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Earnings: BT Q3 Broadband Revenue Grows 12 Percent; Vision Languishing; Reorg Hits Profit - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Thu 08 Nov 2007 02:44 AM PST

BT (NYSE: BT) added 178,000 net retail broadband subscribers in the three months to September 30, taking it up to 4.07 million customers and helping bump broadband revenue up 12…

Broadband Content Bits: Fastweb; BBC on PS3; ABCe Figures - 0 Comments
Posted By Ingrid Lunden - Fri 26 Oct 2007 02:06 AM PST

-- One more IPTV player is looking to add more social media elements to its service. Italy’s Fastweb is currently trialling a recommendation service to drive more content usage. It…

Tower of Babel, Hold The Gum: Another Internet TV Venture Launches - 0 Comments
Posted By Ingrid Lunden - Fri 26 Oct 2007 01:11 AM PST

Not to be confused with the P2P Internet TV venture that goes by a very similar name...Babel TV is launching on November 6. This is an IPTV play that involves…

@ Mipcom: UK To Get Orange’s Three-Screen Rewind TV - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Wed 10 Oct 2007 10:21 AM PST

Orange will roll-out its innovative Rewind TV service in the UK as part of its IPTV plans. Pascal Thomas, VP of Orange’s NExT mobile media division, told paidContent:UK the tri-platform…

@ Mipcom: Virgin Media Trials HD TV Over High-Speed Broadband - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Tue 09 Oct 2007 01:33 AM PST

What exactly does Virgin Media (NSDQ: VMED) want to do with the 50Mbit broadband service it’s currently trialling? HD TV over the net, that’s what. Here in Cannes, it was…

UK Round-Up: BT Vision VOD, Web Magazine Subs, Newspaper ABCe Figs - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Thu 27 Sep 2007 01:36 AM PST

- BT (NYSE: BT) Vision: BT has added some more on-demand content to its IPTV portfolio, this time from the sci-fi and “paranormal” genres. In a deal with Fireworks International,…

BBC Gets Green Light For HD Over TV, IPTV And Online - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Wed 26 Sep 2007 04:57 AM PST

The BBC Trust has given the broadcaster the green light to start broadcasting hi-definition programmes - online as well as on TV (see release). The trust provisionally approved a new…

Earnings: Tiscali H1 Revenues Up 24 Percent On Broadband Growth - 0 Comments
Posted By Ingrid Lunden - Thu 13 Sep 2007 05:04 AM PST

Tiscali (BIT:TIS) today reported H1 revenues of 393.1 million euros (£269.2 million), a 24 percent increase on the same period a year ago. It said growth was largely driven by…

Broadband Content Bits: NME.com/iTunes, Orange TV, Setanta/Tiscali - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Mon 10 Sep 2007 06:36 AM PST

- NME.com: NME.com is looking to win viewers for its video content by releasing more than 50 artist interviews through iTunes, The Guardian reports. The IPC music mag site’s own…

Tiscali Takes IPTV Service Nationwide, Aiming For Five Million Customers - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Mon 03 Sep 2007 03:01 AM PST

Tiscali (BIT:TIS) has taken a further step to expanding Homechoice, the former London-based IPTV provider, in to a nationwide service. The Italian ISP has made Tiscali TV, its product offering…

U.K. IPTV ‘Lagging Behind’ Rest Of Europe - Report - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Thu 30 Aug 2007 12:16 PM PST

British telcos are way behind their continental counterparts in rolling out TV-over-broadband services, according to a new analyst report that criticizes a “lackadaisical approach” to IPTV strategy. Screen Digest’s review…

Ethnic TV Rebroadcaster JumpTV Strikes U.K. Web Carriage Deal with Tiscali - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Tue 28 Aug 2007 03:44 AM PST

JumpTV (TSE:JTV), a distributor of ethnic PPV TV channels over the internet, has struck an interesting deal with Tiscali (BIT:TIS) that will see the ISP provide the Canadian company’s channel…

