30 Oct 2008
| by Ian Darby
LONDON - The backers of the Project Kangaroo video-on-demand product have promised to deliver a...View Kangaroo's submission to the Cometition Commission Kangaroo is a joint venture between BBC ...
advertising on the site will be sold centrally by Kangaroo. There will also be areas of paid-for content ...
-fee funding continues to increase while it's moving into new commercial ventures." View Kangaroo ...
05 Feb 2009
| by Anne Cassidy
LONDON - The decision by the Competition Commission to block Project Kangaroo, the proposed online..., the chairman of the IPA Digital Media Group, said the ruling was a loss for digital media. "Kangaroo was held ...
that the Kangaroo joint venture, competing in a crowded online world against dominant global brands ...
07 Nov 2008
Should advertisers be reassured by Kangaroo's model, Alasdair Reid asks...., but
on Kangaroo, a joint venture bringing together ITV, Channel 4 and the
BBC - but dominated by the latter ...
Commission - and last week Kangaroo attempted to forestall worries that
it was setting up a commercial cartel ...
. There were also other revelations - for instance, that Kangaroo will
aspire to a mixed funding model ...
07 Dec 2007
Will Kangaroo confound its critics and prove a success, Alasdair Reid asks....its story on the launch of Kangaroo with a
picture of Rowan Atkinson in Blackadder mode. Naturally, yes, Blackadder
is a classic BBC programme, and, yes, of course, the BBC is a
participant in Kangaroo ...
reasons why the big newspaper
publishers might want to subvert (however subtly) a project like
Kangaroo ...
08 Aug 2008
| by Ian Darby
After a £91m drop in profits, ITV is hoping Kangaroo and the CRR will improve its current situation....ITV, which issued its half-year results this week, is hoping that
regulator decisions on the future of the online service Kangaroo and the
Contract Rights Renewal mechanism will improve its fortunes. The broadcaster said it expects Kangaroo, also backed by Channel 4 and
the BBC, will launch in "early 2009 ...
16 Jan 2009
of the video-on-demand venture Kangaroo....Last month, the commission ruled that Kangaroo would launch with a
series of conditions to prevent the restriction of competition among VoD
services in the UK. In response to the commission's provisional report,
Virgin Media argued that Kangaroo would "dictate the form and structure"
of the market. The commission ...
10 Nov 2008
| by Ian Darby
LONDON - Ashley Highfield, the chief executive of the Project Kangaroo video-on-demand venture...at Microsoft. Rob Henwood, the lead regulatory adviser at Kangaroo and former new business director of Channel 4, has been appointed interim chief executive of Project Kangaroo. Highfield had joined Project Kangaroo - a proposed joint venture between BBC Worldwide, ITV and Channel 4 - from the BBC, where he ...
03 Dec 2008
| by Ian Darby
Kangaroo video-on-demand service after ruling that its launch will stifle competition....Its main concern is that Kangaroo will lead to a loss of rivalry between BBC Worldwide, ITV ...
. However, the CC took the view that Kangaroo would not lead to a "substantial lessening of competition" in the advertising market. This is likely to mean that Kangaroo can launch with its proposition of being funded ...
15 Aug 2008
The Competition Commission has delayed the closing deadline for its investigation into Kangaroo...The deadline has had to be pushed back because the information needed
from all involved parties has not yet been accumulated. The Commission
is investigating whether the planned Kangaroo service will cause
competition issues in the online video market. It also wants to
determine the impact of Kangaroo ...
04 Jul 2008
| by Kunal Dutta
Project Kangaroo, the proposed broadband video-on-demand service from the BBC, ITV and Channel 4...competition concerns. A spokeswoman for Kangaroo denied that the service was searching for an
advertising ...