Report: BBC eyes commercial sale
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LONDON, England -- The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) has invited media giants Time Warner, Bertelsmann and Walt Disney to discuss possible bids for its commercial sales and publishing arm, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday.
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Reports of a takeover approach continues to surround ITV, the UK's largest commercial broadcaster.
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Media & professional: The BBC seeks to popularise corporate stories and take the consumer's point of view, according to an independent report published yesterday.
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Part of the Odyssey entertainment complex in Belfast is close to being sold, the BBC learns.
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Radical new plans outlining the future of the BBC will be announced, including including thousands of job cuts. Do you agree with the plans?
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The BBC's international website will carry advertisements to help plug a Â£2bn budget shortfall.
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Strong overseas sales of shows such as Doctor Who help BBC Worldwide to  increase annual profits by 24%.
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Bedroom broadcasters will soon be able to get  share of the money that website makes from advertising
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LONDON (CBS.MW) -- The publicly-funded British Broadcasting Corp. approached Time Warner (TWX) , Germany&#39;s Bertelsmann and Walt Disney (DIS) as potential bidders for BBC Worldwide, its commercial sales and
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Britain's biggest broadcasters are getting together to encourage people to give time and money to charities.
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The BBC needs to make greater efforts towards impartiality, according to an internal report.
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BSkyB, the satellite television company affiliated with the News Corporation, has bought a 17.9 percent stake in ITV, BritainÂs biggest commercial broadcaster, in a move that could thwart the ambitions of Richard Branson, the Virgin Group entrepreneur, to strengthen his position in the British media market. Mr. Branson had hoped to combine ITV with a cable company, NTL, in which he owns an 11 percent stake. The battle for ITV is rooted in a struggle for control of living rooms in Britain, which has one of the highest rates of digital TV and broadband Internet use in the world. BSkyB is the countryÂs biggest pay-TV operator, with more than eight million subscribers to its satellite system. NTL hoped to use the Virgin brand name and the ability to sell a Âquadruple playÂ of television, broadband, fixed-line phone service and cellphone service to gain an edge on Sky.
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Two deals to be announced Tuesday are indicative of the ways TV is headed in new directions to meet the new needs of marketers.
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(InfoWorld) - MicrosoftÂ and the British Broadcasting Corp. (BBC) said they plan to explore cutting edge ways that the BBC can deliver content. The announcement, made Thursday, follows one earlier this year from the BBC when the broadcaster said it is working on launching services that allow it toÂ deliver content to usersÂ whenever they want it and on a variety of devices. The BBC stressed that the partnership with Microsoft is nonexclusive. The broadcaster has a long-standing relationship with RealNetworks, which includes the launch late last year of BBC World News as part of the RealNetworks SuperPass streaming video service in the U.S. The BBC has other streaming media offerings through RealNetworks around the world. As part of the Microsoft announcement, the BBC said it wants to work with many companies in the content distribution area so that viewers don't have to visit the main BBC Web site to find content. Some of the types of services the companies may collaborate on include search, site navigation, and distribution. The BBC said it considers Microsoft to be a gateway to audiences that the BBC wishes to reach, through services such as MSN, Windows Live, the Xbox and Windows Media Center. The BBC and Microsoft also discussed new strategies from the BBC, including its plans for an online archive, a new Web site and new ways to distribute online content. As part of its announcement earlier this year, the BBC launched a trial Web site where visitors could find information about the one million programs stored in the BBC's archive. The broadcaster also said it was investigating better ways to label content in order to improve search and that it planned to launch a streaming media service.ADVERTISEMENTMAKE SOA REAL WITH IBM WEBSPHERE PODCASTStreamline processes and maximize efficiency within a proven service oriented architecture. Take back control of your business processes with IBM WebSphere.
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The BBC has a long and glorious past as a technological innovator.  Throughout the history of broadcasting, it has often been the first to develop and promote new technologies.   Sadly, it seems now to be teetering on the brink of making technical choices that will not only damage its own reputation as a world-class institution, but which will also have serious knock-on consequences for free software.
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The BBC has invited three of the world's largest media groups to discuss possible bids for BBC Worldwide, the corporation's commercial sales and publishing arm, the Financial Times reported.
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Owners of many forlorn brands are selling or licensing them in the hopes of reviving them through advertising, price promotions and public relations.