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Lynch departs Sling TV for Pandora

Roger Lynch, CEO at Charlie Ergen/DISH Network-backed Sling TV, is leaving the broadcaster to take up the President/CEO position at music streaming site Pandora. Lynch has been one of Ergen’s key executives and in July 2012 founding-CEO at OTT service Sling TV. He had worked with Ergen at DISHNetwork and EchoStar. He also spent time […]

August 15, 2017By Chris Forrester

Danish broadcasting ‘hurt by Netflix’

Denmark is an important European market, but – along with its Scandinavian neighbours – tends to be overlooked. Now, equity analysts at investment bank Exane-BNP/Paribas have taken a close look as part of its STAMP (Survey of Telecom & Media Preferences) examination of the country, and in particular viewing habits and preferences. And the news […]

August 15, 2017

MTV Germany going FTA

Viacom has confirmed that its MTV Germany channel will go FTA in Germany and Austria from January 2018. Since March this year, MTV has been available for fre via a live stream online. Viacom also recently launched a new version of the ‘MTV Play’ app for iOS and Android, which gives viewers on mobile devices […]

August 15, 2017

Hulu picks AWS as cloud provider

Premium streaming service Hulu has selected Amazon Web Services (AWS) as its cloud provider, and leveraged AWS to launch its new, over-the-top (OTT) live TV service. Hulu turned to AWS for a scalable, agile, and cost-effective infrastructure to support the addition of more than 50 live channels for the Hulu with Live TV launch in […]

August 15, 2017

Brazil: Vubiquity, Oi sign VoD deal

Vubiquity, a global provider of premium content services, has signed a deal with Oi in Brazil that will provide customers with exclusive access to on-demand video content. The deal allows customers to access Oi Play content which is already available to the Oi TV customer base (1.4 million) and has now also launched for customers […]

August 15, 2017

SpotX for Gloss Media

Digital out-of-home US publisher Gloss Media has named video ad serving platform SpotX as its premier programmatic platform to enhance the monetisation of its network of digital video screens in nail salons. The announcement marks the company’s first programmatic video integration, part of an effort to augment direct-sold deals as buyer relationships shift to favour […]

August 15, 2017By Sanjeev Bhavnani

iKO Media distribution deal with World Fashion Channel

iKO Media Group, a global end-to-end service provider for broadcasters and content owners, has signed a distribution agreement with WFC (World Fashion Channel), an international satellite and cable TV channel dedicated to fashion, lifestyle and celebrities which broadcasts across Europe and CIS. “Our goal is to provide innovative and dedicated broadcasting and content distribution solutions […]

August 15, 2017

Premier League could cost Sky another £1.8bn

Sky could have to pay extra £600 million (€660m) per season for the next Premier League deal as Amazon emerges as a potential competitor, according to Citi Bank. Google, Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Netflix are all emerging as potential competitors for the rights, which are currently split between Sky and BT under a three-year deal.  […]

August 14, 2017

Telefónica plans ‘Netflix for Europe’

Reports in Spanish newspaper El Pais say Telefónica is planning to launch a streaming video platform with its own original content in Europe to compete against Netflix. The Spanish operator is said to be finalising plans to launch the SVoD service in Germany and the UK. The service will be marketed at a low price with […]

August 14, 2017From David Del Valle in Madrid

Italy sees 34% growth in TV licence fee payers

Italy has seen a 34 per cent growth in TV licence fee payers, going up from 16.5 million in 2015 to 22.2 million in 2016. There were a lot of people who did not pay in the islands, where new payments grew by almost 49.8 per cent compared to the previous year, going from 1.5 […]

August 14, 2017From Branislav Pekic in Rome