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Project Kangaroo killed by Competiton Commission
No plans to appeal as regulator blocks joint online TV venture 4 February 2009 12:19 GMT
Project Kangaroo has been blocked by the Competition Commission.

The online TV project - a joint venture between ITV, Channel 4 and BBC Worldwide - has been deemed "too much of a threat to competition in this developing market".

The Project had...
Project Kangaroo tweaks plans for Competition Commission
Threatens to abandon venture 23 December 2008 12:42 GMT
Project Kangaroo has volunteered to dump plans to jointly sell catch-up and archive shows to rivals, so that it can get regulator approval to launch.

ITV, BBC Worldwide and Channel 4 - the broadcasters involved in the venture - argue that by changing the plans...
Project Kangaroo deemed anti-competitive
Competition Commission throws doubt on future of VOD platform 3 December 2008 14:43 GMT
A serious spanner has been thrown in the works for Project Kangaroo, the joint video on demand service from the BBC, ITV and Channel 4, as it has failed to gain approval from the Competition Commission.

The regulator has ruled that the scheme, that would allow...
Project Kangeroo bounces back
Launch set for March 2009 despite chief exec leaving 17 November 2008 13:59 GMT
It may have just lost its chief exec to Microsoft, but Project Kangeroo is readying for launch.

Ashley Highfield announced he was leaving the BBC Worldwide, ITV and Channel 4 joint initiative after only 6 months in the job, but, although no permanent replacement...
Ashley Highfield quits Project Kangaroo
Poached for top Microsoft job 11 November 2008 9:17 GMT
Ashley Highfield, the chief executive of Project Kangaroo, the BBC/ITV/Channel 4 broadband TV joint venture, is to leave the endeavour before it launches.

Project Kangaroo was due to launch at Christmas, but has been delayed until mid-2009 at the earliest,...
Google backs Project Kangaroo
Despite Michael Grade's grumblings 19 August 2008 17:07 GMT
As the Office of Fair Trading launched its investigation into the BBC, ITV and Channel 4 joint video on demand service, Project Kangaroo, ITV chairman Michael Grade grumbled in a letter about how "non-UK companies like Google and Apple are free to build market dominating...
Project Kangaroo investigation delayed
Could this affect the promise of an early 2009 launch? 11 August 2008 15:48 GMT
The Competition Commission is currently investigating Project Kangaroo - the joint video on demand project from the BBC, ITV and Channel 4.

However it seems that the investigation is now being held up by none other than one of the teams championing it.
ITV hopes Project Kangaroo will launch early 2009
Grade is hopeful 7 August 2008 9:49 GMT
ITV has said that it hopes Project Kangaroo, the online video-on-demand service that is planned in conjunction with Channel 4 and the BBC, will launch in "the early part of 2009".

The launch of the new service, that was penciled in for the autumn, is currently...
Grade grumbles about Google
ITV chairman says "Google and Apple are free to build market dominating positions" 30 June 2008 14:52 GMT
The launch of the proposed video on demand service from BBC Worldwide, ITV and Channel 4 has hit a major setback by being referred to the Competition Commission by the Office of Fair Trading.

In response the news, ITV's executive chairman Michael Grade has issued...
OFT refers Project Kangaroo to Competition Commission
Proposed VoD service under serious scrutiny 30 June 2008 13:49 GMT
The supposedly coming-soon video on demand service from BBC Worldwide, ITV and Channel 4 has been referred to the Competition Commission by the Office of Fair Trading.

The OFT said the three-way team-up could mean Project Kangaroo would "charge higher prices...
BBC to launch Apple TV rival
Bringing iPlayer to your television set 27 June 2008 16:24 GMT
The BBC is planning to launch a user-friendly set-top box that will rival the likes of Apple TV and possibly Sky.

Described as a "device that transfers web video such as its successful on-demand iPlayer service onto TV screens", the FT reports that it would...
BBC plans online archive of every show every made
Massive undertaking makes iPlayer look puny 12 June 2008 12:12 GMT
The BBC has announced it plans to create an online video vault of on the web for all its programmes past and present.

The massive undertaking will see a web page created for every episode of every single programme ever broadcast on the BBC - spanning 81 years...
Ashley Highfield gets top Kangaroo job
iPlayer exec moving to new Beeb joint venture 14 April 2008 10:49 GMT
BBC Worldwide, ITV and Channel 4 have appointed Ashley Highfield as CEO of Kangaroo, the working title for the new video on-demand service set to launch in the UK in 2008 which will be owned by the three broadcasters.

Highfield's name will be familiar to...
BBC, ITV and C4 confirm Project Kangaroo
"What's that Skippy? There's a new IPTV offering launching?" 28 November 2007 10:05 GMT
We brought you news of this venture way back in June when it remained in the realms of rumour and speculation, but "Project Kangaroo" has now been officially announced.

The team up, encompassing BBC Worldwide, ITV and Channel 4, is a commercial three-way joint...