Jan 10 2005
Sky has reportedly patented a new technology that allows viewers to record programmes without any ad breaks. While the Sky + personal video recorder allows users to skip through advertisements, even when played at 30 times normal speed, the ads can still be seen by viewers. Sky hopes to offer a service that allows viewers […]
Jan 10 2005
The company that runs shopping channels Bid-Up TV and Price-Drop TV is planning to launch two new free-to-air film channels on Sky Digital. Called ‘Real-Movies.tv’ and ‘Movies On 333’, they will fully launch this summer. It’s reported that the channels will be a low-cost venture, with an investment of under £3m. “These will be free […]
Jan 10 2005
Set-top box manufacturer Pace Micro Technology saw profits rise fourfold in the first half of its financial year, as the company shipped more than double the number of boxes it delivered in the same period a year earlier. But the company said its financial recovery would “take longer than was initially anticipated”, following on from […]
Dec 14 2003
UK digital cable and satellite channel Granada Plus – part of Granada Sky Broadcasting (GSB), a joint-venture between Granada and BSkyB – is expected to be replaced by a service dubbed ITV3 during 2004. The move depends on a deal between the new ITV plc and Sky over archive rights and equity positions in ITV’s […]
Oct 14 2003
News Corporation is considering taking legal action against the BBC to stop it showing programmes like The Simpsons and Buffy the Vampire Slayer following the public broadcaster’s change of satellite distribution. Peter Chernin, chief operating officer News Corp, has condemned the BBC’s decision to unencrypt its channels as “wrong” and said he is considering all […]
Sep 24 2003
MPs are pressing Tessa Jowell to intervene to prevent customers losing commercial terrestrial channels when BSkyB upgrades its encryption system. Broadcasters are close to a breakthrough in talks to ensure that ITV, Channel 4 and Channel Five will continue to be received by hundreds of thousands of satellite viewers after the BBC withdrew funding for […]
Aug 30 2003
Sky’s chief executive, Tony Ball, has revealed that the broadcaster is to compete against the Freeview digital terrestrial service by launching its own “Freeview-plus” package of channels on digital satellite. The comments came after Sky upgraded its subscriber target to eight million by 2005 and admitted that the next stage in the broadcaster’s future – […]
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Jan 10 2005
ITV & Sky at war?
ITV has made a formal complaint to government regulators about the charges which Sky wants to impose on it for enabling satellite TV viewers to receive the correct regional version of the channel. ITV claims in a statement to OFCOM that Sky’s proposed charges are: “unfair, unreasonable and unduly discriminatory and therefore in breach of […]
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By Expat • UK Media News • Tags: ITV, Ofcom, Sky