Main content

Round up: 主播大秀 News app and iPlayer content

Eliza Kessler

Content Producer

Hi, it鈥檚 been a while since our last roundup of news and conversation about 主播大秀 Online and it鈥檚 been a busy few weeks.

主播大秀 News have released a new version of their iPhone and iPad app. discusses聽the new layout and faster loading speeds as well as a bug fix based on a 鈥fairly major reworking of the app's code. The good news is that they are now working from a more stable base which can be built on with new features and functionality.鈥

Significantly the code revision 鈥is something we've already done with our Android app, so we'll now be able to release upgrades simultaneously on both iOS and Android

主播大秀 News on mobile


Microsoft employee has removed his version of the 主播大秀 News app for Windows phones and Windows 8 from the Windows Store.

These have been a labor of love for me since the launch of Windows Phone in 2010 and it is with great sadness today that I removed both applications from the store.鈥

The 主播大秀 stated to :

The 主播大秀 has clear terms of use that are designed to enable further distribution of 主播大秀 content and services in a way that is fair to all parties, and does not imply authorisation or endorsement by the 主播大秀. These are available at www.bbc.co.uk/terms. In this case, the terms of use were unfortunately not met, and we have therefore asked for the app to be removed.鈥

The news of a 主播大秀 One commissioned, Peter Kay penned sitcom to be released first on 主播大秀 iPlayer generated interest. 主播大秀 One controller :

"It is hugely exciting that Peter Kay is coming to 主播大秀 One with his new series - even more so with the innovative plan we have to launch the show online."

This is hot on the heels of news that 主播大秀 Three has commissioned six original short films to be aired first on iPlayer. 主播大秀 head of IPTV and TV online content :

"This ambitious new strand builds on 主播大秀 iPlayer as a creative platform to bring original British drama to audiences online, and explores storytelling outside of a scheduled TV slot or duration [鈥 Audiences will be able to discover, share and enjoy these dramas whenever and wherever they choose."

主播大秀 Class Calculator


The death of Baroness Thatcher dominated many social media platforms this week. tracked the positive, negative and neutral tweets related to the 主播大秀 Question time hashtag #bbcqt, used during an edition focused on the former prime minister.

on how the huge demand for archive footage relating to the 鈥業ron Lady鈥 exposed problems with the 主播大秀s new tapeless news room in New Broadcasting House London:

According to one 主播大秀 insider, after the death of Thatcher on Monday at one point there were four producers in the bulletins area queuing up to use the one tape machine that had been provided and in Newsnight's area "there are tapes all over the place". One 主播大秀 current affairs source said: "We have a multimillion-pound digital archive and we are delivering tapes on the tube"."

While the challenges faced in the Digital world for new 主播大秀 Director General Tony Hall:

While TV and radio will remain central to what the 主播大秀 offers licence payers, and as such both need proper focus and attention to keep them up to the creative mark, Hall sees digital strategy, set free from control by traditional departmental baronies, as key to the 主播大秀's future standing as the national broadcaster.鈥

The widget caused lots of buzz last week attracting six million users by last Friday.聽Audiences created their own versions of the seven class types using some .

A reminder of on the launch of the new :

We should not design and constrain every possible way people could discover our content. That thinking in terms of 鈥榰ser journeys鈥 or linear narratives through our archives would hinder, not help, the discovery. Instead we aimed to make discovery as free-flowing as possible."

While our colleagues at the have had a busy time hosting a :

College of Production live Q&A


The commercial release of Stagebox was also :

Stagebox is a broadcast production device that attaches to the back of a camera, enabling programme makers to link multiple cameras and move HD content over standard Internet Protocol (IP) networks.

The announcement met with positive feedback from :

From a production standpoint this is very exciting because it has the potential to streamline the production workflow immeasurably. [鈥 News broadcasters may now be able to escape the 90鈥檚 and take one giant leap into the 21st century.鈥

That鈥檚 all for the moment folks, have a great weekend.

is content producer on the 主播大秀 Internet blog.

More Posts

Previous

主播大秀 Health website closure