Industry Moves: Telegraph, We R Interactive, Briefing Media, Turner
Here is a round-up of some of the latest executive-level hirings and exits in the world of digital media business… Read more »
ITN Unifying Ad Sales For Multi-Platform Video Syndication
UK TV video news producer ITN is unifying its online ad sales platform as it expands into a burgeoning number of online destinations. Read more »
YouView Spent Almost £20m In Nine Months
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The much-delayed video-on-demand service YouView spent almost £20 ($30.89)m in its first nine months of operation and paid more than £1 ($… Read more »
News Corp.'s Sun Wins Appeal: Video On News Sites Won't Be Regulated As VOD
More scrutiny of News Corporation’s UK tabloids by Ofcom… but this time with a good result for the media company. The UK communications re… Read more »
TV Catchup Gets Court Victories, But Europe Will Have Final Say
In the copyright case brought by UK broadcasters against the TV Catchup restreaming site, a UK High Court judge has handed the site some som… Read more »
Time Warner Makes $1.4 Billion Endemol Bid
Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) has made a takeover bid for Endemol, the debt-laden Dutch production company behind Big Brother and Deal or No Deal. Read more »
Microsoft Shifts Strategies To Expand Xbox Live TV, Go Global
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After years of effort and speculation, Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) has pieced together nearly 40 broadcast services from around the world to boos… Read more »
Channel 4, FilmFlex Position Themselves For Possible TV Movie Subscriptions
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Back in November, Channel 4 launched Film4oD, a web-based, on-demand adjunct to its Film4 linear channels that requires payment for movies.… Read more »
SeeSaw Loses C4 Shows In Funding Hitch
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The new owner of SeeSaw has run into difficulty hitting a deadline to secure multimillion-pound funding and has lost a key content deal with… Read more »
Updated: GetGlue Collects Its First UK TV Sticker, Signs Up Channel 4
GetGlue, the media “check-in” app that lets users share what they are watching, listening and reading with their social network, has inked a… Read more »
Mobile Lowdown 7-13-11: iPhone 5; Lodsys; RIM; Android Tablets/Newspapers
A look at some of the big stories in mobile today:
– iPhone 5: Another analyst’s view on what to expect with the next iPhone; this time, i… Read more »
Film4 Seeking Exec To Head Online Movie Distribution
Channel 4 is creating a new executive post to oversee the digital division of its movie production arm, Film4. Read more »
Channel 4′s Locke Latest To Leave
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Channel 4′s multi-platform commissioner Matt Locke has left the broadcaster, NMA says. Read more »
Channel 4 Asks UK Government To Outlaw Online Re-Transmission
Broadcaster Channel 4 is asking the UK government to rewrite the law so that online services would be barred from re-transmitting TV channel… Read more »
UK IP Review: Google, Content Owners Disagree On ‘Fair Use’
Google (NSDQ: GOOG) and large media owners have submitted opposing responses to the digitally-focused review of the UK’s intellectual proper… Read more »
BSkyB Touts Broadband Backbone To Local TV
Channel 4 confirmed on Thursday that it had submitted an expression of interest in the proposed national TV network that underpins Jeremy Hu… Read more »
Industry Moves: AOP Committee, C4 Audiences, Virgin Media Sales
– AOP: GNM’s product development head Piers Jones (pictured) will chair the AOP’s product development committee, taking over from the FT’s… Read more »
BBC iPlayer Out-Linking Is More Difficult Than First Thought
It’s eight months since the BBC said it would link from out its iPlayer to commercial counterparts’ own TV catch-up sites. But it still hasn… Read more »
PS3 Adds ITV, C4 To On-Demand Line-Up
ITV (LSE: ITV) and Channel 4 shows such as Coronation Street and The Inbetweeners will soon be available to watch via Sony’s PlayStation 3 g… Read more »
In Online TV Re-Streaming, UK’s TVCatchup Dealt A Legal Blow
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A High Court judge has dismissed an application by UK TV re-streaming site TVCatchup to throw out a copyright case brought against it by Bri… Read more »
Confirmed: 4iP Head Loosemore Leaving Channel 4
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It may have been inevitable, with Channel 4 having chosen to pull its 4iP digital investment activities more closely in to its new online st… Read more »
C4 Could Struggle To Profit From Paid PC Movies
Earlier this month, Channel 4 debuted Film4oD, a movie-centric extension of its 4oD TV catch-up brand.
