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Major content sharing deal launched

Greece's two biggest subscription TV providers will start sharing their sports content Friday, following an agreement they made last month.

"The agreement has no precedent in the Greek market, although we have examples of content exchange in the UK, Germany and Cyprus," Panayotis Georgiopoulos, CEO of Nova Greece, told Kathimerini.

“Pirated” boxes and expensive television rights unite platforms

The market interprets the agreement between BC Partners and Deutsche Telekom to broadcast each other’s sports programs as a prelude to developments in the business and sports fields – The reasons that led the two competitors to form an alliance and the significant benefits for viewers.

Tennis has a new "king" – Alcaraz won the US Open!

Alcaraz triumphed after three hours and 21 minutes - 6:4, 2:6, 7:6(1), 6:3.
The Spaniard won the first Grand Slam title of his career in the first final he played, while Ruud lost his second final, after Roland Garros, to Nadal this year.
Alcaraz (19) became world no.1 and thus made history, as he was the first teenager to do so, and also the youngest ever to do so.

Vodafone TV secures exclusive rights to HBO content

Vodafone Greece announced on Monday it has scooped the exclusive rights to the premium TV content of US giant HBO for its VTV cable TV subscription service.

This 'defection' of HBO's content from Nova's service is the second major blow for the troubled satellite platform after it lost the rights to soccer's Champions League to Cosmote TV.

NBA deal extension for Cosmote TV

Leading pay-TV platform Cosmote TV on Tuesday announced it has signed a two-year partnership extension with the world's biggest basketball league, the NBA.

With an enhanced agreement, Cosmote TV will air a greater number of NBA matches on Cosmote Sport channels, while all games will also be available on demand through the Cosmote TV GO and Cosmote Replay TV services.

Nova satellite TV gives customers more access

Nova, the satellite pay-TV platform of listed telecoms company Forthnet, announced on Thursday the introduction of a pioneering service that allows its triple-play customers (Nova3play) to have full unlimited access to its library of movies, TV series, etc, for free by connecting their satellite receiver to their Internet router.

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