Robert Andrews
Jan 30, 2012 6:34 AM
Telegraph.co.uk reports the UK’s main commercial free-to-air TV broadcaster has delayed a programme under which it wants to charge online viewers for some content. But that’s not quite the case.
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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 19, 2012 5:15 AM
UK TV video news producer ITN is unifying its online ad sales platform as it expands into a burgeoning number of online destinations.
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Robert Andrews
Jan 16, 2012 12:15 PM
TV producer FremantleMedia UK has created a new digital division out of the existing operations of two of its constituent production companies.
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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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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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Robert Andrews
Nov 22, 2011 8:31 AM
In the copyright case brought by UK broadcasters against the TV Catchup restreaming site, a UK High Court judge has handed the site some some in-case victories. But the ultimate question of legality will be settled by the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU).
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Mark Sweney
MediaGuardian
Nov 4, 2011 3:49 PM
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.
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Robert Andrews
Oct 14, 2011 6:00 AM
The UK’s leading commercial TV broadcaster, ITV (LSE: ITV), has issued a “rallying cry” for industry-wide harmonisation of ad targeting technologies, as it tries using new-wave ads to monetise its on-demand video ahead of a micropayments push.
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Robert Andrews
Oct 3, 2011 6:48 AM
ITV (LSE: ITV) is making 10 dedicated online news producers redundant from regional newsrooms around the UK, as it tries to instill digital capability across its staff, paidContent has learned.
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Robert Andrews
May 31, 2011 3:52 AM
UK broadcaster ITV (LSE: ITV) has launched one of its first efforts on the way to charging for some digital content, an aim set by new CEO Adam Crozier.
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Mobile, Companies, Apple, iPad, iPhone, ITV
Ingrid Lunden
Feb 16, 2011 8:53 AM
While Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) and Google (NSDQ: GOOG) are battling it out to woo publishers with their in-app payment services, I asked major content publishers at Mobile World Congress for their take on native in-app payments, and what it might mean to their own business models. The bottom line: of…
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Robert Andrews
Jan 31, 2011 9:23 AM
ITV (LSE: ITV) is set to crank its paid online strategy up a gear. It’s hired former BBC Online exec James Micklethwait to head a new team responsible for ITV’s online and on-demand products, both free and paid. The broadcaster is looking for ways to augment its ad-supported offerings with…
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Robert Andrews
Nov 29, 2010 7:56 AM
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 Britain’s main broadcasters, saying that “the claim does have a real prospect of success”.
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Robert Andrews
Oct 5, 2010 4:12 AM
Some unsolicited advice on Telegraph.co.uk today, from Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) CEO Jeff Bewkes to ITV (LSE: ITV), which, under new chief Adam Crozier, is keener than ever to find some content it can charge viewers for…
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Robert Andrews
Aug 18, 2010 6:50 AM
A few new deals see would-be VOD aggregators march forward at a similar pace…
Sony (NYSE: SNE) is adding VOD from seven TV channels to the TV section of its PlayStation 3 console…
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Robert Andrews
Aug 17, 2010 6:42 AM
Global Radio’s online and interactive director Robin Pembrooke is leaving to fill the vacant managing director post of ITV.com at the UK’s leading commercial broadcaster ITV.
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Robert Andrews
Jun 24, 2010 6:27 AM
Let’s hope broadcasters have got their CDNs in order - this summer’s World Cup is proving a genuine watershed for live online TV streaming. Look at these stats… —BBC.co.uk served a peak of 800,000 concurrent live streams during yesterday’s England-Slovenia match; Wimbledon was also streaming, but the BBC said the…
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Robert Andrews
Feb 16, 2010 9:43 AM
Telegraph.co.uk’s sources have been promising the paper Hulu’s imminent UK launch for so long now that, now it’s reporting “further delays” to the U.S. VOD site’s ambitions here, we’re barely inclined to mention it - but anyway… Despite claiming in August that Hulu was in “most advanced discussions” to land…
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