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Virgin Media, the UK cable operator owned by John Malone’s Liberty Global, has agreed a major merger with telecoms giant Telefonica’s British mobile company O2 in a deal worth £24B ($29.57B). The two companies will form a 50:50 joint venture, which Liberty Global and Telefonica hopes will become an internet and mobile…

Munich-based Beta Film is deepening its cooperation with Spanish telco Telefonica's Movistar+. Going into this year's MIPTV, the two firms have closed a multi-year pact on “a substantial, annual number of productions” which Beta will co-produce and distribute, often coming aboard at an earlier stage. Beta has recently…

Netflix and Telefónica announced a global partnership that will bring the Internet video service to Telefonica’s TV and video platforms in Europe and Latin America, confirming speculation about a potential deal. Telefónica Executive Chairman José María Álvarez-Pallete announced the partnership by tweeting a campy…

UPDATED, 8:30 AM: U.S.-based Spanish-language digital media company Latin Everywhere has officially changed its name to Pongalo to consolidate the organization under the brand of its YouTube network and subscription OTT platform. Pongalo, which owns one of the world's largest IP libraries of digital rights to…

In a sign of the growing convergence to be expected between Vivendi’s film and TV giant StudioCanal and Spanish telco Telefonica, the two companies have agreed on a major content deal for Section Zero, The Five and Spotless. Telefonica has picked up pay TV and SVOD rights for Spain, as well as renewing its licensing…

EXCLUSIVE: When Vivendi finally closes its deal with Mediaset, described by insiders as an “industrial alliance,” in what should be the next few days, the result will be a media giant right in the heart of Europe. The deal as currently envisaged will see the companies swap a 3.5% stake in the other, each get a member…

Vodafone Group PLC has confirmed it is in early talks with John Malone’s Liberty Global PLC over a deal that may lead to asset sharing between the two companies. There has been chatter for months that Malone was eyeing Vodafone to further consolidate his European and international expansion. Speaking in May, Malone…

Call it European Dis-Union: The battle for supremacy in the Euro TV market continues to heat up with Telefonica scoring a major victory over rival Telecom Italia in its attempts to acquire French media giant Vivendi's Brazilian broadband operator GVT. Got that? While the primary focus of that deal appears to be the…