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  • Virgin Media website claims “BT Sport is coming”

    Virgin Media website claims “BT Sport is coming”

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    Cable company Virgin Media says BT Sport “is coming” to its network this summer. The three BT channels will offer sports fans 38 Barclays Premier League matches per season, exclusive Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) coverage and 800 hours of live tennis, including the TEB BNP Paribas WTA Championships. BT has also bought Disney’s ESPN channels,…

  • BBC admits to wasting £100m on failed digital archive

    BBC admits to wasting £100m on failed digital archive

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    The BBC has admitted wasting almost £100m of public money on a failed technology project which has “generated little or no assets”. In 2008 the BBC Trust authorised BBC managers to proceed with the Digital Media Initiative (DMI), an ambitious project aimed at creating a digital archive of the corporation’s archive content. BBC managers promised…

  • BT Sport – studio construction videos

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    Journalists attending the press launch for the new BT Sport channels were given a tour of the studios and production centre, but while we were able to look and ask questions, we were forbidden from taking pictures or filming. Just five official pictures of the studios have been provided to the media by BT who…

  • New BT Sport ad targets Virgin Media users

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    BT has stepped up efforts to use its forthcoming sports channels to win over customers from Virgin Media. The channels will offer sports fans 38 Barclays Premier League matches per season, exclusive Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) coverage and 800 hours of live tennis, including the TEB BNP Paribas WTA Championships. Earlier this month BT announced…

  • Xbox One launch causes TalkTalk network spike

    Xbox One launch causes TalkTalk network spike

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    Broadband provider TalkTalk says Microsoft’s launch of the Xbox One games and media console earlier this week caused “a big spike in traffic” on t its network. As the tech giant held two launch events simultaneously, in London and Seattle, traffic on one of the Content Delivery Networks within TalkTalk’s infrastructure rose from 80 Gigabytes…

  • Filming starts on new London-based nuclear thriller

    Filming starts on new London-based nuclear thriller

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    Filming starts next month on a new thriller set in the political back rooms of London.   War Book, directed by Tom Harper (The Woman in Black: Angel of Death), is described as “a chilling chamber piece” which explores the likely aftermath of an international nuclear attack.   Written by Jack Thorne (Long Way Down,…