BBC examines options for BBC Worldwide spin-off
13 Jul 2009 | by Daniel Farey-Jones
-on-demand service Kangaroo and increased levels of investment including new international television channel ...
Click
to remove filters
Project Kangaroo, a video on-demand joint venture between BBC Worldwide, ITV and Channel 4. The commission objected to the Kangaroo partners controlling the vast majority of UK-originated TV content ... that spelled the end for Project Kangaroo. In its April 2009 submission to the BBC Trust, Ofcom suggested ...
-on-demand service Kangaroo and increased levels of investment including new international television channel ...
series of regulatory decisions, including the Competition Commission's blocking of Kangaroo, its proposed ...
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 ...
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 ...
joint venture Project Kangaroo. The three broadcasters said: "Much UK linear content is unsuitable
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 ...
The Office of Fair Trading has referred Kangaroo, the planned video-on-demand service from BBC
Welcome to the first incarnation of a new element in Campaign in which we invite experts to burrow beneath the surface of the catch-all that is "digital". Google, Isobar Mobile, JWT London, LBI and MBA share their insights on mobile.