The greed of the TV companies rears its ugly head yet again, this time a chief executive of a TV production company says iPlayer viewers should have to pay “micro payments” for using the BBC’s catch up television service.
Lorraine Heggessey of Talkback Thames made the startling announcement at a BBC event this week.
Nearly all the [...]

The BBC Trust have released the latest report on the new Internet TV cooperation that is project Canvas.
The initiative led by the BBC and partnering with BT and ITV is an ambitious project aimed at defining a new standard for the delivery of streaming content to broadband fitted set-top boxes.
During the first phase of its [...]

In the continuing internet TV wars raging between Google Youtube and Hulu, it looks like Youtube are looking to take tv streaming international. How you ask? Well, by grabbing the top quality streaming service from the BBC’s iPlayer and rolling it out on the worldwide stage.
CEO of Google, Eric Schmidt is said to be conducting [...]

Sky TV the dominant pay per view satellite TV company are being accused of trying to block free digital TV in the UK.
The company have been told in no uncertain terms by British Telecom (BT) to stop trying to stifle its next gen free didgital TV ‘Project Canvas’.
Project Canvas is the brainchild of the BBC [...]

The stylish iPlayer that launched the BBC TV shows on the net has just got a younger brother. The BBC has launched a new kid friendly version of the iPlayer. Aimed squarely at the 0-6 age group, it will hook them onto online tv at an early age.

This new player follows on from the launch [...]

The highly rated BBC internet catch up TV service ‘iPlayer’ has had a HD makeover. Now arguably the best online TV service is available in stunning high definition format.

Anthony Rose. Controller of media & technology called the HD and other improvments ‘the most significant release since the service went live’. Full list of changes include:-
Improved [...]

If your a UK radio listener as well as a TV watcher then you could soon have instant online access to every radio station in the UK from a BBC online streaming service.

The BBC are planning to launch an online radio player available to every radio broadcaster by the end of the year. Using an [...]

Comscore has released new figures showing the UK internet tv and video watching audience has increased by a 10% margin during the last 12 months to an impressive 29.6 million unique viewers. This is an impressive figure for a country with a population of around 61 million.
The most viewed websites are shown below. The figures [...]