Virgin Media Chief Executive Neil Berkett has accused the British broadcasting Corporation Trust for the failure of the project Canvas. The basic aim of the Canvas project was to upgrade the Freeview and Freesat platforms with video on-demand and internet services. But Berkett believes that the project has lost its way and described it as a shameless whitewash.

According to Berkett, the BBC’s Canvas project has been trying to penalize its commercial rivals. BBC has been forcing all operators to use a single Canvas brand of their own or of their partners.

Channels like ITV, Channel 4, Five, Talk Talk, and BT are partnering BBC for various projects. He revealed that BBC has not even bothered to their several concerns. Now BBC Trust is consulting IPTV for a joint venture which has created an issue in the UK media industry. He also said that the trust is not capable of regulating the various activities of BBC in a proper objective way.

Apart from that Sky has also expressed its distress over the public money used by Canvas for the IPTV services.