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Submitted by tracyswedlow on September 20, 2010 - 11:43pm
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--Report: Amazon Attempting to Acquire Lovefilm
--AT&T Teams with NCAA Football on Social App
--BBC Commissions Second Series of "Interactive Episodes" of "Doctor Who"
--CBS Sports Launches Pro Football App for Apple iPad
--ivi Receives Cease-and-Desist Letters from Broadcasters, Files Complaint for Declaratory Judgment
--Motive Television to Acquire Adecq, Provider of the Bestv DTT-Based VOD Solution
--Ofcom Hands over Responsibility for VOD Content Regulation to Association for Television on Demand
--Open IPTV Forum Adds Four More Members
--Pace Hires Nokia UK & Ireland MD, Mark Loughran, to Head New Convergence-Focused Unit

Here is a round-up of some other recent interactive TV-related stories that we didn't have room for in this issue:

News Round-Up

Submitted by tracyswedlow on August 19, 2010 - 12:31am
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--Report: TV Networks Reluctant to Support Google TV
--IP Vision Files Complaint with Ofcom over Project Canvas
--Monsoon Launches its Vulkano Platform, which it Bills as Replacing TiVo, Slingbox and Roku
--Total Immersion Uses Augmented Reality to Promote Environmental Awareness

Here are some other interactive TV-related stories we didn't have room for in this issue:

Clearleap in Deal to Bring Break Media's Online Videos to Cable and IPTV VOD Systems

Submitted by tracyswedlow on December 21, 2009 - 3:22am
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--VOD Round-Up: Karaoke Channel, Police Blotter, Comcast's 100th Day-and-Date Movie, Ofcom

Clearleap, an Atlanta-based company which offers a technology platform for bringing Internet-sourced video content to television sets, announced last week that it has signed a deal with Break Media, the company that operates Break.com, an entertainment Web site which targets a male demographic, to bring the latter's broadband video content to the TV screen. According to the companies, their partnership will enable Break.com to dynamically deliver a portion of its video library to Clearleap's Content Marketplace, where it will instantly be available for cable and IPTV operators to use as VOD programming.

New Ofcom Report Finds Increasing Usage of DVR, Catch-Up VOD Services in the UK

Submitted by tracyswedlow on August 10, 2009 - 12:12am
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UK communications regulator, Ofcom, has published its sixth annual Communications Market Report. Among the TV-related highlights:

Ofcom Signals that Project Canvas May Face More Regulatory Scrutiny

Submitted by tracyswedlow on April 27, 2009 - 12:38am
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--Canvas is a Joint OTT Initiative between the BBC, ITV, and BT
--Seeks to Develop Common Standard for Delivering Broadband Video on TV

Project Canvas--a joint initiative between the BBC, UK commercial broadcaster ITV, and UK incumbent telco BT, which seeks to develop a common standard and interface for the delivery of online catch-up services such as the BBC iPlayer and the ITV player, as well as other Internet-based VOD services, to broadband-connected set-top boxes (specifically, set-top boxes designed for reception of the UK's free-to-air multichannel TV services, Freeview and Freesat)--may be facing the same kind of regulatory scrutiny that led to the demise of Project Kangaroo, the joint VOD venture between the BBC, ITV and Channel 4 (note: for more on Kangaroo's demise, see the article posted on itvt.com April 20th).

Ofcom Moves to Tighten Regulation of Participation TV

Submitted by itvt on April 30, 2008 - 4:08pm
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Following the UK's recent participation TV scandal, that country's
broadcast regulator, Ofcom, has proposed new rules to tighten
regulation of TV and radio programs that rely heavily on premium-rate
telephone services (PRS). The body says that its proposed changes to
the UK's Broadcasting Code will "ensure that programs that invite
viewers and listeners to interact or participate are not vehicles for
promoting commercial, revenue-generating services," and will also
"ensure that viewers are adequately protected and that advertising is
kept separate from editorial content, as required under European
legislation."

The new rules state that when PRS is used in a program for audience
participation:

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