The Beeb and commerce do not mix well even though the Beeb has a massive
talent pool. The connundrum is about rights to the creative material the
beeb develops and how to keep talent happy. People are always going to share
exciting media content no matter what. The BBC has a massive mindshare
The Beeb and commerce do not mix well even though the Beeb has a massive
talent pool. The connundrum is about rights to the creative material the
beeb develops and how to keep talent happy. People are always going to share
exciting media content no matter what. The BBC has a massive mindshare
inte
> I think iPlayer should open up to an international audience inorder to
maintain the long tail
That'll never happen, BBC Worldwide I imagine makes a pretty penny from
reselling overseas rights. Also, why would Americans watch the profit-making
BBC America if they can just get their stuff from th
I think iPlayer should open up to an international audience inorder to
maintain the long tail.
On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 3:00 PM, Brian Butterworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
> I guess this is why Mr Highfield found he had an urgent job to go to at
> Microsoft.
> On the plus side, if Project Kangaroo
maybe, maybe not- it appears that what is wanted is a wide array of
competing offerings for commercially available content, and that
basically the the PSBs, if they are going to weigh into this, had
better not gang up.
The PSBs do want to sell stuff- they have always made a bit of money
selling on
Good point about the longer tail.
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I guess this is why Mr Highfield found he had an urgent job to go to at
Microsoft.
On the plus side, if Project Kangaroo fails, then there is a better argument
to make the iPlayer have a longer tail.
2008/12/4 Glyn Wintle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> http://www.computing.co.uk/computing/news/2231993/p
http://www.computing.co.uk/computing/news/2231993/project-kangaroo-under-threat
Project Kangaroo, a video-on-demand joint venture by the BBC, ITV and Channel
4, is under threat following a ruling from the UK Competition Commission that
the platform would restrict competition.
The watchdog said th
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