MySpace has signed a deal, to air it’s shows such as Quarterlife, Roommates and Special Delivery on screens outside the US. The deal covers DVDs and merchandise but MySpace will retain all net rights to its programmes. Despite bad figures for NBC’s broadcast of MySpace’s “Quarterlife” in February, MySpace are clearly having another attempt ... Read more
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Last week’s Media Guardian asked ” is it time to say “you’re fired” to Sir Alan Sugar?” To which Luke Johnson (chairman of Channel 4 and apparently an “unrepentant capitalist”) responded with a resounding “Yes”.
Now I have to sympathise with Luke for “[making the] mistake of doing some business with him almost 25 years ago”. ... Read more
Since last week, Benn has been raving on about the BBC iPlayer on his iPhone, but what is it?…
BBC’s iPlayer is their online on-demand TV service, which allows users to download or stream any BBC content which has been broadcast during the last 7 days, and watch it on their computers – or in Benn’s ... Read more
MySpace and MTV are teaming up to launch a weekly show called “The MySpace Chart” on MTV2. According to The Guardian, the companies are launching a website, which will allow MySpace users to stream a variety of music videos for free. The MySpace Chart show launches on March 16th and will air videos based on ... Read more
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The European Union is spending 14m Euros to create a standard way to send TV via the Internet. Partners including the BBC and the European Broadcasting Union are also contributing a total of £3.7m. The four-year project ‘P2P Next’ aims to create a peer-t0-peer system that can pipe programmes to set-top boxes and home TV ... Read more
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Not quite as slick as the IKEA sequence from the movie Fight Club but it shows we’re getting there. Overlay.tv is a new start-up with a great infomercial viral movie (see below), that enables users to overlay content on top of video. This content can be just for fun and games or it can actually ... Read more