—Euro Winter Olympics Coverage: The European Broadcasting Union is streaming Winter Olympics coverage free through its “Vancouver Live” portal, including selected events in HD for the first time. The EBU claims that it will have the most extensive online coverage in Europe, aggregating feeds from 30 member broadcasters, six EBU…

—Sky Songs/IPC: The broadcaster will promote its new music download service through IPC Media’s listings magazines. TV & Satellite Week, TVTimes, What’s on TV, TV Easy and Soaplife will each offer 10 free downloads of songs in consecutive weeks. Normally the service costs £6.49 ($10.30)-per-month for 10 downloads or a…

—BSkyB: The company is adding an e-wallet service to its online betting portals, to provide an alternative to using credit cards for every transaction. Sky Bet, Sky Poker, Sky Vegas and Sky Bingo currently have about 150,000 users and in 2009 brought in about £51.9 million in business (via iGamingBusiness)…

It said last year that it would add a true pull-VOD service to its TV options in 2010 - but Sky gave no progress update on Thursday, as it nevertheless reported three percent better August-December profit of £401 million on 10 percent higher revenue of £2.87 billion. Listing “innovations for…

		EPS*	Rev. vs Q408	Net Inc. vs Q408
BSkyB	Release	N/A	10.4%	21%

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A little present of sorts for BSkyB as the broadcaster gears up to report its earnings later this week: the UK High Court has ruled in favor of the company against EDS, saying that the systems integrator had lied about its expertise in an outsourcing deal. EDS, which is now…

—Ofcom/BSkyB: Ofcom says a final decision on forcing Sky to cut wholesale channel prices will come in March. The board is due to meet this week as part of the deliberation process only. Competing pay TV providers, such as BT (NYSE: BT), have been lobbying for a review of the…

BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) is planning to upgrade its Sky Sports Live Football Score Centre iPhone app “in the next few months” to include video highlights of goals from Premier League matches, C21 says. Sky mobile head Emma Lloyd says the satcaster will post the clips before incidents are aired on…

By Mark Sweney: An ad campaign by BT (NYSE: BT) Vision claiming that it runs new films before they appear on BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) has been banned by the advertising watchdog following a complaint from the satellite broadcaster.

Given its opposition to the proposed connected-TV VOD standard in the consultations to date, it’s no wonder that BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) is upset the BBC Trust has provisionally approved Project Canvas. Here’s the statement from its corporate affairs director Graham McWilliam… “The key concern with Canvas is the leading role…

When BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) joined the throngs launching a music service in October, it was with all four majors but only a handful of indie labels. Now Merlin, the self-appointed “fifth major” that represents about three quarters of indies, says it’s licensed their repertoire to Sky Songs. Music repped by…

By Stephen Brook: The BBC Worldwide chief executive, John Smith, has become the first executive at the corporation to support Rupert Murdoch’s plan to charge for online content. Smith, who runs the BBC’s commercial division, which includes magazines such as Top Gear and Radio Times and licenses BBC hits such…

—Conduit: Content aggregation tool company Conduit has opened its European HQ in London and has hired former Sportingo CEO Ze’ev Rozov to lead it as European MD. It’s the company’s third office, adding to bases in the US and Israel. Conduit already counts Trinity Mirror (LSE: TNI) and Football League…

—Sky/Brightcove: Sky Italia is picking Brighcove for its sky.it sites. This will extend the pay-TV company’s web efforts with advertising. Content includes Serie A matches. —Spotify: More real-world traction points. After getting a deal to sell its subs at Swedish Pressbyrån and 7-Eleven stores in September, it’s now taking it…

Looks like BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) is really gearing up to be an advertising player in 2010. Not only has Sky Media won an exclusive contract to handle ad sales for Viacom’s MTV, VIVA, Nickelodeon, Comedy Central and BET TV channels (via MarketWatch); Sky is also prepping its customers for targeted…

BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) and Virgin Media (NSDQ: VMED) have had their differences in recent years, but they are agreed on one thing: that the Project Canvas open IPTV platform should not be cleared by the BBC Trust because it won’t provide anything the commercial market can’t. Keen to keep growing…

—Sky Mobile: Sky’s mobile VOD service is now available via a new Mobile TV iPhone app. Sky Sports, Sky News and ESPN (NYSE: DIS) channels are all available for £6 a month. —IP Vision: The IPTV box maker’s FetchTV Smartbox DTT product will be sold in Carphone Warehouse stores. The…

—Sky-Xbox problems: The technical problems that beset the launch of Sky’s channels on the Xbox 360 have continued: Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) has now suspended all access to the service and is running a gradual “revised rollout”. The company says: “Unfortunately due to the unprecedented levels of simultaneous demand, we did…

—Sky on PS3: It’s just launched an Xbox VOD service and Sky now looks to have sealed a deal to get its channels on Sony’s PS3. In a footnote to its epic 277-page submission to Ofcom’s pay TV consultation, Sky says: “The deal to provide Sky’s channels on the PS3…

While Rupert Murdoch’s newspaper captains work behind the scenes on introducing paywalls, BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) has another plan for increasing online revenues: selling mobile video. The broadcaster, majority owned by News Corp (NYSE: NWS). is to begin selling English Premier League highlight videos via its free Sky Sports Centre iPhone…