Accedo Broadband, a provider of interactive and on-demand content for IPTV and online consumer electronics, announced that it will supply its Funspot game channel to BT Vision, BT’s next-generation TV service. Last week a similar announcement was made by the company when Tele 2 Vision, a Dutch IPTV provider, started to carry the service. BT [...]

Flemish cable operator Telenet announced today that it has reached the milestone of 250,000 subscribers for its digital tv service, following what it describes as a successful year-end campaign. Telenet covers around two-thirds of Flanders. “We’re seeing that interactive tv is about break-through with a mass audience”, explained Jo Van Gorp, the MSO’s Executive Vice [...]

Ofcom has published the findings of an Ipsos MORI survey conducted as part of its Market Impact Assessment of the BBC’s proposed on demand services. The survey shows the complexities of the market and in some cases the lack of understanding by the consumer – such as the 20 or so claiming to have used [...]

The Netherlands-based interactive entertainment company 2waytraffic has signed commercial deals relating to its recently acquired format Who wants to be a Millionaire with two broadcasters in Central and Eastern Europe. In Slovenia, publicly owned RTV will produce a minimum of 40 episodes of the show, while in Slovakia its counterpart STV will make at least [...]

Ofcom has told the BBC that its plans to place its TV and radio services on the Internet could have a “negative effect” on its commercial rivals. The regulator fears that although the BBC’s involvement would encourage public interest in the services it also risks reducing the amount of commercial investment. The BBC’s plans for [...]

The French media authority CSA has approved of a name change of the pay-per-view service Kiosque. The service offered on the combined Canalsat/TPS bouquet will from now be on called Cine+. It is available to all people subscribing to the service on the Canalsat DTH sevice.

Julian Clover finds that for the football fan, analogue Ceefax is still top of the league New Year in Windsor and my hosts were in need of a football fix. Just who was going to be in the Palace team that afternoon? The answer was found not by WAP, 3G, the Internet or digital text [...]

ITV has hired Annelies van den Belt as the managing director of its broadband team ahead of the launch of its new broadband portal in 2007. The broadcaster has already announced the expansion of its ITV Local broadband service and last November appointed US creative technology house Schematic to work on the new portal. Van [...]