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…

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ITV, Britain’s biggest commercial TV network, is finally ready to unveil its long-awaited online video-on-demand offering. MediaWeek reports the broadcaster has circulated invites to a launch ceremony in London on…

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Two new reports paint an optimistic, if obvious, upward picture for IPTV over the next couple of years. By 2011, around 1.5 million UK households will be watching TV over…

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The BBC will this week announce plans for a massive online program archive. Speaking to paidContent.org, a BBC spokesperson confirmed a report in the Sunday Observer that the corporation aims…

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European IPTV subscriptions will double from 2.9 million last year to 5.6 million in 2007, according to research from Screen Digest. Largely as a result of mergers and acquisitions, many…

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Paris-based video and IPTV service Ipercast has raised $3.3 million from OTC Asset Management and Siparex, according to French tech blog Altaide via Alarm: Clock Euro. The five-year-old company manages…

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Ericsson is set to take full control of Norwegian digital video company Tandberg Television after winning the support of over 90 percent of shareholders, in a deal that paves the…

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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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Al Gore has switched on his Current TV channel in the UK and Ireland with the aim of “democratising television”. The channel has been given carriage on digital satellite by…

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Ericsson is offering $1.4 billion cash for Norway’s Tandberg Television, as it looks to broaden its online multimedia services, the AP reported. Ericsson owns 11.7 percent of Tandberg and said…

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Tiscali U.K. CEO Mary Turner has slammed claims that the internet and telephony operator is for sale and says she plans to make the company one of the U.K.’s leading…

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BT Vision, the much-hyped IPTV service from UK giant BT, will launch tomorrow, and has done deals with film studio Warner Brothers and record label EMI, reports Telegraph. Warner will…

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Updated below: In UK, BT’s much hyped IPTV service BT Vision will finally launch next Monday, reports Guardian. The initial rollout is likely to be low level, with a big…

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Some update on AOL UK’s bidding: France Telecom’s Orange unit has pulled out of the bidding for the UK arm, reports Times Online, though Murdoch-controlled BSkyB and Carhpone Warehouse are…

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Kamera, the Swedish web and mobile TV firm, is producing three web TV channels for Norwegian magazine publisher Hjemmet Mortensen. The first of these, vimenn.com, launched Sept. 1 and partners…

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So this complicates things for AOL’s plans of selling off its German unit: European telco player Tiscali is considering selling off its German division to fund its UK digital media…

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So the straight buyout hasn’t happened, though a variation of it has, after news leaks on this deal over the last week or so: Italian Internet firm Tiscali will merge…

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HomeChoice, the UK IPTV pioneer, which has been for sale for a while now after running into low adoption numbers, is about to be bought and merged the UK operations…

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Club Internet, the French subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom Group and the country’s fourth-ranked ISP, is planning to launch a triple-play package with IPTV, voice and data later this month—all powered…

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German pay-TV operator Premiere has secured a deal with Deutsche Telekom to broadcast live games from Germany’s soccer league online and on IPTV. But as Premiere doesn’t have any Internet…

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That was quick: The BT executive overseeing the UK telecoms company’s move into IPTV and VOD later this year has quit “to pursue other interests.” Andrew Burke, who was named…

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BT has certainly learned the art of trickling out information on its upcoming IPTV service: it will be known as BT Vision and will now be launched in the fall…

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IPTV World Forum is on in London this week, and some coverage from IPTV News: -- Stay Out of the Content Business, Telcos Warned: “Telecoms companies are trusted by consumers…

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Digital video compression firm Tandberg Television is acquiring IP video delivery firm SkyStream Networks for about $80 million. SkyStream, based in Sunnyvale, CA, is privately-held and employs about 100. Founded…

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UK IPTV pioneer HomeChoice is up for sale at about GBP 200 million (about $353 million) and potential buyers, including BSkyB, are understood to have made bids, reports Sunday Herald…

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