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 to urban music [...]

July 1st, 2010 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Category: General | Leave a comment

JML loses Freesat listings appeal – Broadband TV News


Broadband TV News
JML loses Freesat listings appeal
Broadband TV News
The High Court in London has rejected an appeal by shopping channel JML Direct against its listing on the Freesat EPG. …
Appeal Court: TV menu decision was irrational, but not unfairRegister

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February 14th, 2010 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Category: General | Leave a comment

350,000 Sky subscribers could defect to Freeview HD

Freeview claims that up to 350,000 Sky +HD subscribers might switch to Freeview HD on their main television. YouGov research commissioned by Freeview said that 17% of a sample of 2,063 adults surveyed indicated that they were “likely” to switch their…

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February 11th, 2010 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , | Category: General | Leave a comment

TV industry demands closer involvement in Project Canvas

The UK’s digital TV industry forum has demanded that Project Canvas is fully integrated into its work to create a common standard for TV over broadband. The Digital TV Group has warned Britain could end up with two standards for connected TV devices if the…

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February 4th, 2010 | Tags: , | Category: Broadband TV | Leave a comment

No F1 in HD this year

The BBC sadly won’t be covering Formula 1 in HD this year – despite it being one of the most-requested programmes for high definition broadcast. On the BBC’s own website , it’s revealed that, “The BBC relies on Formula 1 Management (FOM) for the provision of…

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February 3rd, 2010 | Tags: , | Category: HD | Leave a comment

Sky 3D football: ‘impressive but not convincing’

Sky previewed its forthcoming 3D TV football coverage across the UK on Sunday, but the verdict from our man in the pub was that it’s far from a must-see experience. Marc Chacksfield of our sister technology news blog TechRadar was at the Slug & Lettuce…

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February 1st, 2010 | Tags: , | Category: 3D TV | Leave a comment

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 brilliant HD …

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February 1st, 2010 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , | Category: General | Leave a comment

SeeSaw heads for March VoD launch

On-demand TV service SeeSaw has started a beta trial ahead of launching its full service in March with shows from BBC Worldwide, Channel 4 and Five. The service is being developed by Arqiva, which operates the UK’s TV and radio transmitter networks, as well…

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January 29th, 2010 | Tags: , | Category: Broadband TV | Leave a comment

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Why not subscribe to our email service, you will only be notified of new posts once a day, we promise not to share or disclose your email and you can unsubscribe at any time. why not give it a try, just fill out the form below or click the “Daily email” link in the top [...]

May 12th, 2009 | Tags: | Category: General | One comment

freesat Aims to Capture Cash Concious Viewers

freesat is to launch it first TV advertising campaing to attract new and existing SKY viewers to the freesat subscription free service starting 1st April 2009.

Will Abbott, marketing director at Freesat, said the current economic climate has made the service more appealing to consumers because there is no fee attached to it.
“I wouldn’t say that [...]

March 31st, 2009 | Tags: , , | Category: General | Leave a comment
 
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