Update to related news post from last week

‘Twas remiss of us not to make note of one particular item in the related news update from Friday. It’s an item to do with Project Kangaroo, the proposed VOD joint venture between ITV, Channel 4 and BBC Worldwide.

As we all know, in early February, the Competition Commission (part of the OFT) prohibited Kangaroo from going ahead, on the grounds that it lessened competition in the video on demand (VOD) market here in the UK.

Last Friday the Commission published the draft of it’s final undertakings on the matter. There are three main parts:

• The BBC, BBC Worldwide, Channel 4 or ITV will not acquire any VOD activity from any of the other three parties (without prior permission from the Commission);
• No senior management involved in the VOD activities at one party will be allowed to go and work with VOD at another of the parties (without prior permission from the Commission); and
• Both of the above will be in effect for 5 years.

While each of the 3 parties have alread agreed to the undertakings, the Commission is accepting any public submissions on them until Monday 8 June.

The full document  is available here at the CC’s site (as a PDF), and Paid Content UK have a good post here.