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Switzerland

Swiss Super League Champions select WSC Sports

Reigning Swiss Super League champions, BSC Young Boys, has become the latest football club to partner with WSC Sports to power, scale, and innovate their digital content strategy and deepen their relationship with fans. The multi-year agreement will see BSC Young Boys benefit from WSC Sports’ AI-powered content solution, enhancing its production capabilities and enabling […]

July 23, 2024

16.8m watch England knock out Switzerland on BBC

The BBC’s coverage of England’s win over Switzerland at Euro 2024 on July 6th drew in more than three quarters of the nation’s TV viewers. England won via a penalty shootout after Breel Embolo’s goal for Switzerland was matched by a late equaliser from Bukayo Saka in regular time as the only two goals of […]

July 8, 2024By Nik Roseveare

9.4m watch Scotland vs Switzerland on BBC

Scotland vs Switzerland drew in more than half the nation’s TV viewers on June 19th. The BBC had a 54 per cent audience share for coverage of Scotland vs Switzerland on BBC One, with a peak audience of 9.4 million people. The match was also streamed 3.6 million times on BBC iPlayer and there was […]

June 21, 2024

Switzerland: DAZN scores Ligue 1, Serie A rights

DAZN, the sports and entertainment platform, has announced the extension of broadcasting rights for Serie A and Ligue 1 in Germany and Austria. Additionally DAZN will become the exclusive broadcaster for these competitions in Switzerland for the first time. These  three-year media rights agreements with Italy and France’s top-tier football leagues also come with additional […]

June 14, 2024

Switzerland: yallo app on Samsung TV

The yallo TV app is now available on Samsung TV models from 2020 or later (Tizen 5.5) for viewers in Switzerland, and will come preinstalled on new TVs. The app for Samsung TV complements yallo TV’s existing ‘big-screen’ offering for Android TV and Apple TV. As on all other devices, the yallo TV app for […]

June 4, 2024

Sunrise doubles speeds of hybrid fibre-coaxial cable network

Sunrise reports it has more than doubled the speed of its hybrid fibre-coaxial cable network. “Fast and reliable Internet is a basic need, not only in cities, but throughout Switzerland. That’s why we’re more than doubling the Internet speed on our hybrid fibre-coaxial cable network, to which around 80 per cent of Swiss households are […]

May 30, 2024

Switzerland: FightBox on Quickline

SPI International, a Canal+ company, has announced the launch of its FightBox channel in partnership with Quickline, a telecommunication and entertainment service provider in Switzerland. The agreement brings FightBox to Quickline’s audience, offering an array of combat sports programming as part of the sports pack. “We are delighted to partner with Quickline to bring FightBox […]

May 9, 2024

Netgem expands FAST Lane roll-out in Europe

Netgem has announced the expansion of its FAST channels aggregation service FAST Lane to two more countries, after successfully driving FAST adoption and revenue in the UK with TalkTalk and other operators for four years. FAST Lane is designed to deliver the best experience and maximum revenue for operators and content owners when rolling out […]

April 10, 2024

SWISSto12 expanding

Switzerland-based satellite manufacturer, SWISSto12, has secured additional production space at its headquarters, almost doubling the size of its existing site to 5,700m2. Additionally, the Company has welcomed several new Satcom engineering experts to its growing team, which has increased by 25 percent since the start of 2024 to over 125 employees working across its facilities […]

March 23, 2024By Chris Forrester

TF1+ aims international

France’s TF1 Group will roll out its TF1+ streaming service to international markets from June. TF1+ launched in Framce in January, and currently has more than 200 box sets of shows and over 400 films in its library, as well as around 50 FAST channels. Rudolph Belmer, TF1 Group CEO, told Series Mania attendees in […]

March 21, 2024