ITV Has Turned Around Online Fortunes With VOD, Next Comes New News Site
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…
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…
ITV 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…
Sky 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…
ITN 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.
X 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…
YouView Spent Almost £20m In Nine Months
The much-delayed video-on-demand service YouView spent almost £20 ($30.89)m in its first nine months of operation and paid more than £1 ($…
Lovefilm 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…
Does 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.
Apple 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.