The BBC Trust is expected to this week give the green light to Project Canvas, the video-on-demand joint venture, albeit with significant conditions attached.
Project Canvas, whose backers include the BBC, ITV and BT, has been under scrutiny by the BBC Trust for the best part of a year and the trust has several times ordered the partners to provide additional information.
The BBC Trust is expected in the next day or two to announce provisional approval, described by one source as a "conditional yes", which will be followed by a final consultation period running until mid-January.
Project Canvas has come in for heavy criticism from BSkyB, which has argued that issues exist over membership, the lack of a full market impact assessment and potential breaches of European Union state aid rules relating to use of the licence fee...
from The Guardian
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