Director of BBC Television Danny Cohen has said BBC4 will remain a TV channel in the short term – but has warned that a tough licence fee settlement would put the channel next in the firing line. Cohen said that BBC4 was currently safe because moving BBC3 online would deliver the savings required to see […]
UK free-to-air DTH satellite platform Freesat is to build on recent innovations such as its launch of a mobile companion app and the September 2012 launch of its <Free Time> smart EPG by launching on Integrated Digital TV (IDTV) sets. Addressing a Westminster Forum Keynote Seminar on the prospects for the UK television market, Emma […]
The BBC has confirmed plans, subject to the approval of the BBC Trust, to close BBC Three as a broadcast TV channel in autumn 2015. If the plans go ahead, BBC Three would then be reinvented as a new online service, and the freed-up spectrum would be used to extend CBBC by an hour a night […]
The first ever closing of a BBC channel has been done to pave the way for the first ever tax imposed for receiving content over the Internet. The BBC, in the person of its Director General Lord Tony Hall, says the BBC is taking difficult and necessary decisions in the face of real term cuts […]
The BBC has confirmed BBC3 is to be axed. The channel will continue as some form of online streaming service on the iPlayer. BBC3 has had an audience share of about 1.5 per cent (of the whole audience) although a larger proportion (2.6 per cent) of its target 16 -34 age group, and transmits from […]
The US Department of Justice has come out in support of the major TV networks in their forthcoming Supreme Court case against Internet TV streaming service Aereo. In a brief filed with Court March 3rd, the DoJ contends that Aereo is “clearly infringing” on the copyrights of the major broadcasters by picking up their free, […]
Britain’s Channel 5 network is up for sale and widespread reports over the weekend cite a number of potential bidders, each of which has looked at the assets on sale. Discovery Communications is said to have tabled a joint bid with pay-TV giant BSkyB. The proposal is stated to have Discovery managing the free-to-air network […]
Cutting the BBC licence fee would reduce consumer choice and value for money, as well as greatly damaging UK programme producers, according to a study from the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism. The report
Following the announcement November 2013 that it would be launching a hybrid broadcast broadband service, Australian digital terrestrial platform Freeview has unveiled the key features of its FreeviewPlus service which will provide access to content and services from the free-to air networks. FreeviewPlus aims to deliver the most advanced, user-friendly free-to-air EPG experience, with catch-up […]
Following the surprise news in December 2013 that coverage of internationally-popular Australian saloon car racing series V8 Supercars would move from free-to-air network Seven to pay-TV outlets Foxtel and Fox Sports, with free-to-air network Ten also included in the deal, further details of the 2015-2020 media rights have been revealed. Under the new arrangement, V8 […]