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AT&T completes Quickplay acquisition
AT&T has completed its buyout of Quickplay Media from Madison Dearborn Partners. The acquisition adds an OTT and TV everywhere services provider to AT&T’s...
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Rovi acquires TiVo in $1.1 billion deal
Content discovery and data specialist Rovi will acquire DVR company TiVo for $10.70 per share in cash and stock for total consideration of approximately...
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Gravity Media Group acquires Hyperactive Broadcast
Gravity Media Group, owner of Gearhouse Broadcast, has acquired Hyperactive Broadcast, a UK-based provider of products and services for the outside broadcast, long-form television...
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Technicolor completes acquisition of Cisco CPE business
Technicolor has completed the acquisition of Cisco Connected Devices, the company’s customer premises equipment (CPE) business for $600 million
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Liberty Global acquires Cable and Wireless for £3.5 billion
Liberty Global has announced its acquisition of London-based Cable and Wireless Communications (CWC), in a £3.5 billion deal which the company hopes will boster...
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TF1 confirms Newen deal
French broadcaster TF1 will acquire a 70 per cent stake in FLCP, the holding company of the production and distribution group Newen
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Telestream acquires PandaStream to launch cloud-based transcoding
Telestream, a provider of video transcoding and workflow automation technology for media and enterprises companies is acquiring Pandastream, a provider of cloud-based encoding services...
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Aerigon shoots Giant Killers for BBC
The Natural History Film Unit (NHFU), based in Botswana, chose the Aerigon UAV to capture aerial images of predators and prey for BBC Natural...
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FremantleMedia acquires French scripted producer
FremantleMedia has acquired a majority stake in French scripted producer Kwai. The Paris-based fiction company specialises in TV films and series and is headed...
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Altice acquires Cablevision for $17.7 billion
European telecoms group Altice is to acquire Cablevision in a deal worth $17.7 billion, in a move that follows Altice’s announced acquisition of Suddenlink...
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QVC owner Liberty Interactive to acquire zulily
Liberty Interactive Corporation, the parent company of video and ecommerce retailer QVC, will acquire online retailer zulily. zulily will join the QVC Group to...
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New Presteigne camera system to run Premier League touchlines
Presteigne Broadcast Hire has introduced a new, packaged RF camera system, the SC100. Aimed particularly at sports, the package includes a mount to fit...
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ChyronHego acquires VidiGo
ChyronHego has acquired VidiGo, a Dutch provider of IT-based software solutions for live broadcast production workflows. Based in Amsterdam, VidiGo provides a suite of...
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Teletrax exits Civolution following 4C acquisition
Civolution to focus on its NexGuard Forensic Watermarking business following the completion of the sale of its Teletrax business to 4C
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Liberty Global increases stake in ITV
Liberty Global has increased its stake in broadcaster ITV to 9.9 per cent. The US cable company acquired 138.7 million shares in ITV, thereby...
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IP driving changes in broadcast industry
At NAB this year, TVBEurope conducted a survey with industry figures to gauge the state of the broadcast and media landscape, including a look...
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ITV posts strong results against decline in audience share
In its interim results the broadcaster stated increased external revenue, up 11 per cent to £1.36 billion, and profit growth up 24 per cent...
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MTG buys majority stake in Zoomin.TV
Swedish media company Modern Times Group (MTG) has acquired 51 per cent of Zoomin.TV, the online video entertainment network, content production and advertising sales...
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UPC acquires Irish commercial broadcaster TV3
Liberty Global subsidiary UPC Ireland has entered into an agreement with Doughty Hanson to acquire TV3, a major commercial broadcaster in Ireland, for a...
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NEP to acquire Mediatec Group
NEP Group (NEP) has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Mediatec Group. The transaction will bring one of Europe’s largest outside broadcast and...
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Sony Pictures Television buys Dutch Film1
Sony Pictures Television Networks (SPT) has reached an agreement with Liberty Global to acquire the Film1 group in the Netherlands.
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A new investment horizon
Telestream announced earlier this month that it is to be acquired by private investment equity firm Genstar Capital. TVBEurope caught up with Dan Castles,...
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