Tag: BBC
The BBC social media editor with no Twitter account
He may have great credentials at working in the corporation – he has been Sports News Editor for BBC Sport – but given that his new role is all about managing the User Generated Content hub within BBC Newswire you would have thought that he would have been a hard core blogger or at least have a Twitter account.
Revised BBC iPlayer headed to Wii
Does the new-look Wii iPlayer stand up well against its PS3 and console counterparts?
iPlayer claims Royal Television Society accolade
After launching on Christmas day 2007, iPlayer has become hugely popular, with the player now available on numerous devices.
BBC iPlayer coming to Freesat TVs this month
Freesat customers need never miss Strictly Come Dancing again.
Single website set to host all UK radio stations in 2010?
A single website could be set to host all UK radio stations by early 2010.
BBC Trust blocks plans for iPlayer sharing
According to Paid Content, the BBC Trust is blocking plans for sharing the iPlayer.
In a September 29 proposal that wasn’t made public, BBC executives said it wanted to create a company to license the VOD (Video on Demand) service to public sector companies. But the BBC Trust – the Beeb’s regualator which is supposed to look after the interests of the licence payer – is blocking the proposal.
The report concluded “that the open iPlayer plans in their proposed form, combining both commercial and public service elements, were too complicated. We were not convinced that there was enough potential value to licence fee payers in the public service part of the proposal, and we have therefore rejected the BBC executive’s proposals for an open iPlayer federation.
The BBC first proposed sharing the iPlayer in December 2008. In its wide-ranging Digital Britain consultation submission it proposed UK public sector broadcast partnerships which it claimed could save counterparts £120 million by 2014.
Via Paid Content
Move over Stephen Fry and Wossy. Britain has a new top tweeter
To his credit Bacon was one of the first BBC radio presenters to realise that Tweeting was fantastic way of interacting with an audience. So he will often use his feed to ask his listeners questions, plug the guests on the show and encourage fellow tweeters to express their opinions.
Only 5% of Britons would pay a subscription to read online news sites
Bizarrely younger, poorer and lower class readers are more likely to pay the subs than older, richer and posher ones.
BBC's Tomorrow's World archive now online
rrow’s World online. For anyone born after 1990, or who lives outside the UK, Tomorrow’s World was an early evening show in which the presenters paraded a range of gadgets and innovations that they predicted were going to change the way in which we lived our lives.
Why London is the World's top Twitter city
All of this begs the question why do Brits love Twitter so much? Here's a few of my half-baked theories.
