Articles about “Picnic”

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Not-so-Freeview

The announcement that BSkyB is withdrawing its Sky Sports News channel from Freeview may not be that unexpected but it does raise some interesting unanswered questions in relation to Sky's future strategy, especially given News Corp.'s paywall experiments and the...

Virgin's territory

Virgin Media has finally completed a long-expected deal to sell its TV channels (Bravo, Bravo 2, Challenge, Challenge Jackpot, Living, Livingit, Virgin 1) to BSkyB for £160m, and in exchange Virgin Media gets good long term carriage deals for many...

Not a time for favours

BSkyB agrees to cut ITV stake In recent weeks it has been obvious that the "love affair" between politicians and BSkyB - at least in public - has started to thaw, even to the extent that David Cameron's Tories have...

ITV no longer free?

Broadcast Now: ITV digital channels may leave Freeview If such a thing had happened merely two years ago it would have been a bigger deal than it is today. That's my opinion as to the potential impact of ITV withdrawing...

The final whistle

Setanta goes into administration with loss of 200 jobs After numerous ups and downs that somewhat mirrored the trials and tribulations of football itself, the Setanta saga finally draws to an ignominious conclusion after several aborted attempts at a rescue...

Pack away the hamper - the Picnic isn't happening

It's been hanging around for goodness knows how long, but finally BSkyB have done the inevitable, and axed its pay TV proposals for DTT.

Lunch has been served

BSkyB job losses expected as Picnic is axed Whilst the news of BSkyB abandoning their Picnic terrestrial pay-TV project isn't that surprising in itself, the official reason given for its discontinuing - namely Ofcom taking too long to reach a...

Picnic hampered

BSkyB's digital terrestrial pay-TV plans on hold BSkyB's planned digital terrestrial pay-TV service known as Picnic - something that most people outside of Sky had probably forgotten about by now - has been delayed yet again by Ofcom, although Ofcom...

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