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BBC to debut full season of BBC Three show on iPlayer
For the first time, BBC Three is set to make all episodes from new series…
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BBC Trust approves 30-day iPlayer catch-up window
The BBC’s governing body, the BBC Trust, has approved plans by the corporation to extend…
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BBC iPlayer tops 300 million for second month running
BBC iPlayer requests broke the 300 million barrier in February for the second consecutive month,…
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BBC’s Taylor outlines iPlayer plans
The BBC iPlayer catch-up service will be extended from seven days to a 30-day window…
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BBC launches updated iPlayer
The BBC is rolling out an updated version of its iPlayer streaming service in a…
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BBC plan to take BBC3 online-only ‘not off the table’
The BBC has failed to rule out plans to shut down the linear version of…
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BBC’s Hall defends licence fee, calls for extension to iPlayer
BBC director-general Tony Hall has delivered a robust defence of the UK licence fee that…
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BBC passes 300 million iPlayer requests in record month
The BBC’s iPlayer catch-up service celebrated its biggest ever month in January, surpassing 300 million…
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BBC iPlayer requests up by a third, tablet use expands rapidly
Requests on the BBC iPlayer catch-up service grew by a third in 2013, with 2.2…
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CBBC to premiere Henry Winkler series on iPlayer
UK kids channel CBBC will launch its new comedy drama series Hank Zipzer on its online…
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BBC celebrates ‘best ever’ iPlayer performance
New Year’s Day was the best day ever for the iPlayer with 11 million TV…
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BBC launches new The Voice app
The BBC has launched a new app for series three of singing competition show The…
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BBC iPlayer mobile and tablet traffic reaches new high
The BBC said that mobile and tablet traffic accounted for a record high of 37%…
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Playstation 4 on-demand launch partners revealed
The BBC iPlayer, Lovefilm and Netflix areamong the services offered by the Playstation 4 console…
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BBC iPlayer reaches 20 million app downloads
The BBC’s iPlayer app has now been downloaded a total of more than 20 million…
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BBC names first drama to debut on iPlayer
BBC daytime drama Moving On will be the corporation’s first drama series to premiere on…
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BBC signs new production agreement with Pact
The BBC has agreed new terms for commissioning independent productions with UK trade association Pact…
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BBC to appoint iPlayer controller
BBC director of television Danny Cohen is set to hire a controller of iPlayer, in…
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BBC moves to the cloud with new iPlayer processing platform
The BBC has replaced its “aging” iPlayer infrastructure and moved live processing into the cloud…
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BBC to launch 30-day iPlayer, download to own, personalised channels
The BBC is to launch an enhanced iPlayer catch-up service including a 30-day viewing window…
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BBC iPlayer requests up by a fifth in August
Viewers made 234 million programme requests through the BBC’s iPlayer catch-up service in August, up…
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BBC iPlayer now available for download on Android
The BBC has made programmes on its iPlayer catch-up service available for download to Android…
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iPlayer gets live sports boost in July
Programme requests on the BBC’s catch-up service, the iPlayer, were up 38% year-on-year in July…
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BBC Three to launch all comedies on iPlayer
UK channel BBC Three will begin premiering all of its scripted comedies on the on-demand…
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Wimbledon final draws 17 million viewers
The men’s Wimbledon tennis final on Sunday drew the highest UK TV ratings of the…
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BBC developing new iPlayer recommendation engine
The BBC is working to revamp its iPlayer recommendation engine to improve automated VOD programme…
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Catch-up accounts for a fifth of UK TV viewing
Catch-up or on-demand viewing from services like the BBC iPlayer now account for a fifth…
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Thatcher’s funeral second most-watched iPlayer programme
Baroness Thatcher’s funeral was the second ever most-requested live TV broadcast on the BBC’s iPlayer…
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BBC launches iPlayer for Windows Phone 8, but not 7.5
The BBC has launched a version of iPlayer for the Windows Phone 8 platform. The…
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BBC commissions iPlayer comedy pilots
The BBC has commissioned a series of eight new comedy pilots for its video-on-demand service…