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The website is funded by the Licence fee, but uses GeoIP technology, allowing advertisements to be carried on the site when viewed outside of the UK. [184] The BBC claims the site to be "Europe's most popular content-based site" [185] and states that 13.2 million people in the UK visit the site's more than two million pages each day. [186]
BBC Radio Swindon outputs from the renamed BBC Radio Wiltshire begin. 15 December – BBC Radio 4 Extra is launched as BBC7. 2003. 9 February – BBC Three is launched at 19:00 in a simulcast with BBC Two. It replaces BBC Choice. 8 December – BBC News 24 is relaunched with a new set and titles, as well as a new Breaking News sting. Networked ...
BBC Online, formerly known as BBCi, is the BBC's online service. It is a large network of websites including such high-profile sites as BBC News and Sport, the on-demand video and radio services branded BBC iPlayer and BBC Sounds, the children's sites CBBC and CBeebies, and learning services such as Bitesize and Own It.
Dailymotion, a French video-sharing website, is founded. [19] 2005 April 23 Companies YouTube opens for video uploads, and the first YouTube video uploaded on April 23, 2005, is titled Me at the zoo. [20] Between March and July 2006, YouTube grows from 30 to 100 million views of videos per day. 2006 May 14 Companies
YouTube Movies & TV is a video on demand service that offers movies and television shows for purchase or rental, depending on availability, along with a selection of movies (encompassing between 100 and 500 titles overall) that are free to stream, with interspersed ad breaks. YouTube began offering free-to-view movie titles to its users in ...
In March 2015, YouTube introduced the ability to automatically publish videos at a scheduled time, [170] as well as "info cards" and "end cards", which allow referring to videos and channels through a notification at the top right of the video at any playback time, and thumbnails shown in the last 20 seconds. In contrary to annotations, these ...
31 March – The agreement for joint experimental transmissions by the BBC and John Logie Baird's company comes to an end. [6] 1935. 11 September – Final transmission of John Logie Baird's 30-line television system by the BBC. The BBC begins preparations for a regular high definition broadcasting service from Alexandra Palace. 1936
The user interface of the BBC Integrated Media Player (iMP) in 2006. The original iPlayer service was launched in October 2005, undergoing a five-month trial by five thousand broadband users until 28 February 2006. iPlayer was heavily criticised for the delay in its launch, rebranding and cost to BBC licence-fee payers because no finished product had been released after four years of ...