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Redge Media powers The 18th Chopin Competition

Redge Media’s Video Delivery Platform, which includes content origin, a catch-up TV console, as well as a global CDN solution, delivered the online video experience for the 18th Chopin Competition published within the official website and applications of the event. It mainly served end-users in Poland, Japan, USA, Germany and China. It served nearly 100 […]

October 26, 2021

Juniper Networks selected by UPC Poland

Juniper Networks, a specialist in secure, AI-driven networks, has been selected by UPC Poland, Liberty Global’s largest revenue-generating operation in Central and Eastern Europe, to provide a 400G-ready network to power UPC Poland’s international core infrastructure. UPC Poland’s network provides broadband internet, digital television, mobile and digital telephony (VoIP) services to millions of consumers and a […]

October 25, 2021

TVN contracts additional Eutelsat capacity

Eutelsat Communications has signed a multi-year agreement enabling Poland’s leading media company to secure incremental in-orbit resources at Eutelsat’s flagship HOTBIRD video neighbourhood at 13° East. The agreement is another step in the long-standing partnership between TVN, one of HOTBIRD’s anchor customers, and Eutelsat, which has accompanied TVN’s growth since the 1990s. It will support […]

October 20, 2021

Liberty Global sells UPC Poland to iliad

Liberty Global has reached a definitive agreement to sell 100 per cent of its operations in Poland to iliad’s Polish mobile subsidiary Play. At June 30th 2021, Liberty Global’s networks in Poland passed 3.7 million homes and served 1.5 million customers who subscribed to 1.3 million broadband, 1.4 million video, and over 600,000 telephony services. […]

September 22, 2021

Viaplay to show NHL in Poland until 2026

Nordic Entertainment Group (NENT Group) has signed a five-year exclusive media rights agreement with the National Hockey League (NHL), the US ice hockey league, to broadcast up to 1,400 live NHL games every season on NENT Group’s Viaplay streaming service in Poland until 2026. The deal expands NENT Group and the NHL’s long-term partnership to […]

September 15, 2021

Poland: SPI International’s Dizi on UPC

SPI International’s Dizi will is now available to UPC subscribers in the Max Premium, Max and Select packages. “Joining the UPC offer is a very big step forward for us in building the distribution of the Dizi channel in Poland. We want this channel to be included in basic TV packages, because its programme offer […]

September 2, 2021

Liberty Global upgrades WiFi services in Poland, Netherlands

Nearly three million Liberty Global customers in Poland and the Netherlands are to receive a free upgrade to the Intelligent WiFi services, providing them with the fastest and most stable connections for all their devices. The upgraded services are being rolled out in partnership with the SaaS experience platform provider, Plume. Liberty Global has invested […]

August 24, 2021

Poland: Redge, RKKVC business support for start-ups

Streaming and edge computing leader Redge Technologies and Polish private venture capital fund RKKVC have come together to establish a joint cooperation to fund and develop aspiring deep-tech projects through smart money. “Supporting and nurturing talent is a big responsibility. That is why we are taking this task very seriously. Ideas and inspiration for ground-breaking […]

August 20, 2021

Poland ‘vote out’ Discovery

Poland’s lower house passed a controversial bill that could force Discovery to sell its controlling stake in TVN. The new law, if it reaches the statute book, could prevent companies from outside the European Economic Area from owning a majority in Polish media companies. The move, instigated by the nationalist Law and Justice Party, is […]

August 12, 2021

Analyst: NENT sees potential in Poland OTT market

Nordic Entertainment Group (NENT) has announced that Viaplay will launch in Poland on August 3rd. The Nordic media company initiated an ambitious international expansion plan to roll out its flagship platform in 10 new markets by the end of 2023. In their last quarterly report, notes Dataxis, they announced having gathered 27,000 new paying viewers […]

July 28, 2021