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Disney has launched its own direct-to-consumer service in the UK market. DisneyLife represents Disney’s buggest-ever collection of its movies, kids’ TV box sets, books and music. A multi-user account – allowing access from 10 different devices – has been priced at a monthly £9.99 (€14.18) from...

Russia’s Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) has approved ER Telecom’s application to buy five operators in Irkutsk. ComNews reports the acquisitions, of Irkutsk Business Network, Viakom, Sibtelecom, Corvet Telecom and Irkutsk Telecom will probably cost the company in the region of R100 -150...

Indian direct-to-home (DTH) satellite TV operator Videocon d2h is launching a Hollywood movie channel in high definition (HD). The channel, called Active HD Hollywood Channel Services, will be available to all Videocon d2h subscribers in its initial launch phase, with an extra subscription fee...

Discovery Networks has rolled out three HD channels on the domestic IPTV platform of Austrian telco Telekom Austria. The customers of A1 TV can now receive Eurosport HD, Discovery Channel HD and Animal Planet HD. Eurosport returns to A1 TV following a three-year break. In addition to the HD...

Titles include Japanese anime film Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection ‘F’, David Robert Mitchell’s horror film It Follows, Oliver Stone’s Snowden, and Blood Father starring Mel Gibson. The pay-TV operator recently announced its plans to launch a raft of entertainment channels to complement its premium...

Mobile data consumption grew by 76% in Venezuela last year, pushed by video and social network usage. Over 16 million Venezuelans are online, 80% of whom connect via mobile devices, meaning more than the half of the country accesses the Internet on mobile screens, according to figures from...

Saturday’s Real Madrid vs. Barcelona match was broadcast direct to customers through Spain’s first live 4K feed. During El Clásico, SES deployed a Spain-only, Ultra HD satellite signal via Astra 1L, through which Telefónica's Movistar+ offered the game in 4K for a selected group of...

The majority of Canadian video advertising campaigns are structured to be cross-screen. According to an analysis of all impressions running through Videology's platform in Canada during the third quarter, there was a 154% year-on-year increase in the number of campaigns delivered on more than...

Poland’s leading cable operator UPC Polska has added five more channels to its Horizon Go service. With the channels in question – AXN HD, AXN Spin HD, Romance HD, AXN white HD and AXN Black HD, viewers are now offered a total of 110, 40 of which are in HD. Viewers in addition have access to...

The DVB Steering Board has endorsed Kevin Murray in his role as the new chair of the organisation’s Technical Module. Murray, who works for Cisco, takes over following the retirement of the BBC’s Nick Wells. “I’m honoured to be taking over the role of DVB TM chair, particularly as I believe...

Two bidders are now seeking to gain control of Bulgarian incumbent Vivacom. Quoting two sources familiar with the process, Reuters reports that they are the Bulgarian businessman Spas Roussev and Greece’s Olympia Group, together with the hedge fund Third Point. The sale of Vivacom, which has...

Russia’s Gazprom Media has formed a company named Alcazar Content Service (ACS) that allows regional TV channels to access its TV content. The latter includes output from Central Partnership, NTV-Kino, Comedy Club Production, GoodStory Media, Red Media and NTV-Plus, as well as the channels NTV...

Eutelsat has sealed a three-year contract with the Broadcasting Authority of Zimbabwe (BAZ) for Ku-band capacity on the Eutelsat 3B satellite. The capacity will be used to deliver twelve free-to-view channels to a nationwide network of 48 DTT transmitters so that Zimbabwean viewers can benefit...

Media General has rejected Nexstar Broadcasting Group's $1.9Bn unsolicited acquisition proposal but is still open to negotiations. At the same time, Meredith has a $2.8 billion offer on the table for Media General and is proceeding with the merger despite those talks. "Meredith understands...

As if it was an impossible barrier to reach, Brazil's pay-TV market keeps declining as the financial crisis hits home, after nearing 20 million subs in January. According to official figures from Anatel, the Brazilian market dropped 100,000 subscriptions during September, closing Q3 2015 with...