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- BBCWW's U.S. Head Leaving, BBC.com America Localising Next Year
- BBC Worldwide is losing the president of its fast-growing U.S. operation, Garth Ancier. No news on his next role, but he’s staying on as a non-exec director.Deadline Hollywood has Ancier’s exit memo to staff, in which he says: “Next year, our digital story will get even stronger with the...
- External links 2009-11-20
- BBC Planning Pay-For Global iPlayer; $10 For Doctor Who?
- BBC Worldwide, the corporation’s commercial wing, is planning to launch a pay-for video-on-demand portal, a range of new paid mobile apps and a series of ecommerce partnerships overseas, after enduring a “nightmare” year in the depressed international advertising economy.Similar to iPlayer in the UK, the VOD platform has been...
- External links 2009-10-07
- UK Broadcasters Want Freeview HD DRM'd To Tackle PVR Piracy
- Freeview TV operators in the UK want to stop the mass, unauthorised copying of HD content by demanding that set-top box and PVR manufacturers accept new DRM standards. Expressing the concerns of Freeview shareholders including Channel 4 and ITV (LSE: ITV), the BBC wrote to Ofcom asking it...
- External links 2009-09-16
- BBC Considering Selling Part of Its Worldwide Division
- [by Jane Martinson] BBC executives are considering the part- privatisation of the corporation’s lucrative commercial arm, BBC Worldwide, as part of a wide-ranging review, the director general, Mark Thompson, has told the Guardian.Among the options under consideration is a stockmarket listing of the business, which had annual revenues of...
- External links 2009-09-14
- Why A Pay-For BBC Online Could Backfire On The Whiners
- The calls are getting slowly louder that the BBC should start charging for its websites. And typically, they all come from commercial rivals who don’t enjoy protection from the recession.James Murdoch’s vitriolic Edinburgh speech (hyperbolic and, at times, downright inaccurate) was one thing; now Five CEO Dawn Airey...
- External links 2009-09-03
- James Murdoch In Edinburgh: 'Analogue Attitudes In A Digital Age'
- Twenty years after his father Rupert Murdoch delivered the MacTaggart Lecture at the Edinburgh International Television Festival, chip-off-the-old-block James Murdoch took the stage tonight to lambaste the BBC, decry Ofcom and call for an end to what he calls the “creationist” approach to managing media—the end of “analogue attitudes...
- External links 2009-08-28
- BBC Hovers On iPhone Apps Due To Apple Terms
- While Apple's iPhone App Store has clocked up a billion downloads and revolutionised the delivery of mobile services in its first year, one notable absentee on the store has been the BBC. While BBC Worldwide debuted Radio Times and Lonely Planet apps, and Livestation is distribution a BBC World...
- External links 2009-08-11
- Five joins UK’s Project Canvas
- UK broadcaster Five is joining UK IPTV scheme Project Canvas, leaving Channel 4 as the only public service broadcaster not signed up to the project. Dawn Airey, Five chairman and CEO, says: ?It’s vital for broadcasters and other industry stakeholders to form partnerships such as Canvas if they are...
- Articles 2009-07-29
- Hulu rival TV.com in talks with UK broadcasters
- CBS Interactive is in talks with UK broadcasters over a plan to launch a UK version of its online video site TV.com. The VoD platform, which was acquired from CNET for USD1.8bn last year, now hosts 20,000 TV shows and is Hulu’s main rival in the US....
- Articles 2009-04-14
- BBC to share iPlayer with rivals
- The BBC is proposing sharing its iPlayer technology with its UK TV rivals. The plan forms part of a wider set of public service proposals, which the BBC says could benefit public service broadcasters by more than GBP120m per year by 2014. ...
- Articles 2008-12-12
- Channel 4 could merge with BBC Worldwide
- UK ministers and execs from broadcast regulator Ofcom are discussing a plan to merge the BBC’s profitable Worldwide wing with Channel 4 in a bid to save the beleaguered channel from bankruptcy. Though Channel 4 makes its money from advertising, it is publicly owned and, in the eyes of...
- Articles 2008-12-11
- RDF accepts USD80m buyout offer
- UK production company RDF Media Group has accepted a GBP52m (USD80m) buyout offer from a consortium comprising its management and Dutch media mogul John de Mol. Under the terms of the proposals, RDF will be taken over by a vehicle...
- Articles 2008-11-27
- BT signs VoD deal with ITV
- BT is set to offer ITV programmes on-demand as part of its digital TV service, BT Vision. The deal is the first video-on-demand VoD agreement ITV has signed witha UK TV platform. It also establishes BT as the first UK TV provider to offer VoD from all four terrestrial...
- Articles 2008-11-17
- RDF considers USD75m takeover offer
- RDF Media says it is considering a GBP50m (USD75m) takeover offer from a consortium featuring Cyrte Investment, a company linked to Big Brother founder John De Mol. RDF, the independent production company responsible for TV shows such as Location, Location,...
- Articles 2008-11-13
- Microsoft to ramp up non-game content on Xbox
- Microsoft is reportedly accelerating plans to turn its Xbox 360 games console into a home entertainment hub by introducing content from UK broadcasters Channel 4 and the BBC, as well as social network MySpace. The online features would join Sky TV, which appeared on the platform last month, as...
- Articles 2009-11-17
- Broadband Content Bits: XBox-Sky; Sony-Vidzone; Sky IPTV; Radio Website
- —XBox-Sky: BSkyB’s Sky Player service has finally gone live on Microsoft’s XBox 360 console offering Sky channels on a live and on-demand basis. You don’t need a satellite dish—but you do need a gold XBox Live membership worth £40 a year in order to buy Sky subscription packages. Via...
- External links 2009-10-27
- BBC Sets iPlayer Syndication Terms, Commits To Roll-Outs For Certain Platforms
- The BBC’s plans to share the technology behind the iPlayer with fellow PSBs across the world may have been shot down this week, but it’s still planning to push its on-demand content to as many different third-party platforms as possible.New guidelines issued on Tuesday say third-party deals must be...
- External links 2009-10-21
- Ensequence raises USD14.5m for interactive TV
- Interactive TV firm Ensequence has raised USD14.5m of an anticipated USD22.5m funding round from an anonymous investor. This is Ensequence's fourth funding round, and follows a third round in 2007 in which the company raised USD40m from an unidentified source. ...
- Articles 2009-09-17
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- BBC to slash management pay bill
- The BBC's £79m pay bill for senior management is to be cut by a quarter under plans approved yesterday by the broadcaster's regulatory body, which will see more than 100 positions axed by 2013. Executive directors also face an "indefinite" suspension of bonuses as part of the scheme, put forward...
- News items 2009-10-29
- BBC to cut senior management bill
- The BBC's £79m pay bill for senior management is set to fall by a quarter and more than 100 positions will go by 2013 under plans approved by the broadcaster's regulatory body. Executive directors face an "indefinite" suspension of bonuses under the scheme, put forward after the BBC Trust ordered...
- News items 2009-10-29
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