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RSS channel 4Channel 4 switches on to SOA
News Channel 4 has opted for a service-orientated architecture (SOA) to power its planned video-on-demand (VoD) services. The Channel 4 VoD services will let viewers download... [11 Dec 2006]
Channel 4 schedules back office integration
News Indian offshore software developer NIIT has won the £3.2m contract to redevelop applications behind Film Four and its newly launched E4 channel. Channel 4 will integrate its airtime... [18 Apr 2001]
Channel 4 CIO set to leave for new business
News Channel 4's tech chief Ian Dobb is set to leave the broadcaster from June this year. I've been at Channel 4 for 10 years. The recession was clearly hitting... [17 Mar 2009]
Channel 4 to quadruple Internet spending
News Channel 4 is to increase its Internet spending fourfold in order to fund six online businesses over the next 12 months. The money will also be used for a complete overhaul of the Channel... [18 Jan 2000]
YouTube presses play on Channel 4 top shows
News Channel 4 has signed a deal with YouTube to bring its flagship shows to the video-sharing site. The agreement will see programming from Channel 4's catch up service 4oD... [16 Oct 2009]
Magic streaming from RealNetworks and Channel 4
News The spectacle of Blaine doing what appears, on the face of it, to be not very much will be available on a live stream 24 hours a day on Channel 4's 4Broadband, which uses streaming technology from... [05 Sep 2003]
Channel 4 switches off broadband delivery
News Channel Four Interactive is kicking broadband content to the kerb and will now focus on interactive TV. However, according to Peter Pedersen, interactive chief technology officer at Channel Four... [13 Jul 2001]
Big Brother: It was IT wot won it
Comment But Channel 4 is expecting to make £3m tonight (Friday). Over 3.5 million votes were received by Channel 4's interactive phone lines. Amid the clouds of doom being... [27 Jul 2001]
Bad boy Eminem raps for free
News Channel 4 has pulled out of charging users for streaming video footage of this year's Reading Festival. Channel 4 Interactive is known to be experimenting with... [20 Nov 2001]
Big Brother 2 prompts pay-per-view
News Channel 4 is to start charging for online content, in a push to make its online activities profitable. Flush with the success of its Big Brother 2 website, Channel 4... [16 Aug 2001]
BBC, ITV and C4 team up for on-demand TV
News BBC Worldwide, ITV and Channel 4 have got together to develop a joint on-demand online media player which will play content from all three. Although the BBC launched its iPlayer service in July and ITV... [28 Nov 2007]
Project Kangaroo shot dead by Competition Commission
News Project Kangaroo, a proposed single platform for viewing BBC, ITV and Channel 4 programmes on a computer, has been blocked by the Competition Commission. Commission chairman Peter Freeman said in a... [04 Feb 2009]
BBC, C4 and ITV's Kangaroo finally finds new home with Arqiva
News The on-demand TV platform developed by BBC Worldwide, Channel 4 and ITV - known as Project Kangaroo - has had its new home confirmed. Project Kangaroo, a collaboration between BBC Worldwide, ITV and... [25 Aug 2009]
Watchdog kills Project Kangaroo's bounce
News The future of Project Kangaroo, the proposed online TV-video joint venture between BBC Worldwide, ITV and Channel 4, is in doubt following comments from the Competition Commission. In a joint statement,... [03 Dec 2008]
Big Brother spoofer is really bringing home the bacon
News A Devon pig farmer is to give Channel 4 TV show Big Brother a run for its money with the launch of a rival reality TV project called Pig Brother. But for now UK viewers are still hooked on the... [27 Jul 2001]
