Tag: channel
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Nintendo Cancels Wii U TVii Launch in UK and Europe
Nintendo has announced its decision not to launch the long anticipated TVii service for Wii U in the UK and Europe. Via the Nintendo Europe website the company puts this unexpected and unfortunate change of plan down to “the extremely complex nature of localising multiple television services across a diverse range of countries with varied […]
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Virgin Media and Sky Extend HD Deal – All channels but Sky Atlantic coming to Virgin
Virgin Media and BskyB have extended their current lease of Sky channels in a new 5 year deal that will see all of Sky’s dedicated channels, Excluding Sky Atlantic, and their full HD counterparts available on the Cable service for the first time. The deal is a 5 Year extension on the current contract, but […]
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BBC Confirms closure of BBC Three by Autumn 2015
The BBC has today confirmed that it will be closing the BBC Three channel by Autumn 2015 if the plans are agreed to by the BBC Trust. Yesterday news broke that in a bid to save £100 million in funds from the BBC budget, the Beeb was looking to shut down the youth-orientated BBC channel […]
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BBC Three channel to close and move to iPlayer only service
The BBC has outlined some controversial cost cutting plans today that will see the very popular BBC Three channel get the axe, with its content being moved online to the BBC iPlayer platform. The BBC’s media correspondent David Sillito has said that an official statement about the BBC Three plans will be announced on Thursday […]
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BBC HD channel gets the boot, gets replaced by BBC Two HD
New HD channel coming to all TV services