18 posts tagged “bbc”

Formula One is back on the BBC !

With no adverts in the middle of races its almost (but not quite) worth paying the £150 UK TV tax for !

According to the Star Trek Fan site memory-alpha the BBC was the first-run broadcaster of Star Trek (12 July 1969-15 December 1971) and TNG (26 September 1990-6 May 1992, up to "The Best of Both Worlds, Part II"). After 1992, the first-run rights of TNG – and later DS9 and Voyager – went to Sky One, with the BBC showing the episodes several months later.

BBC Motion Gallery offers easy access to a wide range of high-quality video clips, including rights managed and production ready royalty-free footage. All available to preview, purchase and download immediately.The video clips have been selected from the archives of some of the world's leading broadcasters - BBC, CBS News, NHK Japan, CCTV China and ABC Australia.

unfortunately it has both Analogue and Digital tuners build in which sets back my plans to throw away my tv by at least five years (since i'm now commited to paying UK TV TAX @ £100/y forever or until i throw it away) !

Still it has helped with the TAYT proof of concept. Here's BBC iPlayer (which is only available from UK IP addresses) running

According to BBC News 24 the BBC have just won the rights to show the 2009 F1 season

I hope everyone watched the fantastic BBC Blakes 7 documentary last Christmas ! I must try and find a link to it !

See also http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/classic/blakes7/

http://www.silicon.com/retailandleisure/0,3800011842,39168394,00.htm?r=1

The response from the Prime Minister's office said: "The BBC Trust made it a condition of approval for the BBC's on-demand services that the iPlayer is available to users of a range of operating systems, and has given a commitment that it will ensure that the BBC meets this demand as soon as possible. They will measure the BBC's progress on this every six months and publish the findings."

http://www.nowpublic.com/bbc-searches-nowpublic-news-ideas
A story first seen on NowPublic appears to have been developed by the BBC into a radio piece for their Today program on the British radio channel Radio 4. It was broadcast on Friday 17th. August 2007 – four days after the NowPublic article was published.

I've heard of the OLPC but what is this ?

http://www.alphasmart.co.uk/crs/
Imagine a classroom where ALL of your pupils are involved in the lesson ... where ALL of them are enthusiastic ... where you can interactively assess how they are doing using tests, audience reaction and formative assessments to help the teaching and learning process.

I think i prefer the BBC voting system where the audience wave light sabres in the air !