Related news roundup - 15 June

In video & industry-related news from the last week:

• BBC News: Setanta is still around, and is reported to be talking to Endemol about the producer taking a stake. There’s also a bid for 51%, for £20, from Access Industries.
• FT.com: Dan Marks, CEO of BT Vision (and also deputy MD of BT consumer) has quit. He has cited Sky’s dominance in sport rights as a critical factor in such poor BT Vision uptake.
• The Independent: Expands on the story of BT officially coming out and claiming that video-intensive content providers like the BBC should subsidise the cost to the ISP with an article that no other ISPs are prepared to make similarly public claims.
• Ofcom: FIVE has officially been awarded the last (last for the next 3 years) HD Freeview slot.
• ITProPortal: Ofcom’s latest report from their tech research programme suggests that the costs needed to upgrade ISP networks to handle video demands equates to an additional £1 - £3 per subscribing household per month. The full report is available here on the Ofcom site here (PDF). That particular section is on page 4.
• Brand Republic: Blinkbox is to start offering paid streams (DTR) of films, after a change in their agreement with Warner Bros.