All Posts Tagged With: "bskyb"

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Virgin Media Sign Deal To Stream Football Over Broadband And Mobile

Virgin Media announced yesterday a deal with the Football League to stream footage over broadband and mobile. A mixture of live footage and highlights will be available.
I know that Virgin Media are working hard on acquiring content to try and stop the huge numbers of customers that are deserting and being the first to [...]

13Jul2007 | Everton | 4 comments | Continued
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BT The Number 1 Broadband Provider In The UK

BT has regained it’s lead as the number one Broadband Provider in the UK, passing Virgin Media who had held the top spot for the last year. BT now has 3.7m Broadband users in the UK and 26% of the overall market. What was even more impressive was that BT grabbed 32% of [...]

17May2007 | Everton | 5 comments | Continued
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Why Do Bloggers Think That ‘Old Media’ Rules Don’t Apply To Them?

Two stories have spread like wildfire around the blogosphere over the last couple of days. The first one was Sony’s decision to remove Kotaku from its favoured sources because Kotaku leaked a rumour after Sony asked them not to, and the second accusing Wired of deliberately trying to make Digg look bad, because it [...]

2Mar2007 | Everton | 5 comments | Continued
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Branson Vs Murdoch - Who’s Going To Back Down First?

Two of the biggest egos on the planet are currently going head to head.
As of yesterday, Richard Branson’s Virgin Media Group removed Rupert Murdoch’s Sky TV channels, after Virgin Media refused to pay Sky’s unreasonable prices.
Sky’s channels include Sky One, Sky Travel, Sky News and Sky Sports News. It’s going to be an interesting [...]

2Mar2007 | Everton | 1 comment | Continued
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UK Media War Takes A New Turn

February has been an interesting month in the UK. Everywhere you turn there is an ad for Broadband or Digital TV as all of the players have brought millions of pounds of advertising to try and dilute Virgin Media’s fronted by Uma Thurman. Uma is going to be paid a staggering $36m for [...]

24Feb2007 | Everton | 2 comments | Continued
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Would Sky Really Remove Its Channels From ntl:Telewest?

I just read a story on Tech Digest that frankly stunned me.  According to Media Digest, Sky is planning on removing it’s own channels (Sky One, Sky News, Sky Sports etc.) from its cable rival.  If they did do this it would be a very bold move in the growing war between BSkyB and ntl:Telewest [...]

25Jan2007 | Everton | 0 comments | Continued
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BSkyB and Google Sign Online Partnership

Google and BSkyB yesterday signed a deal to deliver a range of online services for the new BSkyB broadband service. The deal doesn’t seem to have got the attention of the blogosphere, but for the UK this is a major deal as it allows BSkyB to in one bold move offer a full range [...]

7Dec2006 | Everton | 0 comments | Continued
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BT Vision Launches On 4th December

The word on the street is that BT’s IPTV service, BT Vision is going to launch on 4th December. The BT Vision service will combine on-demand TV with over 30 Freeview channels. The service will have no subscription charges and users will only pay for any PPV content they select. The [...]

27Nov2006 | Everton | 0 comments | Continued
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Watch More Free TV Online: TVlinks

Update: The TV Links Site is currently down. If you are looking for alternative ways to watch TV Online then try these links:

Updated List Of Ways To Watch Free TV Online

Peekvid: Watch More Free TV Shows, Music And Videos Online
Guide To Watching Champions League, Premiership And UEFA Cup Football Online

It’s getting harder and harder [...]

27Nov2006 | Everton | 88 comments | Continued
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BSkyB Buys 17.9% Of ITV for £940m

Seems like iTV was talking to BSkyB as well as ntl, as BSkyB yesterday bought 17.9% of ITV for £940m.  I think they’ve overpaid as ITV has been in the doldrums recently and I think things are only going to get worse, but BSkyB said that they believed that ITV had ’substantial potential for long-term’ [...]

18Nov2006 | Everton | 0 comments | Continued
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