All Sky’s regulatory inquiries are coming home to roost. In two new Ofcom rulings today… -- New pay-TV rules: The regulator plans to force BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) to offer its…

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Spainish media conglomerate Prisa has received a number of preliminary offers for its satellite TV business Digital Plus. According to the FT.com, “a person familiar with the process” put the…

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BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) is scrapping its plan to launch a pay-TV platform on top of Freeview, before Ofcom has even had the chance to rule it out. The digital terrestrial…

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Has Setanta scored an own goal after failing to strike a deal with the BBC and ITV (LSE: ITV) to show highlights of England’s World Cup qualifying match against Croatia?…

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News Corp (NYSE: NWS). is closing in on Premiere. The German pay-TV group announced today that News Corp. CFO for Europe and Asia, Mark Williams, was stepping into the CEO…

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Miniweb, a British interactive TV platform spun out of BSkyB (NYSE: BSY), has announced a massive $32 million (£18.35 million) venture round from US investors to take its product offerings…

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BskyB already dominates the pay-TV market with Sky, but now it looks like it’s scoring impressive gains in broadband access as well, having now amassed 1.6 million customers since its…

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So perhaps internet video isn’t doing that much damage to traditional TV viewing after all. Broadcasters’ Audience Research Board, the TV audience measurement body, said today that the number of…

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Despite the worsening economy, BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) is getting more customers to part with more cash. In the year to June, it added 92,000, beating expectations, while customer churn hit…

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Forty years after founding the company, Apprentice lynchpin Sir Alan Sugar is stepping down as chairman of his Amstrad company after completing the task of selling it to BSkyB (NYSE:…

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Six years ago, News Corp (NYSE: NWS). lost some 2 billion euros in its investment into the German media and pay-TV company Kirch Group that eventually went bankrupt. But the…

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This has the potential to de-rail the rise of VOD TV as typified by personal video recorders. FT.com reports the European Commission is reclassifying pay-TV hard drive- or Ethernet-enabled set-top…

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BSkyB’s launch plans for its digital terrestrial television pay-TV service Picnic are stuck in a holding pattern, after Ofcom announced yesterday, yet another consultation into the service and in Sky’s…

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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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BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) released third quarter results today, showing that the pay TV group had a nine-month adjusted operating profit of £521 million with revenues up 10 percent at £3.71…

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Earlier this month, News Corp (NYSE: NWS). announced it was upping its 22.7 percent stake in Munich-based subscription TV network Premiere. Reports estimated that News Corp. was looking to hold…

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Irish-owned broadcaster Setanta Sports is gauging the interest for a potential sale of the company after finding a float too tricky an option in the current market. Timesonline.co.uk reports the…

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The government has ordered BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) today to divest its 17.9 percent stake in broadcaster ITV to below 7.5 percent, in a ruling that could cost the satellite TV…

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Ofcom today ruled against two user-generated video clips shown last July on Sky Digital channel Sumo.tv, stating they had breached the regulator’s code of standards for broadcasters. The Guardian reports…

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BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) has agreed to terms with Paramount and Warner Bros to make the studios’ movies available on its Sky Anytime on-demand service. The service already had agreements with…

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BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) is adding an in-browser component to its VOD platform, in addition to the P2P application used for the desktop version of its Sky Anytime VOD platform, as…

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Famously bespectacled Loaded magazine founder James Brown has been appointed group creative and editorial director of Sumo.tv, a web-based video-sharing platform that also has a TV channel on Sky and…

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Updated: BSkyB later confirmed to Dow Jones it’s at least thinking about it:  “We’re now examining options to broaden access to the benefits and value that we can provide. However,…

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BSkyB (LON:BSY) CEO James Murdoch has distanced the UK satellite and broadband operator from the call-to-play TV game show scandals that have engulfed many of the country’s main TV networks.…

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I knew coming in that Koreans are among the most intense users of mobile media but two stats offered in the last couple of days put it in bas relief.…

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