UK commercial TV leader ITV (LSE: ITV) will launch a bold new news website this spring, will start trialling its delayed "Pay Player" this M……
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Why Canoe Abandoned Ship With Interactive TV Ads
An ambitious effort by the cable industry to create unified standards for targeted and interactive television advertising has failed, the vi……
Read MoreITV Picks Its ‘Oyster Card’ For Online Programme Payments
Telegraph.co.uk reports the UK's main commercial free-to-air TV broadcaster has delayed a programme under which it wants to charge online vi……
Read MoreSky Adding Broadcaster-Branded VOD Services From BBC And ITV
The UK's leading pay-TV provider BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) is taking a significant step to improve its PVR box's new IP on-demand TV service by addi……
Read MoreITN Unifying Ad Sales For Multi-Platform Video Syndication
UK TV video news producer ITN is unifying its online ad sales platform as it expands into a burgeoning number of online destinations.…
Read MoreX Factor Maker FremantleMedia Has Beefed Up UK Digital Operations
TV producer FremantleMedia UK has created a new digital division out of the existing operations of two of its constituent production compani……
Read MoreYouView Spent Almost £20m In Nine Months
The much-delayed video-on-demand service YouView spent almost £20 ($30.89)m in its first nine months of operation and paid more than £1 ($……
Read MoreLovefilm Adding More ITV, BBC Worldwide Archive TV
Amazon's Lovefilm is extending existing deals with ITV (LSE: ITV) and BBC Worldwide to gain a larger catalogue of their shows for online str……
Read MoreDoes a Premier League bid make sense for Apple?
Apple might be looking to expand its live sports offerings through a deal with the English Premier League, a new report says. It's an interesting proposition but not a cheap one: Sky paid £1.6 billion (around $2.5 billion) for its current broadcast rights.…
Read MoreApple iTV: It’s about the experience, not content
Sterne Agee analyst Shaw Wu thinks Apple needs to get into the content game to make the iTV a winner when it launches. But the bigger opportunity might be where Apple plays best -- in allowing content creators to develop their own apps on its iOS platform.…
Read MoreReport: In Europe, Not All Windows Open For Netflix
Some more detail appears to be emerging in the lead-up to Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) launching in the UK next year: in the midst of signing a seri……
Read MoreTV Catchup Gets Court Victories, But Europe Will Have Final Say
In the copyright case brought by UK broadcasters against the TV Catchup restreaming site, a UK High Court judge has handed the site some som……
Read MoreApple reportedly souring on Samsung, tapping Sharp for iPad 3 displays
Apple's relationship with Samsung is on the rocks, according to an investor note from Jefferies analyst Peter Misek on Tuesday. Based on a recent trip to Japan and checks with suppliers made during that trip, Jefferies says Sharp is benefitting from the Samsung falling-out.…
Read MoreTime Warner Makes $1.4 Billion Endemol Bid
Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) has made a takeover bid for Endemol, the debt-laden Dutch production company behind Big Brother and Deal or No Deal.…
Read MoreWhat Apple needs to provide users to make iTV successful
Apple's television plans are the subject of plenty of recent speculation, and are raising a lot of questions in consumer minds. From the questions I've heard about the rumored iTV, here's a list of five things Apple needs to do to shake up the space.…
Read MoreITV Pleads For Ad Tech Standardisation
The UK's leading commercial TV broadcaster, ITV (LSE: ITV), has issued a "rallying cry" for industry-wide harmonisation of ad targeting tech……
Read MoreITV Re-Organising Regional Newsrooms’ Online Staffing
ITV (LSE: ITV) is making 10 dedicated online news producers redundant from regional newsrooms around the UK, as it tries to instill digital……
Read MoreITV’s Mobile Rugby Strategy Falls Over On Opening Day
ITV's Rugby World Cup strategy for mobile was tackled in to touch Friday morning when its dedicated mobile app failed to materialise and its……
Read MoreT-Mobile, Orange Reboot Their Mobile TV Services In UK
Mobile TV has for years been one of the great white hopes for mobile operators looking for new lines of revenue from their data networks --……
Read MoreRugby World Cup Goes Out On Mobile, On-Demand And To The Workplace
UK tournament rightsholder ITV (LSE: ITV) will try to reach rugby fans at the office and on mobile because this year's Rugby World Cup in Ne……
Read MoreIndustry Moves: FT Video, Vevo Chiefs, HuffPo Blogs Editor, Deezer UK Boss
-- FT Video: Financial Times' head of video, Richard Edgar, has left to join ITV (LSE: ITV) News' new business team, alongside new business……
Read MoreITV Will Intro Online Paid Content By Year’s End
"We plan to have a pay mechanism in place around the turn of the year so that we can test what people will pay for (online)," ITV (LSE: ITV)……
Read MoreITV Viewers Grumble At First Paid Content Roll-Out
UK broadcaster ITV (LSE: ITV) has launched one of its first efforts on the way to charging for some digital content, an aim set by new CEO A……
Read MoreUK Hulu-Wannabe SeeSaw Shutting Down
U.K.-based online video aggregator SeeSaw announced it's shutting down, just 16 months after being launched to bring together video assets from Channel 4 and ITV. The shutdown happened after it failed to click with viewers or effectively compete with services from its content partners.…
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