TalkTalk To Begin In-House YouView Trial
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Broadband provider TalkTalk is to launch an in-house trial of YouView, the delayed venture to bring video-on-demand to Freeview, in early 20… Read more »
YouView Picks Sky’s Architect As CTO Ahead Of February Launch
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YouView has appointed BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) chief architect Chris Bramley its CTO, as it rolls toward an early-2012 launch. Read more »
Google Crashes TV’s Edinburgh Party
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There are three things the TV executive audience have come to expect from the annual MacTaggart lecture: the pantomime of an inter-industry… Read more »
Lord Sugar’s YouView Loses Set-Top Box Supplier
One of the YouView video-on-demand project’s seven set-top box partners is pulling out of the venture. Read more »
Tesco Fast Forwards Into Movie Streaming With Majority Stake In Blinkbox
Didn’t see this one coming at all. UK movie streaming service Blinkbox has been an obvious acquisition target, particularly following the sa… Read more »
Newspaper On The TV: Guardian, Others Will Develop YouView App
Looks like the idea of newspapers having their own TV channels could finally happen.
Guardian News & Media, together with three support com… Read more »
Updated: BSkyB Is Now Officially A YouView Content Partner
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YouView, perhaps under some pressure following its delay and its chair’s exit, has named 29 companies it will work with to finalise its spec… Read more »
UK VOD Strugglers Shake-Out: YouView Chair, SeeSaw CEO Out
The UK’s two main industry VOD ventures to have emerged from public broadcasting are turning over some of their top staff…
A month after… Read more »
The YouView Revolution Will Not Be Televised Just Yet
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There’s a lot riding on YouView. BBC director general Mark Thompson has described it as nothing less than the “battle for the living room” Read more »
Confirmed: UK’s YouView IPTV JV Delayed To 2012
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Launch of the UK’s public-service connected-TV joint venture YouView is now delayed until at least early 2012, the consortium says. Read more »
O&O: Pay-TV Viewers Not Ready To Cut Cord For YouView
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The pay-TV market is nearing a subscriptions plateau – but YouView doesn’t yet look like stealing current operators’ customers.
An Oliver &… Read more »
With YouView Nearly Built, CTO Rose Exits
It seems YouView’s first-phase technology build is drawing to a close, even if precious few people have seen anything other than mock-ups.… Read more »
YouView Calls For Long-Form Professional Video Portals In Test
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YouView is now asking video and audio portals and content management companies to apply to work with it on defining how content and services… Read more »
The IPTV Revolution Will Be Television, Little More
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What ever happened to TV’s internet revolution?
Connected TVs are about to jumpstart the nascent IPTV and VOD sectors, perhaps even with ra… Read more »
YouView Escapes Ofcom Inquiry Because It’s Not Breaking Any Rules Yet
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Ofcom says it won’t investigate the YouView connected-TV JV under the UK’s Competition Act – essentially on the grounds that it’s not anti-c… Read more »
@ AOP: BBCWW Starts Thinking About YouView VOD
Once upon a time, one might have imagined a Kangaroo on a Canvas. But the former, a commercial VOD JV involving BBC Worldwide, was prohibite… Read more »
Ofcom’s YouView Opinion Delayed By Sky Submission; YouView Angry
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Ofcom had been all ready to tell the world whether it will or will not instigate a competition inquiry in to the YouView connected TV joint… Read more »
Ofcom’s YouView Opinion Is Due; Here’s The Background
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Ofcom is due to detail this week how, if at all, it will respond to the complaints submitted about the YouView connected-TV venture by Virgi… Read more »
YouView Will Mean Cheaper VOD And More, Not Less, VC Money
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Local TV Groups Looking YouView’s Gift Horse In The Mouth
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Some people don’t know an opportunity when it’s staring them in the face.
