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Moody’s: Liberty Global profitability goals ‘ambitious’
While its European unit’s profitability is likely to improve this year, Liberty Global’s target of 7-9% growth in operating cash-flow in the 2015-18 period “remains ambitious”, according to an...
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Altice extends sports offering with exclusive boxing deal
Cable and telecom group Altice has acquired the exclusive TV rights for the next four years to World Series of Boxing (WSB), enabling its SFR Sport channel to distribute coverage of WSB matches...
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Proximus TV to add huge radio catalogue to offering
Belgian service provider Proximus has struck a deal with radio station aggregator Radioline, to make its catalogue available on the Proximus TV platform. Radioline has a catalogue of 60,000 radio...
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Viceland lines up March launch for Netherlands
Vice’s linear TV channel, Viceland, is due to launch in the Netherlands on March 1 via Liberty Global-owned pay TV operator Ziggo. The launch is part of Vice’s expansion into the Benelux region, with...
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EBU appoints first head of digital
Ezra Eeman The EBU has appointed the head of the digital innovation at Flemish public broadcaster VRT, Ezra Eeman, as its first head of digital. In his newly created role, Eeman will be responsible for...
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Telenet strikes MVNO deal with Lycamobile, sells Ortel
Liberty Global-owned Belgian cable operator Telenet has struck a deal with international mobile virtual network operator Lycamobile to become a full MVNO on it mobile network. Lycamobile, the world’s...
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Proximus grows TV base by 5% in 2016
Proximus’s TV offering Proximus grew its TV base by 5.3% last year, after adding 17,000 unique TV customers in the fourth quarter. The Belgian operator said that by year-end, it had 1.49 million unique...
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Spain gains ground in latest Netflix ISP Speed Index
Spain jumped 13 spots to 16th place in Netflix’s most recent global ISP Speed Index, due to speed gains in the country. Netflix’s monthly ISP index found that Spain had an average speed of 3.36 Mbps in...
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Altice launches new multi-platform cooking channel with added Jamie Oliver
Altice is launching a new cooking brand with a TV channel, print magazine and digital site. MY Cuisine will encompass a new TV channel to be distributed in France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Switzerland and...
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Eleven Sports launches third channel OTT in Belgium
Sports broadcaster Eleven Sports is launching a third channel in Belgium. Eleven Sports 3 will be available in Flemish and French, initially via the elevensports.be website and Eleven Sports app. The...
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Telenet reports 15% increase in SVOD as TV numbers fall
Liberty Global-owned Belgian cable operator Telenet reported a 15% year-on-year increase in users to its subscription VOD packages, Play and Play More, in Q1 as TV customer numbers dropped. Telenet...
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Proximus adds Eleven OTT channel to TV offering
Belgian service provider Proximus is to add Eleven Sports’ recently launched OTT TV channel, Eleven Sports 3, to the its digital TV sports package. The channel, which initially launched last month, as...
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Proximus sees solid TV growth on back of quad-play success
Proximus’s TV offering Belgian telco Proximus saw solid growth in its TV base in the first quarter, with the company saying that it had seen strong take-up of quad-play bundled offerings. Proximus...
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Netflix ISP Index: Telefonica-Movistar slips in Spain
Telefonica-Movistar’s average internet speed dropped from 2.60 Mbps in March to 2.25 Mbps in April, according to Netflix’s latest ISP Speed Index. According to the report, Telefonica-Movistar was the...
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Proximus secures top-tier Belgian football
Belgian service provider Proximus has struck a deal with the country’s Pro League to secure broadcasting rights to Jupiler Pro League D1A football for the three seasons to 2020. The new deal...
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Proximus: studios handicapping pay TV providers by restricting rights
Proximus’s TV offering Pay TV service providers need Hollywood studios to make their content available on all platforms and abandon outdated and self-defeating restrictions on the rights they grant,...
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Viceland extends reach in Benelux
Vice Media’s lifestyle and entertainment channel Viceland has extended its reach in the Benelux region through a carriage deal with Belgian telco Proximus. Viceland will be available on the Proximus TV...
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Proximus hires Canal+ marketing chief
Guillaume Boutin Belgian service provider Proximus has named Guillaume Boutin as chief consumer market officer and a member of the company’s executive committee. Boutin is currently chief marketing...
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Telenet closes SFR acquisition
Liberty Global-backed Belgian cable operator Telenet has closed the acquisition of Altice’s Belgian assets, following approval by the Belgian competition watchdog. Telenet and Altice signed an...
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Belgian watchdogs call for harder rules on TV and broadband competition
Belgian telecoms and media regulators have called for more competition in the country’s pay TV and broadband markets and proposed a number of new measures to achieve this. The four regulators covering...
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