Tag: licence fee

It won’t be long before you’ll need a UK TV licence for your computer

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With Swedish public broadcaster SVT set to open up their streaming service for the iPad, peple relyingon their tablets to watch TV without a TV at home will fall under the remit of the Swedish licence fee. On Tuesday, SVT CEO Eva Hamilton used an opinion article published in the Dagens Nyheter (DN) newspaper to announce the state broadcaster would soon offer its entire broadcast line-up free of charge online. While the change will allow viewers to browse through SVT’s entire repertoire on tablet computers as well as smartphones, it also means that people who exclusively consume programmes and news via

Step 1, tweak BBC Charter… step 3, profit!

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The Big Brother Corporation (that joke tm Spike Milligan) reports that the international version of the site, BBC.com, is reporting a profit two years ahead of schedule . Which is nice, but I’d like to see how much expenditure they have going out for the content and other areas beyond the quoted "…multimillion pound rights payment for us to run the BBC.com business". It’s a good news story, but can we dig a bit deeper? No matter what, I am looking forward to something out of this story, and that’s the arrival of some faux licence fee outrage from the

Move Over Conan O’Brien, Terry Wogan Just Beat You

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Remember all the talk of what would Conan O’Brien do after he left The Tonight Show? And many in Silicon Valley were looking to him to take up the mantle of the one and only true online talk show that matter? Well, Coco, you missed your window. This weekend saw a rather interesting experiment by the BBC. Sure it was all dressed up as a new show, and an exciting format that’s a little bit different, but a new show that embraced multiple online media elements, with enough familiarity to not scare away an existing audience? A host with a