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• And in the real world....MySpace, Google, M&S, BBC, ITV, BT, Costa, Whitbread, Aviva, Channel 4, GM and Vauxhall

  BNET - 2009-11-05

  MySpace, once the centerpiece of Rupert Murdoch's digital strategy, has fallen "significantly" short of expectations and is jeopardising a critical $900m internet search agreement with Google.Source: The Financial Times The UK is "skint" and the next Government could be forced to raise VAT beyond 17.5pc as it sets about "refilling...

  Tags: MySpace, Financial Times, British Broadcasting Corp., iTV, British Telecommunications, Whitbread Plc.

• Five joins UK’s Project Canvas

  Strategy Eye - 2009-07-29

  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...

  Tags: British Broadcasting Corp., Broadcaster, Channel 4, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, BT, BBC, ITV, Five, Editorial, Microsoft Corp.

• BBC to share iPlayer with rivals

  Strategy Eye - 2008-12-12

  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. ...

  Tags: British Broadcasting Corp., Public Service, Competition Commission, Video On Demand (VoD), Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, BBC, BBC Worldwide, BT, Channel 4, ITV, Ofcom, Andrew McDonald

• BBC Wins Support For Open VOD Standard, Will Share iPlayer With Rivals

  Content Next - 2008-12-11

  UK commercial TV leader ITV (LSE: ITV) and telco BT (NYSE: BT) are signing up to a BBC project to create an open standard for delivering on-demand video over broadband to living room TVs. They are joining Project Canvas, under which the BBC wants to mobilise content makers, ISPs...

  Tags: VoD, Partnership, On-demand, British Broadcasting Corp., British Telecommunications, U.K., Video, iTV, TVs, Business Structures, Corporate Communications, Video On Demand (VoD), Cloud Computing, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Finance, Marketing, Companies, BBCi, Countries, UK & Europe, Robert Andrews, BT Group Plc.

• Highfield joins Hills

  - 2008-12-01

  William Hill said Ashley Highfield will be joining its board as a non-executive from 17 November. Highfield is currently head of Project Kangaroo the proposed joint venture between the BBC, ITV and Channel 4 which will offer a commercial on-demand service available online and digitally.

  Tags: British Broadcasting Corp., iTV, William Hill Plc.

• Pandora

  - 2008-10-16

  Randall staying put after failed ITV bid Ever since Britain's economy began to head south, bosses at ITV News have been facing a dilemma: how to compete with Robert Peston. The BBC's ubiquitous business editor has become the voice of the credit crunch ever since he...

  Tags: British Broadcasting Corp., iTV, Randall

• Coffee Time: Screen test

  - 2008-09-13

  1 Who played Pam Ferris's co-star in Rosemary & Thyme? 2 Name the ITV naval drama series starring Lee Boardman that sank without trace. 3 Which veteran BBC sports commentator's autobiography is entitled Interesting, Very Interesting? 4 Martin Clunes starred as Doc Martin. But in which county...

  Tags: British Broadcasting Corp., iTV, TVs

• Could the big fish at ITV learn a lesson or two from the minnows?

  - 2008-09-01

  ON BROADCASTING Two commercial broadcasting minnows from the Celtic fringe, SMG and UTV, have just reported financial results, and guess what? They have done much better than their old mother ship ITV plc in recessionary times. SMG's core television business, home of Taggart these 25...

  Tags: British Broadcasting Corp., iTV, SMG, UTV Plc.

• ON THE MINDS OF TV'S MASTERS

  - 2008-08-17

  THE Edinburgh International Television Festival being held next weekend features a special edition of Noel Edmonds's Sky gameshow Are You Smarter Than A 10-Year-Old. In classic Edinburgh-ironic style, Edmonds himself is being inveigled into hosting a spoof version, asking: Are You Smarter Than A TV Executive? TV critics,...

  Tags: British Broadcasting Corp., Cohen, festival, iTV, Scotland, TVs

• It is commercial television that is really in peril

  - 2008-08-02

  Carol Vorderman has, apparently, become too expensive for Channel 4's game show Countdown. Gone are the carefree days when Channel 4 could afford to poach Paul O'Grady from ITV to chase teatime ratings. Now, says C4 chief executive Andy Duncan, it can only fulfil its public service remit if someone...

  Tags: arithmetic, British Broadcasting Corp., iTV, Ofcom, TVs