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DIARY: ITV Digital's selling off its assets - I think I'll go and bid a monkey.(Brief Article)
Wanted - good home for hardly used digital television platform, can be temperamental, only two previous owners and not that many more former customers. Comes complete with legions of angry football fans and hundreds of unused set-top boxes. Open to offers for quick sale.
Yes, anyone wanting to pick over the decaying bones of ITV Digital needs to make their way sharpish to the haunted Marco Polo House (previous tenants have included British Satellite Broadcasting) in Battersea, where the entire contents of Granada and Carlton's ill-fated venture into pay-TV are up for sale.
Among the former assets is the ironically named 'mirrored disaster recovery centre' and a 'conditional access platform' - rather optimistically sized for up to no fewer than two million customers. Also ...
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