Patrick Smith
Mar 19, 2009 4:12 AM
Live streaming online TV service Zattoo is launching a browser-based version in a bid to attract casual users across Europe and will launch a paid-for, premium subscription service in Germany and Switzerland. A “very small number of users” have been invited to an in-beta trial of the new version and…
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Patrick Smith
Mar 4, 2009 5:57 PM
In a bid to keep costs down and concentrate on its core markets, US/Swiss-based live TV-streaming platform Zattoo has stopped its Belgian service, according to Broadbandtvnews.com, citing local press coverage. The site’s Belgian service showed terrestrial channel SBS Belgium as well as al-Jazeera and Bloomberg France—though the company may return…
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Robert Andrews
Nov 18, 2008 12:06 PM
TV streaming app Zattoo promoted Alex Guest to be its UK general manager after previous UK manager Alexandra Iles moved to run the service in Austria. The lineup varies from country to country depending on rights but, in the UK, the Switzerland-based outfit rebroadcasts around 30 TV channels over the…
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Robert Andrews
Oct 27, 2008 6:51 AM
Zattoo, an online TV app that rebroadcasts channels from around the world, is selling a a quarter of itself to Swiss publisher Tamedia. The deal is structured by setting up a new Zattoo Switzerland division representing ops only in its Switzerland and Liechtenstein; it’s this of which Tamedia is buying…
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Robert Andrews
Apr 28, 2008 12:04 PM
Our story last week on the legal position surrounding live TV streaming app Zattoo appears to have created some movements. In response to Channel 4’s statement it was “obviously concerned” about the service, and to another report claiming broadcasters were taking legal advice, country manager Alexandra Iles told us a…
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Robert Andrews
Apr 24, 2008 8:12 AM
Some in the TV biz seem at odds as new TV-over-the-internet applications begin to re-broadcast their live channels around the world. A Brand Republic story yesterday suggested UK broadcasters are taking legal advice over Zattoo, a Swiss-based app that re-airs six BBC channels, Channel 4 and Five across eight European…
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