BSkyB's Now TV on-demand service aimed at pay-TV refusniks offers a pay-as-you-go "day pass", priced at £9.99, to TalkTalk TV customers.
ITV gains nothing from the proposed cutbacks at the BBC, its chairman Archie Norman said today, as he promised a "day zero" revamp of the broadcaster that could include a fresh look at pay-TV.
He did it in Britain, when he bust the newspaper unions and turned a failing newspaper group into a hugely profitable one; he did it in America, when he created a fourth broadcasting network, which everybody said was impossible; he did it again in Britain, where the television establishment sneered at pay-TV and he created BSkyB, once the most profitable television company in Europe.
(Huseby joined a just over a year ago, and prior to that he had been CFO at pay-TV provider Cablevision).
BSKYB chief executive James Murdoch is planning one of the largest ever rounds of job cuts at the pay TV group.
The changes were announced this afternoon by Hulu SVP, Head of Experience, Ben Smith, during his keynote address at The Pay TV Show event in Denver.
Comcast is looking to expand that to include subscribers at other pay TV providers, as well as opening up the See It button to work for its own subscribers watching other networks.
"I did a show for the ABC," Bolt said on stage at the Astra pay TV conference in Sydney this week.
Consumers are fleeing pay TV at a quickening pace: 898,000 in the past year, nearly twice the number in the previous year, the analyst Craig Moffett said.
Dan Brooke, deputy managing director of pay TV at Channel 4 and another ex-ad man, says: "There's a sense that David is the one actually making it happen and making sure the company makes money.
