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Ingenious Exec To Run Project Canvas

By TIM ADLER in London | Tuesday July 13, 2010 @ 4:30am PDTTags: Arqiva, BBC, Channel 4, Five, Guardian, Ingenious Media, ITV, Kip Meek, Kip Meek Project Canvas, Project Canvas, TalkTalk, TV, UK Terrestrial Channel Five

Kip_Meek(Kip Meek, head of Ingenious Media’s consulting arm, is set to be named chairman of Project Canvas later this week, according to the Guardian. Project Canvas is the groundbreaking TV service that’s being launched by the UK’s terrestrial broadcasters. Canvas declined to comment.

Meek is seen as a good choice, having been senior policy partner at communications regulator Ofcom. He also has strong ties to the government, having sat with Liz Murdoch on the Conservatives’ creative industries review panel, chaired by ex-BBC boss Greg Dyke.

“He’s a very capable bloke, especially in areas such as broadband,” one media analyst tells me.

Canvas has been rocked by Five dropping out of the project – although its programmes will still available when the service launches early 2011. Five has left the other partners – BBC, ITV and Channel 4 plus telcos BT, TalkTalk and Arqiva – to shoulder its share of the £116 million cost. Five was expected to contribute £16 million a year to help pay for Canvas. But now it’s being fattened up for sale. It may be that Five’s new owner doesn’t want to be saddled with that kind of financial commitment.

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. The idea of having linear TV channels could disappear completely.

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Who’s Not Bidding For UK’s Channel Five

By TIM ADLER in London | Friday July 2, 2010 @ 4:22am PDTTags: Big Brother, BSkyB, Endemol, Express Newspapers, Foreign, ITV, John de Mol, Richard Desmond, RTL, Time Warner, TV, UK Channel Five Bids, UK Terrestrial Channel Five

FiveEXCLUSIVE: The European TV producer Endemol will not be among those bidding for the UK’s fifth terrestrial channel. ITV has also walked away from the auction, as has BSkyB and Time Warner. Endemol’s founder John De Mol is bidding, as is … Read More »

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Newspaper Tycoon Tipped To Win Five

By TIM ADLER in London | Thursday July 1, 2010 @ 8:21am PDTTags: Cyrte Investments, Express Newspapers, Foreign, John de Mol, Richard Desmond, RTL, TV, UK Terrestrial Channel Five

FiveRichard Desmond, owner of Express Newspapers, is seen as a frontrunner to buy UK terrestrial channel Five. Other bidders include John De Mol, founder of TV producer Endemol (Big Brother), and Endemol itself, which De Mol’s investment company Cyrte Investments owns … Read More »

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