Good news for anglophile television watchers: the BBC has announced that it plans to begin the international launch of its lauded iPlayer catch-up service by first rolling out a paid subscription service for iPad users.
For those of you not in the know, iPlayer is a free service offered by the British broadcaster that provides U.K. residents on-demand access to the prior seven days of TV and radio programs.
While iPlayer itself is free, it’s included as part of the annual license fee that U.K. residents pay to support the ad-free, non-profit BBC (the fee currently works out to around $20 per month). Because of that, the service is not currently available to users outside the U.K.
BBC.com’s managing director Luke Bradley-Jones says that iPlayer’s global rollout will only be available via a paid subscription at launch, though the organization is talking with advertisers about supporting free areas of the service, as well as examining additional models such as pay-per-view and download-to-own. Prices for the service have not yet been revealed.
More: http://www.macworld.com/article/156136/
For those of you not in the know, iPlayer is a free service offered by the British broadcaster that provides U.K. residents on-demand access to the prior seven days of TV and radio programs.
While iPlayer itself is free, it’s included as part of the annual license fee that U.K. residents pay to support the ad-free, non-profit BBC (the fee currently works out to around $20 per month). Because of that, the service is not currently available to users outside the U.K.
BBC.com’s managing director Luke Bradley-Jones says that iPlayer’s global rollout will only be available via a paid subscription at launch, though the organization is talking with advertisers about supporting free areas of the service, as well as examining additional models such as pay-per-view and download-to-own. Prices for the service have not yet been revealed.
More: http://www.macworld.com/article/156136/