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Freesat Awards 2010

admin — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 20:32:12 +0000

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 network Flava.

Food Network UK was a very popular choice as Best Lifestyle Channel, and the Horror Channel took home the accolade for Best Themed Channel.

BBC Cbeebies won the Best Children’s Channel competing against CBBC, along with Kix and Milkshake.

Best Shopping Channel was awarded to QVC, while the Judges’ Special Award went to ITV1 HD.

In the viewer-voted categories, shopping channel Ideal World was named TV Channel Of The Year and Planet Rock scooped Radio Station Of The Year.

Freesat managing director Emma Scott commented:

“I’d like to congratulate all the winners honoured for their massive contribution to Freesat’s continued success,”

“We”re proud to celebrate the original, high quality programming that keeps our audience entertained and informed and we look forward to bringing viewers even more exciting channels and services in the future.”

JML loses Freesat listings appeal – Broadband TV News

freesat - Google News — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 23:59:59 +0000

Broadband TV News

JML loses Freesat listings appeal
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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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350,000 Sky subscribers could defect to Freeview HD

Stephen Graves — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 14:56:35 +0000

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... Â

TV industry demands closer involvement in Project Canvas

Alex Lane — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 11:08:27 +0000

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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No F1 in HD this year

Stephen Graves — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 10:00:00 +0000

The BBC sadly wonâ€™t be covering Formula 1 in HD this year â€“ despite it being one of the most-requested programmes for high definition broadcast. On the BBCâ€™s own website , itâ€™s revealed that, â€œThe BBC relies on Formula 1 Management (FOM) for the provision of...

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Sky 3D football: ‘impressive but not convincing’

Alex Lane — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 11:06:51 +0000

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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Freesat to show Winter Olympics in HD – Techwatch

freesat -freeview - Google News — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Freesat to show Winter Olympics in HD
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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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SeeSaw heads for March VoD launch

Stephen Graves — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 15:26:21 +0000

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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freesat Aims to Capture Cash Concious Viewers

admin — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 16:10:16 +0000

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 die-hard sports and movie fans are ditching their [pay-TV] subscriptions, but there are a large number of people looking to cut back,’” said Abbott. “The service is also attracting customers looking to upgrade from Freeview, as well as those making their switch from analogue services.”

The TV campaign comprises two ads created by Farm, which feature a consumer captivated by Freesat day after day. The work was shot using time-lapse photography, with each execution using more than 17,000 shots taken with an HD stills camera.

Update 16/04/09 two versions of the advert now: