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Portuguese media company Media Capital has reported a 23% fall in operating revenues as a result of falling advertising revenues for its television division. The company, which operates commercial broadcaster TVI as well as news channel TVI 24 and radio stations and a television production arm...

July 24, 2012 Telenor-owned Nordic pay TV operator Canal Digital recorded a slowing down of its subscriber losses and solid nominal EBITDA growth for the second quarter. Canal Digital lost 2,000 subscribers over the quarter, the lowest rate of loss since the third quarter of 2008. DTH...

Virgin Media is poised to sign its one millionth TiVo customer this week. The operator said it ended June with a total of 938,800 TiVo customers having added 261,700 during the quarter and would reach the one million landmark this week. A quarter of all Virgin Media TV customer’s base now take...

Morjana named MD Eurosport Italy July 23, 2012 09.38 Europe/London By Julian Clover Federico de Mojana de Cologna has been announced as the new managing director of Eurosport’s Italian operations. Based at Eurosport’s Milan office, de Mojana will report to Olivier Bramly, director of...

Editor | 20-07-2012 The popularity of apps with smartphone and tablet users is now being translated to the living room via connected TV, a new Harris Poll has shown. Harris Interactive’s survey of 2,634 U.S. adults between May 7 and May 15, 2012 revealed that streaming video apps are the most...

Iñaki Ferreras | 20-07-2012 Spanish Grupo Planeta’s Antena 3 has rejected the terms imposed upon it by Spain’s National Competition Commission (CNC) for its merger with LaSexta. The broadcaster has condemned the plans which it compared with those applied in the merger of Telecinco and Cuatro...

Iñaki Ferreras | 20-07-2012 Telco America Móvil, owned by Carlos Slim, has launched Ora.TV, the internet television network available in the US, which has begun transmissions with a talk show hosted by Larry King. Mexico’s richest man has been working all year to enter the online TV business...

July 19, 2012 18.01 Europe/London By Robert Briel MobiTV is releasing a network PVR (nDVR) as a standalone licensable solution to service providers. The MobiTV nDVR navigates complex rights management across countries by configuring for any of the governing international rules. Available to...

July 20, 2012 10.26 Europe/London By Chris Dziadul The Polish national commercial station TV Puls has launched its long-awaited second channel. Known as TV Puls 2, it is available to terrestrial viewers nationally and free of charge, having been allocated a slot on the country’s second DTT...

July 19, 2012 11.36 Europe/London By Robert Briel The Vision TV network is now available on Roku in the UK through a free-to-download app. With the Vision TV Network app downloaded from the Roku channel store, Roku customers with a LT or 2 XS streaming player will have access to up to 37...

July 19, 2012 08.56 Europe/London By Chris Dziadul HBO may be about to enter the Russian market through a joint venture with the local production company Amedia. Quoting unnamed sources, Vedomosti and other media outlets say that HBO’s arrival in the country will be led by the well-known...