Broadband Content Bits: New 4oD Catch-Up, KateModern In Japan, Google Suggest UK
– New 4oD Catch-Up: Channel 4 has now moved its 30-day catch-up VOD shows from its 4oD Windows app to a new Flash player on its Channel4.co… Read more »
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Hulu Gets Its First UK TV Shows, For US Eyes Only, More Coming
US VOD website Hulu has acquired its first set of rights to UK TV shows. The NBCU/News Corp (NYSE: NWS) venture signed a deal for distributo… Read more »
Industry Moves: Channel 4's Adam Gee Takes Advisory Role At Hot Cherry
By MediaGuardian, © Guardian News & Media Ltd.
By Jemima Kiss: Adam Gee, Channel 4′s resident digital creative wizard, has joined the board of web marketing firm Hot Cherry as non executi… Read more »
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Channel 4 Opens iPhone 3.0 Developer Fund For Public-Service Apps
While many rave about the cut ‘n paste and landscape keyboard functionality, UK public service broadcaster Channel 4 is thinking bigger. It’… Read more »
UK's Channel 4 Opens iPhone 3.0 Developer Fund For Public-Service Apps
While many rave about the cut ‘n paste and landscape keyboard functionality, UK public service broadcaster Channel 4 is thinking bigger. It’… Read more »
Broadband Content Bits: Perform's Equestrian Rights; Sony Ericsson Video; Channel 4 Music Site Shut
By Patrick Smith
– Perform: Sports-rights distributor Perform has signed a three-year online-content deal with the Fédération Equestre Internationale (FEI… Read more »
Industry Moves: ITN Names Disney Exec John Hardie As CEO
By Patrick Smith
News producer ITN has a new man at the top: John Hardie, EVP and MD of Disney (NYSE: DIS) TV’s operations in EMEA, has been appointed CEO. H… Read more »
Industry Moves: Cruickshank Joins Telegraph; C4 CEO For HMV; LoveFilm Ad Chief; Audience Science
– Telegraph Media Group: Former Handbag.com Nancy Cruickshank is taking her fourth job in four years, executive director of digital develop… Read more »
Broadband Content Bits: C4 Sells YouTube Ads; Sky Online Doc; Virgin VOD
By Patrick Smith
– Channel 4-YouTube: Channel 4 has struck a revenue-sharing deal with YouTube to sell advertising around its own content shown on the video… Read more »
@ FT Digital Media: Channel 4's Andy Duncan Fights Back, Snubs BSkyB Offer
By Patrick Smith
Don’t expect an unlikely partnership between BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) and Channel 4 any time soon. C4 CEO Andy Duncan has issued a stiff rejection… Read more »
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@ FT Digital Media: BSkyB CEO Wants ITV/C4 Partnership, Tiscali Deal Crashed On Price
By Patrick Smith
Lord Carter should write commercial, subscription-funded content in to public service TV’s future, BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) CEO Jeremy Darroch tol… Read more »
Bonfire Of The Broadcasters: ITV, Five Cuts Expected; C4/BT Vision Merger Mooted
With its full-year earnings, coming this Wednesday morning, ITV (LSE: ITV) is expected to underscore its rapidly disappearing sales by annou… Read more »
Broadband Content Bits: Channel4; Fox Web TV; Playboy.co.uk; Sony PSP; Imagine Publishing
By Patrick Smith
– Channel 4: While it negotiates with BBC Worldwide and Lord Carter on its future, Channel 4 is still innovating commercially: the broadcas… Read more »
C4, S4C, Five Plan HD Push-VOD For Freeview PVRs; New Film, Kids Services
Channel 4 and S4C have applied to Ofcom to launch a new Freeview offering that would include a HD video on demand service. The service would… Read more »
BBCWW, Channel 4 Agree On Areas For Collaboration; Could Include Online
By Patrick Smith
BBC Worldwide and Channel 4 have reached agreement on the areas where the two could collaborate in an on-screen joint venture, the BBC has c… Read more »
BBC News UGC Chief Taylor Plans More Video At C4 Helm
Her departure was rather quiet after such a long service – BBC interactivity editor Vicky Taylor left the corporation after 23 years in Nove… Read more »
The New Salary Ceiling: ITV, Emap Inform Join The Big Exec Pay Freeze
By Patrick Smith
One sure sign that a sector is facing bad times is when executive bonuses come under the axe and for the media biz that time is now. ITV (LS… Read more »
C4′s Skins Still A Big Hit With Online Teen Viewers
Channel 4′s teen drama Skins, which proved so popular on MySpace initially, pulled in a sixth of its viewers online for the first episode of… Read more »
Updated: C4′s New VOD Play Coming Next Month: Web Streams, Minus The Kangaroo
Update: C4 had already quietly launched embedded web catch-up a couple of months back, but only for Windows Media Player users. The new move… Read more »
Doomwatch: Layoffs/Pay Caps From Channel 4, Johnston, Publicis
By Patrick Smith
More doom and gloom in the UK media on the snowiest day in 18 years…
