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BBC confirms Formula 1 in HD for 2011

BBC confirms Formula 1 in HD for 2011

The BBC has announced that it will broadcast the 2011 Formula 1 season in High Definition, following confirmation by Formula One Management (FOM) that all broadcasters will receive an HD feed for 2011. In a press release today: The BBC is also pleased to announce that Eddie Jordan will return to the BBC F1...
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Freesat Awards 2010

Al-Jazeera English was named Best News Channel at the second annual Freesat Awards held in London The news channel beat the BBC News channel, Bloomberg, CNN and BBC Radio 5 Live to the accolade. Best Entertainment Channel went to E4 ahead of BBC HD, BBC Three and ITV2, while ‘Best Music Channel’ was given...
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Freesat hits 1 million sales with 250,000 customers added over Christmas and New Year

Freesat delivers 30 percent sales growth since November  40 percent customers from Sky homes 30 percent share of STB market based on value Subscription-free digital satellite TV service, Freesat, has delivered 1 million sales in a little over 18 months since its launch in May 2008.  Freesat enjoyed an excellent Christmas and New Year,...
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Freesat to show Winter Olympics in HD – Techwatch


Freesat to show Winter Olympics in HD
Techwatch
As the BBC will also be broadcasting the games in high definition, those households with a Freesat system will be able to watch the games in...
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Project Canvas possible investigation?

Project Canvas possible investigation?

According to the Guardian today Ofcom are reportedly considering setting up a competition investigation into Project Canvas which was set up to be an open technological platform for all content owners to bring catch up and on demand TV services for example BBC iPlayer via broadband to network equipped devices such as freesat which as...
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BBCi Sports Multi Screen now live on freesat

The “press red” BBCi Sports multi screen has now gone live in time for the Beijing Olympics. The red button service is available to all digital viewers on BBC One, BBC Two and BBC Three by pressing the red button. All red button coverage is also available to view live on the BBC Sport...
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All BBC & ITV regions & ITV+1 now added to freesat EPG

As promised by freesat the outstanding BBC and ITV regions and ITV+1 have now been made available on the freesat EPG from today 15/07/08. Not all the regional variants of BBC and ITV services were available at launch. This was due to technical constraints associated with co-existence on the satellite platform, so freesat adopted...
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Possible delay for video on demand on freesat

The joint venture between BBC Worldwide, Channel 4 and ITV to launch a video on demand service via the web and hopefully freesat has been dealt a blow by the Office of Fair Trade by referring the venture codename Kangaroo to the Competition Commission. Project Kangaroo is a single platform for on-demand TV to...
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BBC one & BBC HD lose live feed from Euro 2008 Germany v Turkey

The BBC lost their feed from Euro 2008 Germany v Turkey game tonight. The first outage happened at around 9pm on BBC one and BBC HD, BBC one viewers were treated to Radio 5 live radio audio commentary after a short while whereas BBC HD viewers were only presented with an continuity apology screen...
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All BBC and ITV regional variations will be viewable on freesat receivers by the end of June

For those missing their local/regional programming from the EPG at launch it was confirmed today that the remaining 28 regional services have been prioritised for launch between the end of May and the end of June.
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