Arqiva is understood to have paid in the region of £8m (E9.3m) to buy the assets of Project Kangaroo. Arquiva also acquired Project Kangaroo assets such as the brand name See Saw, which it has the option to use for its own proposed video-on-demand service that will launch in the coming months. The remaining Kangaroo […]

From Colin Mann in London Dawn Airey, the Chairman and CEO of UK commercial broadcaster Channel 5, has said that there must be industry consolidation to ensure the sector's continued existence. Pointing out that in comparable broadcasting markets, the industry had consolidated around a couple of major commercial players, Airey told members of the Broadcasting […]

BSkyB is expected to announce 100,000 net additional subscriptions in its financial reporting today. This will bring the company's subscriber base to roughly 9.4 million, on target to hit the 10 million mark by Q3 2010. Despite a troubled economy, Sky has managed to hold on to—and indeed, grow—its subscriber base over the past year. […]

Virgin Media and ESPN have confirmed that the new ESPN channel will be available in both standard and HD to Virgin Media's 3.5 million digital TV customers from 3rd August. The ESPN channel will offer live Premier League and Scottish Premier League football as well a wide range of international football and top quality sports. […]

Setanta Sports may be back broadcasting in the UK after the Broadcasting Commission of Ireland granted two new satellite licences.Setanta Sports 1 will be a subscription service broadcasting live and recorded events to the Irish Republic while Setanta Sports is described by the BCI as broadcasting "live and delayed sporting events, mainly at weekends, and […]

Euroconsult has reported that growth in the fixed satellite market has remained strong despite the adverse economic environment. According to Euroconsult the sector grew in terms of both transponder demand (+9 per cent) and overall revenues (+10.7 per cent) representing a peak in the current decade. Digital entertainment and emerging digital markets remain the primary […]

GlobeCast, content management and delivery specialist, and Eutelsat Communications have announced the signature of a new contract at Eutelsat’s specialist video neighbourhood for central European digital TV markets at 16 degrees East. The new contract for one transponder will be used by GlobeCast to broadcast channels produced by TVR, Romania’s national public broadcaster. It doubles […]

Administrators are hoping Setanta’s nine channels slots on BSkyB’s EPG , will net up to £1m, (E1.15m) in an auction. Deloitte has appointed Canis Media, the TV channel management company to handle the sell-off. Canis Media said there were also an unspecified number of unallocated digital EPG channels slots available. In late 2007 BSkyB said […]

As part of its campaign against the suggestion of regulated prices, and reserving more events for FTA, BSkyB has claimed that income from broadcasting plays a "key role in supporting the financial sustainability of many sports". According to research commissioned by Sky, revenue from broadcast rights represents a "substantial" part of the total funding for […]

The struggling commercial broadcaster is shutting its small Future Technology R&D division and has made four of its seven staff redundant, including the department's director Simon Fell. Fell was responsible for launching ITV.com, ITVPlayer, mobile and HDTV platforms as well as an overlay video ad format which allows for ads to be inserted during online […]