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Germany: ducktv FAST channel on o2 TV platform

Mega Max Media has announced a new partnership for its toddler channel, ducktv, in Germany through a FAST carriage agreement. The channel is now part of the newly launched o2 TV platform from o2 Telefónica, which went live on September 25th. This agreement was facilitated by The Channel Store, a provider of FAST/AVoD B2B services […]

September 30, 2024

Germany: wedotv joins o2 Telefónica’s TV platform

AVoD and FAST Channel provider wedotv is part of the newly launched German TV platform from o2 Telefónica. wedotv will contribute its three FAST Channels wedotv movies, wedotv big stories and wedotv sports to the platform’s channel lineup, adding a variety of movies, documentaries and sports coverage to the streaming service. The launch was facilitated […]

September 25, 2024

IRIS2 facing more challenges

The ambitious IRIS2 satellite proposal for a constellation of European low Earth orbiting satellites is facing further challenges, not least from the German government. While not confirming the reported final cost of some €12 billion, a response last week to a question in Germany’s parliament (from the CDU/CSU group) talked about the break down in […]

September 23, 2024

Germany: NHK World-Japan expands distribution via HD+

NHK World-Japan, the English-language international service of Japan’s public media organisation NHK, is expanding its distribution in Germany in collaboration with HD+. The German TV platform operator has integrated the channel into its streaming package HD+ IP as well as its multiscreen service HD+ MultiScreen, enabling reception on smartphones, tablets and further TV sets in […]

September 19, 2024

M7 Germany, O2 Telefónica partner on TV offer

M7, the German provider of TV entertainment for cable and IP networks, is the content partner for a channel portfolio with which O2 Telefónica will launch its new TV platform, O2 TV, on September 25th. The licence package supplied by M7 covers over 130 pay-TV channels from Kinowelt, SPI and Hearst Networks: Kinowelt Television HD, […]

September 18, 2024

Super RTL aborts Nickelodeon merger

RTL, the German broadcaster, and Paramount have withdrawn their bid to merge Super RTL, the children’s television network, with Nickelodeon, according to Reuters. The German cartel office said the withdrawal had occurred after it informed the companies that it intended to prohibit the planned merger. Super RTL, belonging to Bertelsmann’s RTL Group, first announced in […]

September 17, 2024

RTL Deutschland, Vodafone expand partnership

RTL Deutschland and Vodafone will continue to bring RTL Deutschland’s content in streaming and linear TV to Vodafone’s 11 million+ TV customers. The partnership between the two companies has now been extended and will be expanded further in the future. To make it easier for Vodafone customers to access RTL Deutschland’s content and brands in […]

September 12, 2024

Hoho Entertainment launching German YouTube channel for Shane the Chef

Children’s production and rights management company Hoho Entertainment (Cloudbabies, Toad and Friends) is launching a dedicated new German YouTube channel for its popular preschool property Shane the Chef. Entitled Shane der Koch, the new channel has been funded by a grant from the UK Global Screen Fund (UKGSF), the initiative designed to boost international development, […]

September 4, 2024

Media Broadcast 5G trial in Halle

Media Broadcast has officially launched the distribution of television programmes via 5G broadcast as part of a pilot project in Halle, Germany. The pilot project is based on a tender from the Media Authority of Saxony-Anhalt, in which DTT capacities were awarded to Media Broadcast for testing the distribution of programmes in the 5G broadcast […]

August 7, 2024

Little Dot Studios Germany partners with Studio71

Content studio and digital media network, Little Dot Studios, has announced that its German office has signed a partnership with Studio71, the digital media and entertainment company of ProSiebenSat.1, to launch two channel brands on the free streaming service Joyn. Effective immediately, selected content from Little Dot Studios’ Real Stories Germany and Real Crime Germany channels, will […]

August 6, 2024