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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BT (NYSE: BT) is now using the cover of Project Canvas in its latest bid to get BSkyB’s channels on its Vision TV service. The telco has previously asked Ofcom to order cheaper wholesale channel availability from Sky. Now, in a submission (pdf) to Ofcom’s third pay TV consultation, it…

BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) is set to continue and expand its strategy of widening content distribution onto different platforms such as games consoles, computer operating systems and third-party devices, to counter the threat from rival, web-based TV services. CEO Jeremy Darroch told investors and analysts on a call to accompany its…

Continuing the “platform-agnostic” approach that will see Sky content go live on the XBox from next week, BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) has signed another VOD carriage deal with Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT). The latest deal will make BSkyB’s Sky Player VOD app a part of the Windows Media Centre multimedia playback software,…

Sky’s live and catch-up TV service over Xbox Live will go live in two weeks’ time - and will be the first of many.. The satcaster’s VOD director Griff Parry told Screen Digest’s Future of Online Media Distribution seminar on Wednesday the company wasn’t just sticking, defensively, to its core…

—Sky ads: Remember BSkyB’s plans to personalise ads to viewer demography? It will start with ads around online Sky Player shows early next year, launching to broadcast satellite in early 2011, MediaWeek says. It will mean different ads seen in different households. —Windows VOD: Windows Media Centre PCs in the…

—Ashes VOD Five, which has highlights rights for both TV and its watch-again Five Demand VOD, says its site served more than 100,000 video views and 300,000 page impressions during the dramatic second Test match. Sky, which has exclusive live TV rights, says its live online TV streaming service Sky…

What’s left of Project Kangaroo is for sale, but who’s buying? Guardian.co.uk and Telegraph.co.uk both report, as others have previously, that broadcast and communications technology company Arqiva is in talks to buy what remains of aborted VOD VJ Project Kangaroo. The company wouldn’t confirm or deny the talks when we…

Two weeks after Digital Britain’s wide-ranging pledges, a Westminster Media Forum debate on Thursday morning frizzled with nervous consensus—Lord Carter gave a good road map for the digital economy, but a future Conservative government could block the way. BT’s industry policy and regulation director Emma Gilthorpe wondered whether the 50p…

ESPN (NYSE: DIS) will enhance and expand its online sports sites as part of its launch as a UK sports broadcaster in August. The Disney-owned network, which today released details of its new UK channel, wants to use its English Premier League rights to mount a wider assault on the…

BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) should lower its subscription prices and offer its premium sports and movie content to rivals on a wholesale basis to ensure technological innovation on other platforms, according to media regulator Ofcom. As part of a new public consultation kicked off today on possible remedies for the pay…

Pay TV in the UK is notable for its disappointing lack of digital strategy. BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) may be pushing its content through the XBox and a standalone online portal—but essentially, despite all the lip service and stated commitment to new, online business models, just like newspapers the industry still…

When your business model is under threat, you have no choice but to change it. According to several reports, sports broadcaster Setanta is considering a radical switch in strategy from a customer-facing TV subscriptions to wholesale content distribution. FT.com reports that the company, which owns English Premier League TV rights…

One bidder has already taken itself out of the running for the remains of the commercial VOD Project Kangaroo, but the race is still on for the never-used technology. C21Media.net, citing an unnamed source, reports that TV technology firm Arqiva is now the sole bidder for Kangaroo’s technology, which includes…

—Discovery Networks: Kathy Toher is the new director of international advertising across EMEA, excluding the UK, for Discovery Networks Europe. She moves over from classical music download site Passionato, where she was head of advertising sales and promotion since its launch last year. Last month former MD of UK channels…

—People’s Music Store: Online digital music store creator People’s Music Store today signs a deal with Universal Music, its first major label deal. The agreement doubles its entire catalogue to 600,000 tracks. The business allows music fans to set up their own digital music shops selling music they like and…

The growth of illegal video downloading is irreversible, but there’s still time to make monetise online video and IPTV if the TV industry acts now. That’s according to, which concludes the only way to combat the loss of revenue from is to offer free, legitimate alternatives (Coda Research Consultancy (read…

BBC Worldwide has launched a TV listings app for the iPhone that takes listings from the BBC magazine Radio Times and, for the launch period, can be downloaded for the release price of £1.79 (it will normally be £2.99). The app, developed by US mobile software developer TV Compass, is…

—SCEE: President and CEO of Sony (NYSE: SNE) Computer Entertainment Europe David Reeves will step down from his role at the end of the month after 14 years with the company and six as CEO. He is succeeded as CEO by group executive and former chief marketing office Andrew House.…