05 Dec 2008
The Competition Commission is likely to impose restrictions on the proposed Project Kangaroo video...The commission's main concern is that Kangaroo will lead to a loss of
rivalry between BBC Worldwide, ITV and Channel 4, which will have an
impact on the quality of VOD content and viewers' ability to access it.
However, the commission believed that Kangaroo would not lead to a
"substantial lessening ...
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 ...
21 Nov 2008
"The project won't miss a beat without him. I'm not a novice. I've run
bigger businesses than Kangaroo. The project was under way long before
Ashley joined." - Rob Henwood, the interim chief executive of Project
Kangaroo, dismisses the idea that the departure of his predecessor
Ashley Highfield will set ...
21 Nov 2008
DON'T ... Confusion around the launch of Project Kangaroo The new video-on-demand service could ...
14 Nov 2008
Ashley Highfield, the chief executive of the planned video-on-demand service Kangaroo, is quitting
14 Nov 2008
| by Ian Darby
by the advertising slowdown, with
profitability being further impacted by investment in Kangaroo ...
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 ...
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 Nov 2008
| by Ian Darby, ian.darby@haymarket.com
. One of which, the extension of BBC Worldwide's activity via
Project Kangaroo, is looked at in more ...
05 Nov 2008
| by Ian Darby
in the launch of Project Kangaroo. Total ITV group revenues for the nine months to 30 September fell to 1 ...