—Virgin Media: After Telefonica suggested search engines pay ISPs for carrying their traffic, Virgin Media (NSDQ: VMED) speaks. “It’s a legitimate to question how this demand will be managed,” a spokesperson said. (Via ISPreview.co.uk.) —Onet.pl: The ISP subsidiary of Polish broadcaster TVN is launching a new VOD service called OnetVOD.…

—Vodafone: David Wheldon is leaving his role as global brand director for the mobile operator. He had been with Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) since 2004, when he joined from WPP as the company’s first brand supremo. (Via Marketing Week.) —IDS: Steven McHenry is the new digital controller of IDS, the ad…

—Sky Songs/IPC: The broadcaster will promote its new music download service through IPC Media’s listings magazines. TV & Satellite Week, TVTimes, What’s on TV, TV Easy and Soaplife will each offer 10 free downloads of songs in consecutive weeks. Normally the service costs £6.49 ($10.30)-per-month for 10 downloads or a…

- Dr Who: The BBC is planning to extend the Dr Who franchise into games. This signals the BBC re-entering the gaming industry after shutting its Multimedia division in 2005. The Dr Who venture is being licensed through BBC Worldwide. (via MCV) - Virgin Media: The pay-TV provider had 750…

—Virgin Media: Regulators at the European Commission say they will “closely monitor” Virgin Media’s plans to monitor traffic on its network. The ISP said back in November that it would use deep-packet inspection to look at the traffic of 40 percent of its subscribers, equivalent to 1.6 million accounts, in…

—Channel 4: David Abraham will replace Andy Duncan as the next CEO of Channel 4. Abraham is currently the CEO of the multichannel digital broadcaster UKTV, a JV of Virgin Media (NSDQ: VMED) and BBC Worldwide. (Release - download) —Virgin Media: Richard Larcombe is joining Virgin Media in a new…

—Bambuser deal: The Swedish mobile vidcasting rival to Qik and Flixwagon has signed its first commercial partner since starting in ‘07 - Finnish public broadcaster YLE will embed on its site live mobile vids from its news reporters, “to document everyday work life as well as a new way to…

After laying down its costly cable broadband network upgrade, Neil Berkett’s Virgin Media is going to the capital markets for financing for the fourth time in nine months. It plans to issue $1 billion (£620 million) in secured bonds to help refinance its heavy £4 billion in debt - picked…

—Seesaw: The forthcoming IPTV VOD service from Arqiva has appointed former Babelgum mobile editor Dan Watt-Smith as its managing editor, ahead of an expected launch “early” next year. He’ll be part of the service’s marketing and content team, reporting to platform controller John Keeling. Release. —Virgin Media: Andrew Barron has…

—Virgin music: Remember when Virgin Media (NSDQ: VMED) said it would launch an unlimited music service? It only had UMG on board and that’s still the case. NMA says Virgin is negotiating with EMI, but UMG’s comments suggest unlimited may be struck off: “We believe unlimited is the right thing…

—Virgin VOD: Virgin Media’s has hired Chellomedia exec Aleks Habdank as director of its VOD TV service. He was been at Chello since 2002 and most recently was general manager of the Chello On Demand VOD platform. He holds non-exec posts on the boards of CTAM Europe and Anytime PTE.…

Virgin Media (NSDQ: VMED) is to trial software to measure the extent of illegal file-sharing among its customers, as part of its music subscription service JV with Universal. Virgin will be the first company to use new technology from UK firm Detica, which claims to anonymously track copyright infringement. Release.

Virgin Media (NSDQ: VMED) is tapping TiVo (NSDQ: TIVO) to develop the middleware and interface for its forthcoming line of “television and broadband” set top boxes, marking the DVR maker’s return to the UK after six years. More than that, Virgin is calling it a “TiVo co-branded product”. Cable provider…

—Football League ads: After this month awarding a mobile content contract, Football League Interactive is now putting the contract for advertising out to tender. FLi’s sites for 80 clubs get six million uniques and 120 million monthly ad impressions. —ITN Christmas Channel: ‘Tis the season for ITN On to launch…

BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) and Virgin Media (NSDQ: VMED) have had their differences in recent years, but they are agreed on one thing: that the Project Canvas open IPTV platform should not be cleared by the BBC Trust because it won’t provide anything the commercial market can’t. Keen to keep growing…

Guardian Media Group has has appointed Virgin Media (NSDQ: VMED) CEO Neil Berkett as a non-executive director, to give its board some extra hard-headed business acumen as GMG’s media brands face perhaps the toughest period in their history. Berkett has been VMED CEO since 2008 and was appointed COO of…

Virgin Media’s broadband sign-ups bounced back up this summer after a dismal spring - but they’re still riding well below last year’s levels. Sign-ups during the quarter rebounded to 39,000 - up from just 5,100 additions in the previous quarter, but fewer than last year’s 68,700 - taking Virgin up…

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…

—Gamesload: The Deutsche Telekom-owned, German-based games download service is launching in 20 more European countries, including UK, Ireland, Sweden and Norway. The site, started in 2006, has 2,500 items to download. It still isn’t operating in France or Spain, but is offering to partner with distributors on a continent-wide basis.…