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On 4 June, BBC Trust provided its conclusion following the first phase of consultation on Project Canvas, BBC’s joint venture with ITV and BT. Trust issued a statement that the decision on the future Project Canvas will be delayed. Hence, one issue objected by several stakeholders has been adjusted. According to the tight time schedule, the final decision was to be published on 24 July.

Due to many stakeholders addressing missing information on the concept of Project Canvas, the BBC Executive has been approached by the Trust to provide more details. Additional information resulting from this inquiry as well as a revised time schedule will be published before commencing with the second consultation phase.

During the first consultation, the Trust received more than 800 submissions by stakeholders and license fee payers that in most part were in support of the project.

I’m looking forward getting to know more about the concept.

As you may remember, once there has been a Kangaroo that was destined rather not to have a fulfilled life.

By the end of February, we had to say goodbye to BBC’s joint venture Project Kangaroo which involved ITV and Channel 4. The Competition Commission’s decision set an end to mutual plans.

One obvious alternative even entered the scene before and rose to fame right afterwards: Project Canvas. This time, the BBC was about to be joined by ITV (again) and ISP British Telecom. They envisioned an open video video-on-demand solution, open to any content provider and content source, including internet.

If you were interested in how Kangaroo would have done, you should have been excited to see Project Canvas develop.
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Recent articles on this blog featured the problems broadcasting services have to face in the days of the internet. Just take a look at my del.icio.us bookmarks on the right to notice that the death of Project Kangaroo has been the opener to Project Canvas.

Today’s informitv newsletter is concluded by a comment by Dr William Cooper, CEO informitv, addressing current issues. It’s a brilliant one. Unfortunately, I can’t find it anywhere on their site (“resource not found”). So here it is, straight from the newsletter…


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