So reports FT, saying that John Hutton, the business secretary will receive a recommendation from the Competition Commission later this week that Sky should lower its holding to between 5…

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- Disney: Disney (NYSE: DIS) is to open a UK version of its Club Penguin kids’ virtual world and is recruiting in Brighton to build the product. Launched in 2005…

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Kangaroo will gobble up 4oD, will leave iPlayer unharmed, is seeking more broadcast partners and will offer transfer to portable media players, a trio of executives behind the upcoming online…

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The main strategy behind Kangaroo - the VOD online TV joint venture announced this morning by BBC Worldwide, ITV (LSE: ITV) and Channel 4 - is to monetise TV shows…

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BBC Worldwide, ITV (LSE: ITV) and Channel 4 have confirmed they are joining forces to launch a major new online on-demand UK TV joint venture. The “entertainment site” will offer…

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UK broadcaster ITV (LSE: ITV) has launched its first made-for-mobile show, dubbed The Hot Desk. The two-minute episodes will be hosted by Nicole Appleton and Melanie Blatt (from the band…

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Some headlines from our sister site mocoNews. Click for the full story… - ITV Launching Communities: ITV (LSE: ITV) will launch a series of mobile communities for its shows which…

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Signs music is becoming a service - The Sun Online and ITV.com are each launching new music sections including, amongst other things, white-label download stores from UK vendor 7digital. The…

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We Brits are now spending nearly twice as much time watching TV, video and movie websites as we did last year. Nielsen Online data out today shows such time increased…

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From the Sunday papers… - ITV: Private equity super-house Apax is interested in making another bid for ITV, anonymous “sources” tell the Financial Mail. Apax circled the broadcaster with big…

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ITV (LSE: ITV) will drop Friends Reunited‘s annual £5 subscription fee to take the site free, Media Week claims, without attributing sources. The broadcaster bought the once-mighty social network for…

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It could almost be a watershed moment—Google’s UK advertising revenue surpassed that generated by ITV1, Britain’s most popular commercial channel, in Q3, according to a Times analysis. Google (NSDQ: GOOG)…

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BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) is making its first gambit in response to the recent Competition Commission ruling the 17.9 percent stake it took in ITV (LSE: ITV) last November is anti-competitive.…

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ITV (LSE: ITV) has restructured Jeff Henry’s ITV Consumer division that runs ITV.com, ITV Play, ITV Local, mobile content and the broadcaster’s relationship with PartyGaming (release). COO Tom Betts gets…

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ITV (LSE: ITV) has done a deal with MSN allowing the software giant to distribute video clips and other content from its forthcoming I’m A Celebrity, Get Me Out Of…

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Telegraph Media Group’s head of online advertising Gary Cole has upped sticks for ITV, where he becomes head of revenues for ITV.com and Friends Reunited. This has to be one…

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The wave of scandals in the UK’s participation TV trade has wiped up to £200 million off the industry in a year, according to the man who runs the voting…

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A development on the BSkyB (NYSE: BSY)/ITV (LSE: ITV) story of last week, in which the Competition Commission ruled that the satellite company BSkyB may be restricting competition in areas…

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-- Online video outfit Joost has added ITN and Major League Baseball to its programming line-up. The ITN service will cover news in the UK and rest of the world,…

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For those who wondered how ITV (LSE: ITV) will manage to to treble its online revenue to £150 million by 2010 (see previous post), some stats already show some improvements…

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Speculative, but could happen: After yesterday’s ruling by UK’s Competition Commission that BSkyB’s (NYSE: BSY) 17.9 percent stake in broadcaster ITV (LSE: ITV) “restricts competition”, the satcaster may take legal…

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Some UK-related briefs from our sister site MocoNews Read on for full posts:- - Mobile Advertising: We’re Selling Out Inventory, Claim UK Ops: There is so much demand from advertisers…

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Kent County Council has become the UK’s first local authority to launch its own broadband TV channel. Made by Bob Geldfof’s Ten Alps production company and available 24/7, Kent TV…

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Internet TV is beginning to motor in the UK, this FT.com article points out, but Channel 4 and ITV have called for a single standard to unite disparate efforts. C4…

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We noted yesterday how, despite having been overtaken in the zeitgeist stakes by Facebook, Bebo and MySpace, ITV (LON:ITV) intends to continue investing in Friends Reunited, the once-pioneering social network…

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