C4′s Duncan Urges YouTube ‘Give Money Back To TV Producers’
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C4 Closes Digital Sales House 4DS, Part Of £100 Million Cost Cuts
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4iP Now Open: C4 Seeks Applications For £50 Million Digital Investment Fund
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Channel 4 Abandons Digital Radio Plans To Help Save £100 Million
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Channel 4 has abandoned all plans to launch a series of DAB radio stations next year because of the economic downturn, report FT.com and Med… Read more »
European Commission May Nix Channel 4 Aid
By Dianne See Morrison
The European Commission may put a stop to the £14 million in funding that Ofcom has proposed giving Channel 4 to help it pay for its switch… Read more »
Broadband Content Bits: 4oD Best Quality, ITV.com Focusing On Sport, Five-Brightcove
– 4oD best quality: 56 percent of UK broadband users have viewed internet video in the last year, new Starcom research shows. Half of them… Read more »
Industry Moves: Tom Loosemore Leaving Ofcom To Head C4′s 4iP
Tom Loosemore is leaving Ofcom in October to head Channel 4′s £50 million 4iP digital investment project – his latest key role in UK public… Read more »
Online Advertising Outpaces TV Spend: Ofcom Report
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Online advertising spend has outpaced advertising on mainstream TV in 2007, surging 40 percent to £2.8 billion, Ofcom reported today in its… Read more »
Internet Video Increasing Traditional TV Viewing?
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Broadband Content Bits: 4iP Delayed, FYI Radio Grant, BBC Young Ones
– Channel 4: The £50 million 4iP digital investment fund, to which C4 is contributing £20 million, has delayed its launch from the planne… Read more »
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Industry Moves: Vibrant Media Staffs Up, 4DS Restructures
– Vibrant: Vibrant Media, ad ad company responsible for those double-underlined in-line text ads, has hired Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) Advertis… Read more »
UK Broadcaster Channel 4 Overhauls Mobile Site
By Dianne See Morrison
British broadcaster Channel 4 is overhauling its mobile web site in time for the launch of latest series of the reality TV show Big Brother.… Read more »
C4 Courting Hackers This Summer: £50 Million Giveaway, Alcohol Provided
Channel 4 will open the application process for its £50 million new 4IP digital investment fund at its own new “festival of ideas for techn… Read more »
4Radio Seeks Branded DAB Radio Tuner For iPods, Mobiles
Channel 4 Radio is talking to DAB radio makers about launching a £20 branded mini tuner for iPods and mobile phones, as it looks to build a… Read more »
@ PPA Wrap: Gazette Live, Telegraph, Channel4.com Try Community
– Trinity Mirror: The Gazette Live site, which Trinity Mirror’s (LSE: TNI) Teesside Evening Gazette launched two years ago with 20 hyperloc… Read more »
Radio Bits: 4Radio Strife, Networked Programming, Rajar Online Survey
Uncertainty around DAB and the costs involved in launching digital radio operations persist…
– 4Radio: Channel 4 assures the multi-chann… Read more »
Zattoo Divides Broadcasters; Live Internet TV The New Wild West?
