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Yahoo Pans Ofcom’s Search Plan, Says BBC.co.uk May Be Too Big - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Fri 18 Jul 2008 07:39 AM PST

Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) - a relative newcomer to broadcast policy lobbying - responded to Ofcom’s ongoing second review of public service broadcasting (PSB) by picking holes in the regulator’s vision…

BBC’s Huggers Confirmed Future Media & Technology Director - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Fri 18 Jul 2008 02:48 AM PST

As we and several others forecast back in April, BBC future media and technology (FM&T) controller Erik Huggers has just been confirmed in the director post, replacing Ashley Highfield on…

Now Even Radio Feels Threatened By BBC Local Plans - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Wed 16 Jul 2008 08:45 AM PST

It’s one thing local newspapers grumbling about the BBC’s proposal to add 20 minutes of daily news video for its 65 existing local sites - but radio… ? RadioCentre, commercial…

Updated: BBC’s Huggers ‘Slated For Job’, But ‘No Announcement Due’ - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Tue 15 Jul 2008 01:14 AM PST

Here’s to embargoes, arrangements and accidents. As predicted, BBC future media and technology (FM&T) controller Erik Huggers is to be crowned director of the unit, according to Guardian.co.uk. Or is…

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…

Round-Up: ITN Games Show, Manc Mag, Bragster Appoints, BBC Stats - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Wed 09 Jul 2008 04:10 AM PST

-- ITN Games: The UK newsgatherer’s ITN On multimedia division is now doing contract online news production on a web-and-mobile video show for Cranberry Publishing’s Gamerzines.com, a host of free…

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…

Filmklik Sells Stake To Form Euro VOD Platform - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Thu 03 Jul 2008 09:51 AM PST

A new eastern European VOD movie venture is in the offering. One of the region’s movie distributors, A Company, has acquired 25.1 in Hungarian VOD platform Filmklik.hu, with the intention…

BBC Dumps Microsoft-Backed Skinkers Apps, Switches To Adobe - 1 Comment
Posted By Robert Andrews - Wed 02 Jul 2008 01:36 AM PST

The BBC is moving away from desktop apps made by Microsoft-backed Skinkers and instead bringing production in-house, switching to Adobe’s (NSDQ: ADBE) Flash-based cross-platform Flex and AIR frameworks. John O’Donovan,…

Knives Out For BBC Local Video Plans, ‘Could Kill Newspapers’ - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Mon 30 Jun 2008 02:31 AM PST

The newspaper community has struck up a harmonious chorus of disapproval toward the £68 million BBC’s local video proposal. Writing on paidContent:UK, Guardian Media Group CEO Carolyn McCall, who has…

Industry Moves: BBC Audio & Music, EMI Music - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Sun 29 Jun 2008 02:29 PM PST

-- BBC: BBC marketing director Tim Davie is being tapped to replace Heritage-Lottery Fund-bound Jenny Abramski as director of Audio & Music, in a move that reflects the BBC’s desire…

BBC Launches Revamped iPlayer; YouTube Still Dominates - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Thu 26 Jun 2008 03:36 AM PST

The BBC has today launched a revamped version of its popular online catch-up service, the iPlayer. The improved iPlayer will see the new version running along the existing one, which…

BBC’s Local Video Plan: £68 Million For 10 Daily Bulletins, Live Streams, Mobile Too - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Tue 24 Jun 2008 02:35 AM PST

The BBC Trust today published details of the BBC’s local broadband “video journalism” proposal, which has so worried commercial regional publishers. The details here reveal the plan would require a…

Broadband Content Bits: Tesco Digital Launches, Custom iPlayer, Met Office - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Mon 16 Jun 2008 10:41 AM PST

-- Tesco: April reports said the supermarket behemoth would up its music and entertainment download commitment with a new site, TescoDownloads.com. Today’s launch is actually for TescoDigital.com, a visually attractive…

BBC Trust Starts Extraordinary Review Of Local Video Plans - 1 Comment
Posted By Robert Andrews - Thu 12 Jun 2008 03:29 AM PST

Extraordinarily long, that is. The BBC had always expected its proposals to add video services to its 60 Where I Live sites to be put to a public value test…

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…

Newspaper Society Opposing BBC Local Video Plans - Surprise, Surprise - 1 Comment
Posted By Robert Andrews - Tue 10 Jun 2008 04:29 AM PST

The Newspaper Society has stepped in to give the BBC yet another kicking (but a rather late one), seeking to use last month’s critical BBC Trust report to suggest Auntie…

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…

UK Bits: Style.com UK, Virgin Radio, BBC/Zattoo - 1 Comment
Posted By Robert Andrews - Thu 05 Jun 2008 06:07 AM PST

-- Style.com UK: CondeNet International will launch its US pure-play brands Style.com and Men’ Style.com for the UK after a test in Italy, NMA says. The publisher already operates mags…

BBC Makes Concession To ‘Unfair Advantage’ Gripes With New Links Push - 1 Comment
Posted By Robert Andrews - Wed 04 Jun 2008 09:12 AM PST

The BBC News website is to embark on a new push to link to rival commercial publishers, in response to last week’s damning regulatory review. Aside from the £36 million…

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…

BBC.co.uk Review: FM&T Will Stay Despite Restructure, Beeb Says - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Fri 30 May 2008 01:21 AM PST

The BBC told paidContent:UK its main digital department will remain, despite being urged to overhaul its new media operations yesterday. The BBC Trust had found a 2007 restructure - that…

BBC.co.uk Review: Auntie Accepts Inadequacy, Disputes Overspend - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Thu 29 May 2008 05:15 AM PST

The BBC says it “accepts” all-out criticism from its regulatory trust, which found BBC.co.uk overspent by £36 million in 2007/08 and was dogged by ineffective management and editorial oversight. In…