BT TV Concerts Deal

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Repost from Whochat Forum:

>BT inks rock concert TV deal
The Who?

By Tim RichardsonPublished Monday 10th April 2006 11:35 GMT

BT isn't due to unveil its much hyped TV service until autumn, but it's 
still managing to string out a series of announcements about content deals. 
Still, it beats contemplating what might happen if Carphone really does kick 
off a broadband price war.

So far, BT's signed up kids' favourites Bob the Builder and Pingu to help 
plug its BT Vision service, along with the National Geographic Channel, BBC 
Worldwide, Paramount and Warner Music Group
Now it's hooking up with music outfits i-concerts and Eagle Rock to offer 
more than 500 concerts and performances by artists such as Franz Ferdinand, 
Keane, Alice Cooper, and The Who.

BT Television Services chief exec Dan Marks said: "BT Vision will offer a 
comprehensive music service with programming to suit all tastes and all 
available on demand. These important deals will allow us to bring concerts 
that would otherwise be very difficult - or impossible - to find on 
broadcast television to a wide audience on attractive terms and with high 
quality picture and sound."

Of course, had BT's head of entertainment Andrew Burke not left the company 
recently, it might have been his name in the press release announcing how 
happy the telco is to have signed up this latest batch of content providers.

Burke left recently amid speculation of a rift over the direction of BT's TV 
service and reports that it is suffering technical issues, something BT has 
denied.


http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/04/10/bt_content/