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Switzerland: DAZN scores Ligue 1, Serie A rights

DAZN, the sports and entertainment platform, has announced the extension of broadcasting rights for Serie A and Ligue 1 in Germany and Austria. Additionally DAZN will become the exclusive broadcaster for these competitions in Switzerland for the first time. These  three-year media rights agreements with Italy and France’s top-tier football leagues also come with additional […]

June 14, 2024

Switzerland: yallo app on Samsung TV

The yallo TV app is now available on Samsung TV models from 2020 or later (Tizen 5.5) for viewers in Switzerland, and will come preinstalled on new TVs. The app for Samsung TV complements yallo TV’s existing ‘big-screen’ offering for Android TV and Apple TV. As on all other devices, the yallo TV app for […]

June 4, 2024

Sunrise doubles speeds of hybrid fibre-coaxial cable network

Sunrise reports it has more than doubled the speed of its hybrid fibre-coaxial cable network. “Fast and reliable Internet is a basic need, not only in cities, but throughout Switzerland. That’s why we’re more than doubling the Internet speed on our hybrid fibre-coaxial cable network, to which around 80 per cent of Swiss households are […]

May 30, 2024

Switzerland: FightBox on Quickline

SPI International, a Canal+ company, has announced the launch of its FightBox channel in partnership with Quickline, a telecommunication and entertainment service provider in Switzerland. The agreement brings FightBox to Quickline’s audience, offering an array of combat sports programming as part of the sports pack. “We are delighted to partner with Quickline to bring FightBox […]

May 9, 2024

Netgem expands FAST Lane roll-out in Europe

Netgem has announced the expansion of its FAST channels aggregation service FAST Lane to two more countries, after successfully driving FAST adoption and revenue in the UK with TalkTalk and other operators for four years. FAST Lane is designed to deliver the best experience and maximum revenue for operators and content owners when rolling out […]

April 10, 2024

SWISSto12 expanding

Switzerland-based satellite manufacturer, SWISSto12, has secured additional production space at its headquarters, almost doubling the size of its existing site to 5,700m2. Additionally, the Company has welcomed several new Satcom engineering experts to its growing team, which has increased by 25 percent since the start of 2024 to over 125 employees working across its facilities […]

March 23, 2024By Chris Forrester

TF1+ aims international

France’s TF1 Group will roll out its TF1+ streaming service to international markets from June. TF1+ launched in Framce in January, and currently has more than 200 box sets of shows and over 400 films in its library, as well as around 50 FAST channels. Rudolph Belmer, TF1 Group CEO, told Series Mania attendees in […]

March 21, 2024

Switzerland: Apple TV+ on Sunrise TV

Apple TV+ is now available in Switzerland on the Sunrise TV Box as an integrated app.  “We’re launching Apple TV+ on our own TV Box as a Swiss premiere. With this, Sunrise TV is offering another exclusive benefit and, thanks to the award-winning movies and series from Apple TV+, an even larger choice of outstanding […]

December 12, 2023

Swisscom “in excellent position”

Swisscom, the Switzerland-based telco provider, has reported Q3 group revenue rose slightly by 0.3 per cent to CHF 8,202 million (€8.5bn), which translates to an increase of 0.9 per cent at constant exchange rates. In the Swiss core business, revenue fell slightly by 0.6 per cent to CHF 6,067 million. Revenue from telecommunications services decreased […]

November 2, 2023

SWISSto12 gets €26m in expansion funding

UBS Switzerland is injecting €26.15 million into fellow-Swiss business SWISSto12 for further development of its HummingSat satellite division. The extra financing will provide SWISSto12 with flexible growth capital to meet strong customer demand for its geostationary SmallSat HummingSat. SWISSto12 has won a major order for one of its geostationary HummingSat craft from Intelsat (for IS-45) […]

September 18, 2023By Chris Forrester