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    BBC Trust proposes merging Online and Red Button services

    May 20, 2013
    The BBC's governing body has proposed that the broadcaster's cherished Red Button services for TV be combined with the BBC Online service, which provides public service content to around 22mn people each week.
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    Regulatory headaches ahead for European VOD providers

    May 17, 2013
    Just over half (52%) of the EU's 2,700 video-on-demand services are available in another EU country, according to public service body the European Audiovisual Observatory, which warns that this may make it hard for the national regulations of some countries to be observed by providers.
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    TalkTalk basks in early YouView success

    May 16, 2013
    UK telco TalkTalk signed up 150,000 subscribers for its YouView TV packages in the first quarter of this year, bringing its total TV customer base to over 230,000, with 12,000 being signed up each week.

Analysis & Opinion

  • From catch-up to catch-on: what TV can gain from going online first

    Giles Cottle, Head of Strategy at Freesat

    You’ll be hard pressed to have missed the hype surrounding Netflix’s new House of Cards series. A high-profile ad campaign has accompanied its launch, including blanket coverage on London’s Underground, among other places.

    By , March 13, 2013

  • What next for the BBC?

    Nick Thomas, Principal Analyst at Informa Telecoms & Media

    “Events, dear boy, events.” British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan’s oft-quoted answer when asked what he most feared as a politician seems worth dusting down when considering the departure of the BBC’s Director-General George Entwistle less than 2 months into his job.

    By , November 12, 2012

  • Is the ad industry TV’s weakest link?

    Nick Thomas, Principal Analyst at Informa Telecoms & Media

    It was allegedly Lord Leverhulme, the British soap tycoon, who complained that half his advertising budget was wasted. The trouble, he said, was that he didn’t know which half. Advertisers like to think they have improved measurement in the past hundred years, but now there is a new risk.

    By , November 1, 2012

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