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Channel 4 aslo guilty
Talkback I notice Channel 4's offering 4OD is also a Windows only affiar.
[July 24, 2007, 11:29]
Re: Channel 4 also guilty
Talkback Channel 4 are not funded by a mandatory license and do not have all sorts of fair play and public service mandates. Ch4 are funded by advertising. I pay them nothing. I pay the BBC the licenses fee. I object to paying for a service that requires me...
[July 24, 2007, 15:08]
Channel 4 cuts Big Brother Web feed
News Craig, who has been nominated for eviction this Friday, "cottoned on to the fact that Nicholas has been rigging the voting" according to a source at Channel 4's television production team. Channel 4 had not responded to calls at press time.
[August 17, 2000, 11:07]
Culture secretary unveils 'Channel 4 of the Net'
News Culture secretary Smith described the site as being akin to "the Channel 4 of the Internet", according to reports. It could be for the new century what Open University was to the sixties and Channel 4 was to the eighties.
[September 28, 2000, 16:12]
Project Kangaroo axed by regulators
News Project Kangaroo, a proposed single platform for viewing BBC, ITV and Channel 4 programmes on a computer, has been blocked by the Competition Commission. Commission chairman Peter Freeman said in a statement that the cross-channel, video-on-demand...
[February 4, 2009, 13:33]
Who wants to be an e-millionaire?
News gets a new spin Monday as Channel 4 launches a search for an Internet entrepreneur to follow (hopefully more successfully) in the footsteps of Boo.com. Channel 4 is not known for its gameshows -- Countdown and Fifteen to One being the notable...
[July 11, 2000, 8:40]
BBC/ITV/C4 Kangaroo scheme 'anti-competitive'
Blog The multi-channel video-on-demand scheme that is currently known as Project Kangaroo - think an iPlayer that includes not only the BBC but also ITV and Channel 4 - has a problem. However, we are concerned that a loss of rivalry between [BBC...
[December 3, 2008, 7:15]
Pranksters hit Big Brother nomination lines
News Telephone pranksters are targeting the Big Brother eviction lines according to Channel 4's enquiry line Thursday. Although Channel 4 does not reveal how many dud calls have been made, it is thought to be hundreds.
[August 24, 2000, 16:06]
TV pulls rank over Big Brother's Web operation
News As Channel 4 executives congratulate themselves Friday on another huge viewing coup courtesy of 'Nasty Nick', questions are being asked about the company's decision to pull the plug on the site's Webcams early Thursday morning -- just when the...
[August 18, 2000, 12:53]
Big Brother Files: Thursday
News The UK's biggest bookie Ladbrokes confirms that since Channel 4's Big Brother news flash Wednesday, the smart money is on Mel, but her odds have still slipped to 4 to 1 (that's down from 6 to 1). The nation's hopes of a sexual encounter on the...
[July 20, 2000, 17:07]
C4 cottons onto net neutrality debate
Blog A Channel 4 News report tonight will have the British Chambers of Commerce calling on the government and ISPs to pay up for a broadband infrastructure upgrade, in the face of rising online video usage (YouTube, iPlayer, the usual suspects).
[April 29, 2008, 17:23]
NTL targets broadband blackspot with wireless
Talkback Why have NTL lost channel 4 recently? Other people have lost it too as I rang various realatives and friends (in MK) whenh my channel 4 stopped and they had the same problem. I live in Milton Keynes and have to plug my tv ariel into the NTL socket.
[January 9, 2006, 16:03]
BBC hops over cross-channel iPlayer antitrust
Blog The BBC, the BBC informs us, is thinking of sharing its iPlayer technology with its soon-to-be-extraterrestrial rivals, ITV and Channel 4. Project Kangaroo was, er, a version of the iPlayer to be shared between the BBC, ITV and Channel 4.
[December 11, 2008, 16:55]
David Bowie predicts Napster rebirth
News Speaking on Channel 4's Big Breakfast show Bowie said he believed the record industry would eventually embrace the technology behind Napster in order to take advantage of the popularity of file-sharing.
[July 28, 2000, 16:29]
Will you tune in to “Broadcast 2.0”..?
Blog Comment What this did was to use some of your computers bandwith to distribute channel 4 shows around the place using your computer as a server. Now channel 4 seem to be letting OD die a slow death and just allowing live streaming like the BBC always did...
[December 15, 2008, 20:46]
Microsoft to launch online TV service in UK
News The ad-supported service, called MSN Video Player, is designed to complement TV channels' existing online video services by offering older programmes no longer available on the BBC's iPlayer or Channel 4's 4oD, Microsoft said on Thursday.
[July 30, 2009, 14:59]
MoD: Tech scheme not 'unmitigated disaster'
News The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has responded to a joint investigation by Channel 4 News and Computer Weekly which claimed the project was massively behind schedule and would cost an extra £1bn. Channel 4 News uncovered several internal emails from...
[November 19, 2007, 10:49]
Jane Wakefield: Big Brother is watching you
News The real reason the plug was pulled on the site, was because Channel 4 values arses higher than it values eyeballs. But while the execs at Channel 4 are happy to play ball with the Internet to promote TV programmes and give them that all-important...
[August 21, 2000, 7:00]
ITN to launch ITV online news service
News The deal also includes the launch of a virtual newsroom on ITN.co.uk, where people will be able to extract text headlines, video and audio content for ITN brands including ITV news, Channel 4 and Channel 5 as stories break.
[October 4, 2001, 12:53]
Oftel boss wins place on Ofcom board
News Edmonds will join Urmila Banerjee -- who plans to give up her current position on the Channel 4 board -- and Sara Nathan. Nathan's current work includes membership of the Radio Authority, and she has previously worked as an editor at Channel 4 News...
[September 25, 2002, 11:13]
