Tag: on demand

  • Sir Alan Sugar heads YouView IPTV service

    Sir Alan Sugar heads YouView IPTV service

    Entrepreneur and telly boss from “The Apprentice” Sir Alan Sugar has joined up YouView, becoming the new head of the Internet Portal Television service. The grim-faced business giant will lead the charge when the BBC-led consortium behind YouView launches the product in 2012. YouView aim at bringing live, on-demand, and recordable high-definition TV to the […]

  • BBC partners with UK Radio Player for comprehensive on-demand radio service

    BBC partners with UK Radio Player for comprehensive on-demand radio service

    The BBC plans to expand its broadcast dominance by partnering with commercial broadcasters, launching an “iPlayer for radio” service, UK Radio Player, in late March. Already having opened the “catch-up” television service iPlayer to external companies, linking programming through the popular online playback service, this new UK Radio Player will do a similar with for […]