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Broadband ISPs Talking To BBC Over iPlayer Bandwidth Consumption Issues - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Sun 12 Aug 2007 10:04 PM PST

This has shades of net neutrality debate: in UK, three of the biggest broadband providers Tiscali, BT and Carphone Warehouse, among others, have spoken to BBC amid growing anger over…

Broadband Content Bits: BBC: Rugby World Cup; Setanta; Mirror - 2 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Wed 01 Aug 2007 05:11 AM PST

-- BBC: The BBC News website is launching advertising-supported broadband video for overseas users. The corporation had previously started showing TV news bulletins and individual news clips in high quality…

BBC Web TV iPlayer Beta Launches; Some Testers Grumble - 1 Comment
Posted By Robert Andrews - Fri 27 Jul 2007 10:15 AM PST

The BBC today launched its iPlayer web catch-up TV application for public beta test applicants. (Video demo.) The service lets U.K. users download TV programs up to seven days following…

BBC’s Regulator Starts Review Of All Online Output - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Thu 26 Jul 2007 09:55 AM PST

BBC Trust, the independent regulator that governs the broadcaster, today launched a wide-ranging review of bbc.co.uk to ensure the corporation’s websites offer sufficient public value. The trust will examine how…

Broadband Content Bits: Nielsen; Nickelodeon; Universal-EFF; Cycling.tv; iPlayer; SacBee - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Wed 25 Jul 2007 08:44 AM PST

-- Broadband video use on the rise: About 81 million people, or 63 percent of the 129 million who have broadband connections in the U.S., watch broadband video at home…

Industry Moves UK: BBC Loses iPlayer ‘Inventor’ To Lovefilm; Guardian Radio - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Mon 23 Jul 2007 01:16 AM PST

The “inventor” of the BBC’s forthcoming iPlayer web TV catch-up application is leaving the corporation. Ben Lavender becomes group digital and product manager at European online DVD rental service Lovefilm.…

BBC Cancels Interactive Contests Across Platforms, Suspends Senior Staff Over Phoney Phone-Ins - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Thu 19 Jul 2007 12:23 AM PST

The BBC has canceled all competitions across radio, TV, interactive and online, as the U.K.’s snowballing participation TV scandal unearthed more transgressions at the corporation. Regulatory inquiries launched earlier this…

Microsoft Roundup: New DRM Crack; Ask.com Partnership; Search Gains - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Tue 17 Jul 2007 08:13 AM PST

Amongst a mixed bag of Microsoft news, the Redmond, Wash. company is facing another DRM attack. The new version of software that cracks DRM on Microsoft’s WMA audio and WMV…

BBC Trust Finally To Hear iPlayer Platform Neutrality Concerns - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Fri 13 Jul 2007 05:33 AM PST

The BBC Trust, the broadcaster’s independent governing body, will give a hearing to concerns from the digital rights lobby over lack of standards neutrality for the BBC iPlayer web TV…

The Brits Are Coming! UK News Media Head For U.S., But Can They Make A Buck? - 3 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Tue 03 Jul 2007 02:59 AM PST

Several British news organizations are making efforts to tailor publishing efforts to an American audience. The IHT summarizes some of the headway made to date: Times: Has already started distributing…

BBC Worldwide Targets Digital Acquisitions After Strong Profit Year - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Sat 30 Jun 2007 04:08 PM PST

BBC Worldwide, the UK public service broadcaster’s overseas commercial arm, will turn its attention toward digital acquisitions over the next year after posting a 24 percent increase in profits for…

BBC Targets Million Annual iPlayer Users, Allows Some YouTube Abuse - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Thu 28 Jun 2007 10:28 AM PST

Some more details off the back of yesterday’s announcement BBC’s iPlayer will be available, ahead of latest schedule, in July:- - Targets: BBC is targeting 500,000 users after six months,…

BBC iPlayer Launch Accelerated To July; Also To Run On Cable, Virgin, More - 1 Comment
Posted By Robert Andrews - Wed 27 Jun 2007 02:52 AM PST

Launch for BBC’s iPlayer, offering the last seven days of programming for download and viewable within a 30-day window, has been brought forward from November to July 27 - and…

BBC, ITV Win Online, Mobile Rights To Euro 2008 Soccer Tournament - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Wed 20 Jun 2007 10:08 AM PST

The BBC and ITV have won the UK broadcast and new media rights from European soccer body UEFA to its Euro 2008 championships. The rights package for the tournament, played…

UK Media Regulator Plays Rough With HDTV Broadcast Lobby - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Mon 11 Jun 2007 04:34 AM PST

The UK’s public service broadcasters appear to face an uphill climb in their fight to reserve a chunk of broadcasting spectrum for high-def. BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and Five partnered…

Decision For Ads on BBC.com Delayed, Again - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Fri 25 May 2007 08:16 AM PST

The best defense for being unsure is delaying the inevitable: BBC Trust chairman Sir Michael Lyons has asked for more time to consider controversial plans to introduce ads on a…

BBC: Multi-Platform Alternate Reality Game Launches; More Criticism - 3 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Thu 17 May 2007 07:35 PM PST

The BBC has launched an alternate reality game (ARG) to support a Radio 1 music festival this weekend. The game centers on Paul Denchfield, supposedly a BBC new media freelancer…

BBC’s Highfield Defends Innovation, Appoints Mobile Controller - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Wed 16 May 2007 08:39 AM PST

Earlier this week in the press, BBC’s director of future media and technology Ashley Highfield got a verbal kicking from several quarters over what some say is an increasingly less…

BBC Regulation “Strangling Digital Innovation”, Some Say - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Mon 14 May 2007 09:10 AM PST

The new regulatory regime ushered in at the BBC in January is hampering online innovation, according to a selection of anonymous “insiders” in today’s MediaGuardian. So far this year, the…

Industry Moves UK: BBC Raids BSkyB, Virgin Radio, Microsoft For Future Media - 1 Comment
Posted By Robert Andrews - Thu 03 May 2007 04:48 AM PST

Ashley Highfield’s Future Media & Technology unit at the BBC has made a trio of appointments to its leadership team (via Broadcast magazine). -- Paul Dale, BSkyB’s director of networked…

Industry Moves UK: NBCU Global MD Joins BBC, New Media Revenue Focus - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Wed 02 May 2007 06:58 AM PST

Nick Betts, NBC Universal’s global channels MD for the UK and Northern Europe, has been appointed head of commercial and business development at BBC Vision, the division responsible for visual…

More On The BBC’s iPlayer On-Demand; Storage Time Scaled Back - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Tue 01 May 2007 02:29 AM PST

Some more details on the BBC Trust’s final, final go-ahead for the BBC to roll out its iPlayer on-demand plans. The project will offer seven-day TV catch-up over the internet…

BBC, ITV To Launch Free Digital Satellite TV Network - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Mon 30 Apr 2007 02:30 AM PST

The BBC Trust has granted the broadcaster permission to roll-out a digital satellite TV service that will be free to consumers, it announced. Codenamed “Freesat” and mandated to be a…

MipTV: Highfield Details BBC Archive Plans; Will Trial Over IPTV - 1 Comment
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Wed 18 Apr 2007 09:11 AM PST

Earlier this week, plans for a massive online BBC archive seeped out. This afternoon at MipTV-Milia in Cannes, Ashley Highfield, the BBC’s director of future media and technology, was slated…

BBC To Unveil Plans For Massive Online Program Archive - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Mon 16 Apr 2007 01:41 AM PST

The BBC will this week announce plans for a massive online program archive. Speaking to paidContent.org, a BBC spokesperson confirmed a report in the Sunday Observer that the corporation aims…