29 Oct 2009
| by Jennifer Whitehead and Daniel Farey-Jones
to disconnect people accused of illegal filesharing as a "kangaroo court" and is running an ad to encourage
06 Apr 2009
| by Jacquie Bowser
Kangaroo, the proposed online TV venture between ITV, Channel 4 and BBC Worldwide that was blocked...-fareast-language:#0400;
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The Project Kangaroo partners are believed to have invested ...
to be interested in buying up the Project Kangaroo assets. ...
13 Feb 2009
The backers of Project Kangaroo will not appeal against the closure of the proposed online TV
04 Feb 2009
| by Daniel Farey-Jones
LONDON - The Competition Commission has put an end to Project Kangaroo, the joint venture between...Normal 0 Is the CC right to axe Kangaroo? **Vote** and have your say The commission's final report concluded that Kangaroo "has to be stopped" because even the constraints it had considered, such as controlling the way Kangaroo shareholders offer content to other providers, would not have overcome the risk ...
04 Dec 2008
| by Daniel Farey-Jones
that proposed video-on-demand service Kangaroo will not pose a threat to competition in the online advertising...advertising market. This judgement is questioned today by Screen Digest, which claims that Kangaroo ...
that Kangaroo will not have much market power in the supply of paid-for online TV because it does not control a ...
to its Xbox 360. Normal 0 "Were the Kangaroo partners to withhold content from any ...
03 Dec 2008
| by Daniel Farey-Jones
LONDON - The Competition Commission is looking at placing restrictions on Kangaroo, the video...broadcasters who have formed Kangaroo - the BBC's commercial arm, ITV and Channel 4. However, it said it did ...
on the fact that the broadcasting trio behind Kangaroo control most domestically produced video ...
to ensure that Kangaroo does not license content to other suppliers on unfavourable terms, or "in ...
14 Nov 2008
Ashley Highfield, the chief executive of the planned video-on-demand service Kangaroo, is quitting
10 Nov 2008
| by Daniel Farey-Jones
venture Project Kangaroo to join Microsoft as UK consumer and online managing director...., Vice President, Consumer and Online, Microsoft Europe, Middle East and Africa. Project Kangaroo has ...
role as the BBC's director of future media and technology to take the chief executive role at Kangaroo in April. Project Kangaroo is now looking for a replacement and has appointed its lead regulatory adviser ...
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 ...
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 ...