BBC iPad App Popular In U.S., But Brits May Be Denied
The BBC may have postponed its planned mobile phone apps for regulatory scrutiny in its native UK – but, in the U.S., where the BBC operates… Read more »
BBC Online Reorg: Kumar, Newman Out, Huggers’ Memo
BBC Future Media & Technology (FM&T) director Erik Huggers is reorganising his division to deliver the smaller operation promised in the cor… Read more »
BBC’s iPlayer Man Rose Joins Canvas As CTO
The BBC-proposed JV for a UK connected-TV standard may be with the Office of Fair Trading awaiting antitrust scrutiny – but that isn’t stopp… Read more »
A Fifth Of BBC Sites Are Already Dead
photo: AP Images
Nearly half of the websites most likely to be closed as part of its big Strategic Review have already long been shut, some for as much as ei… Read more »
BBC Told To Delay iPhone Apps
By Mark Sweney: The launch of BBC News and BBC Sport smartphone applications is to be delayed, after the BBC Trust heeded industry calls for… Read more »
Project Canvas Sets Sign-Up Deadline
By Mark Sweney: Project Canvas will stop taking on new partners after 23 April, it says, as its critic BSkyB forges ahead with taking its on… Read more »
Industry Moves: PRS Reorg, Babelgum NY, Lonely Planet TV
– PRS For Music: The royalty collector’s broadcast and online MD Andrew Shaw, who renegotiated YouTube’s license, inked Spotify’s deal and… Read more »
Indie Web Producers Try To Overturn BBC’s Online Cull
photo: AP Images
There aren’t many people left calling for BBC Online to remain its current size. So here’s one message from the commercial sector that comes… Read more »
BBC Global News Streamlines Digital Exec Roles
After the BBC’s Global News director Richard Sambrook’s recent exit, the corporation is taking the opportunity to combine about eight execut… Read more »
BBC Multiplatform Head Shepherd Leaving
BBC Vision’s head of multiplatform products Lloyd Shepherd is leaving the corporation after nine months, blogging: “It Read more »
BBC’s Huggers: 400 Domains In Closure, Merger Review
By Mark Sweney: Erik Huggers, the BBC digital chief, has promised its closure of 200 websites is not simply an exercise in cutting dead wood… Read more »
BBC Plugs The Hole On Third-Party iPlayer Apps
photo: Camiloo
The BBC says it has now plugged the loophole in its online services that has seen third parties develop unauthorized apps to stream iPlayer… Read more »
Broadband Content Bits: TalkTalk broadband; BBCWW/2entertain; Scandinavian IPTV
– TalkTalk: The UK ISP has announced it is upgrading its broadband customers to the fastest sync speeds that their lines will support, up t… Read more »
Does The BBC Still Believe In Digital?
Yesterday, the BBC Read more »
Video: BBC’s Thompson Explains Reasons Behind Cutbacks
BBC director general Mark Thompson, speaking Tuesday at the FT’s Digital Media & Broadcasting conference, explains plans to cut a quarter of… Read more »
BBC’s Thompson: Web Cull Is Biggest Part Of Our Cutbacks
photo: AP Images
Closing 6Music and the Asian Network may have grabbed the headlines in the BBC’s plan to reallocate a fifth of its licence fee income – but… Read more »
BBC Downsizing: Websites, Staff Cut By A Quarter, Refocused
photo: AP Images
The leaks were right – the BBC’s website, along with the corporation’s once-grand multiplatform outlook, is about to get a lot smaller, in a… Read more »
BBC Online Cuts Will Be Targeted, Not Total
photo: AP Images
We already knew the BBC will cut back online and other services, when we read the clear tealeaves in the BBC Trust’s announcement of Mark Th… Read more »
Broadband Content Bits: STV Player, Generation Game, Voddler Hacked
– STV mobile: Buoyed by Adobe’s upgrade that makes video more widespread, the Scottish broadcaster is planning an iPhone app for its STVPla… Read more »
BBC iPlayer Traffic Doubled In Last 12 Months
The popularity of Auntie’s online broadcast service shows no signs of plateauing. January UK requests doubled from last year to 120.3 millio… Read more »
Industry Moves: AOP Committee; BBCWW Board; Audience Science Marketing
–AOP: The Association of Online Publishers has appointed James Bromley to its executive committee. He has been MD of Mail Online since Apri… Read more »
UK Newspapers Want BBC Mobile Apps Blocked For ‘Undermining’ Them, BBC Disagrees
I wondered how long it would be before print media pointed at the BBC’s new smartphone apps plan as another example of expansion in to their… Read more »
BBC Slaps Cease-And-Desist On Unofficial App Maker; More To Come?
