Canal+ Family to be dropped from August 30
Canal+ is removing the Canal+ Family channel from its packages as of August 30.
Legal defeat for Telefónica, Orange and Vodafone
Spain’s National Court has rejected a bid by Telefónica, Orange and Vodafone to recover more than €1.6 billion they paid to help fund the public broadcaster RTVE.
FAST food as BITE comes to Freeview
Food and cooking channel BITE is launching on Freeview as part of the Channel Box bouquet of FAST Channels (free ad-supported streaming TV).
Telegraph: Discovery preparing Channel 4 bid
Discovery is lining up a possible bid for Channel 4, should the UK government go ahead with its plan to privatise the public broadcaster.
Hertfordshire site for £700m movie studio
A new movie studio is to be built in Herfordshire, North of London, in a bid to encourage companies such as Amazon and Netflix to base more productions in the UK.
Successful launch for software-defined Eutelsat Quantum satellite
A new satellite capable of being reconfigured whilst in orbit has been successfully launched by Arianespace.
Iliad bids for UPC Polska
Liberty Global has revealed it recently received a non-binding offer from Iliad to buy 100% of its Polish operation UPC Polska for PL7.3 billion (€1.6 billion).
NTV-Plus grows OTT business
Russia’s longest established DTT operator ended the first half of this year with around 267,000 subscribers to its OTT platform.
Media Group Ukraine expands to Portugal
Media Group Ukraine (MGU) has reached an agreement with Altice’s Meo to distribute its channels in Portugal.