Richard Murdoch’s European media TV company Sky has announced that the BBC’s iPlayer help insure is now accessible using the Sky Player on Sky TV’s online television service.
A revamped edition of Sky’s Player has areas devoted to the BBC brand exhibit TV listings and to all the BBC iPlayer content. The Sky Player offers TV audience access to live and TV on demand content from a selection of Sky channels including
Sky MoviesSky SportsSky1National Geographic ChannelThe news report ChannelESPN ClassicBiography ChannelSky NewsSky ArtsSky Real Lives.
And now included on the list is the BBC range of channels. The BBC listings will be shown in the relevant Sky category and once selected the viewer will be sent to the BBC’s iPlayer website for stir up.
Sky’s director of live internet TV Griff Parry explained:- ‘Access to BBC content along with improvements to the user look will promote support the ongoing success of Sky Player. The combining of more choice and easier access means Sky Player users will find it even simpler to enjoy a wide range of online TV content. The addition of links to content from BBC channels further demonstrates Sky’s role as a leading online aggregator with access to one of the broadest selections of online video.
Its seen as good news for Sky who havent enjoyed as big a market share for online viewing as they would like. The BBC iPlayer services has a massive 400 plus hours of new BBC TV content every week and will be available for free to any viewer using the Sky Player service, even non subscribers.
In light of all the doom and gloom concerning public? financial markets, the question has been raised:- ‘Has TV accelerated the financial meltdown?’
Lately investors have been pulling the plug on any financial or banking shares due to instant news coming straight form television and the Internet websites and news channels.
TV coverage of live events is always extreme. It makes bad news seem worse and good news euphoric.
Interestingly during the 1930′s stock market crash events happened very slowly due to news travelling much more slowly. Now we have lightning fast, multi computer programme news hitting us from all sides. Will this make the current crash much more quick and with much more disasterous consequences.