Articles tagged «kangaroo»
Arqiva To Label VOD Service As SeeSaw
News Mobile & Telco
Leading transmission firm, Arqiva has finally confirmed that its proposed video on demand service(VOD), based on the collapsed Project Kangaroo, will be referred to as SeeSaw. Arqiva has reportedly already initiated talks with...
BBC Will Open iPlayer Platform To Competitors
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Erik Huggers, Director of Future Media & Technology at the BBC, told an audience at the IBC Conference in Amsterdam that the Beeb will be opening iPlayer to third parties.Huggers confirmed plans to push th concept of...
BBC & Channel 4 Ink Deal With Kangaroo Purchaser
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Arqiva, the company that purchased the Project Kangaroo video-on-demand service, has penned content deals with BBC Worldwide and Channel 4 to broadcast their programmes on its yet to be named video catch up service, according to...
BBC Worldwide Signs VOD Agreement With Blinkbox
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BBC Worldwide has announced that it will be partnering with Blinkbox Entertainment Limited to distribute 75 BBC shows including the likes of Planet Earth and Top Gear worldwide. The company which was launched in 2008 managed to...
Arqiva Acquires Kangaroo Platform And IP
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Arqiva, a broadcast and transmission firm, seems all set to enter into the video-on-demand domains with a new deal to snap up the defunct broadband TV project Kangaroo, a technology developed for the planned collaborative venture...
YouTube Gears Up To Offer Full Versions Of UK TV Shows
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In a move that could help it in offering more premium content to its UK audience, YouTube is reportedly in discussions with several British TV networks, including Channel 4, ITV, as well as Sony Pictures, to add full length TV...
BBC Focuses on Canvas Project After Kangaroo Debacle
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The BBC, in conjunction with ITV and BT, is planning to launch a next generation Freeview service, codenamed as “Project Canvas”, which includes new iteration of television set-top box that comes pre-installed with...
Life After Kangaroo : Channel 4 To Launch Upgraded 4oD
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After the project Kangaroo debacle that involved some of the media heavyweights, including the BBC, ITV and Channel 4; its partners went on their own ways to fetch something out of the clutter that had consumed them a lot of...
After Kangaroo : What Now For The UK Commercial VoD Market?
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Everybody else it seems, apart from the competition commission, agreed that project Kangaroo, the commercial joint venture in the UK VoD market between three of the biggest broadcasters, was going to be a game changer, in a...
Competition Commission Kills Project Kangaroo
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The Competition Commission has finally laid Kangaroo, the promising joint venture between ITV, Channel 4 and BBC, to rest in a final report released today after having rejected possible alternatives to decrease any monopoly...
Kangaroo Offers Massive Concessions To Competition Commission
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The online Video on Demand Project Kangaroo is hoping for a green light from the Competition commission after having canned plans to maintain its exclusivity on popular video on demand shows. Kangaroo's proposals now include...
BBC Plans To Open Up iPlayer To Rivals As Kangaroo Plans Falter
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The BBC is about to open up the iPlayer platform to all the other major UK broadcasters as a result of the recent public service broadcasting review ordered by Ofcom. According to the Guardian - which cites sources close...
Kangaroo Online VOD Project Dealt Major Blow By Competition Commission
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The competition commission headed by its chairman, Peter Freeman, has hit out at Kangaroo, the online Video on Demand joint venture backed by BBC Worldwide, ITV and Channel 4, accusing it of undermining competition in the UK...
Kangaroo Online TV Service To Debut in December
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Project Kangaroo, the broadband TV service collaboration between Channel 4, ITV, and BBC, is all set for its alpha test launch in December, despite the fact that a judgement from Competition Commission over the service is still...
