All Multiplatform articles – Page 262
-
NewsFlextech's Webb pans BBC and Sky
Flextech director of interactive media Jonathan Webb has hit out at the BBC and Sky - two of the UK's leading lights in interactive television - for producing below par enhanced television, writes David Wood
-
NewsBBC 3 launches with raft of new shows
Stuart Murphy's new digital youth channel BBC 3 is finally set to launch on Sunday 9 February with a raft of new programmes including an innovative new animation from production house Aardman, writes Leigh Holwmood
-
News
ASIAN CHANNEL LAUNCH.
Channel developer Simply Television is to launch a channel aimed at Asians living in the UK,
-
News
Freeview boosts Five and Emap.
Freeview, the BBC/Crown Castle DTT service which launched last month, has given a welcome boost to
-
News
Steinberg set to take Fox Kids role.
Former BSkyB pay-TV chief Bruce Steinberg is poised to be named as the new chief executive of Fox Kids Europe (FKE), writes Paul Revoir
-
News
BBCi joins up with daytime cooking show.
BBC 2 cooking show Saturday Kitchen has been recommissioned in a new live interactive format as
-
News
BSkyB music TV chief.
BSkyB has appointed its first head of music television ahead of the launch of its three
-
NewsNTL axes 250 jobs
Debt-laden cable TV company NTL is cutting around 250 jobs as part of its bankruptcy recovery plan, writes Jon Rogers
-
News
Carlton Cinema pins hopes on Sky
Loss-making movie channel Carlton Cinema will be forced to close unless it can get carriage on the Sky Digital platform, writes Paul Revoir
-
News
Open University teaches BBC 3
BBC Choice controller Stuart Murphy has strengthened his pledge to offer educational programming on digital youth channel BBC 3 by bringing in the Open University, writes Leigh Holmwood
-
News
Murdoch aims to lift Sky ARPU
BSkyB is aiming to increase the amount of revenue it gets from its 6.3 million existing subscribers next year by convincing them to buy additional and more advanced set-top boxes, writes Paul Revoir
-
NewsFreeview boosts Five and Emap
Freeview, the BBC/Crown Castle DTT service which launched last month, has given a welcome boost to Five and Emap, with both operators seeing off their arch rivals, according to the first set of ratings for the service, writes Georgina Lipscomb
-
NewsBSkyB reports record-breaking quarter
BSkyB recorded its lowest ever churn for Sky Digital in its first quarter results with just 9.6 per cent of its 6.3 million customers cancelling their subscriptions, writes David Wood
-
News
On Demand finds funds for European VOD push
UK video-on-demand (VOD) consultancy On Demand Group has secured a£10m investment to develop cable VOD services in Europe, writes David Wood
-
News
Ratings high for Living TV
Living TV is looking to launch a regular chat show after recording the third highest share in multichannel homes on Halloween night, writes Paul Revoir
-
NewsBSkyB appoints first head of music television
BSkyB has appointed its first head of music television ahead of the launch of its three new music channels next year, writes Luke Satchell
-
NewsTelewest on course despite debt default
Beleaguered cable giant Telewest said today it was on course to complete its debt restructuring, despite a demand from one of its creditors that the company be wound up for defaulting on an interest repayment of£10.3m, writes Luke Satchell
-
News
Terrestrials and MPs lock out Sky
BSkyB has lashed out at its terrestrial rivals for excluding it from a private briefing to parliamentary all party broadcasting groups, in which they called for Sky to be forced to reduce the amount it charges to carry their channels, write Colin Robertson and Leigh ...
-
News
BBC: pay-TV channels could be free on DTT
Pay-TV operators may choose to offer their channels free of charge on the new BBC/Crown Castle digital terrestrial TV (DTT) platform Freeview, once it has reached at least 3 million households, according to BBC director of marketing and communications Andy Duncan, write Leigh Holmwood & ...
-
NewsNew US sports channel to launch on Sky Digital
Sky Digital is to launch a US sports channel backed by Microsoft founder Paul G. Allen which will feature the best of American and Canadian sports action, writes David Wood