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BBCWW Starts Three Ad-Funded Channels On Babelgum - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Thu 10 Jul 2008 01:46 AM PST

Swooping in to give the VOD platform the attractive content it needs, BBC Worldwide has done a deal to provide three new branded channels on the Babelgum platform from next…

Earnings: BBC.com Ads Help BBCWW Soar; Big YouTube And iTunes Income - 3 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Tue 08 Jul 2008 08:10 AM PST

BBC Worldwide digital revenue ballooned from £13.9 million to £21.9 million in the year to March 31, thanks to ads on the new BBC.com and to sales from the likes…

BBC Worldwide Likely To Shut Audience Interaction Unit Audiocall - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Fri 04 Jul 2008 02:51 AM PST

BBC Worldwide CEO John Smith has proposed closing its Audiocall division that facilitates interactive audience participation for TV shows and other media brands, after it became mired in last year’s…

EMI Unlocks All Its Artists’ Performances On BBC; Extensive Marketing Collaboration In The Works - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Wed 11 Jun 2008 12:17 PM PST

EMI Music has agreed to allow the BBC to release its artists’ TV and radio performances that are currently in the broadcaster’s archives. The deal that will let both entities…

Joost, Time Out Take BBC Worldwide Concerns To OFT - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Sun 08 Jun 2008 11:57 PM PST

To commercial newspapers’ gripes the BBC is ”the 300lb gorilla on our garden”, add a collection of concerns on web TV and travel guides. The Sunday papers have rounded up…

BBC.com Cans Paid Subs Option; Readers Don’t Want What They Say They Want - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Thu 05 Jun 2008 07:31 AM PST

BBC Worldwide has gone cold on the almost unthinkable idea of charging overseas users for an ad-free BBC.com. The Guardian threw at BBC World MD Anne Barnard a old rumination…

Industry Moves: Douglas Glen Leaves BBC Worldwide For Lloyd-Webber Group - 1 Comment
Posted By Robert Andrews - Mon 02 Jun 2008 08:43 AM PST

BBC Worldwide’s head of digital media technology strategy, Douglas Glen, is leaving the broadcaster to head up digital strategy at Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Really Useful Group, a theatre, TV, film…

Will Kangaroo Jump To SeeSaw? Highfield’s Switch Imminent - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Tue 13 May 2008 05:57 AM PST

The ITV/C4/BBC Worldwide VoD JV codenamed Project Kangaroo is inching closer to fruition. MediaWeek reckons the consortium will name the service SeeSaw - a title that would aptly reflect both…

Print Bits: ABCe Gap Closing; Guardian vs BBC.com; Monkey On Web - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Thu 24 Apr 2008 03:23 AM PST

-- ABCe gap closing: Mirror Group Newspapers recorded four million unique users in March across its seven national news sites, its debut ABCe returns show. Guardian.co.uk held top place with…

Sell BBC Radio, C4 To Fund Public Web Publisher: Bazalgette - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Wed 23 Apr 2008 01:44 AM PST

Add this to the file of BBC detractors. Former Endemol creative director Peter Bazalgette has called for BBC Radio 1 and 2 to be sold and for BBC Worldwide and…

BBC Closing Down Its Commercial ISP Beeb.net Due To Low Numbers - 1 Comment
Posted By Rafat Ali - Fri 18 Apr 2008 10:39 AM PST

Beeb.net, the ISP operated by the commercial arm of BBC, BBC Worldwide, is closing down after nine years because of dwindling subscriber numbers, reports Guardian. The service offers web hosting,…

Kangaroo: August Launch Rumoured; 4oD Reorgs In Preparation - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Tue 15 Apr 2008 02:34 AM PST

As predicted yesterday on news of Ashley Highfield’s appointment as CEO, it looks like ITV/C4/BBC Worldwide online TV JV Project Kangaroo won’t make the earlier-rumoured June launch date. “Observers” tell…

BBC America Assembles Ad Sales Team For First Cross-Platform Deals - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Tue 08 Apr 2008 04:52 PM PST

