Despite the routine lofty projections for IPTV growth, the latest, from Analysys Mason, reckons the sector’s development in western Europe will add only 3.2 percent more subscribers to pay-TV services…

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Our story last week on the legal position surrounding live TV streaming app Zattoo appears to have created some movements. In response to Channel 4’s statement it was “obviously concerned”…

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Some in the TV biz seem at odds as new TV-over-the-internet applications begin to re-broadcast their live channels around the world. A Brand Republic story yesterday suggested UK broadcasters…

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-- French IPTV: France Telecom (NYSE: FTE) is the largest IPTV operator in the world, with 1.1 million subscribers, says a new report from Telecommunications Management Group (TMG). Globally, there…

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BT’s (NYSE: BT) living room IPTV platform is adding PictureBox, Universal Pictures’ premium on-demand movie subscription service, to its box. For £5 per month, customers get to pick from a…

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Livestation, yet another P2P online TV platform, is launching its public beta version at the NAB Show in Las Vegas, claiming participants in a recent closed trial used the service…

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Financial news channel CNBC is to target countries including Russia in a new effort to drive subscriptions for its premium CNBC Plus web video offering. The 15-month-old package offers streams…

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Norwegian TV graphics company Vizrt has signed an agreement to buy Oslo-based content management system maker Escenic. Vizrt (FRA: VIZ), whose 1,500 clients include CNN International and the BBC, said…

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The BBC and ITV (LSE: ITV) have sought the advice of lawyers to determine whether the deep-linking that online TV listings site TVguide.co.uk does to their online video streaming is…

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BT (NYSE: BT) has tapped former BBC policy adviser Simon Milner to take the newly created post of head of media and convergence policy. The Guardian reports that his appointment…

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After buying a quarter of mobile and IPTV producer MoMedia during the summer, Endemol is following up by buying 40 percent of London-based multiplatform video maker Pure Grass Films -…

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Something we’ve known about for a while - Ministry Of Sound TV head Assia Grazioli-Venier has left the dance music multimedia house to form an IPTV consultancy. Flypaper.tv will work…

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- BBC IPTV plans: The BBC’s TV platforms controller Rahul Chakkara called on IPTV players, at the IPTV World Forum in London, to pull up their socks, arguing current packages…

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O2, after what is considered a successful rollout of its IPTV service in Czech Republic, is planning to bring it to UK. O2, owned by Telefonica, (NYSE: TEF) has been…

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British consumers are getting some of the best deals for broadband, mobile and television services in Europe, thanks to cheap bundled services, according to an exhaustive report from Ofcom, looking…

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It’s been a long time coming - now Orange has pushed the launch of its UK IPTV service back in to next year. The telco told IBC conference delegates at…

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Spanish adult content provider Private Media Group has taken a 17.2 percent stake in Swedish company Horse Creek Entertainment, a content aggregator and creator of a broadband VOD platform. Horse…

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The world may not need another user-generated video portal, but it may raise an eyebrow to the one launched in alpha mode this week by the Israelis who gave the…

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So this is how Europe’s new Audio-Visual Media Services (AVMS) directive will be implemented in the UK. Drawn up by the commission in May and approved by parliament last week,…

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Virgin Media (NSDQ: VMED) has shelved plans for it nationwide IPTV service, at least until 2009, the company announced today. As recently as this summer, it said the rollout date…

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French audience survey company Médiamétrie is entering the race to capture data tracking consumers’ complete media usage habits. In early 2008, the company will begin expanding its ratings coverage with…

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Broadcasters and measurement agencies, in a rare show of camaraderie, have joined together to form the Broadband Measurment Working Group (BMWG) to “develop a common approach for measuring online video…

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BT (NYSE: BT) added 178,000 net retail broadband subscribers in the three months to September 30, taking it up to 4.07 million customers and helping bump broadband revenue up 12…

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-- One more IPTV player is looking to add more social media elements to its service. Italy’s Fastweb is currently trialling a recommendation service to drive more content usage. It…

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Not to be confused with the P2P Internet TV venture that goes by a very similar name...Babel TV is launching on November 6. This is an IPTV play that involves…

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