Television
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YouView boss insists shareholders remain “pleased” with platform’s progress
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YouView boss Richard Halton has insisted all of the platform’s shareholders “are pleased” with its progress and see it as a way to further “their own individual goals”.
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BT launches next generation YouView set top box
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Broadband-to-TV giant BT has unveiled a new ‘next generation’ version of its YouView+ set top box. At just 24cm wide the box is two-thirds the size of the original model and is approximately the same width as BT’s latest HomeHub routers which it’s styled to match.
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UKTV to move to new eco-friendly HQ and studio complex
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Broadcaster UKTV, which runs the popular Dave, Gold and Watch TV channels, is to move to a “ground-breaking new” eco-friendly building in Hammersmith Grove.
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Is the BBC really “withdrawing its support” from YouView?
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Is the BBC really “withdrawing its support” from YouView or are shareholders merely practising good business sense by keeping spending at a maturing platform under control?
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YouView adds catch-up services for UKTV’s Yesterday and Really
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Broadcaster UKTV has added seven day catch up services for its popular free-to-air Yesterday and Really channels to internet connected TV platform YouView. Viewers can now access content they’ve missed via both branded on demand portals and through YouView’s seven-day scroll back EPG.
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Big Bang Theory helped E4 grow audiences in 2013
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Channel 4’s digital spin-off E4 say audiences grow to their highest levels last year, retaining its position as the number one destination for young audiences with a 5.09% share of the 16-34 year old demographic.