BBC Closing Its Backstage Developer Network
BBC Backstage is to close in December, the corporation confirmed today. The five-year-old platform for independent developers has been in a… Read more »
BBC Must Finance Local Multimedia Start-Ups With Over £25 Million
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As well as having to find £340 million to finance BBC World Service, BBC Monitoring and most of S4C in the government’s spending review, th… Read more »
BBC Picks Rivera As Online No. 2 From Major League Gaming
The BBC has finally appointed a new digital media director to run BBC Online, BBC iPlayer, BBC Mobile and BBC Red Button – seven months afte… Read more »
Video: UK Radio Player Preview
Here is the web-wide radio console being built by the BBC together with commercial radio stations, due for a December launch… Read more »
@ AOP: BBCWW Starts Thinking About YouView VOD
Once upon a time, one might have imagined a Kangaroo on a Canvas. But the former, a commercial VOD JV involving BBC Worldwide, was prohibite… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 10.11.10
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» Two weeks after New York magazine called him the “Demon Blogger of Fleet Street,” Nick Denton gets another profile that emphasi… Read more »
YouView Will Mean Cheaper VOD And More, Not Less, VC Money
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Local TV Groups Looking YouView’s Gift Horse In The Mouth
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Some people don’t know an opportunity when it’s staring them in the face.
A group of 14 local-town TV and news operators has written a lett… Read more »
BBCWW Hires BBC.com Commercial Director From British Airways
BBC Worldwide’s BBC.com EVP and MD Luke Bradley-Jones is making his latest senior online commercial hire – British Airways digital marketing… Read more »
Indie Online Producers Press For More BBC Commissions
Independent multimedia producers want the BBC Trust to force BBC executives to commission more content from outside the corporation.
Earlie… Read more »
Interview: YouView Has No Web Browser, No Payment Gateway, New CEO Says
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The BBC-led Canvas connected-TV JV, now confirmed as named “YouView”, will prefer TV-specific apps to the open web and will leave paid conte… Read more »
Canvas UK IPTV JV Confirmed ‘YouView’; Halton Is CEO
The brand name for the UK’s public-service connected-TV joint venture, codenamed Project Canvas, has been confirmed as “YouView” (after all,… Read more »
BBCWW Hiring A Global iPlayer Launch Director
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BBC Worldwide is plucking an iPlayer exec from the BBC itself to drive through its stuttering plan to launch an overseas version of the VOD… Read more »
Canvas Specs: Audience Measurement, Web Apps, Linux On-Board
Project Canvas connected-TV boxes and televisions will report viewers’ consumption of linear broadcasts, on-demand shows and apps to their p… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 09.09.10
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» The New York Times Co. (NYSE: NYT) saw its shares rise as high as 8 percent upon speculation that Mexican billionaire Carlos Sl… Read more »
Jeremy Hunt: Project Canvas Is ‘Incredibly Exciting’
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The UK’s connected-TV joint venture of ISPs and public broadcasters has ministerial seal of approval.
“I’m basically very positive about Ca… Read more »
Sarnoff Leaves Dow Jones To Join BBC Worldwide America As COO
Herb Scannell continues to pull former Viacom (NYSE: VIA) colleagues into BBC Worldwide America. The latest is Ann Sarnoff, who left Dow Jon… Read more »
BBC Hires New iPlayer Manager From Microsoft
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The BBC is hiring Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) digital media executive Daniel Danker to its new position of general manager for programmes and on-… Read more »
BBC Gets iPlayer Bundled On More TVs, Laptops
At the IFA home electronics event in Berlin, the BBC is announcing that it’s signed deals to widen platform carriage for its iPlayer VOD cat… Read more »
BBC Sharing News Videos With Russia’s GZT.ru
The BBC has signed a deal to syndicate news video to the website of Moscow newspaper Gazeta.
