After Dave and Watch, UKTV has unveiled its latest channel rebrands, with UKTV Style to become Home and UKTV Gardens renamed Really. The new names are the penultimate stage of the digital broadcaster’s rolling on-screen rebrand of all its channels, joining previously relaunched services Dave, Alibi, Eden, Gold, Eden and Yesterday. Really, which will target […]

Research from Coda Research Consultancy estimates that UK Internet users watch at least £1.3 billion worth of video content a year through illegal file sharing, and that video rights owners are losing at least £100m a year in lost revenue. Year-on-year increases in these illegal behaviours are irreversible, but can be slowed through the launch […]

Disney has struck a deal with Google’s online video network YouTube to distribute short-form content from ESPN and ABC. The agreement would extend the Internet reach for ESPN’s sports highlights and ABC News updates and provide another outlet for video snippets taken from the ABC broadcast network and ABC Family cable channel shows. Disney hopes […]

From Colin Mann in Cannes FRAPA, the Format Recognition and Protection Association, is undertaking a comprehensive report on the global format industry. The report – TV Formats To The World – is being compiled in association with the global TV research agency The WIT and TV Sisters, a journalistic office that provides international programme research […]

Things are not looking good for bleak for Setanta the Irish pay TV operator with two investors completely writing off their investment. Private equity firm Doughty Hanson, which owns 20 percent of the company, has written down its share to zero and Goldman Sachs, which owns five per cent has done the same. The moves […]

Peace Point Entertainment has confirmed the availability of a selection of its content on Joost.com. Available immediately, 74 episodes from five award-winning Peace Point series will be available to viewers around the world for free on Joost.com or the Joost App for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Peace Point expects to add more titles in […]

Google’s online video site, YouTube, has confirmed it will block all music videos to British users after it was unable to reach a rights deal with the main songwriters’ collection society. The world’s largest video sharing site said PRS for Music, a British collection society that collects royalties on behalf of nearly 50,000 composers, was […]

The report from the body which represents the film industry has called for new measures – including tighter regulations on car boot sales, bans on cameras in cinemas and legislation to tackle illegal file-sharing. The study, carried out by Oxford Economics, found the changes could cut piracy losses to £268 million (E290m) a year. Lavinia […]

BSkyB is lobbying to have the list of sporting events reserved for free-to-air television abolished in an ongoing government review. Chief executive Jeremy Darroch said Sky would argue for a situation where the World Cup or the Olympics could be shown on pay TV, with sports bodies free to decide where to sell their rights […]

From Branislav Pekic in Rome By 2012, pay-TV revenues will surpass advertising income in Italy, according to the latest research by the Milan-based e-Media Institute consultancy. The research indicates that advertising revenues will continue steadily, even after the strong fall in 2009, while revenues from pay-TV, pay per view and video on demand services will […]