photo: AP Images
Now that the BBC is finally due to develop more of its own mobile apps, it looks like it’s starting to put its foot down to third-party deve… Read more »
BBC Bringing Three Apps To iPhone Soon With Many More To Come
The BBC unveiled its mobile application strategy today at Mobile World Congress today, saying that it will kick things off with three iPhone… Read more »
BBC: IPhone App Developer Is ‘Not Licensed’
photo: Camiloo
A company that has built — and is already publicizing — a BBC iPlayer app for the iPhone may get stalled at the gates by the BBC, we have… Read more »
TV Makers, Retailers Voice Project Canvas Concerns
By Mark Sweney: The Digital TV Group, which represents more than 100 companies including Samsung, Sony (NYSE: SNE), Pace and Dixons, has exp… Read more »
Industry Moves Round-Up: Bauer Digital Directors, Sion Simon MP, BBC Research
– Bauer Media: Is anyone left running online at the magazine/radio firm? Group digital MD Tony Kypreos left in November, leaving online sta… Read more »
Broadband Content Bits: Dr Who, VMED VOD, ITV PPV, Tory Broadband, Absolute Radio/Kindle
- Dr Who: The BBC is planning to extend the Dr Who franchise into games. This signals the BBC re-entering the gaming industry after shutting… Read more »
Industry Moves: TopGear.com Ed, Red Bee CTO, MySupermarket
– TopGear.com: FHM.com editor-in-chief Chris Mooney is the BBCWW commercial site’s new editor. Top Gear is a key global online property for… Read more »
Industry Moves: Channel 4, Virgin Media, BBC
– Channel 4: David Abraham will replace Andy Duncan as the next CEO of Channel 4. Abraham is currently the CEO of the multichannel digital… Read more »
BBC Promises TV DRM Will Be ‘Light-Touch’, Ofcom Undecided
What’s a little harmless DRM? The BBC claims that plans by Freeview broadcasters to apply digital rights management to high-definition telev… Read more »
Electronic Arts’ Nashak Joins BBCWW To Run Gaming Platforms
BBC Worldwide has tapped Electronic Arts (NSDQ: ERTS) exec Robert Nashak to help build up its gaming offerings as EVP of Digital Entertainme… Read more »
Broadband Content Bits: Ofcom/BSkyB; SweTorrents; RuNet Rises; British Museum/BBC; Novello/Games
– Ofcom/BSkyB: Ofcom says a final decision on forcing Sky to cut wholesale channel prices will come in March. The board is due to meet this… Read more »
Broadband Content Bits: TV Metrics, Slicethepie Band, BT Football
– TV viewing: Look out, BARB – TV overnights are no longer the sole determinant of a show’s popularity. BBC Vision director Jana Bennett wr… Read more »
Video: Lonely Planet CEO Matt Goldberg on Online Revenues, Mobile and Competition
Late last month, I met with Lonely Planet CEO Matt Goldberg, and did a short video interview with him. It has been exactly a year since Gold… Read more »
Broadband Content Bits: Samsung iPlayer, Kirill On Hulu, Chinese Football Game, Pirate Bay Fine
– Samsung iPlayer: So much for that thing about “threat to Canvas”. Not waiting for the broadcaster JV to launch, Samsung’s Internet@TV ser… Read more »
iPlayer ’09: With 729 Million Requests Served, It’s A Monster
The BBC has released a new bundle of iPlayer stats showing just how popular the catch-up service was in 2009…
A record 88.2 million requ… Read more »