Broadband Content Bits UK: Virgin Sports; ITV.com; Disney-Orange - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Fri 27 Jul 2007 05:04 AM PST

-- Virgin Media: The telco, broadband provider and cable TV provider is to launch a website with free sports video highlights, as it looks to compete again with BSkyB, this…

Online TV Could Command 18 Percent Of Net Advertising By 2011: Report - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Wed 25 Jul 2007 07:34 AM PST

Advertising on internet TV channels could yield worldwide revenues of up to $10 billion in 2011, according to a report from Understanding & Solutions. That would make up 18 percent…

Tiscali To Acquire Pipex’s Broadband Business For $420 Million - Confirmed - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Fri 13 Jul 2007 04:32 AM PST

Updated: The buyout was confirmed. Tiscali will also get Pipex’s 480,000 voice customers. Tiscali expects “significant synergies and efficiencies” of around £150 ($300) million. The company, which in March boasted…

European Netflix Clone Glowria Secures $8.3 Million Financing - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Mon 09 Jul 2007 02:20 PM PST

Glowria, a European Netflix clone, has raised $8.3 million, NetEco reports (in French). (via Alarm Clock Euro.) The company received the investment from existing investors Seventure (Groupe Natixis), Crédit Agricole…

BBC iPlayer Launch Accelerated To July; Also To Run On Cable, Virgin, More - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Wed 27 Jun 2007 02:52 AM PST

Launch for BBC’s iPlayer, offering the last seven days of programming for download and viewable within a 30-day window, has been brought forward from November to July 27 - and…

iTV Content Developer Accedo Gets $1.28 Million Investment - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Tue 19 Jun 2007 07:00 AM PST

Accedo Broadband of Stockholm, Sweden, which makes interactive content for IPTV platforms, has received 9 million krona ($1.28 million) from state-established investors Industrifonden as well as its early-round backers. Formed…

UK TV Networks Joining Forces For Broadband On-Demand Venture: Report - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Thu 14 Jun 2007 06:39 AM PST

The UK’s main broadcasters are reportedly planning a broadband media player joint venture that would pool their programming as on-demand video downloads. An unidentified source told The Guardian BBC, ITV…

Virgin Media Launches New Channel, Includes IPTV And UGC - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Mon 11 Jun 2007 05:50 AM PST

Telephony, broadband and TV provider Virgin Media will counter the loss of Sky One from its line-up by launching a new mass-market entertainment channel on platforms including broadband internet, according…

Joost Rival Babelgum Opens Doors To P2P TV Viewers - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Fri 08 Jun 2007 06:09 AM PST

Updated: Rafat adds: I am interviewing Scaglia on Monday morning, and will have more on Babelgum and his own views on online video. Ireland-based P2P TV network Babelgum has opened…

ITV.com Relaunch Next Week, Rights Issues Curtail Some Programming - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Fri 08 Jun 2007 03:21 AM PST

It’s been a long time coming. Now in UK, ITV’s relaunched ITV.com will finally go live next Tuesday in a staged roll-out due to be completed by July 31, Guardian…

BSkyB Eyes Tiscali IPTV Carriage, Drops PVR Subscription Fee - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Mon 21 May 2007 10:05 AM PST

In the first of two separate pieces of BSkyB news, Times of London, citing unnamed sources, claimed the digital satellite broadcaster is in advanced talks with Italian-owned broadband and telephony…

Tiscali Launches On-Demand Internet Movie Rental/Purchase Outlet - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Fri 04 May 2007 07:15 AM PST

Italian broadband provider Tiscali has partnered with movie distributor Arts Alliance Media to launch Movies Now, a UK internet-based VOD service that includes over 500 titles. Users can download or…

Nearly Half Of Europeans Watch Web TV: Study - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Thu 03 May 2007 08:15 AM PST

Forty-five percent of European broadband users watch TV on the internet, according to research conducted by StrategyOne for Motorola. The habit was most prevalent in France (59 percent), then in…