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BBC to hop out of Kangaroo?
The UK Competition Commission doesn’t much like the look of Kangaroo, the proposed video-on-demand venture between the BBC, ITV and Channel 4, believing that it will have too much power in the nascent VOD market. The question now is whether the Beeb, the dominant partner, will want to go to the bother of rejigging Kangaroo.
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Hamstrung Kangaroo?
Kangaroo, the planned VOD jv from the BBC, ITV and Channel isn’t having an easy time of it. High-profile boss Ashley Highfield has just jumped ship. The venture is also being delayed by the Competition Commission - it’s now set to hit the Net mid-09, but the authorities might ask for changes.
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Simply iPlayer
Just back from The Future of Online Media Distribution event at London’s South Bank. The session was headlined by Erik Huggers, the Beeb’s director of Future Media, and he came armed with a few juicy iPlayer metrics. Since launching last Christmas, the platform has received 250 million stream and download requests.
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Nokia music? Comes without mobile
Plenty of plaudits for Nokia’s Comes With Music mobile music service which launches in the UK today. The biggest problem is that it’s barely mobile at all. To avoid users racking up hefty data charges on wireless networks, Nokia gets them downloading tracks to the PC for sideloading to the handset.
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