The BBC has named Kerstin Mogull to the newly created role of COO of its Future Media & Technology arm. Mogull, who will report to Future Media & Technology’s recently appointed director, Erik Huggers (note: Huggers replaced Ashley Highfield, who is now CEO of Kangaroo, the VOD joint venture between the BBC and two other [...]
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Red Bee Media (note: the company was originally a BBC business unit, called BBC Broadcast, that was sold off by the Corporation to Australian venture capital firm, Macquarie, in 2005 for £166 million) has renewed its contract with the BBC’s Future Media & Technology arm to enable the latter’s interactive services. The new contract, which [...]
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–Will Shortly be Available on Nokia N96 Phones
The BBC has enabled “series stacking”–i.e. the ability to catch up with episodes of a show beyond seven days after their transmission–on the BBC iPlayer and on its program sites (note: previously, the iPlayer only allowed viewers to catch up with shows from the past week). As a [...]
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–BBC Begins Simulcasting BBC Four, CBBC, Cbeebies Online
BBC Three–which, under the guidance of controller, Danny Cohen, has launched a range of innovative interactive shows over the past few months ( see [itvt] Issue 7.95 Part 3)–has commissioned Avalon Television to produce a new, multiplatform comedy-drama that is scheduled to launch later this year. According to [...]
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The BBC has launched a new version of its broadband video
player/catch-up service, the BBC iPlayer. Among other things, the new
version integrates TV and radio in a single interface, which the BBC
bills as allowing smoother and easier navigation between TV and radio
programs. In addition, end-users can now choose between listening to
BBC Radio shows from the past [...]
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Fall-out from the UK broadcasting industry’s participation TV scandal continues: Ofcom, has fined the BBC a total of £400,000 for breaches of its Broadcasting Code. In a public statement explaining the fine, the regulatory body stated that it had “found the BBC in breach of Rule 2.11 of the Code (”Competitions should be conducted fairly…”) [...]
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Red Bee Media (note: the company was originally a BBC business unit,
called BBC Broadcast, that was sold off by the corporation) has formed
a new division, called On Demand, which it says will focus on
providing services related to metadata, media management, digital
publishing and emerging platforms, and has been designed to exploit
the “growing market for delivering content [...]
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–Round-Up of Recent BBC Interactive and Broadband TV News
In its latest “Statements of Programme Policy” document, the BBC has
outlined its plans for its BBCi interactive TV service in 2008 and 2009.
Perhaps most notably, those plans include exploring the use of IP to
enhance single-screen interactive TV content. The document lays out
the plans in five key areas: [...]
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–Company is a VOD Joint Venture between the BBC, ITV, Channel 4
Ashley Highfield has quit his post as the BBC’s director of future media and technology to become the CEO of Kangaroo, a VOD service that is a commercial joint venture between the BBC, ITV (i.e. the UK’s largest commercial broadcaster, the Independent Television Network) [...]
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