A global survey of leading executives shows businesses are responding to an environment of rapid change and technological disruption by establishing partnerships across firms, industries and geographies. The second report in Telstra’s global research series, Connecting Companies: Strategic Partnerships for the Digital Age, found companies driving innovation today are increasingly relying on partnerships rather than […]

Alain Weill, the Chairman, CEO, Founder and main shareholder of independent multimedia company NextRadioTV and Patrick Drahi, the Chairman and Founder of multinational cable, fibre, telecommunications, contents and media company Altice have signed a strategic partnership of their groups to invest in and to accelerate the development of multimedia projects in both France and other […]

NetRange, the global leader of white label Smart TV solutions, announced it has finalised a cooperation with Vonetize, a fully managed VoD services company bringing top-tier content to millions of users worldwide. Users of NetRange’s Smart TV Portals all over the world can now choose from a broad range of Vonetize’s high quality content portfolio, […]

A plan to by a group of French broadcasters and telco Orange to launch an SVoD service in competition to Netflix has been abandoned, according to French financial daily Les Echos. Discussions had centred on Orange, TF1, M6 and France Télévisions pooling their SVoD offerings. A Letter of Agreement had been prepared, but never signed, […]

India’s Dish TV and MSO operator Siti Cable are already partners via their shared ownership by Subhash Chandra’s giant conglomerate Essel Group. They have also just set up a new joint venture in the shape of ‘Comnet’, which they want to act a unified programme and channel buying operation. Dish TV’s CEO RC Venkateish has […]

Two of India’s largest pay-TV operators, Essel Group’s Dish TV and MSO Siti Cable Networks are forming a joint-venture, Comnet, in order to better negotiate with broadcasters. Comnet’s main role is to tap into the synergies available in jointly dealing with broadcasters and shift the balance of power more in favour of distributors, and to […]

Commercial broadcaster UKTV’s focus on investment in exclusive and original programming generated record ratings, revenue and profit in 2014. Officially the fastest growing broadcaster in Britain, UKTV’s £123 million investment in content produced strong growth in commercial impacts and in its on demand services. UKTV – an independent commercial joint venture between BBC Worldwide and […]