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Ingenious Exec Confirmed To Chair Canvas

By TIM ADLER in London | Friday July 23, 2010 @ 6:49am PDTTags: Arqiva, BBC, BT, Canvas YouView, Channel 4, Five, ITV, Kip Meek, Kip Meek Project Canvas, On-Demand TV, Orange, Project Canvas, TalkTalk, UK TV

Kip Meek has been appointed non-executive chairman of Project Canvas, the joint venture between the BBC, ITV, BT, Channel 4, TalkTalk and Arqiva to create on-demand TV. Meek will step down from his consulting job at Ingenious Media. There’s been talk that Orange, the French mobile phone company, may join Project Canvas. Five dropped out earlier this month because of budget restraints.

Set to be called YouView, Canvas could transform the way we watch TV here in Britain. Canvas will convert your TV into an on-demand portal, where you can watch the output of the BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and Five whenever you want. I’m very excited about the implications of Project Canvas. In a few years’ time, I suspect the whole notion of watching linear TV channels is going to seem very quaint.

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Murdoch In Talks To Buy French Channels

By TIM ADLER in London | Tuesday July 6, 2010 @ 8:16am PDTTags: Internet TV, Orange, Rupert Murdoch, Satellite TV

Orange_CinemaStéphane Richard, the new CEO of France Télécom and its consumer arm Orange, has held informal talks with Rupert Murdoch about his buying its movie channels. Murdoch does not own any pay-TV channels in France, although Fox channels such as National … Read More »

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