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ITV Digital falls prey to smartcard piracy
News The head of ITV Digital has admitted that its digital terrestrial television service is suffering from piracy, with customers dodging monthly subscription charges by using illicit smartcards. Stuart Prebble, the chief executive of ITV Digital...
[September 19, 2001, 17:53]
ITV Digital collapse could harm Internet take-up
News The UK government's target of achieving universal Internet access by 2005 could be wrecked by the collapse of ITV Digital, MPs warned on Wednesday. The select committee of culture, media and sport believes that the high-profile failure of ITV...
[May 2, 2002, 14:26]
ITV Digital to go into administration
News Digital terrestrial broadcaster ITV Digital is to be put into administration on Wednesday after it made clear it could not meet payments to the Football League, industry sources have said. ITV Digital was formed by a merger between ITV and...
[March 27, 2002, 13:55]
ITV Digital customers get set-top box deal
News The liquidators for ITV Digital have said former customers of the bankrupt broadcaster will be allowed to keep their set-top boxes, which can now be used to view channels broadcast by Freeview -- the BBC-backed digital service.
[January 20, 2003, 13:05]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog When the ITV Digital liquidators told the million or so owners of set-top boxes that they had to send forty quid to keep them, the million or so owners expressed derision. In the end, Carlton-Granada's decision to give the ITV Digital liquidators...
[January 24, 2003, 16:44]
ONdigital ITV merger fatally flawed
News The merger between ITV and ONdigital may be a great idea for pushing digital TV to users but the structure is fatally flawed, according to one analyst. The newly-created ITV Digital will handle pay-TV operations and ONdigital's one million...
[April 27, 2001, 17:00]
Pace Micro chief executive quits
News The company was a major hardware supplier to now-defunct broadcaster ITV Digital and has also seen customers ntl and Telewest suffer in the downturn. The BBC service fills the gap left by ITV Digital.
[October 9, 2002, 8:26]
News Schmooze: The week it rained executives
News ITV Digital collapse could harm Internet take-up Let's just get the rest of the bad news out of the way: Telewest decided it would be a good idea to cut another 1,500 jobs, while ITV Digital staff all found themselves out of a job.
[May 3, 2002, 16:01]
Broadcasters revolt against spectrum charges
News The recent collapse of ITV Digital has led to increased fears that the government's target of turning off analogue TV broadcasts by 2010 will be missed. Representatives from the BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and S4C told the Joint Committee on the Draft...
[June 19, 2002, 17:27]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog When in doubt, rename - ON is now ITV Digital, and it's most unlikely that Murdoch will be allowed to buy ITV in the same way he did BSB, but apart from that it looks like history, like 99% of digital TV programming, is set to repeat itself.
[April 27, 2001, 17:51]
News Schmooze: The robo-onslaught begins
News The BBC had a busy week: not only did it unveil a new look that adds a little menu to the top of every page, it also turns out to be talking to ITV about free access to BBC digital channels on the ITV Digital set-top box.
[November 9, 2001, 17:36]
BBC accused of anti-competitive practice online
News ITV's charges follow recent controversy surrounding the BBC's reluctance to define its role within the digital age. ITV is preparing a report for the Office of Fair Trading, which could result in the BBC governors being brought to court.
[July 18, 2000, 9:58]
Orange may adopt Kangaroo online TV tech
News Project Kangaroo started life in 2007 as a joint venture between BBC Worldwide, Channel 4 and ITV but was subsequently given the red light by the Competition Commission earlier this year due to fears that it would put too much control of the...
[April 7, 2009, 9:01]
Alternatives to DVB-T in the UK
Blog More channels are expected to sign up, but at the moment there’s all of the UK BBC and ITV channels plus Channel 4 but at the moment no Channel 5 (who seem to insist on transmitting encrypted signals).
[June 20, 2008, 9:23]
ITV launches broadband TV trial
News ITV has launched a broadband TV trial offering local TV to people in the south coast region, the company announced on Monday. The ITV Local trial is aimed at viewers in the Brighton and Hastings area, and includes local news and weather, local...
[October 19, 2005, 14:25]
Q&A: E-commerce minister on BT, Wi-Fi and competition
News There have been claims that the ITV Digital collapse is a threat to the government's plans of turning off the analogue broadcasting signal by 2010, but with six companies now showing an interest, how do you see it panning out from here?
[June 24, 2002, 14:06]
'Free' digital TV arrives this week
News The BBC and its broadcasting partner, Crown Castle, will quietly launch what is intended to be a new chapter in digital television on Wednesday, in the form of Freeview -- the successor to the failed ITV Digital.
[October 28, 2002, 15:50]
Government digital TV plans under threat
News But if the Carlton/ITV joint venture goes down the tubes, the government's digital television plans could go with it. But advertising revenues to ONdigital's parents, ITV and Carlton, are falling due to larger economic factors, with ad revenue down...
[April 10, 2001, 16:02]
Analogue switch-off as early as 2006
News A Sky Digital spokesman also welcomed the proposed date and hoped it would speed up ITV coming on board the Sky Digital platform. ITV is currently only available on ONdigital. Setting out his vision for the future of digital television, Mr Smith...
[September 17, 1999, 17:03]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog And with a sad inevitability, ITV Digital enters the 0 state. Which means we now have a national digital TV transmission infrastructure going begging, with a range of cheap set-top boxes ready to roll, a wide range of channels from the BBC already...
[May 3, 2002, 17:43]
