Today’s big round of cuts announced by the BBC—it will lose some 2,000 jobs, order relocations for others, and make big changes to the programming schedule in order to cut 20 percent from the BBC budget—largely left digital assets at the corporation untouched. But that’s mainly because the BBC had…

Now is kill-or-cure time for troubled UK TV-VOD service SeeSaw, which has not received promised investment. Platform controller John Keeling, commercial director Matt Rennie and product director Richard Dines resigned last night.

The TV-VOD rollercoaster that is SeeSaw is still waiting for an overdue promised investment to arrive. But it will likely need to cut costs even if the money materialises.

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.

The rumours are true - after missing out on buying MySpace (NSDQ: NWS) last month, Criterion Capital Partners is acquiring SeeSaw, the UK on-demand TV service, paidContent:UK has learned.

The private equity turnaround company which took Bebo off AOL’s hands is negotiating a buy-out of the underperforming UK TV site SeeSaw, which was put up for sale last month.

UK transmitter operator Arqiva is pulling the plug on SeeSaw, the commercial TV VOD aggregator that was formed from Project Kangaroo’s ashes and which has failed to make any impact, explaining: “Following a strategic review of its business activities… Arqiva is no longer able to support the service.”

In the course of announcing it has contracted Smartclip to sell ads on most of its videos, would-be TV aggregator SeeSaw has finally disclosed a usage metric. It says it served over one million programme streams in January.

The UK’s two main industry VOD ventures to have emerged from public broadcasting are turning over some of their top staff… A month after its launch was delayed to at least early 2012, the chair of the UK’s YouView connected-TV consortium is leaving.

Arqiva is hunting for an investment partner for its online TV venture SeeSaw, with options including a complete sale of the operation thought to be under consideration.

—Zoopla: The property site is adding Match.com’s UK managing director Charlotte Harper (pictured), previously of Travelocity, O2 and BSkyB (NYSE: BSY), as its marketing director, as it sets about spending that marketing money it recently raised through investment and debt.

Arqiva’s TV catch-up website SeeSaw continues its curious pitch for paying customers. The site last recently started charging viewers £2.99 a month just to remove the copious pre-rolls they are forced to watch as free users.

In the catch-up TV aggregation stakes, Arqiva’s SeeSaw has been struggling against broadcasters’ own offerings and YouTube. The website has long offered a volume of conventional TV ads that seems excessive for the web screen, making viewers watch up to two minutes of pre-rolls before a chosen show begins.

Communications infrastructure provider Arqiva is aiming to license the technology underpinning its SeeSaw VOD site to international broadcasters.

By Mark Sweney: SeeSaw, the video-on-demand website born from the ashes of the failed Project Kangaroo, has launched a paid-for service with 1,000 hours of programming from 99p per episode up to £17.99 for a series. The VoD operator, which is owned by Arqiva, officially launched in February offering 3,000…

We knew SeeSaw would soon charge for, as well as give away, streaming shows when it launched last month. Now a couple more details… It’s picked online payment facilitator Neovia to manage the process via the Netbanx merchant gateway.

Here’s the first of what will be several 10-second ad spots for new VOD website SeeSaw. This ad will run on Channel 4 today, followed by ITV (LSE: ITV), Five, other channels and “high-traffic” websites…

SeeSaw will introduce PPV in Q2 and is investigating offering a subscription addition later, bosses of Arqiva’s new TV VOD website said at their official launch this morning. The service, which has 30 to 40 staff in Arqiva’s Regent Street office and inherited some staff from the defunct Kangaroo, so…

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…