UK public service broadcaster Channel 4’s annual new media budget is increasing by £1 million ($1.9 million) to £22 million ($43 million) in 2007. In its statement of programme policy…

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moblogUK, the British mobile picture blogging service, is planning to roll-out a national moblog site in conjunction with a South African media operator. The London company, which allows users to…

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The UK’s Channel 4 TV broadcaster has won backing from SMG, UTV and possibly Emap Radio - three of the UK’s biggest radio companies - in its bid to run…

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Channel 4, the independent commercial broadcaster in UK, has launched among the most extensive online video services till date, thanks to it being able to sort out online revenue split…

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UK’s broadcaster Channel 4 is going to offer much of its programming online for 30 days after transmission for 99p per episode. Current series such as Hollyoaks and Ramsay’s Kitchen…

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In UK, terrestrial Channel 4 has sold its participation TV (mobile TV voting) subsidiary Ostrich Media to iTouch, the mobile company that runs Big Brother’s telephone voting for C4. C4…

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So says this report..which makes Channel 4 the first commercial brodcaster in UK to do so (BBC does simulcast of some of its news shows). Registered UK users would be…

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After BBC, pressure is mounting on other UK broadcasters to settle with independent producer trade body Pact over the exploitation of programme rights...so Channel 4 has done exactly that:  the…

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UK’s Channel 4 now offers mobile video news bulletins—they’re currently free apart from data charges. “The service features bulletins, ‘Hot Clips’ and ‘Best of Show’ clips drawn from Channel 4’s…

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UK’s Channel 4 made a measly £300,000 in profits on the new media side, during 2005, a tenth of that made the previous year, according to the broadcaster’s annual report,…

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So Disney jumps in on online VOD of its shows in UK as well, after doing such deal in U.S. over the last six months or so...its syndication division Buena…

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UK’s Channel 4 New Media has for the first time introduced advertising on its mobile portal and allowed viewers to watch shows on mobile for free. The one-month long mobile…

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An interesting little battle is breaking out in UK: rival comedy broadband portals are about to be launched by BBC and Channel 4. The BBC looks set to upstage its…

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Is this a sign of things to come? UK’s commercial public service broadcaster Channel 4 has pulled the plug on its “red button” interactive TV programming to concentrate on broadband…

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Is this a sign of things to come? UK’s commercial public service broadcaster Channel 4 has pulled the plug on its “red button” interactive TV programming to concentrate on broadband…

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This should have some ramifications, at least in Europe: Channel 4 in UK, which had embarked on a big broadband and mobile push with some amount of fanfare, has been…

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Last month Channel 4 in the UK indicated it was going to go into original mobile content in a big way, and this is an example of that. It’s selling…

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UK’s Channel 4 has set up a mobile division as a separate commissioning department and is “now looking to the independent production community to come up with content ideas for…

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UK’s Channel 4, the only commercial public broadcaster in the country, is planning to simulcast all of its TV content via broadband. At present, Channel 4 restricts its broadband content…

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Endemol and Channel 4 in the UK have teamed up to develop a “mainstream mobile TV show” due to launch in September. “The show will be similar in concept to…

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(reg. req.): In UK, commercial public broadcaster Channel 4 has appointed Rod Henwood, the CEO of the sports internet firm Premium TV (and formerly at NTL and ITV) to the…

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In UK, Channel 4 has doubled the amount it plans to spend on new media commissions this year...it has increased its budget for outsourced projects from 4m GBP in 2004…

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Also in the same story (as below), BBC is actively pursuing this idea in talks with Channel 4, the British Film Institute and the British Library to join its Creative…

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In UK, Channel 4 is to launch a mobile and online betting service before Christmas in one of the biggest signs yet that gambling is accepted as a mainstream activity…

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Channel 4 has launched a new premium broadband service called 4Broadband to coincide with the start of Big Brother 4 today. The content will be streamed through RealNetwork’s RealOne Player,…

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