Archives for the 'Television Licensing' Category

Project Canvas - IPTV in the Living Room

Published on 25 Feb 2009 at 1:51 pm. 1 Comment.
Filed under Misc, Broadcasting, Internet, Television Licensing, IPTV, Project Canvas.

Blog author: Tony Ballard
In an article in the Financial Times in early January this year, Mark Thompson wrote that the debates last year on the future of public service television had missed the most serious challenge - how it could migrate beyond traditional television to digital platforms, and how demand for universal high speed broadband […]

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TV Licence Fee and Online Services

Published on 27 Nov 2008 at 11:58 am. 1 Comment.
Filed under Misc, Internet, Licence Fees, Television Licensing.

Blog Author: Tony Ballard
Debates about the scope of the television licence fee have something of the quality of those ancient debates attributed to St Thomas Aquinas among others about how many angels can stand or dance on the head of a pin.  Of sometimes stunning irrelevance to the practical world, they nevertheless enable those concerned […]

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