Kangaroo
Dec 16, 2009 5:45 AM
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…
Posted In: Media & Publishing, TV, VOD, Companies, Carphone Warehouse, Channel 4, Five, Google, YouTube, Kangaroo
Dec 1, 2009 7:00 PM
Arqiva’s unlikely son-of-Kangaroo online VOD portal SeeSaw has finally struck its first content deal. Its licensing BBC Worldwide shows for a mix of free and paid. But this isn’t yet the springboard SeeSaw needs, and there are some unanswered questions… —Same ‘ol: First, BBCWW’s repertoire is just about the first…
Posted In: Media & Publishing, TV, VOD, Companies, BBC, BBC Worldwide, Kangaroo
Nov 3, 2009 6:05 AM
Finally, two years after it was first proposed, we have a logo for SeeSaw. The webite is live at seesaw.com, with the branding, a Twitter link and a teaser to an upcoming beta. The logo is also in the designer’s live portfolio and Arqiva, which bought the unused technology for…
Posted In: Media & Publishing, TV, VOD, Companies, Kangaroo
Oct 14, 2009 12:16 PM
Even Arqiva appears unconvinced that it can launch SeeSaw from the remains of Project Kangaroo before year’s end - just one indication that, despite a raging UK VOD arms race, none of the contenders are in sight of victory. “I will see it in a year ending with ‘09’ -…
Posted In: Media & Publishing, TV, VOD, Companies, ITV, Kangaroo
Oct 5, 2009 6:44 PM
TV transmitter infrastructure company Arqiva, which recently bought the technology platform for the knocked-out Project Kangaroo online VOD aggregator, will call the service “SeeSaw” after all - the same name planned by the BBCWW/ITV/C4 JV before it was ruled out by the Competition Commission. “We’re delighted to confirm the name…
Posted In: Media & Publishing, TV, VOD, Companies, Kangaroo
Jul 14, 2009 7:22 AM
BBC Worldwide is blaming its wasted Kangaroo investment and its BBC.com build-out for a loss of over £30 million from its 2008/09 digital media activities…. That’s the bad news. Without those blips, overall digital media sales actually rose 56.2 percent to £34.2 million, thanks mainly to BBC.com’s controversial non-UK advertising…
Posted In: Money, Earnings, Companies, BBC, BBC Worldwide, Kangaroo
Jul 1, 2009 2:40 AM
The UK’s Competition Commission may have outlawed the BBC/ITV/C4 commercial VOD venture Project Kangaroo on antitrust grounds, but there’s still appetite for a grand online TV JV in the UK. Five CEO Dawn Airey says broadcasters here are “staring into the abyss” if they don’t form a Hulu-like alliance, according…
Posted In: Media & Publishing, TV, VOD, Companies, Five, Kangaroo
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