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.

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).

They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, but this may be stretching the expression a bit too far. Cut the Birds, a game released five days ago in the Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) App Store, has copied the birds from Rovio’s Angry Birds and the gameplay from Halfbrick’s Fruit…

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…

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”.

Palo Alto-based web video advertising analytics firm Auditude says it has been given the contract to manage ads in to in-flux Channel Five’s online videos. That includes Five’s Demand Five branded catch-up VOD service.

As expected, the newly renamed Channel 5 is rejoining Project Canvas as a stakeholder. Five had pulled out earlier this summer as owner RTL looked to trim costs ahead of a sale.

Five’s decision to no longer be an equity partner in the Canvas joint venture will save the broadcaster £16.5 million - and will mean very little to anyone involved in the project.

By Mark Sweney: Five has pulled out of Project Canvas, the BBC-backed venture to bring video-on-demand to Freeview and Freesat. Five, which has been put up for sale by its parent company RTL, is one of seven partners in the venture, which is expected to launch next year.

We’ve covered TV re-streaming services like Zattoo and TVCatchup for the last couple of years now and, regardless of any opinions those services think we have about their legality, it’s always been a case of when - rather than if - the broadcasters would object. We’ve charted the broadcasters’ response,…

The Office of Fair Trading has taken two months to rule that… it is not supposed to investigate the BBC’s proposed Project Canvas connected TV joint venture. Though Canvas referred itself to the OFT in March, the agency says it actually “does not have jurisdiction” to investigate because “none of…

—CNBC on Livestation: The freemium live TV news aggregator app and website is adding CNBC to its subscription service, cost: €4.99 a month. —Five: The broadcaster’s websites served 50.7 million long- and short-form videos in ‘09. Its Demand Five VOD brand served an average 1.3 million long-form videos a month.…

—BBC Introducing: The Beeb says 20,000 unsigned music artists have used its Uploader, a tool designed to share new music with BBC Radio stations via the BBC Introducing project. Release. —Jobsite: DMGT’s recruitment searcher has got itself Freesat carriage. Its service is accessible via DMGT stablemate Teletext’s Channel 986 for…

By Chris Tryhorn: UK broadcaster Five has signed a deal with CBS (NYSE: CBS) to make programmes available on the US network’s on-demand video website TV.com. The partnership is a coup for CBS, allowing it to steal a march on its US rivals ABC (NYSE: DIS), Fox and NBC, whose…

—Five: The broadcaster is tasking Red Bee Media with managing all its Demand Five VOD services, including transcoding, distribution, syndication, live streaming, content management, metadata and delivery to YouTube, MediaWeek reports. —Spotify priorities: A redesign to its homepage sees the music service flip its priority - where previously it marketed…

Telegraph.co.uk’s sources have been promising the paper Hulu’s imminent UK launch for so long now that, now it’s reporting “further delays” to the U.S. VOD site’s ambitions here, we’re barely inclined to mention it - but anyway… Despite claiming in August that Hulu was in “most advanced discussions” to land…

BBC’s IPTV director Richard Halton now has C4 and TalkTalk to add to his Project Canvas partners BBC, ITV (LSE: ITV), Five and BT (NYSE: BT). The addition of a fifth and sixth partner to the connected-TV EPG scheme means costs to the BBC will fall from the originally forecast…

YouTube UK is now adding long-form shows from Five to those it acquired in October from Channel 4, giving it a big advantage as it ramps up its new Shows section. Five is retaining, within a YouTube channel, “DemandFive”, the name for its VOD strand, which recently got a new…

Broadcaster Five has partnered with VOD site Livestation to offer live streaming of Europa League football via Apple’s iPhone. The £3.99 app launched on Friday allows live viewing of Five’s Thursday-night fixtures, plus highlights, for a one-off fee. The app’s iTunes page says it will work via wifi or 3G…