All Multiplatform articles – Page 244
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NewsDisney plans ad-free start for new channel
Disney's long-awaited Freeview channel ABC1 will be free of advertising for up to six months when it launches on 27 September.
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NewsITV3 to launch by November
ITV's new digital channel for the over-35s, ITV3, is set to launch on 1 November as a free-to-air venture across all platforms, including Freeview.
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NTL reaches 2 million subscribers
Cable operator NTL picked up 60,500 new subscribers in the three months to 30 June, according to its second quarter results. The firm now has 2 million pay-TV subscribers and a further 1 million telecoms customers. Chief executive Simon Duffy now has a target of 4 million customers by 2008. ...
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NewsSky sets 10 million subscriber target
BSkyB has set itself an ambitious new target to hit 10 million subscribers by the end of the decade, after announcing profits were up 65% to£600m.
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Skaramoosh titles The Block
Skaramoosh has created the titles and content graphics for The Block , a reality makeover show from RDF in which four couples compete to transform four identical properties. The couple selling to the highest bidder wins a big cash prize. Designed by Piers Helm, the ...
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Govt backtracks on switchover
The government looks set to put back its timetable for switching off analogue TV to 2012 following widespread scepticism about the previous 2010 target.
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S4C prepares to go digital
Welsh channel S4C is to bolster its art, current affairs and children's output in preparation for its switch to a digital-only Welsh language service.
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Ofcom fines porn channel£50,000
Ofcom has imposed its first fine on a broadcaster. Satellite channel XplicitXXX, owned by the Digital Television Production Company, was ordered to pay£50,000 for broadcasting unencrypted hardcore sex between 8.30pm and 10pm on 8 April this year by mistake.
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NewsDigital switchover set to cost£1bn
Broadcasters have told media secretary Tessa Jowell that the cost of digital switchover could be as high as£1bn.
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Crown Media ends Hallmark bidding
The deadline for firm bids for Crown Media's international Hallmark business closed this week, with Japanese giant Sony tipped as the strongest bidder.
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EPG criteria to be made public
BSkyB and other electronic programme guide (EPG) publishers were this week told by Ofcom that they must make public the criteria they use to decide where channels are placed.
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NewsPorn channel fined£50k
Media watchdog Ofcom has imposed its first fine since setting up in January, by ordering a satellite channel to pay£50,000 for broadcasting unencrypted hardcore sex in the early evening.
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NewsLive action heads Disney autumn line-up
Disney Channel has unveiled its line-up of shows for the autumn including a raft of live action series from the US.
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NewsTurner promotes Kilgarriff
The head of Turner Broadcasting's kids channels Richard Kilgarriff has been given responsibility for the company's entire portfolio of entertainment channels as part of a Europe-wide restructure.
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NewsNorton US show sets up camp on BBC3
BBC3 has acquired Graham Norton's US chat show in a move that will keep the camp comic exclusively on the BBC.
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NewsS4C prepares for analogue switch-off
Welsh channel S4C is to reposition itself as a provider of live-events, including music sport and rural programming ahead of its switch to a digital only Welsh-language service.
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Victrolux rotoscopes Greek gods
The BBC has used Victrolux Productions to rotoscope on the upcoming BBC3 two-part documentary series Gory Greek Gods. The Greek pantheon is presented like a fantasy family firm of mobsters who deal in the divine protection racket. Rotoscope animation is used to bring to ...
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Nat geo picks DMC
The Digital Media Centre has been selected by the National Geographic Channel to perform playout for their Scandinavian services. This brings the total count of the National Geographic Channel's local feeds originating from the Digital Media Centre to five and language services provided by the centre to 16.
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One animates Nat Geo's new look
One post and Devilfish have created idents for the National Geographic Channel. The sequence of CGI-based idents incorporate live action elements into the 3D animation. The two were combined to create a sense of real depth and to avoid it feeling cartoon-heavy. One's 3D designers David Child and Duncan McWilliam ...
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Sit-up TV in£5m deal
Sit-up, the company behind bid-up.tv, price-drop.tv and Screenshop, will hand over large chunks of its schedule to infomercial broadcaster Vector Direct until 2008 in a£5m deal. Under the terms of the deal Vector will broadcast 24 hours a day on Screenshop and from 01.00 to 08.00 every night on the ...