Robert Andrews
Feb 7, 2012 11:39 AM
Here is a round-up of some of the latest executive-level hirings and exits in the world of digital media business…
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Ingrid Lunden
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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Mark Sweney
MediaGuardian
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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Ingrid Lunden
Dec 21, 2011 12:07 PM
More scrutiny of News Corporation’s UK tabloids by Ofcom… but this time with a good result for the media company. The UK communications regulator has ruled in favor of The Sun newspaper and determined that video on the news site should not be regulated as video-on-demand. The decision is wide-ranging…
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Robert Andrews
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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Mark Sweney
MediaGuardian
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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Robert Andrews
Staci D. Kramer
Oct 6, 2011 3:00 AM
After years of effort and speculation, Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) has pieced together nearly 40 broadcast services from around the world to boost the on-demand programming available through Xbox Live. It took a shift in strategy to make room for broadcasters like the BBC, the trend toward authentication to bring on…
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Robert Andrews
Sep 1, 2011 6:44 AM
Back in November, Channel 4 launched Film4oD, a web-based, on-demand adjunct to its Film4 linear channels that requires payment for movies.
It doesn’t seem to have made much of a splash. But web is just the start…
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Mark Sweney
MediaGuardian
Sep 1, 2011 5:12 AM
The new owner of SeeSaw has run into difficulty hitting a deadline to secure multimillion-pound funding and has lost a key content deal with Channel 4, meaning shows such as The Inbetweeners and Skins are no longer available on the online TV service.
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Ingrid Lunden
Jul 20, 2011 1:05 PM
GetGlue, the media “check-in” app that lets users share what they are watching, listening and reading with their social network, has inked an exclusive partnership with Channel 4 in the UK, its first deal outside of the U.S. (Story below now updated with comments from Alex Iskold, the CEO and…
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Josh Halliday
MediaGuardian
May 6, 2011 11:16 AM
Channel 4 is creating a new executive post to oversee the digital division of its movie production arm, Film4.
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Robert Andrews
Mar 21, 2011 11:46 AM
Channel 4’s multi-platform commissioner Matt Locke has left the broadcaster, NMA says.
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Robert Andrews
Mar 18, 2011 10:10 AM
Broadcaster Channel 4 is asking the UK government to rewrite the law so that online services would be barred from re-transmitting TV channels without a paid license.
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Robert Andrews
Mar 18, 2011 10:00 AM
Google (NSDQ: GOOG) and large media owners have submitted opposing responses to the digitally-focused review of the UK’s intellectual property framework.
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Maggie Brown
MediaGuardian
Mar 10, 2011 9:33 AM
Channel 4 confirmed on Thursday that it had submitted an expression of interest in the proposed national TV network that underpins Jeremy Hunt’s plan to deliver local news.
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Robert Andrews
Jan 18, 2011 7:40 AM
—AOP: GNM’s product development head Piers Jones (pictured) will chair the AOP’s product development committee, taking over from the FT’s Mary Beth Christie. —Channel 4: C4 is naming corporate development director Gill Pritchard to the new post of director of audience technologies and insight, NMA reports. —Virgin Media: The ISP…
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Robert Andrews
Jan 13, 2011 3:36 AM
It’s eight months since the BBC said it would link from out its iPlayer to commercial counterparts’ own TV catch-up sites. But it still hasn’t happened yet.
The reason: it’s proved harder than Auntie expected…
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Mark Sweney
MediaGuardian
Dec 13, 2010 4:42 AM
ITV (LSE: ITV) and Channel 4 shows such as Coronation Street and The Inbetweeners will soon be available to watch via Sony’s PlayStation 3 games consoles for the first time, in another sign of the convergence between traditional media and the internet.
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Robert Andrews
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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Robert Andrews
Nov 15, 2010 9:31 AM
It may have been inevitable, with Channel 4 having chosen to pull its 4iP digital investment activities more closely in to its new online structure = 4iP’s head Tom Loosemore is leaving the company. Loosemore has been a long-time public-service media digital thinker. Having led development of “2.0” strategy for…
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