Global Radio’s online and interactive director Robin Pembrooke is leaving to fill the vacant managing director post of ITV.com at the UK’s leading commercial broadcaster ITV.

Let’s hope broadcasters have got their CDNs in order - this summer’s World Cup is proving a genuine watershed for live online TV streaming. Look at these stats… —BBC.co.uk served a peak of 800,000 concurrent live streams during yesterday’s England-Slovenia match; Wimbledon was also streaming, but the BBC said the…

Telegraph.co.uk’s sources have been promising the paper Hulu’s imminent UK launch for so long now that, now it’s reporting “further delays” to the U.S. VOD site’s ambitions here, we’re barely inclined to mention it - but anyway… Despite claiming in August that Hulu was in “most advanced discussions” to land…

YouTube has secured its first long-form on-demand UK TV content, doing a deal that sees Channel 4 add the same shows to the service that are already carried on the broadcaster’s own 4oD service. Nearly 3,000 hours of shows - including Hollyoaks, Skins and Peep Show - will be available…

Updated It’s been 10 months since we first learned NBC, News Corp (NYSE: NWS) and Disney’s U.S. TV site Hulu wanted to open up shop in Britain - but still there’s no sign of it actually being ready to pounce. The venture may have rights to show some UK content…

So the Friends Reunited sale saga is finally over, and the final end result is brutal: it was sold off to Dundee-based publisher DC Thomson, which owns brightsolid, which in turn owns genealogy website Findmypast.com, reports FT (Update: And confirmed by ITV (LSE: ITV) in this early-Thursday announcement). The new…

Outgoing ITV (LSE: ITV) executive chairman Michael Grade is using his last droplets of power to rally the broadcaster toward a micropayment future… Grade, who last year called YouTube a “parasite”, told Five Live’s Simon Mayo about Susan Boyle’s unmentioned success: “All of us are struggling with this. In the…

A flurry of stories this week bit again at Hulu‘s hoped-for upcoming UK launch, again betting on a September launch. There’s little new here - We learned nine months ago the News Corp/NBC/Disney (NYSE: DIS) US online TV venture wanted to open shop in the UK depending on the outcome…

From desktop app, to live streaming web TV service… to top of Britain’s biggest commercial broadcaster? It sounds like something of a wild card, but The Sunday Times says Joost CEO Mike Volpi is on headhunter Russell Reynolds’ shortlist to be named ITV (LSE: ITV) CEO. Volpi was silent on…

“Unlikely” singing sensation Susan Boyle is now a bona fide Translatlantic internet celebrity. Online analytics firm Visible Measures, which on Friday told Mashable it had recorded 47 million views for videos of the Britain’s Got Talent contestant, now tells the blog it revised the measure to 93.2 million by Sunday…

ITV (LSE: ITV) broadband MD Annelies Van Den Belt is leaving the broadcaster after 14 months to head Russian online media company Sup, which bought blog platform LiveJournal in December. Via Guardian: “I’m leaving on a high but this is a match made in heaven in terms of my experience.…

ITV (LSE: ITV) will drop Friends Reunited‘s annual £5 subscription fee to take the site free, Media Week claims, without attributing sources. The broadcaster bought the once-mighty social network for £120 million in December 2005 and, though it supposedly pulled in between £20 million and £25 million last year, it’s…