– Channel 4: The broadcaster has frozen all staff pay for this year… Read more »
C4 Shutting Channel4Radio.com After Digital Radio Exit
With no digital radio plans on which to pin a website any longer, Channel 4 is, unsurprisingly, closing Channel4Radio.com, which was to be a… Read more »
Channel 4 To Slash Mobile Efforts, Focus On Video
By James Quintana Pearce
Channel 4 will slash its mobile offerings to save money, moving to automatic porting and away from bespoke mobile publishing. Channel 4 has… Read more »
Jon Gisby, New Media Director, Channel 4: We Can Re-Invent Public Service
Ofcom has recommended Channel 4 merge or partner with BBC Worldwide or Five to save it from financial ruin. But what does the broadcaster th… Read more »
Broadband Content Bits: BBC Doing Widgets, Skins Via IM, Dailymotion
By Patrick Smith
– BBC: Auntie enlisted Virginia-based widget maker ClearSpring to widgetise its content, launching bbc.co.uk/widgets/. Only a mere four wid… Read more »
Digital Britain To Recommend That ISPs Cough Up User Data, BBCWW Be Less Regulated
By Patrick Smith
Stephen Carter’s upcoming Digital Britain report will force ISPs to give content owners info on illegal downloaders, will propose a part-pub… Read more »
Industry Moves: Shrimsley New FT.com Ed; Channel 4; Havas Digital
By Patrick Smith
– FT.com: FT news editor Robert Shrimsley (pictured) has been appointed managing editor of the site, taking over from James Montgomery, who… Read more »
Industry Moves: Mail On Sunday; Telegraph Media Group; Reed Midem; Five/Channel 4
By Patrick Smith
– Mail on Sunday: Associated Newspapers has hired former Bauer Media executive Marcus Rich as MD of the Mail on Sunday and deputy MD of Mai… Read more »
EC Rules Could Stifle Online Investment, Public Broadcasters Warn
By Patrick Smith
Publicly-funded broadcasters in Europe say a proposal to introduce BBC-style “public value test” across the continent would straitjacket the… Read more »
Babelgum Wants Kangaroo Prohibited; Deadline Looming
By Patrick Smith
Web video service Babelgum has called for the scrapping of the much-troubled BBCWW/C4/ITV (LSE: ITV) JV Project Kangaroo because any other o… Read more »
Broadband Content Bits: Freeview Guide, Tiered iPlayer, Tiscali Sale, Kangaroo Warning, Playdo VC
– Freeview: The DTT platform has launched a web-based TV guide for the channels it carries, with email programme reminders. Via TechRadar.… Read more »
C4 Said To Be Discussing BBCWW JV To Solve Funding Crisis
We’ve known for some time that one way out of Channel 4′s £100 million annual shortfall could be some kind of combination with BBC Worldwid… Read more »
4Digital Radio Consortium Collapses; Is There Any Future For DAB?
By Patrick Smith
After Channel 4′s abrupt u-turn on its digital radio plans in October as a result of it’s on-going funding problems, now the remaining membe… Read more »
Could The BBC Really Gift iPlayer To ITV, C4? Maybe Not
Ofcom is due to publish its recommendations on the future of public service broadcasting after hearing stakeholders’ views, with the BBC lik… Read more »
4IP: The First Project Is Out, And It’s A Football Community Tool
By MediaGuardian, © Guardian News & Media Ltd.
By Jemima Kiss: The first project in Channel 4′s 4IP scheme rolled out quietly today without much fanfare, but perhaps the broadcaster feels… Read more »
Channel4.com Removing Ads From Homepage, Focus On The Shows
By Patrick Smith
You’d think it could hardly turn its nose up at advertising of any kind at the moment – but the imminent Channel4.com relaunch will see its… Read more »
C4 Revising 4iP Timetable; Christmas Job Cuts, But Kangaroo Unaffected
Channel 4 may alter its timetable for making investments from its 4iP digital fund, as it sits out the downturn and goes through its cost-cu… Read more »
Kangaroo Will Profit From ISPs’ Investment, Broadband Lobby Group Complains
By Patrick Smith
More hurdles appear ahead for Project Kangaroo: the BBCWW-ITV-Channel 4 online video JV has come under heavy criticism from the Broadband St… Read more »
Hearst Restructures Online Sales Team, Channel 4 Axes More Commercial Staff
By Patrick Smith
When there’s no one buying, you don’t need as many people to sell. Which may explain why NatMags’ online division Hearst Digital is restruct… Read more »
UK Broadcaster Channel 4 Abandoning Mobile Ads
By Dianne See Morrison
British broadcaster Channel 4 is shutting down its mobile ad sales operation as part of its £100 million ($157 million) two year retrenchme… Read more »
Cash-Strapped Channel 4 Abandons Red Button And Mobile Advertising
By Dianne See Morrison
Channel 4 is shutting down its red button interactive TV ad sales business, as well as its mobile ad sales operations, as part of its £100… Read more »
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