BT Acquires Music Programs For VOD

Factual music programming is among the key contents recently acquired by U.K. telecoms giant BT Group for BT Vision, its video-on-demand service scheduled to launch this fall.

U.K.-based independent TV-program distributor and producer NBD Television is supply 60 hours of programming, including "Oasis, Live by the Sea," "Duran Duran: Live at Wembley 2004," and "We Will Rock You," one of the seminal gigs performed by Queen, for the new video-on-demand (VOD) service.

BT Vision customers can access the content via broadband Internet platforms to watch on the TV sets.

BT Vision will also feature movies and TV series.