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British Digital Broadcasting British Digital Broadcasting is to change its name to On Digital, and has decided to start offering its 15-channel pay-TV service in selected regions for a gradual build-up of subscribers. 29-Jul-1998 British Digital Broadcasting has agreed a deal with Viacom to include the MTV music channel on its digital terrestrial TV service from next year. 24-Jul-1998 British Digital Broadcasting has warned that some households may have to upgrade their aerials in order to receive its digital TV service, but it has not yet decided how to handle this problem. 16-May-1998 British Digital Broadcasting is planning to offer digital TV subscribers a package of 12 channels for under £10 a month when it launches later this year, which it says will undercut Sky Television. 09-May-1998 British Digital Broadcasting is appointing British Telecom to manage the customer call centre for its pay-television services, which will create an initial 100 jobs rising to over 1,000. 08-May-1998 Granada Group is to offer free set-top boxes to customers of its TV rental service to allow them to unscramble signals when British Digital Broadcasting launches its digital terrestrial TV service later this year. 06-May-1998 BSkyB has issued a writ against British Digital Broadcasting to prevent it from selling digital TV set-top boxes that are incompatible with its own. 16-Apr-1998 British Digital Broadcasting is in discussions with S4C Digital Networks about co-operating on the launch of digital terrestrial TV, which could involve S4C programming being offered through the BDB service. 13-Mar-1998 British Digital Broadcasting has named the six companies that will supply it with set top boxes for the launch of digital TV - Pace, Philips, Grundig, Nokia, Toshiba and Sony - and they will use a system that does not require the replacement of existing aerials and televisions. 09-Mar-1998 British Digital Broadcasting is planning to spend over £550m on the marketing of its digital TV service over the next 12 years, which will include subsidies to enable the set-top boxes to be sold for under £200. 08-Jan-1998 British Digital Broadcasting has won three ITC licences to start up 18 pay-TV channels from October 1998. 20-Dec-1997 British Digital Broadcasting is in discussions with internet television providers, such as Microsoft and Oracle, to offer interactive and internet-based services via telephone lines and set-top boxes when it launches digital TV next year. 04-Dec-1997 British Digital Broadcasting has announced that digital TV set-top boxes will be sold for about £200, offering consumers about 30 channels from next autumn. 05-Nov-1997 The Independent Television Commission has awarded the main licence for digital terrestrial television to British Digital Broadcasting, the consortium made up of Carlton Communications and Granada. 25-Jun-1997 The information on this page comes from the UK Activity Report. Click here for further details Copyright UK Business Park 1995-2009