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MADRID, July 6: Pay-TV platform Sogecable says it will take legal action against Mediapro, disputing the media group’s assertion that it has scored the rights to broadcast games from 39 of the country’s 42 professional football clubs, beginning in the …

LONDON, July 6: Eckoh, which services the “You Say, We Pay” quiz on Channel 4’s Richard & Judy show, has been fined £150,000 by watchdog ICSTIS, which has called on Ofcom to launch its own investigation into the matter. Richard …

BRUSSELS, July 5: The European Commission has levied a fine of more than 151 million euros against Spanish telco giant Telefónica for five years of unfair pricing in the broadband market. The fine, of 151.9 million euros, is for what …

CANBERRA, July 5: The newspaper publisher Fairfax Media and Macquarie Media Group (MMG) have reached a deal to buy Australia’s Southern Cross Broadcasting, the parent company of Southern Star, for A$1.08 billion (US$924 million). Fairfax will take control of Southern …

MUNICH, July 5: The newly enlarged ProSiebenSat.1 Group is acquiring the Austrian free-TV broadcaster PULS TV for an undisclosed sum. ProSiebenSat.1 is taking 100-percent control of the station, which services the Vienna metropolitan area, from a group of private investors. …

CARACAS, July 5: With its main competitor, RCTV, yanked off the air in Venezuela, Venevision is employing a new strategy in dealing with President Hugo Chávez, Gustavo Cisneros, whose media empire owns the broadcast outlet, told the New York Times. …

PARIS, July 5: India will be the country of focus at this year’s MIPCOM, with Zee’s Subhash Chandra and UTV’s Ronnie Screwvala set to deliver keynotes on India Day on October 8. India Day, in partnership with the Federation of …

DUBLIN, July 5: Former Vodafone executive Valerio Zingarelli has been tapped as the new CEO of Babelgum, succeeding co-founder Erik Lumer, who will now shift his focus to strategic product development. Zingarelli, previously Vodafone’s global director of networks and service …

LONDON, July 5: Five in the U.K. will launch time-shifted channels for its digital offerings Five Life and Five US on satellite this fall. “I’m delighted we can offer these new services to our viewers less than a year after …

TORONTO, July 5: CTVglobemedia will deliver 29 hours of high-definition coverage of this weekend’s Live Earth event on CTV, as well as more than 60 hours of additional live coverage on the MuchMusic, MuchMoreMusic, MuchVibe, Bravo! and Star! cable networks. …