YouView

  • BBC Trust to review Corporation’s involvement in YouView

    BBC Trust to review Corporation’s involvement in YouView

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    The BBC Trust is to review the broadcaster’s participation in YouView, the broadcast and internet TV platform which launched last year. The service is a joint venture between the BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Channel 5, BT, Talk Talk and Arqiva and combines digital terrestrial TV with catch-up television and access on-demand TV players such as…

  • BT reveals BT Sport via retail YouView boxes details

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    BT has revealed more details of how owners of retail YouView boxes will be able to receive its forthcoming sports channels, BT Sport 1, Bt Sport 2 and ESPN which are to be delivered via broadband to the boxes.

  • TalkTalk signs up 160,000 new YouView customers

    TalkTalk signs up 160,000 new YouView customers

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    TalkTalk says it signed up 160,000 new customers to its YouView-based TV service service in the three months to end June. The additions take its total number of TV customers to 390,000 in that period.  In a statement TalkTalk revealed that 26% of households are taking premium content including blockbuster movies and monthly subscriptions to…

  • Dave on demand player goes live on YouView

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    A new on demand player offering content from UKTV’s popular free-to-air channel Dave has been added to YouView boxes. First announced last month, the player gives viewers access to hit shows such as Dara O Briain: School of Hard Sums, Ross Noble’s Freewheeling and Russell Howard’s Good News. The content will also be available via…

  • TalkTalk offers three months free YouView, Broadband and phone

    TalkTalk offers three months free YouView, Broadband and phone

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    ISP and TV provider TalkTalk is offering new and existing customers the chance to bag three months of free TV, calls and broadband. Customers signing up to The Big Free will get three months access to TalkTalk’s TV Starter Boost which includes Sky 1, Sky Living and Sky Arts plus free phone and broadband and…

  • YouView celebrates first birthday

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    Today marks exactly one year since YouView unveiled itself to the UK’s tech media at a launch event held in London’s former County Hall. Unlike many of my colleagues, I left the event impressed with what we’d seen and expecting great things from the new service. I took to my keyboard and predicted that YouView…