UK free-to-air broadcaster Channel 4 are reportedly close to launching a new channel that would help them to extend the life of some of their shows, as they plan the ‘on-demand’ broadcast channel for a summer release. The new network would be created with the intention of offering viewers a further chance to catch up on the main channel’s most popular series, [...]

While many people will see the United Kingdom as a collection of several smaller countries and territories (including England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland), in the world of TV production the British Isles are a lot more unified, but the range of cultures and interests found in the UK create a vast selection of content [...]

The online TV platform SeeSaw which was perilously close to closing down before finding a new owner, has in a further blow lost their content deal with Channel 4, makers of hit shows that include the Inbetweeners. SeeSaw have been renegotiating content deals since being brought by Criterion Capital Partners. Their strategy of trying to [...]

While Channel 4 were recently expressing their delight at gaining the rights to broadcast the 2011 IAAF World Championships in Athletics live from Daegu (South Korea), they are probably now wishing they hadn’t bothered trying to get into the sports market, as the 2012 Paralympic Games broadcaster hit the headlines for the wrong reasons. Ortis [...]

Channel 4 have announced that their official catch-up TV service, 4oD (4 On-Demand), is to become available as an app on Apple’s iPhone as of next month, during a period of change at the network. After being hosted on the iPad tablet computer since April, the service is moving onto the other iOS systems (iPhone and iPod Touch) in [...]

If you have an iPad and are in the UK, you currently can only access the BBC iPlayer for on-demand content. That is, until now. Channel 4 have added to the TV apps and released their online catchup TV service 4oD for the Apple iPad. The iPad app is available for download free of charge. [...]