Archive for the 'Sky' Category
Posted by Simon Perry on 24 May 2007 | Tagged as: Government, Investments, Legal, News In Brief, Ofcom (UK super-regulator), Regulation, Sky, UK
The UK Department of Trade and Industry has referred Rupert Murdoch’s Sky purchase of nearly 18% share holding in major UK broadcaster ITV.
In the words of Alistair Darling, the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, “My decision reflects consideration of the reports I have received from both the Office of Fair Trading and Ofcom [...]
Posted by Simon Perry on 21 May 2007 | Tagged as: Business, PVR/DVR, Sky, UK
Sky has made the decision to scrap the subscription charge for the Sky+ PVR service starting 1 July 2007.
Since its inception in 2001, Sky has been charging users of the Sky+ service £10 per month to keep using it, this includes receiving the EPG information, required to drive the service.
Posted by Mike Slocombe on 21 May 2007 | Tagged as: Business, Content Deals, Sky, UK
Surprise Internet TV deal unlikely to please Virgin Media.
Posted by Simon Perry on 2 March 2007 | Tagged as: EPG, PVR/DVR, Services, Sky, UK
It’s taken a little while to get the, but now you can programme you Sky+ box to record through a Browser.
Posted by Simon Perry on 23 February 2007 | Tagged as: Business, Cable TV, Content Deals, Sky
Looks like Sky is continuing the pressure on Virgin Media, but pulling their basic channels.
Posted by Mark Harris on 31 January 2007 | Tagged as: Satellite-delivered, Services, Sky, TV related, UK, Video on Demand (VoD)
We got a special preview of Sky’s latest Anytime service, this time it delivers to TV, hence its name Sky Anytime on TV.
Posted by Mike Slocombe on 15 January 2007 | Tagged as: Broadband, Content, Shift to Web delivery, Sky
Sky has rolled out a combined TV, broadband and telephony package, regaling under the snappy moniker of Surf, Speak and See.
Posted by Simon Perry on 27 November 2006 | Tagged as: Broadband, Content, Shift to Web delivery, Sky
We think Sky is starting to flex its ability across media platforms – goodness knows they’ve got enough of them.
Posted by Tim Bourne on 11 October 2006 | Tagged as: Content, DVB-H, News Corp., Ofcom (UK super-regulator), Sky
How much longer will Murdoch’s Sky force channels to use it’s own DVB-CA?
