BBC Prepping Internet Radio Player With Commercial Stations

Arianna Huffington is taking a huge gamble by launching the Huffington Post outside North America; although the site will be using the same recipe to replicate its success in the UK and in mainland Europe, things are slightly...

Arqiva has decided to shut down its online TV service SeeSaw after it failed to find a partner or a buyer for the platform.The company, which is a part in the BBC-led YouView project, had hired Ingenious Media to look for a...

The BBC has launched Radioplayer, bringing together more than 200 UK radio stations including Capital, Xfm and Classic FM, in a single online console. The internet radio player, first unveiled at the annual Radio Festival in...

John Cresswell, the former senior manager at ITV, has been named as the new CEO of TV and radio equipment outfit Arqiva. Arqiva, which is also a partner in BBC's YouView IPTV endeavour, said that Cresswell will replace Tom Bennie...

A study has revealed that a proportion of radio listeners are starting to favour podcasts and 'listen again' services over traditional live broadcasts. The latest research, conducted by radio audience evaluator RAJAR, has...

The BBC and commercial radio stations have locked horns over the future of Digital Audio Broadcasting (DAB), after the commercial stations refused to advertise the service. The commercial stations have refused to run...

The UK will soon have a single source for up to 200 radio stations from both the BBC and commercial broadcasters. Radiolayer is a joint venture between the BBC, the Guardian Media Group, Global and RadioCentre and will launch in...

UK Prime Minister David Cameron has hinted that hacker Gary McKinnon could serve a jail sentence in Britain instead of being extradited to the US.McKinnon, who suffers from the Asperger's syndrome, was charged by the US...

The UK Labour government has launched its new 'MyGov' initiative which will allow UK citizens to access a host of government services like tax payment and password application, from a single 'dashboard' or a online service,...

Technology website The Register has reported that the BBC Trust, the governing organisation behind the BBC Corporation, has refused to look into the company’s decision to block open-source plug-ins that allowed users to...

BBC's popular iPlayer platform has managed to smash through the 120 million programme requests milestone in January 2010, its third consecutive highest month. Not surprisingly, the  bad weather and the long winter nights...

The BBC will be launching two applications for the iPhone OS in April to offer a more intuitive and user friendly experiments to the million of iPhone and iPod Touch users who use the platform to get news and sport content. Both...

The UK government is planning to roll out an integrated function in digital radio sets that will allow users to choose radio stations from a single list rather than switching between FM and digital radio stations. The government...

Internet radio has apparently emerged as a saviour for an erstwhile moribund UK radio industry, as a recent research claimed that as much as one-third of the adult population in the country have logged on to the internet to tune...

Spotify's plan to dominate the music industry worldwide appear to be picking up speed with the launch of applications for three different mobile platforms - iPhone, Android and S60 - planned or already executed. Two of the...