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ITV Picks Its ‘Oyster Card’ For Online Programme Payments

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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Posted In: E-Commerce, Payment Systems, Micropayments, Companies, ITV

Sky Adding Broadcaster-Branded VOD Services From BBC And ITV

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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Posted In: Media & Publishing, TV, IPTV, VOD, Companies, BBC, ITV, News Corp., BSkyB

ITN Unifying Ad Sales For Multi-Platform Video Syndication

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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Posted In: Advertising, Entertainment, Media & Publishing, TV, Broadcast, Social Media, Video, Companies, AOL, Channel 4, Facebook, Google, YouTube, ITV, NBC Universal, NBC, Portals, Countries, Europe, UK, itn, rightster

X Factor Maker FremantleMedia Has Beefed Up UK Digital Operations

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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Posted In: Media & Publishing, TV, Social Media, Companies, ITV

YouView Spent Almost £20m In Nine Months

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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Posted In: Media & Publishing, TV, IPTV, VOD, Companies, BBC, Channel 4, Five, ITV

Lovefilm Adding More ITV, BBC Worldwide Archive TV

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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Posted In: Media & Publishing, TV, IPTV, VOD, Companies, Amazon, BBC, BBC Worldwide, ITV, Netflix, lovefilm

Report: In Europe, Not All Windows Open For Netflix

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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Posted In: Advertising, Local, Media & Publishing, TV, Broadcast, Cable & Telecom, IPTV, VOD, Companies, Amazon, BBC, ITV, Netflix, Sony, Time Warner, Countries, Europe, UK, Italy, Ireland

TV Catchup Gets Court Victories, But Europe Will Have Final Say

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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Posted In: Legal, Copyright, Media & Publishing, TV, IPTV, Companies, Channel 4, Five, ITV

Time Warner Makes $1.4 Billion Endemol Bid

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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Posted In: Media & Publishing, TV, Companies, Channel 4, ITV, NBC Universal, Time Warner, Countries, Europe, UK, endemol

ITV Pleads For Ad Tech Standardisation

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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Posted In: Advertising, Media & Publishing, TV, IPTV, VOD, Companies, ITV

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ITV Re-Organising Regional Newsrooms’ Online Staffing

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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Posted In: Features, Exclusive, Companies, ITV

ITV Viewers Grumble At First Paid Content Roll-Out

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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Posted In: Mobile, Companies, Apple, iPad, iPhone, ITV

@ MWC: Big Media Is On The Fence Over New In-App Charges

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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Posted In: Advertising, Events, Mobile World Congress, Companies, Apple, iAd, iPad, iPhone, BBC, BBC Worldwide, Google, Android, YouTube, ITV, Pearson, Time Warner, Time Inc., Viacom, MTV, WPP, Countries, Europe, UK

Industry Moves
ITV Makes A New Online Strategy Team Under BBC Exec

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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Posted In: Industry Moves, Companies, ITV

In Online TV Re-Streaming, UK’s TVCatchup Dealt A Legal Blow

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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Posted In: Legal, Copyright, Media & Publishing, TV, Broadcast, Companies, Channel 4, Five, ITV

Time Warner’s Bewkes Tells UK’s ITV: No Need For Micropayments

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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Posted In: Companies, ITV, Time Warner

In VOD, PS3 Adds Global Channels, SeeSaw Lands NBCU

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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Posted In: Media & Publishing, TV, VOD, Companies, ITV, Sony

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Industry Moves
ITV Names Global Radio’s Pembrooke Online MD

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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Posted In: Features, Exclusive, Industry Moves, Companies, GCap, ITV

Stats: Five Percent Of English Soccer Viewers Watched Match Online

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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Posted In: Entertainment, Sports, Media & Publishing, TV, IPTV, Companies, BBC, ITV, world cup

Hulu Still M.I.A. In UK As Rival SeeSaw Opens Doors

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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Posted In: Media & Publishing, TV, VOD, Companies, Channel 4, Disney, ABC, Five, Hulu, ITV, NBC Universal, News Corp.

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