BBC TO BEGIN STREAMING TO IPHONES

BBC TO BEGIN STREAMING TO IPHONES

Only one day after announcing that it had begun selling copies of several of its most popular TV shows on Apple's online iTunes Store in the U.K., the BBC said that it would begin streaming many of its shows to users of Apple's iPhone and iPod Touch mobile devices "within weeks." Streamed video, except from Google's YouTube site, is currently not available to U.S. users of the devices, and Apple blocks access to the BBC's iTunes programs outside the U.K. On Wednesday the BBC said that over 17 million programs had been streamed or downloaded via its BBC iPlayer in the first seven weeks since it was launched and that already online viewers represent ten percent of the audience for some of its programs.

22/02/2008