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Press TV launched today on the Eurobird Satellite 28.5 East. Viewers in the United Kingdom watching on BSkyB can watch the channel on 515. The channel is broadcasting Free-To-Air and does not require a subscription to Sky.
Japan are also due to launch NHK International in the United Kingdom. Digital Satellite Viewers can watch it before it launches on BSkyB
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ESPN has confirmed that the North American Sports Network (NASN) will become ESPN America, from Super Bowl Sunday, February 1, 2009. The network is promising to continue bringing the best of North American sports to fans in Europe and the Middle East.
Coverage of over 800 live and as-live sports events includes Major League Baseball (MLB), National Hockey League (NHL), National Football League (NFL) and NCAA American Football and Basketball. ESPN America also has the rights to the Super Bowl in a number of European territories including Germany, France, the Netherlands and Poland. Key ESPN studio programming is also included.
Mike McKibbin, ESPN Group Marketing Director for Europe, the Middle East and Africa said, “ESPN America’s new brand identity will combine the heroics and drama of American sports. It celebrates the virtues required to excel at these sports, and identifies the athletes’ status as heroes in the eyes of the fan. The channel will consistently deliver unrivalled quality in broadcasting coverage, strengthened by ESPN’s innovation, creativity and position as the worldwide leader in sports.
ESPN acquired NASN in 2007 and has subsequently grown the channel to 14 million households in 43 countries.
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BSkyB, which owns Sky News, has lost its appeal to keep hold of its 17.9% stake in fellow broadcaster ITV, the Competition Appeal Tribunal has ruled.
BSkyB had challenged a ruling by the Competition Commission that it had to reduce the stake to below 7.5%.
BSkyB bought the stake in 2006 for £940m, or 135p a share.
It was criticised by some at the time as a spoiling measure to stop cable group NTL - now named Virgin Media - from buying ITV.
Virgin Media, backed by Sir Richard Branson, had also appealed to the Tribunal, demanding that BSkyB should be forced to sell the whole stake.
The court said it accepted parts of the Virgin argument.
But it said it would wait to see the reaction from the different groups before deciding whether it needed to be further addressed.
"The Tribunal unanimously decides .... Sky's application is dismissed," Tribunal President Gerald Barling told the court room.
BSkyB said: "We will review the judgment carefully and decide on our next steps in due course."
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BSkyB is at present preparing a new ad campaign that could potentially change the face of broadband as we know it. Over the last few days, it has been revealed that BSkyB is launching an ad campaign claiming it will be the only company to offer truly unlimited broadband usage.
According to the Guardian, BSkyB claim that the basis of this decision came from the customers themselves. "Customers have told us that they want unlimited broadband to be exactly that, so we've acted on their feedback," a BSkyB spokesman said.
So what does this mean? This heralds an end to the company's fair usage policy, which caps heavy down loaders, from its top-tier Sky Broadband Max product. More interestingly for BSkyB's rivals, the company has stated that it has no intentions of implementing a 'traffic shape' - a process that manages heavy internet usage by regulating or capping broadband speeds at peak times.
The impact that this campaign could have on the ISP market is one of the moer inetesting aspects of this development. Will BSkyB rivals, such as Orange and Virgin Media, follow suit and go totally unlimited? Earlier in the year both Orange and Virgin Media were censored by the Advertising Standards Authority for false claims of 'unlimited' broadband due to certain restrictions on their 'unlimited' broad band service.
Will BSkyB succeed in capturing the hearts of the nation and getting them to sign on board for what is geared up to be the first totally unlimited broadband? And if they do what will this mean for Orange and Virgin Media? The winds are changing in the world of ISP and we at bigmouthmedia are waiting to see what will happen next.
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BSkyB has added its voice to concerns about Project Kangaroo, the online television service planned by ITV, Channel 4 and BBC Worldwide, the broadcaster’s commercial arm.
Kangaroo will offer catch-up television and programmes from the three broadcasters’ archives, mostly paid for by advertising, via a service similar to ITV.com or the BBC iPlayer.
Many of the channels on Sky’s subscription TV service draw heavily on archive programming. In its filing to the Competition Commission, which is investigating Kangaroo, Sky argued that the service “might be expected to result in a substantial lessening of competition” in the nascent video-on-demand sector.
Sky also said Kangaroo’s “access to direct and indirect state funding”, because its shareholders are public service broadcasters, gave it a “unique” advantage.
“Kangaroo’s existence may reduce the likelihood of VOD offerings by existing competitors and potentially decrease the likelihood of new entry,” Sky said.
Sky claimed the content provided by its in-house production capabilities would put Kangaroo’s shareholders high on the list for retailers wanting to acquire VOD content, reducing competition for whole rights.
The BBC, ITV and Channel 4 make up 70 per cent of all UK viewing, although Kangaroo argues that online it is unlikely to gain a similar market share owing to competition from international technology providers such as Google and Apple.
Chris Goodall, analyst at Enders, said: “Kangaroo is bound up with regulation of pay TV in the UK in general. There has to be a question whether the British system is overly protective towards the terrestrial broadcasters.”
BT and Tiscali, which both offer on-demand video downloads through their broadband services, are also critical. Kangaroo’s power will give it “de facto exclusivity”, owing to control over content production, Tiscali said, having an “unhealthy effect” on content producers and TV providers. “The small producers will not be able to survive if Kangaroo squeezes their margins too hard.”
Project Kangaroo declined to comment.
Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2008
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The Walt Disney Company may consider mounting a challenge to BSkyB by bidding for Premier League football broadcasting rights next year.
Robert Iger, chief executive of Walt Disney, said on a visit to London that ESPN, the company's sports broadcaster, was its second principal brand after the Disney name itself - and indicated that he hoped to expand it globally.
“I know they [ESPN] will look at the Premier League rights again, both individually and in partnership with others,” Mr Iger said. The next auction of Premier League broadcast rights is due to start next January.
ESPN is also interested in pursuing the rights to show Premier League games in the United States, where the rights are held by Fox, the broadcaster owned by News Corporation, parent company of The Times. It believes that there is a growing audience for football in the United States.
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