BBC Worldwide is expanding its North American ad sales operations, allowing for selling ads across BBC.com and its related cable channels for the first time, the commercial arm of UK’s…

Broadband Content Bits: Virgin 50 Mbps, Kangaroo Ads, Velocix P2P - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Wed 26 Mar 2008 05:23 AM PST

- Virgin 50 Mbps: Nine million VMED customers will have access to 50 Mbps cable this year, the company said, considering best methods for rollout: “Unlike big routed networks, we…

C4’s Digital Future: A Stake In BBC? Govt. Partnerships? Fill In The Blanks… - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Thu 28 Feb 2008 02:30 AM PST

It’s probably just one option amongst many, but the government’s department for culture, media and sport is examining a proposal that would give troubled Channel 4 a stake in BBC…

BBC Monetising Its Long Tail With Mochila Motion Gallery Deal - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Wed 27 Feb 2008 04:21 AM PST

BBC Worldwide will earn revenue from ads placed on its video content by New York-based content syndication middleman Mochila. Mochila has licensed footage from the BBC Motion Gallery to distribute…

@ FT Digital Media Conference: Apple Wanted To Be BBC/iTunes Gatekeeper - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Mon 25 Feb 2008 05:25 AM PST

BBC future media and technology director Ashley Highfield told the FT Digital Media & Broadcasting Conference this morning of the difficult balance that must be struck between syndicating content to…

Updated: BBC Worldwide To Distribute Shows Through iTunes; In UK Only - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Mon 18 Feb 2008 05:17 PM PST

Updated below: Not that big a surprise: BBC’s commercial arm will start distributing shows through Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) iTunes by next week, reports The Register, citing sources. The launch will…

MySpaceTV Will Distribute BBC Worldwide Globally - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Wed 23 Jan 2008 06:22 PM PST

MySpace and BBC Worldwide are partnering to deliver new and archived short-form BBC content through MySpaceTV. The deal is described as the first global agreement between MySpace and a major…

BBC Worldwide Greatly Ups Online Forecast After Unexpected Growth - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Wed 28 Nov 2007 02:41 AM PST

BBC Worldwide is raising online revenue forecasts after watching growth outstrip its expectations. The broadcaster’s commercial subsidiary had targeted getting 10 percent of total revenues from online but is now…

Interview: Kangaroo’s BBC, ITV, C4 Execs: More Partners Coming, Going Portable - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Tue 27 Nov 2007 08:46 AM PST

Kangaroo will gobble up 4oD, will leave iPlayer unharmed, is seeking more broadcast partners and will offer transfer to portable media players, a trio of executives behind the upcoming online…

Kangaroo: The Framework Behind The Plan To Monetise TV’s Long Tail - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Tue 27 Nov 2007 05:18 AM PST

The main strategy behind Kangaroo - the VOD online TV joint venture announced this morning by BBC Worldwide, ITV (LSE: ITV) and Channel 4 - is to monetise TV shows…

If They Can Hulu, We Can Kangaroo: UK Broadcasters Join For Kangaroo Commercial VOD Platform - 2 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Tue 27 Nov 2007 03:53 AM PST

BBC Worldwide, ITV (LSE: ITV) and Channel 4 have confirmed they are joining forces to launch a major new online on-demand UK TV joint venture. The “entertainment site” will offer…

@ Monaco: James Murdoch vs Ashley Highfield: Public Intervention In More Ways Than One - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Sun 11 Nov 2007 11:03 PM PST

At the Monaco Media Forum this weekend, BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) CEO James Murdoch was interviewed on stage in an engaging session, where he touched on a broad range of issues.…

Industry Moves: BBC Worldwide Hires Ex-BSkyB Exec As Finance Chief - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Thu 01 Nov 2007 04:16 PM PST

[By Dianne See Morrison] Goldman Sachs International executive director Neil Chugani is joining BBC Worldwide, the commercial arm of the public broadcaster, as CFO (via release). Chugani was with the…