Beeb and co offload failed Kangaroo platform

Yeah to the regualtors..

by ensuring Murdoch retains as much control of the media in the UK as possible, I mean by only controlling the entire UK domestic satelite tv broadcast industry, large sections of the US tv industry, most of the written news, his empire would be surely threatened by this.

And you thought they were there to help the consumer!

Foolhardy to say the least

This idea will add to an already oversubscribed market. When the government decided to make TV broadcasting market driven too many companies jumped on the band wagon. That, in turn has led to a reduction in quality and variation because the supply of capital from advertising cannot sustain the bloated market. This will lead to the odd TV company callapse or two

Ofcon may be a quango...

...but they are still largely controlled by UK.gov and as such are very anti-Beeb (no not Auntie Beeb). Interestingly in this case the Beeb were doing what the government says they want and trying to give commercial broadcasters a leg up and Ofcon stopped them.

There's been so much cocking around that it's now pretty much a dead horse. ITV, 4 and Five all have their own equivalents to iPlayer so their doesn't seem to be any particular need for Kangaroo. So Roop's pressuring of Ofcon and the government has effectively come to nothing.

That's a great purchase.

Bargain of the year I'd think.

Yay! The kangaroo lives!

:D

Perfect solution, let's see how this goes now, I guess that Sky and Virgin will go wining to their friends at Offcom in the next week or so. Let's hope Offcom will tell them to shut the hell up.

If Sky can't compete they are doing something very wrong, if anything their platform needs to be opened up to other billing companies. Their stance that the other networks should not own a platform and channels is as sickening as their other business practices.

Project Phoenix?

This is an excellent and cunning approach by the parties involved.

You can't launch an 'Anti-competitive' VoD platform that you've spent money developing.

You sell it to a 3rd party (one which is mainly interested in the broadcast of content supplied by content producers, rather than producing content themselves).

That 3rd party renames it Project Wallaby then offers it as an ideal VoD platform to broadcasters who then don't have to maintain loads of infrastructure, and pay a rental or 'maintenance' fee to add & serve content to it.

Everyone's happy, other than Murderock, who renames 'Anytime' to 'Pademelon' which everyone continues to ignore, despite constant and excessive marketing to the subscriber base.