BBC i Player
"BBC iPlayer, commonly shortened to iPlayer, is an internet television and radio service, developed by the BBC to extend its former RealPlayer-based and other streamed video clip content to include whole TV shows. BBC iPlayer left Beta and went live on 25 December 2007. On 25 June 2008, a new-look iPlayer was launched, originally as a beta-test version alongside the earlier version.The site tagline is "Catch up on the last 7 days of BBC TV & Radio", reflecting that programmes are unavailable on iPlayer after this time (with some exceptions). The BBC state on their website this is due to copyright reasons. In May 2010 the site was updated again, to include a recommendations feature and a "social makeover".
Listen to a radio programme from the past seven days or to a current radio broadcast as it is transmitted live the On Now facility. The option of a pop-out player allows you to continue listening while you browse other web pages.
YouTube is a video-sharing website on which users can upload, share, and view videos. Three former PayPal employees created YouTube in February 2005. The name and logo of the company are an allusion to the cathode ray tube, a display device used since the early days of electronic television.The company is based in San Bruno, California, and uses Adobe Flash Video technology to display a wide variety of user-generated video content, including movie clips, tv clips, and music videos, as well as amateur content such as video blogging and short original videos. Most of the content on YouTube has been uploaded by individuals, although media corporations including cbs, bbc, vevo and other organizations offer some of their material via the site, as part of the YouTube partnership program.Unregistered users can watch the videos, while registered users are permitted to upload an unlimited number of videos. Videos that are considered to contain potentially offensive content are available only to registered users 18 and older. Youtube has 4 main catagories: 'Music' 'Film' 'Videos' & 'Shows' which is why the site is so popular with a variety of people as it provides such a wide variety of videos. If you set up your own account you have an 'inbox' where you can keep in contact with other people with an account, there is 'my favourties' which will be videos you have starred as your favourite so you can view these videos quickly, 'My channel' which is your own profile on youtube which you can change your settings for your account and design your own page for when people view your page. There is also the option to 'subscribe' to other peoples pages whose videos you like this work s as shortcut for when they upload a video it will be shown on your home-screen so its easily accessible. The video posted above is an example of entertainment that is provided by youtube.
Other types of entertainment services are 'love film' this service provides very effective movie scheme to allow to order films or other types of entertainment. This website allows users to rent movies, xbox games and computer games or pre owned games. This is usefl for alot of people as its a way in which they can try products out to see if they like it, they can also rent movies that have recently been filmed this is an advantage to many people as they are available to order the films and which at home as some people don't have the time or apathay towards going to cinema. There is a start up trial aswell so that people can see wether they like the service of being able to rent dvds and games this trial last for 14 days. Although you have to pay to rent the games, there is a start up fee of when you pay £3.99 a month you will recieve 2 free movie rentals a month but you can order additional movies at a small fee. Another advantage for this srvice is that you dont get charged extra if the product is returned late, this saves alot of hassle for people as they are giving the chance to spend more time watching the films. Key facts
- LOVEFiLM UK carries over 65,000 unique titles including games
- LOVEFiLM is Europe's leading online DVD rental subscription service with over one million members and operates in the UK, Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Germany
- In just over five years, LOVEFiLM has grown to become the UK’s third largest home entertainment subscription service and was ranked number one Entertainment & Movies Website in the Hitwise 2008 data
- LOVEFiLM UK customers have generated over 72 million film ratings and over 780,000 member reviews
- The LOVEFiLM UK weekly newsletter reaches 850,000 members
- LOVEFiLM UK has won: British Video Association's award for the UK's Best Rental Service in 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008, the fast-growing media company Media Momentum award in 2005, 2007 and 2008, UK technology – Innovation & Growth award for Mediatech Impact of the Year 2008, Home Entertainment Week awards for Rentailer of the Year 2008 and 2007, the 2008 Fast Growth Business Award for Retail/Leisure business of the Year, awarded 2nd place in The Sunday Times Top 100 Fastest Growing Private Tech Companies 2008 – (5th in 2007), The Sunday Times Tech Track 100 2007 – Best Management Team Award and was recently a finalist in the National Customer Service Awards 2008 – Finalist Retail Week awards 2009, awarded 5th place in the Deloitte Fast 50 UK 2009, awarded 22nd place in the Deloitte Fast 500 EMEA fastest growing public and private technology companies and named Company Of The Year at the Growing Business Awards 2009
- The group currently works with major partners in the UK including Tesco, easy Group, CD Wow, Guardian News Media, WHSmith, Odeon and Vue Cinemas, some of whom offer a fully white-labelled service.
Advantages:
- The immediacy of watching the program.
- You are guarantee vast variety of programs/games etc.
- Also with online radio stations you will be able to find a staggering amount, and wont be limited to and geographical area.
- Can watch it on demand.
- Flexible when watching programs as you don't have to watch these programs at set times.
- Can do other things whilst the radio is playing in the background.
Disadvantages:
- Sometimes the picture can be of a poor quality.
- On legal sites you might not be able to watch the film/programme that you wanted.
- Most laptops don't have the same sound system as televisions so wont give off the same effect.
Budget Information
- Up to £250k per hour for shows that play in the heart of the Saturday night schedule
- Up to £175K per hour for Saturday early evening ideas.
- Up to £150k per hour for factual entertainment formats.
Radio
Digital radio services are now being produced using the same form of streaming technology as downloading videos. There is a huge variety of radio stations to choose from such as Heart, Radio one, Radio 1xtra etc. By listening to the radio, you are not limited to any geographic bandwidth, it is possible to listen to a radio station in high quality from a different area around the world.
Heart also known as Heart FM and Heart Radio is a network of independent stations in central & southern England and north Wales. Each station broadcasts local breakfast and drive time shows. By living in Southend, Heart is our main radio station, offering not only music, but also competitions, advertising and a call in option for a conversation with the hosts. This radio station is very friendly with its listeners allowing them to become part of the radio station.
Radio 1
There other radio stations such as radio which is more national rather than county/borough based. It is generally hosted by more well known radio hosts such as Chris Moyles, Reggie Yates and Fearne Cotton. Radio 1 is supported by the BBC so it will involve more formal types of radio shows but still involving different age groups and music styles. Radio 1 also has many sister-stations such as BBC 1xtra, which is based around garage and grime music for more of a specific music audience. This type of music is played at set times with set dj's.
In 2011/12 there are opportunities within the in-house guarantee, the WoCC and the independent quota.http://www.bbc.co.uk/commissioning/tv/network/genres/entertainment_detail.shtml
The number of people illegally downloading copyrighted tracks from the internet has risen after a six-month slump.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/music/3402349.stm
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