The arrangement will mean videos from BBCRussi… Read more »
TV Producers Will Oppose BBC iPlayer For UK Travelers
Independent television producers have vowed to block making BBC iPlayer accessible to UK license payers whilst abroad, just hours after BBC… Read more »
BBC iPlayer Should Work For Brits Abroad, Global Version ‘Within A Year’
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BBC director-general Mark Thompson has committed the corporation to making its iPlayer VOD service available to UK license payers whilst tra… Read more »
Prototype: BBC TV Made Richer By Hypertext
What if your TV automatically showed you links to related material?
That’s the question this BBC R&D prototype sets out to answer… Read more »
Channel 5 Rejoining Project Canvas JV
As expected, the newly renamed Channel 5 is rejoining Project Canvas as a stakeholder.
Five had pulled out earlier this summer as owner RTL… Read more »
New Complaint May Prolong Ofcom’s Canvas Decision
IP Vision had always been opposed to the proposed UK connected-TV JV Project Canvas…
But, after Virgin Media (NSDQ: VMED) decided to form… Read more »
Google Hires BBC News Exec To Woo Publishers
Google (NSDQ: GOOG) is hiring BBC News’ head of development and rights, Madhav Chinnappa, to its partnerships team for Europe, the Middle Ea… Read more »
BBC: HTML5 Is Not Ready For Video And Sailing Off-Course
Steve Jobs may be betting the upcoming fifth revision to the web’s HTML language will fill iOS’ Flash gap, but the BBC doesn’t think that pr… Read more »
BBC Web Reorg: Little Detail Yet On Jobs Impact
So how exactly will the BBC’s online strategy review trickle down to the coalface? Future media and technology boss Erik Huggers spends 2,00… Read more »
Canvas Beckons Device Makers To Jump Through Its Hoops
The Project Canvas connected-TV consortium is asking consumer electronics manufacturers that want to make compatible gadgets to submit expre… Read more »
Lonely Planet Tries Augmented Reality In Search For ‘Relevant Ubiquity’
Travel publisher Lonely Planet will on Wednesday embed augmented reality features in to new, Android versions of its mobile city guide apps,… Read more »
Hunt: BBC Website ‘Needs Clearer Red Lines’ To Let Competitors Survive
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By Nicholas Watt: The BBC needs “clearer red lines” around its website to allow competitors that depend on private revenue to survive, the g… Read more »
BBC Allowed To Release Mobile Apps In UK
The BBC has been freed to launch smartphone apps by the BBC Trust, which has ruled that the idea does not need to be subjected to a Public V… Read more »
Confirmed: Kip Meek Will Chair Canvas
The Meek shall inherit Project Canvas. Kip Meek, that is. The Broadband Stakeholder Group chairman has been named as chairman by the partner… Read more »
Industry Moves Round-Up: Chris Wade, BBC Mobile, Apprupt, Johnston
– Chris Wade: The former ShoZu CEO has been named executive chairman of videoconferencing service VC-Net. Mobile content sharer ShozU sold… Read more »
@ paidContent Mobile: American BBC Subscribers Devouring Radio 4
Remember BBC Listener, the $12.99-a-quarter iPhone app BBC Worldwide launched in to the U.S. in May?
We don’t know how popular it’s been ye… Read more »
@ paidContent Mobile: Live NBA Games Coming To iPad This Fall
“We anticipate we’ll have our live streaming games available on iPad in the fall,” NBA Digital SVP and GM Bryan Perez told our paidContent M… Read more »
paidContent Mobile: BBC.com’s Miranda Cresswell On Profiting From Auntie
The BBC has clocked a million global downloads for its ad-funded iPad news app – even though it’s currently forbidden from releasing it in i… Read more »
BBC Seeks Ad Dollars With Website Aimed At U.S. Readers
The BBC is continuing its efforts to find overseas advertising money by targeting its main homepage at U.S. audiences for the first time.
T… Read more »
World Cup Stats: Records For BBC, New Territory For ITV
– The BBC World Cup site got an average 5.9 million unique UK users per week during the tournament, peaking at 9 million in week two (sourc… Read more »
Why Five’s Exit Won’t Hurt Project Canvas Or The BBC
Five’s decision to no longer be an equity partner in the Canvas joint venture will save the broadcaster £16.5 million – and will mean very… Read more »