Some in the TV biz seem at odds as new TV-over-the-internet applications begin to re-broadcast their live channels around the world. A Bra… Read more »
Earnings: UK’s C4 New Media Losses Grow; “Privatize C4″
From paidContent:UK: In UK, the alternative public broadcaster Channel 4′s new media losses grew from £6 million to £15.4 million in 2007,… Read more »
Earnings: C4 New Media Losses Grow To £15.4 Million On 4oD, Reorg Costs
Channel 4′s new media losses grew from £6 million to £15.4 million in 2007, as the broadcaster swung to its first ever deficit, leaving it… Read more »
Sell BBC Radio, C4 To Fund Public Web Publisher: Bazalgette
Add this to the file of BBC detractors. Former Endemol creative director Peter Bazalgette has called for BBC Radio 1 and 2 to be sold and fo… Read more »
Kangaroo: August Launch Rumoured; 4oD Reorgs In Preparation
As predicted yesterday on news of Ashley Highfield’s appointment as CEO, it looks like ITV/C4/BBC Worldwide online TV JV Project Kangaroo wo… Read more »
Industry Moves: BT’s Verwaayen Stepping Down; C4 Taps Virgin For New Media
- BT: BT (NYSE: BT) CEO Ben Verwaayen will step down after six years on June 1, to be replaced by Ian Livingston, CEO of the BT Retail divis… Read more »
Channel 4 Invests In School Of Everything, Sees More Community Investments
Channel 4 and others have invested “a six-figure sum” in School Of Everything, a pseudo-educational web network connecting mentors with peop… Read more »
BBC And ITV Seek Legal Advice Against Listings Aggregator TVguide.co.uk
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The BBC and ITV (LSE: ITV) have sought the advice of lawyers to determine whether the deep-linking that online TV listings site TVguide.co.u… Read more »
Broadband Content Bits: Virgin 50 Mbps, Kangaroo Ads, Velocix P2P
- Virgin 50 Mbps: Nine million VMED customers will have access to 50 Mbps cable this year, the company said, considering best methods for ro… Read more »
Broadband Content Bits: Orange TV; C4 On iTunes; Blinkx Desktop; EU Leads US
- Orange TV: Orange’s UK IPTV service still shows no signs of emerging from testing. The service already operates in France, Poland and Spai… Read more »
Channel 4 Starts £50 Million ’4IP’ Digital Production Fund
Channel 4 and UK regional media development agencies will start a £50 million digital commissioning fund as the broadcaster looks to retain… Read more »
Nokia Roundup: Nokia Launches Music TV Show; German State Threatens To Sue Nokia
By Dianne See Morrison
– Nokia Launches Music TV Program: Another content foray for Nokia (NYSE: NOK). The Finnish handset giant is launching a music TV program… Read more »
£11,000 Bill For Downloading Friends Points To Excessive Roaming Data Costs
If ever there were proof Europe’s roaming data charges need to come down, see this Times story about the £11,000 cost of downloading four e… Read more »
C4′s Digital Future: A Stake In BBC? Govt. Partnerships? Fill In The Blanks…
It’s probably just one option amongst many, but the government’s department for culture, media and sport is examining a proposal that would… Read more »
Channel 4 Photo Ops Bridge TV, Web, Mobile Media
Online and mobile amateur photography initiatives started by Channel 4 are clicking with budding creatives. A web community for Picture This… Read more »
Premium Rate Phone-In Software Firm Eckoh In Early Takeover Talks
By Dianne See Morrison
Voice recognition telco firm Eckoh, one of the companies behind the recent premium rate call-TV scandals, said on Friday it had received a n… Read more »
Broadband Content Bits: Current TV Vlog Platform, C4 Switches Schools To Social Nets
- Current TV: The Al Gore-owned progressive video website and TV channel is doing a Bebo. Where the social network this month launched Open… Read more »
Industry Moves: C4′s Kangaroo Exec Henwood Seeks New Digital Ventures
One of the execs behind the upcoming Kangaroo online TV service will quit his employer in the new year. As Channel 4 new business director,… Read more »
Channel 4 Buys 10 Percent Mobile IQ Stake, Entering Mobile Video Ad Space
By Dianne See Morrison
Channel 4 is buying a 10 percent stake in mobile ad tech firm Mobile IQ to boost its mobile advertising efforts (via NMA).
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Interview: Kangaroo’s BBC, ITV, C4 Execs: More Partners Coming, Going Portable
Kangaroo will gobble up 4oD, will leave iPlayer unharmed, is seeking more broadcast partners and will offer transfer to portable media playe… Read more »
Kangaroo: The Framework Behind The Plan To Monetise TV’s Long Tail
The main strategy behind Kangaroo – the VOD online TV joint venture announced this morning by BBC Worldwide, ITV (LSE: ITV) and Channel 4 -… Read more »
If They Can Hulu, We Can Kangaroo: UK Broadcasters Join For Kangaroo Commercial VOD Platform
BBC Worldwide, ITV (LSE: ITV) and Channel 4 have confirmed they are joining forces to launch a major new online on-demand UK TV joint ventur… Read more »
Industry Moves: C4 Taps Ex-Yahoo Gisby For First New Media Director Role
Channel 4 is appointing former Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) exec Jon Gisby as its first director of new media, paidContent:UK has learned. Gisby has p… Read more »
Guardian Joins Radio, Podcasting Trade Groups, Positions Against C4
Guardian Unlimited is further staking out its non-core media credentials by joining the Radio Academy and the UK Podcasters Association. The… Read more »
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