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TalkTalk appoints former MTG exec

UK operator TalkTalk has appointed former Modern Times Group executive Henrik Karlberg to the newly created role of head of pay TV. The appointment comes as commercial director Laurence Miall D’Aout, who joined Talk Talk last year, prepares to step down in August. Karlberg will report to TalkTalk’s executive commercial director and representative on the […]

NBCUI relaunches PictureBox SVOD service

NBCUniversal International has relaunched its feature film subscription on-demand service in the UK and Ireland. PictureBox Films is being given what’s described as a “radical redesign and major rebrand” of the site, which initially launched as a digital TV subscription on-demand service in 2006. The revamped service, which launches today, allows users to access 60 […]

UK connected TV service YouView nears 400k

UK connected TV service YouView is now in almost 400,000 homes. YouView did not break down the figure but it is believed that the bulk of the total is accounted for by customers that have signed up for the set-top box via service providers BT and TalkTalk. YouView has also said that a new raft […]

UKTV gets a new look

UKTV is introducing a new on-air look and feel. The UK channel operating group, which is a joint venture between BBC Worldwide and Scripps Networks Interactive, said it is introducing the new look to coincide with its twenty-first year in digital TV. The new look will go live on Tuesday March 26. Chief executive, Darren […]

Content and Co. launching on-demand programming service Cirkus

Content and Co., the UK-based consultancy run by TV industry veterans Mark Bradford and Hugh Williams, is launching a new on-demand service for pay TV operators called Cirkus, TBI has learned. The subscription video-on-demand service will aggregate content from UK producers and distributors including BBC Worldwide and All3Media International and will launch with a partner […]

News brief: TalkTalk chairman to be interim YouView chair

UK connected-TV platform YouView has appointed Sir Charles Dunstone as interim chairman while a permanent replacement for Lord Alan Sugar is found. Sugar resigned as non-executive chairman of the IPTV platform last week amid rumours of a massive bust up with Richard Desmond, the owner of YouView partner Channel 5, in which the latter allegedly […]

Lord Sugar steps down from YouView

IT magnate and The Apprentice star Lord Sugar has stepped down from his role as non-executive chairman at UK connected TV platform YouView. Sugar, founder of pioneering electronics brand Amstrad, will step down from his position at the broadcaster-backed IPTV service over the next few weeks, with a replacement chairman announced in due course. He […]

Almost half of UK consumers haven’t heard of YouView

New research from connected home specialists Twonky reveals that 49% of UK consumers have heard of connected TV service YouView. The service, which is a joint venture between UK broadcasters the BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and Five as well as Arqiva, BT and TalkTalk,  launched last July, having originally been slated to roll out in […]