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…

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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…

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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…

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BBC.co.uk overspent by 48 percent in 2007/08 because management is “not sufficiently strong” and “financial oversight has not been sufficiently effective”, according to the BBC Trust’s review in to the…

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The BBC’s head of new media in Northern Ireland, Davy Sims, is leaving the corporation after seven years running web operations in Belfast. On his blog, Sims wrote: “Over the…

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Not that the House Of Lords has any direct jurisdiction over the broadcaster, but Trinity Mirror (LSE: TNI) CEO Sly Bailey had only negative things to say to its communications…

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-- MySpace: MySpace UK is doing it first branded “radio show” - the weekly, hour-long Mars Planets Radio (the clue’s in the name), hosted by Alex Zane. Not just Zane…

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BSkyB’s (NYSE: BSY) dilemma is this - how does it transition to a VoD world when its satellite infrastructure is unable to cope with the demands of on-demand? It started…

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I caught up with online news commentator Jeff Jarvis - a US-UK columnist and consultant - at the Online Publishers Association conference, after he chaired a panel on internationalisation of…

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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…

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-- MSN: Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) has added Messenger TV to its Windows Live Messenger in 20 countries, including this one, allowing IM users to simultaneously watch and share programming from…

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BBC Radio 1 is trying out some new things around its One Big Weekend festival in Maidstone, Kent, this weekend. Last year, the station made up a character to play…

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The UK’s premium rate phone-in scandal rumbles on. The BBC admitted today that £106,000 raised for charity through a premium rate fundraising phone-in was in fact kept by Audiocall, a…

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The BBC has refuted a report it is to abandon the Kontiki content delivery product that powers its iPlayer desktop application. C21 yesterday claimed: “The BBC iPlayer will cease using…

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BBC and ITV (LSE: ITV) today switched on what could either be a threat to BSkyB’s (NYSE: BSY) subscription satellite service or, as they say, “the final piece in the…

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The BBC has struck a deal with Virgin Media to put its iPlayer service on the internet and phone provider’s cable network. Virgin Media Customers will now be able to…

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Our story last week on the legal position surrounding live TV streaming app Zattoo appears to have created some movements. In response to Channel 4’s statement it was “obviously concerned”…

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James Murdoch may no longer be BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) CEO but, as CEO of his daddy’s wider News Corp (NYSE: NWS). he’s still disgruntled with the BBC’s catch-up TV service.…

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Some in the TV biz seem at odds as new TV-over-the-internet applications begin to re-broadcast their live channels around the world. A Brand Republic story yesterday suggested UK broadcasters are…

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-- 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…

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That should settle the matter then. Asked his opinion yesterday by MPs on the House Of Commons’ media and business committees, Ofcom CEO Ed Richards said: “(The BBC paying ISPs)…

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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…

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-- BBC mulls OpenID: The BBC is announcing support for OpenID. Sort of. The broadcaster said it had joined the OpenID Foundation, leading the decentralised identity system that allows users…

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The man who launched the BBC News website has laid in to the corporation’s online strategy, as future media and technology director Ashley Highfield prepares to depart to Kangaroo. Bob…

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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,…

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