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- BSkyB TV Comes To 3 UK, Data Tariff Required
- BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) is adding its channel lineup to 3's mobile TV offering in the UK. The satcaster's channels were already available through services offered by Orange, T-Mobile, Vodafone and in O2's now-finished mobile TV trial since 2005. Now the News Corp (NYSE: NWS) unit is bringing the channels...
- External links 2008-11-18
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- SATCASTER VIA DIGS DEEP.(Spain's Via Digital plans to cut huge debt)(Brief Article)
- MADRID Pay TV in Europe is showing further strain -- this time in Spain. On April 24, Telefonica Media's satcaster Via Digital agreed to tap nearly $535 million in capital and reserves to slash debts of $580 million. ...
- Research articles 2001-05-07
- TiVo boosts ad sales.(Wide Angle)
- * TiVo is continuing its transformation from a hardware seller to a services provider, signing a deal with DirecTV to sell advertising on the satcaster's own digital video recorders. Agreement saves what had been a seemingly dead relationship betwe * TiVo is continuing its...
- Research articles 2005-04-11
- Televisa, TV Azteca kick in for soccer. (Latin America).(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
- MIAMI Mexican broadcasters Televisa and TV Azteca are finalizing deals to sublicense rights to this year's World Cup soccer games from satcaster DirecTV Latin America. The satcaster, based in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., bought exclusive TV and radio rights to the 2002...
- Research articles 2002-02-18
- Dubai TV taps into Warner's pipeline.(Brief Article)
- Pan-Arab satcaster Dubai TV has inked a multimillion-dollar output deal granting it exclusive rights to air all Warner Bros. programming until 2012. The accord was forged at Mipcom by CEO of parent company Dubai Media Hussein Ali Lootah and WB vice...
- Research articles 2005-12-05
- Media, sports moguls mull Manchester play.(Kicking The Tires)
- An Irish horseracing tycoon, a Dutch TV mogul, a Russian billionaire and an American football team owner walk onto a field ... What sounds like the setup to a joke is, in fact, just part of the intrigue surrounding a possible takeover...
- Research articles 2003-10-13
- BSkyB's new dawn. (U.K.).
- LONDON Satcaster BSkyB has poached Channel 5's CEO Dawn Airey as managing director of Sky Networks, where she will have another go at boosting commissioned content. But can she succeed where others have failed? Rupert Murdoch's daughter Elisabeth had little luck...
- Research articles 2002-09-30
- Telefonica's in another fine mess. (Spain).(management decisions)(Brief Article)
- MADRID Telefonica is at it again: a new media boss, a new media structure, the same old media mess. On May 30, Spain's biggest company hailed a new prexy for TV-film subsid Admira--TV exec and politician Pedro Antonio Martin Marin. Admira also...
- Research articles 2002-06-10
- Via Digital secures $535 mil loan.(Brief Article)
- SPAIN Telefonica Media-owned Spanish satcaster Via Digital has pulled down a 640 million euro ($535 million) syndicated loan to cover its long-term business expansion and refinance its current bank debt load. Led by Chase Manhattan Bank,...
- Research articles 2000-11-06
- New reign in Spain: media giants plan to merge digital payboxes. (Spain).(Telefonica, Sogecable)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
- MADRID Spain's two biggest media companies, telco giant Telefonica and film and TV conglom Sogecable, will merge their digital payboxes in a deal that would not so much reshape as replace the local TV landscape. The accord, announced May 9, sees...
- Research articles 2002-05-13
- Brit companies look to Oz for shows.(Australia's Southern Star to produce television shows for British broadcasters)(Brief Article)
- Britain's Channel 4 has commissioned its first Oz drama, "The Secret Life of Us," from major producer-distrib Southern Star, which will make the A$9 million ($5.4 million) 22-hour series for the broadcaster with Can West-backed Network Ten and Cable & Wireless' Oz feevee operator Optus. ...
- Research articles 2000-09-04
- Telefonica Media sez adios to Duran.(president's postition may be filled by Juan Jose Nieto)(Brief Article)
- MADRID Manuel Garcia Duran has been pinkslipped as prexy of Telefonica's giant film and TV conglom Telefonica Media TM. Departure from the most important post in the Spanish entertainment industry reinforces the position of Telefonica Media CEO Juan Jose Nieto as...
- Research articles 2000-08-14
- ART SUCCESS BUILDS ALTA'S EGO.(Alta Films signs agreement)(with Via Digital)(Brief Article)
- MADRID Signaling yet another move by product-hungry Telefonica Media, Alta Films -- Spain's biggest art film distrib -- has signed an output deal with satcaster Via Digital, which is 49% owned by Telefonica. The accord gives the digital platform exclusive pay...
- Research articles 2000-07-10
- EX-POLYGRAM EXEC PACTS WITH TELEFONICA MEDIA.(Rafael Alvero)(Brief Article)
- Atticus Entertainment Group, a new company set up by former Polygram exec Rafael Alvero, has inked an exclusive consultancy deal with Telefonica Media to create synergies among TM's sprawling assets. These include broadcasters Antena 3 and Telefe in Spain and Argentina;...
- Research articles 2001-06-04
- Quiero to run pix channel for Via.(Spanish satellite television broadcaster)(Brief Article)
- SPAIN In a major coup, Spanish digital terrestrial television DTT operator Quiero TV has clinched a deal with Spanish satcaster Via Digital to broadcast Via's top premium movie and sports channel, Gran Via. The deal...
- Research articles 2000-05-22
- Sogecable inks D'Works.(pay-per-view deal with DreamWorks)(Brief Article)
- Not to be totally outdone by rival Telefonica, which gobbled up Dutch TV giant Endemol March 17, Spanish film and TV conglom Sogecable is once more on a rights offensive. Demonstrating new teeth, Sogecable has signed a 16-pic pay-per-view deal with...
- Research articles 2000-04-03
- Rain in Spain likely to remain. (The Year Abroad).
- MADRID It's been a tough year for the biz in Spain, and 2003 looks even tougher. In May, Sogecable and telco Telefonica announced they were considering a merger of their pay TV operations. Telefonica satcaster Via...
- Research articles 2003-01-20
- Star TV founder bids for 'Net giant.(Brief Article)
- Billionaire Richard Li, the founder of Asian satcaster Star TV, has started a bidding war for control of Cable & Wireless HKT, Hong Kong's dominant telephone and Internet provider. If successful, the newly merged company would be Asia's multimedia giant, with...
- Research articles 2000-02-21
- Star, C&W ink for 'Net-TV venture.(Brief Article)
- Star TV and Cable & Wireless HKT have signed a deal to create a joint-venture company with the goal of offering a range of digital television and Internet services in Hong Kong and throughout Asia. But first the new, as-yet-unnamed entity will...
- Research articles 2000-02-07
- EYEING THE BIG PICTURE.(Telefonica becomes multinational media company)(Brief Article)(Company Profile)
- Spanish telco giant raises stakes in television, film world MADRID No other European telco has plowed so profoundly into film and TV as Spanish giant Telefonica. Its 1997 investments in satcaster Via Digital and broadcaster Antena 3 were seen in some quarters...
- Research articles 2000-01-24
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