The model – 48-hour rentals from 50p… Read more »
Channel 4 Launches Film4oD Movie VOD With FilmFlex
Channel 4 has teamed up with FilmFlex to launch a video-on-demand digital film rental service for Film4 with more than 500 titles available… Read more »
C4 Online Restructure: 4iP Name Disappearing
Channel 4 is axing 4iP, its £20m digital innovation fund, as part of a restructure that sees its online teams integrated into one departmen… Read more »
C4 News Aims For Depth With £500k Website Revamp
By Jemima Kiss: Where do you start with a website overhaul? For Channel 4 News, which has spent nine months revamping its web presence, the… Read more »
Industry Moves: Channel 4, IPC Media, FT Blog
– Channel 4: Future Media & Technology is being split. Richard Davidson-Houston’s (pictured) new Online team moves to the Creative Division… Read more »
Mobile Content Bits: Ovi Browser, Autosport App, Pocket TV On C4
– Ovi browser: Nokia (NYSE: NOK) has launched an Opera mini-style web browser for Series 40 phones that compresses webpages before they rea… Read more »
Industry Moves: TheBusinessDesk.com, FT Alphaville Deputy Ed., C4 Online
– FT Alphaville: Tokyo-based reporter Tracy Alloway is becoming deputy editor of the Financial Times’ live analysis community and blog, wor… Read more »
C4 Online Rejig: Davidson-Houston New Online Head
Channel 4′s future media division is effectively being dissolved by that name as part of new CEO David Abraham’s restructure, intended to un… Read more »
C4 To Handle UKTV’s TV And Online Ad Sales, IDS Closing
By Mark Sweney: Channel 4 has struck a deal with UKTV, owner of channels including Dave and Gold, to handle its TV and online advertising sa… Read more »
Industry Moves: C4′s Gisby, IFPI CEO, Magnetise, Specific Media
– C4′s Gisby: C21 reckons Channel 4 new media director Jon Gisby is “considering his future” after his seeing his role split under new CEO… Read more »
Dan Heaf Returns To BBCWW From 4iP As Digital Director
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By Josh Halliday: BBC Worldwide has appointed Daniel Heaf, the digital commissioner of 4iP, to the newly-created role of digital director.… Read more »
Chart: Channel 4 Back To £3 Million Online Profit
Online video investment is now paying off for Channel 4. The Future Media division turned in a £3.2 million operating profit during 2009.… Read more »
C4 Uniting Online, TV Commissioning In Exec Rejig
By Mark Sweney: Channel 4 is to cut 25% of its 48 senior managers and has appointed Julian Bellamy as acting chief creative officer, as new… Read more »
ITV, C4, Five Also Get Yanked From Zattoo
First the BBC told Swiss TV re-streamer Zattoo to take down its channels. Then ITV (LSE: ITV), Channel 4 and Five filed in court to have TVC… Read more »
Big Brother’s Live Stream Is Back – And Costs £14.99
Channel 4 had ditched the pay-per-view fees for VOD that it had launched with its original 4oD incarnation – but that doesn’t mean it won’t… Read more »
ITV, C4, Five Jointly File In Court Against TVCatchup, Who’s Next?
We’ve covered TV re-streaming services like Zattoo and TVCatchup for the last couple of years now and, regardless of any opinions those serv… Read more »
Project Canvas Clears OFT Scrutiny In Strange Ruling
The Office of Fair Trading has taken two months to rule that… it is not supposed to investigate the BBC’s proposed Project Canvas connecte… Read more »
Broadband Content Bits: iPlayer Dip, ITN Fashion, C4 News, Corbis Ads
– iPlayer dip: The BBC’s VOD service posted rare slow growth in March. Total monthly requests grew by only 1.2 million to 117.6 million, wh… Read more »
Channel 4 Loses Online Video Exec Joel Stark
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Channel 4 is losing one of its key on-demand executives: Joel Stark, who has been the broadcaster’s head of business development, is plannin… Read more »
