Vodafone has confirmed that it has obtained unconditional merger control clearance from the European Commission for the voluntary public takeover offer for Kabel Deutschland. With merger approval from the European Commission, all conditions to the offer have been met and Vodafone expects to close the transaction on October 14th 2013. Kabel Deutschland shareholders who have […]
Virgin Media is to axe 600 middle and senior management jobs as part of cost saving actions from its new owner, Liberty Global – who acquired the UK cable operator for $23.3 billion earlier this year. As many as a third of Virgin Media’s 120 executive directors and directors could lose their jobs Virgin seeks […]
Euronews has signed an agreement with CCSA, the Canadian cable operators association. CCSA comprises more than 100 cable operators and distributes more than 200 channels all around the country. Through this agreement, all members of CCSA can broadcast Euronews which represents potentially 900,000 new households. “I am really excited to announce this agreement with CCSA […]
The number of consumers ‘cutting the cord’ from cable TV for Internet video remains low and live programming is still a huge viewer draw, according to a new annual survey of consumer viewing habits from Altman Vilandrie & Company. However, cable’s ‘TV Everywhere’ initiatives to bring content to mobile devices, have low awareness, and cable […]
Dominant French cable operator Numericable is preparing a stock market listing that could value the private equity-backed company at about €5 billion. Numericable’s owners – Cinven, Carlyle and Altice Group, are seeking to ride a wave of investor interest in European cable operators. Numericable covers 9.9 million homes, roughly one third of households in France, […]
As online platforms such as Netflix and Hulu gain ground among mainstream consumers, some are poised to challenge traditional cable and satellite services as the default source for TV and movies, according to a new study – Decoding the Default – by Hub Entertainment Research. The study was conducted in July 2013, among 1,010 consumers […]
Anevia, a player in video streaming and infrastructure solutions for OTT, live TV and VoD, has announced that leading French cable operator Numericable has launched an Adaptative Bit Rate (ABR) service powered by Anevia technology. In order to offer new, enhanced services to the French market, Numericable was looking to scale up its head-ends to […]
Despite well-publicised fears at the start of the week that the minimum 75 per cent acceptance level for Vodafone’s planned acquisition of German cable MSO Kabel Deutschland would not be reached by the first phase deadline of September 11th, the telco confirmed September 12th that the voluntary public tender offer has met the required acceptance […]
Verimatrix, the specialist in securing and enhancing revenue for multi-network, multi-screen digital TV services, has announced that UCN Networks, the leading cable operator for the Nagpur, Vidarbha region of Madhya Pradesh in Central India, has selected the Verimatrix Video Content Authority System (VCAS) architecture to provide revenue security for its new digital cable service. UCN […]
In a move set to enhance significantly its global deployed base, multi-platform cloud specialist has confirmed that its ActiveVideo CloudTV software platform is being used by Liberty Global to expand the reach of user experiences offered by Horizon TV, the MSO’s media and entertainment platform, currently being deployed in Europe and Latin America. CloudTV decouples […]