The wait goes on for a BBC i-player app

Oh Dear.

It appears that the company currently working on the I-player I -phone app is not licensed to be doing so

According to Paid Content,Camiloo based in Manchester

“Camiloo is not a licensed distributor of BBC content online or on mobile. The BBC routinely looks for unauthorised usage of our brand across all platforms and when we encounter it we work to resolve the issue,” a spokesperson told paidContent:UK. She would not comment further on whether this means it would bar the app. Rewat.ch would sell for £1.19 but would otherwise be free to use.

"Broadcasters have never had to manage distribution themselves before"

How profitable will video on demand be for content producers as free internet catch-up services move into the living room?

This morning's FT asks that question as the BBC's project cnavas has now got approval from the BBC Trust to go ahead.

According to Futuresource Consulting

one in five flat-panel TVs shipped in Europe next year will be ready to connect to the internet straight out of the box.

and

With iPlayer already available on several set-top boxes and games consoles, soon millions more households will be watching VoD on the screen for which it was originally intended - but delivered over the internet, not an aerial.

Yet according to Michael Cormish, chief executive of Blinkbox, an independent VoD service.

"Broadcasters have never had to manage distribution [themselves] before," he says. "VoD is an attempt by the broadcasters to selfdistribute and that is the reason why they will find it tough. It is not a skillset they have required . . . Most will end up spending a multiple of their initial budgets to try to compete, or simply exit."

Whether broadcasters will have to start charging for the service will become a moot point but it may be the only way to effectively subsidise the content

The latest I -player stats

Some latest stats on the I-Player were released by the BBC yesterday

* A record 88.2 million requests in November

* Added to the 641 million requests served over January to October, that’s a total 729.2 million

* Most popular show: Top Gear series 13, episode 1 (1.67 million streams)

* Least popular: An October episode of Click, with 35,728

* Computers contribute 86 percent of iPlayer usage, despite being available on some 23 platforms (Project Canvas could change this)

* But usage mimics TV, most coming at 9pm

via Paid Content

The all encompassing I-player for digital radio

Acording to Ian Burrell in the Indy this morning

A single website which offers users the choice of the entire output of the British radio industry with potentially up to 500 different networks could be available to internet users within months.

The prototype will be ready by Christmas having been worked on by both the BBC and commercial organisations.

It is anticipated that a site which will build on the popularity of the BBC's Radio Player service, which offers users the 10 BBC UK-wide networks, plus the World Service and 46 regional stations.

says the paper

A note of warning on the perils of our multi media downloading society

According to the Mail,a women found herself landed with a bill for £4900 after downloading a copy of the Apprentice and two other programmes whilst on holiday.

The incident happened when the women known only as Janet accessed the BBC's I player whilst on a long weekend in the South Of France.

She used her Vodophone connection which abroad charges £4.25 per megabyte.

As they say on the show,You're fired