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Telefonica's Digital+ buy cleared with strict conditions

2015-04-24 08:31:00| Telecompaper Headlines

(Telecompaper) Spain's communications and antitrust regulator CNMC has approved Telefonica's takeover of Digital+ almost a year after the operator agreed to purchase Prisa's 56 percent stake in the pay-TV platform for EUR 750 million. The full takeover of Digital+ brings with it a large customer base in the form of the 1.6 million subscribers to pay-TV channel Canal+ and gives Telefonica control of 80 percent of Spain's pay-TV market, a situation that prompted the regulator to attach a series of conditions to the deal. Above all, Telefonica has been required to make available 100 percent of the content of its so-called premium channels currently broadcast on both Canal+ and Movistar TV to its rivals in the form of wholesale packages. Each competitor will be able to broadcast 50 percent of the resulting content, including exclusive live sports events (Champions League and La Liga football, Formula 1, Moto GP and Olympic Games) and major US studio productions. Crucially, rival companies such as Vodafone and Orange, are to be allowed to choose the content of the wholesale packages made available by Telefonica to ensure the replicability of the offer and prevent what the CNMC defined as "margin squeeze situations".

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Calif drought: Brown admin stick with strict conservation targets, despite court ruling

2015-04-22 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Mercury News: Gov. Jerry Brown is sticking to his statewide mandatory water conservation targets, his administration said Tuesday, even as a new appeals court ruling limits the ability of cities and water districts to hit people with punishing rates to encourage them to save water. "The court's decision is bad," said Michael Lauffer, chief counsel at the State Water Resources Control Board in Sacramento of the Monday ruling by an Orange County appellate court. "It's going to frustrate some local agencies' abilities...

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European calls for strict climate measures ahead of Lima talks

2014-11-29 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Bloomberg: Countries around the world must put in place a range of emission-reducing policies if global warming is to be contained, according to a nonbinding resolution adopted Nov. 26 by the European Parliament in preparation for the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change summit in Lima, which starts Dec. 1. In particular, a global climate deal for the post-2020 period should stimulate widespread adoption of energy efficiency and renewable-energy policies, carbon pricing and resource efficiency,...

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Health groups demand strict ozone standards

2014-11-19 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Hill: Healthcare professionals want the EPA to adopt the strictest standards possible for ozone pollution. A new standard is not only long overdue, but publicly needed, Janice Nolen, assistant vice president of national policy at the American Lung Association, said in a telephone conference on Tuesday. The current standard of 75 parts per billion [ppb] fails to adequately protect public health. Were proposing a new rule of 60 parts per billion over a period of 8 hours. By court order, the...

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