A group of 14 local-town TV and news operators has written a lett… Read more »
Interview: YouView Has No Web Browser, No Payment Gateway, New CEO Says
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The BBC-led Canvas connected-TV JV, now confirmed as named “YouView”, will prefer TV-specific apps to the open web and will leave paid conte… Read more »
Canvas UK IPTV JV Confirmed ‘YouView’; Halton Is CEO
The brand name for the UK’s public-service connected-TV joint venture, codenamed Project Canvas, has been confirmed as “YouView” (after all,… Read more »
Canvas Complaint #5 Comes From Open-Source Software Fans
Earlier letters from Virgin Media (NSDQ: VMED), IP Vision, Six TV and United For Local Television have prompted another submission to Ofcom.… Read more »
Canvas Specs: Audience Measurement, Web Apps, Linux On-Board
Project Canvas connected-TV boxes and televisions will report viewers’ consumption of linear broadcasts, on-demand shows and apps to their p… Read more »
Jeremy Hunt: Project Canvas Is ‘Incredibly Exciting’
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The UK’s connected-TV joint venture of ISPs and public broadcasters has ministerial seal of approval.
“I’m basically very positive about Ca… Read more »
Hyperlocal TV Groups Team To Rat On Canvas To Ofcom
Here comes the third fourth complaint (that we know about) asking Ofcom to investigate the Project Canvas connected-TV venture on competitio… Read more »
Channel 5 Rejoining Project Canvas JV
As expected, the newly renamed Channel 5 is rejoining Project Canvas as a stakeholder.
Five had pulled out earlier this summer as owner RTL… Read more »
New Complaint May Prolong Ofcom’s Canvas Decision
IP Vision had always been opposed to the proposed UK connected-TV JV Project Canvas…
But, after Virgin Media (NSDQ: VMED) decided to form… Read more »
Canvas Beckons Device Makers To Jump Through Its Hoops
The Project Canvas connected-TV consortium is asking consumer electronics manufacturers that want to make compatible gadgets to submit expre… Read more »
UK’s Canvas Web-TV JV Earns A Competition Complaint From Virgin Media
Virgin Media (NSDQ: VMED) has sent a formal complaint to Ofcom, urging it declare the UK’s Project Canvas connected-TV joint venture anti-co… Read more »
Confirmed: Kip Meek Will Chair Canvas
The Meek shall inherit Project Canvas. Kip Meek, that is. The Broadband Stakeholder Group chairman has been named as chairman by the partner… Read more »
Why Five’s Exit Won’t Hurt Project Canvas Or The BBC
Five’s decision to no longer be an equity partner in the Canvas joint venture will save the broadcaster £16.5 million – and will mean very… Read more »
Five Bails From Canvas As Bertelsmann Looks For Sale
By Mark Sweney: Five has pulled out of Project Canvas, the BBC-backed venture to bring video-on-demand to Freeview and Freesat.
Five, which… Read more »
Canvas Beaten To Market And Disclosure By Europe-Wide Web TV Standard
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Project Canvas isn’t the only European effort to try harmonising upcoming connected-TV standards. As we reported last year, HbbTV, a venture… Read more »
Canvas VOD JV Approved: BBC Must Publish Specs In 20 Days
The BBC has received final approval to join a joint venture with three other broadcasters that will add a range of VOD, IPTV and internet se… Read more »
Two In Running To Head Project Canvas
By Mark Sweney: Announcement likely to come as BBC Trust approves venture, with chairman tipped to come from outside broadcasting industry… Read more »
Virgin Media CEO: Project Canvas Is Too Closed
By Neil Berkett: The BBC Trust will shortly announce whether, and on what terms, the BBC can join ITV (LSE: ITV), Channel 4, Five, TalkTalk,… Read more »
BBC Declines To Publish Canvas Spec, Until Autumn
The BBC has refused to put technical specs for its Canvas connected TV in the public domain, until the TV industry has perused the documents… Read more »
Audio Interview: BBC’s Huggers And Rose On iPlayer, Canvas And More
At the launch of upgrades to iPlayer, I caught up with BBC future media and technology director Erik Huggers and his vision and online contr… Read more »
TalkTalk’s Charles Dunstone Comes Out Fighting For Project Canvas
By Mark Sweney: Charles Dunstone, the chairman of Project Canvas partner TalkTalk, has dismissed criticism of the video-on-demand service by… Read more »
