Robert Andrews
Jan 30, 2012 5:23 AM
The UK’s leading pay-TV provider BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) is taking a significant step to improve its PVR box’s new IP on-demand TV service by adding catch-up TV services from the BBC and ITV.
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Ingrid Lunden
Jan 13, 2012 7:35 AM
Twitter looks like it is ramping up its staffing and operations in the UK: today it was announced that the company will be making a new hire, Lewis Wiltshire, who oversees social media for BBC Sport. The loss is a keen one for the BBC: among Wiltshire’s responsibilities, he was…
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Staci D. Kramer
Jan 13, 2012 3:00 AM
So what goes through the mind of the former Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) CEO who championed the Newton handheld as he navigates the smartphone-and-tablet-dense CES 2012? The role the failed device played in making it all happen, by providing a reason to create a low-powered microprocessor, John Sculley told the BBC.
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Ingrid Lunden
Jan 10, 2012 5:54 PM
Today it was revealed that Paul Berry, the longtime-CTO of AOL’s Huffington Post, will be leaving his role at the news site, along with the unrelated departure of the site’s managing editor, Nico Pitney. We spoke to Paul earlier about the social-media focused startup that he plans to launch next,…
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Mark Sweney
MediaGuardian
Jan 10, 2012 4:58 AM
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 ($1.54)m to staff.
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Robert Andrews
Jan 6, 2012 5:30 AM
Amazon’s Lovefilm is extending existing deals with ITV (LSE: ITV) and BBC Worldwide to gain a larger catalogue of their shows for online streaming, as it begins to defend against Netflix’s imminent UK arrival.
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Robert Andrews
Jan 5, 2012 1:07 PM
BBC Worldwide is exploiting the BBC show Strictly Come Dancing (Dancing With The Stars) through a premium partnership with Stardoll, the virtual doll dress-up site for kids.
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Mark Sweney
MediaGuardian
Jan 5, 2012 11:35 AM
The BBC Trust has approved plans to run advertising on a number of BBC World Service websites as well as in radio broadcasts for the first time in the corporation’s history.
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Ingrid Lunden
Dec 29, 2011 10:01 AM
When you consider the internet, on-demand services, games consoles, mobiles, apps and [fill in your personal favorite here], we have more ways than ever before to watch TV content whenever and however we want. But despite the growth of services like Hulu, YouTube (NSDQ: GOOG) and Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX), it…
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Ingrid Lunden
Dec 23, 2011 6:04 PM
Some more detail appears to be emerging in the lead-up to Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) launching in the UK next year: in the midst of signing a series of key content deals, the streaming service looks like it could also be missing out on some of the most popular local TV…
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Ingrid Lunden
Dec 21, 2011 12:07 PM
More scrutiny of News Corporation’s UK tabloids by Ofcom… but this time with a good result for the media company. The UK communications regulator has ruled in favor of The Sun newspaper and determined that video on the news site should not be regulated as video-on-demand. The decision is wide-ranging…
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MediaGuardian
Dec 19, 2011 3:43 PM
The BBC iPlayer iOS app has been downloaded 1.1m times in the week since it was updated to run on Apple’s iPhone and iPod touch as well as iPad, says Daniel Danker, the broadcaster’s general manager of programmes and on demand.
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Robert Andrews
Dec 13, 2011 3:18 PM
Two of the biggest global news brands are gaining a bigger U.S. foothold - but, while one has finally broken in to the TV mainstream, the other is making greater headway online.
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Ingrid Lunden
Dec 8, 2011 6:05 AM
Consumers are increasingly using Facebook for video - but, despite studios and broadcasters hosting more of their content on the social network, it remains mostly a gateway to video hosted elsewhere.
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Robert Andrews
Dec 5, 2011 12:08 PM
Lonely Planet’s new San Francisco-based mobile startup has gone live with its flagship mobile travel guide app Wenzani, which paidContent first reported about in September.
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Robert Andrews
Nov 28, 2011 9:51 AM
News of the latest hirings and exits in the digital media business in brief…
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Robert Andrews
Nov 9, 2011 8:55 AM
Catch-up TV platforms like BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) and Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) have won a significant concession from the BBC that may allow them to offer the corporation’s TV and radio shows within their own services.
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David Kaplan
Nov 1, 2011 8:56 AM
Some of the stories people are talking about this morning:» With Launch Of The Verge, SB Nation Parent Rebrands As Vox Media (paidContent) » Adobe (NSDQ: ADBE), Looking To Grab Rising Online Video Ad Dollars, Buys Auditude (paidContent) » DirecTV (NYSE: DTV) and News Corp. (NSDQ: NWS) reach new deal…
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Robert Andrews
Oct 14, 2011 5:54 AM
“Every sport, from every location.” That is BBC Sport’s mantra for delivering next year’s London 2012 Olympic Games digitally.
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Ingrid Lunden
Oct 6, 2011 9:42 AM
Today’s big round of cuts announced by the BBC—it will lose some 2,000 jobs, order relocations for others, and make big changes to the programming schedule in order to cut 20 percent from the BBC budget—largely left digital assets at the corporation untouched. But that’s mainly because the BBC had…
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