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UKTV to move to new HQ in West London
UK multichannel broadcaster UKTV has signed a 15-year lease on new premises in West London….
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More box sets to come from BSkyB
UK pay TV operator BSkyB has added new TV box sets to its on-demand line-up,…
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Social TV startup Grabyo hires Sky product development chief as CEO
London-based video clip sharing platform Grabyo has hired BSkyB product development director Gareth Capon as…
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CNN International hires UK ad sales chief
CNN International has hired former Viacom executive Liz Nunn as head of its UK-based ad…
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Quarter of TV audiences discuss shows on Facebook
Up to 25% of TV audiences post content related to the show they are watching…
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Janice Hadlow out as BBC Two controller
Janice Hadlow has stepped down as controller of UK channels BBC Two and BBC Four….
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Ofcom renews Channel 3 and 5 licences
UK broadcast regulator Ofcom has renewed the licences for Channel 3 and Channel 5 for…
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Sky extends PGA Tour golf rights
UK pay TV operator Sky has signed a new seven-year deal with the PGA Tour,…
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Vodafone in reported €7 billion bid for ONO
Mobile telecom giant Vodafone has reportedly tabled a €6.9 billion bid for ONO. According to…
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UK broadcasters ‘to back Freeview Connect’
UK terrestrial broadcasters the BBC, ITV and Channel 4 are reportedly backing a new initiative…
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Vodafone rules out UK quad-play, plays down need for content
Vodafone CEO Vittorio Colao has said he sees no strong need to invest in content…
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Arqiva acquires Capablue
UK media and communications infrastructure supplier Arqiva has acquired connected TV, video-on-demand and content solution…
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YouView partner structure in doubt as funding talks near end
UK pay TV operators BT and TalkTalk could emerge as the major shareholders in web-connected…
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Channel 4’s viewer database hits 10 million people
UK broadcaster Channel 4 has reached a milestone 10 million registered viewers, which it says…
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Channel 5+24 launches on Freesat
UK broadcaster Channel 5 has launched a 24-hour timeshifted version of its channel on the…
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RRsat appoints European sports and live events exec
Israel-based satellite services provider, RRsat Global Communications Network, has appointed Luca Marinoni as its new head of…
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Ofcom should have final say on media mergers, says Lords committee
Media regulator Ofcom, rather the UK culture secretary, should have the final say on whether…
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Planet Knowledge VoD launches in UK and Ireland
Planet Knowledge, an on-demand joint venture between video-on-demand provider VOD365 and TV app provider Vonetize,…
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Motive Television joins the HbbTV Consortium
UK-based TV technology services firm Motive Television has joined the HbbTV consortium in a bid to…
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BT Sport’s 2.5m subs deliver revenues and profits boost for telco
The customer base for BT’s sports channels passed 2.5 million by the end of the…
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Blinkbox re-launches UK VoD service with multiple studio deals
Blinkbox has signed deals with nine distributors as it brings back its ‘Try TV on…
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Astra 2E goes into service as SES and Eutelsat settle dispute
SES’s Astra 2E satellite will go into service at the 28.2°/28.5° East orbital position from…
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SimpleStream’s UK live TV app launches for tablets
Technology company SimpleStream has recorded 250,000 downloads of its live TV mobile streaming app, TVPlayer,…
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S4C launches on YouView
Welsh-language channel S4C is now available on the UK’s YouView connected TV platform. The service…
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Sky reports ‘explosive’ connected TV growth
UK satellite TV operator Sky reported “explosive growth” in its connected TV subscriber base, adding…
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At800 scales back UK DTT service disruption efforts
At800, the UK body set up to test for interference from 4G networks on DTT…
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Eutelsat and SES settle dispute at 28.5° East
Satellite operators Eutelsat and SES have settled their long-running dispute over the allocation of frequencies…
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Sky, HBO target co-production in content deal renewal
The UK’s BSkyB and pay TV counterpart HBO are to up their partnership by co-developing…
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BBC iPlayer requests up by a third, tablet use expands rapidly
Requests on the BBC iPlayer catch-up service grew by a third in 2013, with 2.2…
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ITV to launch pay drama channel on Sky
UK commercial broadcaster ITV is to launch a pay TV channel on the BSkyB platform…