Broadband Content Bits: Swedish Music Revenues; Canal+ VOD; BT Vision Signs FOX Deal; ITN-Blinkx
—Swedish music revenues: It’s long been regarded the “home of illegal file-sharing” but the Swedish music industry has seen its revenues increase 35 percent since 2000 to SEK1 billion (£86.4 million) a year, according to a report from analysts Trend Maze and the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. From The Swedish Wire/Comtex.
—Canal+: Vivendi’s French broadcaster Canal+ is making its 80-channel online VOD and live TV service CanalSat Web TV available as a €25 monthly subscription. The service is currently available as an extra to CanalSat digital TV subscriptions but is now generally available in France. From C21Media.net.
—BT (NYSE: BT) Vision: BT’s IPTV service has signed a content deal with Fox to give viewers on-demand access to shows like 24 and X-Files. TV Pack subscribers get the shows at no extra cost. From Media Week.
—ITN-Blinkx: ITN has signed up video search engine Blinkx to sell advertising surrounding all ITN video content that appears on Express Group’s websites. In an extension of a relationship going back to July 2008, Blinkx will now sell inventory across DailyExpress.co.uk, DailyStar.co.uk and others. Blinkx also sells across ITN content on Associated Newspapers’ and Midland News Association’s sites.
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