Posts Tagged ‘bbc’

Twitter users rushed to express their displeasure with the deal by the British Broadcasting Corp. and Sky Sports to air Formula 1 auto races, as only one-half of the events will now be on free TV, according to the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism’s New Media Index for the week of July 25-29.

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The BBC has provided streaming video of their programming for a while now. However, the streamed content has only been available within the UK itself. Those of us int he US will have to keep on waiting. However, people in 11 countries in Western Europe can get the video stream for what many will probably [...]

The New York Times social media editor Liz Heron discussed her newspaper’s social media guidelines, or lack thereof, at the BBC’s Social Media Summit in London.

Media outlets including ABC News, CNN, BBC, ITV, and Sky incorporated Twitter into their coverage of the Royal Wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton last Friday, and Chloe Sladden of Twitter’s media team highlighted some of the ways Twitter and TV worked together in a post on the Twitter Media blog.

BBC News set up a live events page to highlight the political unrest in Egypt.

The page includes a live video stream from Cairo featuring include the BBC’s Lyse Doucet and Jeremy Bowen; live text updates on breaking news; Tweets and emails from viewers and people in Egypt; information on how to contact the BBC; and an interactive map tracking major events.

The British Broadcasting Corp. hopes to whet the appetite of browsers in the Google Chrome Web Store with BBC Good Food, a free app that allows users to download more than 160 healthy recipes.

The app can be used online and offline, and users can search for recipes by choosing Today’s Pics or by categories including Breakfast, Starters, Mains, Less than 200 Calories, and Healthy Classics.

BBC Good Food also contains short video lessons, and its recipe lineup contains international fare including The Ultimate Makeover: Moussaka, Sticky Lemon Chicken, Shrimp Curry in a Hurry, Steak & Kidney Pie, and Mexican Chili Burgers, as well as desserts such as Chocolate Muffins and Apple Pie Samosas.

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The British Broadcasting Corp. announced a massive cutback in its online operations, which will reduce the budget at BBC Online by 25 percent by 2013, and result in the loss of up to 360 jobs.

BBC Online will also double its links to existing Web sites, and it stated that it has no plans to launch a social network, add video-on-demand to its iPlayer offerings, or dive into online-only music offerings.

The complete announcement from the BBC, via paidContent:UK:

The BBC is to reshape BBC Online by 2013 to deliver its public-service mission in the digital age. The reorganization will mean that the service license budget for BBC Online is reduced by one-quarter. It will also require the closure of up to 360 posts.

The new plans, which set a much clearer digital agenda for the BBC, are the first step in the delivery of the BBC’s strategy, “Putting Quality First.” The changes, which have been approved by the BBC Trust, will deliver: a better-quality service based on the BBC’s five editorial priorities; a 25 percent reduction in service license budget and a halving of the number of top-level domains; commitments and clarity on what the BBC will and will not do online; a pledge to engage with the industry twice a year about its plans; and an action to double the number of referrals to external Web sites by 2013-14 to around 22 million each month

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The British Broadcasting Corp. officially released BBC iPlayer for BlackBerry, and the free app works with the Storm 2, Bold 9700, and Torch 9800, but only for users in the United Kingdom.

The iPlayer Web site had been accessible via BlackBerry, but this marks the first actual app, according to Mashable, and it joins apps for Apple’s iPhone and Nokia’s Symbian platform.

The rescue of the formerly trapped miners from the northern Atacama desert in Chile generated strong numbers for CNN.com, msnbc.com, and Univision Interactive Media, as previously reported by WebNewser, although the story finished second to South Korean boy band Super Junior on the Top 10 Most Tweeted Brands list, created by AdAge.com and social-media trend-analytics service What the Trend. Mashable has yet more statistics on online coverage of the Chilean miners’ story:

• Global news traffic hit a two-year high of 4,052,459 page viewers per minute at around 5 p.m. ET Tuesday, Oct. 12, just below the day when Barack Obama was elected president, Nov. 4, 2008, which saw 4,286,021 page views per minute, according to Akamai’s Net Usage News Index.

• Approximately 104,000 Tweets per hour contained one of the six top keywords related to the rescue — Chile, miners, Chilean, rescue, Pinera, and feurzamineros.

• The British Broadcasting Corp. drew a total online audience of roughly 8 million via its live video and blog feed, according to The Guardian.

• On social-media platforms, the word “Chile” was mentioned some 252,000 times last Tuesday and another 412,000 Wednesday, for a total of 667,000, according to social-media-measurement platform Trendrr, which added that there were also related mentions of words such as “miners,” “rescue,” and “men” in hundreds of languages.

• YouTube saw 16,100 new videos tagged “Chile” and “miners” appear by Thursday.

• Google search results for the top six terms mentioned above rose to more than 600 million Friday from some 243 million last Tuesday. Bing saw a similar uptick, delivering 173 million results, up from 60 million.



British Airways digital marketing head Chris Davies confirmed his reservation to become commercial director at BBC.com, where he will be responsible for sites including BBC News, Weather, Business, Technology, Travel, and other factual and lifestyle sections of the media company’s sites, paidContent reported.

The hire was announced by BBC.com executive vice president and managing director Luke Bradley-Jones, with an eye toward expanding localization, particularly when it comes to advertising, according to paidContent.