December 19, 2011

Virgin Media signs BBC Olympics deal, BBC TiVo Apps ahoy

From MediaGuardian:
Virgin Media has struck a deal with the BBC to give viewers access to hundreds of hours of extra coverage of major sports events next year, including live video streams from the London 2012 Olympics, through its TiVo service.
The wide-ranging deal will give Virgin Media customers access to "enhanced" BBC TV services – the additional video streams and interactive content accessed via the red button – for a range of the corporation's news and sports coverage next year.
Significantly, Virgin Media customers will now have access to all 24 streams of coverage that the BBC is broadcasting of various Olympic events.
However, the deal also covers the "red button" content of events including Formula One, Wimbledon and Euro 2012.
The additional video streams will only be available to Virgin Media customers who have a TiVo set-top box – a rival to BSkyB's Sky+ service that gives access to on-demand and interactive services.
Virgin Media will build a BBC sport app to go on the TiVo service which will go live in the first quarter of 2012.
The sport app will sit alongside a BBC News app, which is also under development, and the existing iPlayer catch-up TV service.

6 comments:

Anthony said...

I wonder if that means we'll miss out on Sky's portion of the Formula One coverage next season?

The Olympic coverage is great news, hopefully the Apps will push the boundaries of neat lttle boxes!

Martin_e93 said...

Blogger Anthony said...
I wonder if that means we'll miss out on Sky's portion of the Formula One coverage next season?

Why would that mean That. That does not make sense what you have said

Anthony said...

It's a question Martin - with reference to the following from the original post ...

"... the deal also covers the "red button" content of events including Formula One, Wimbledon and Euro 2012.
The additional video streams will only be available to Virgin Media customers who have a TiVo"

I'm wondering if Sky will allow VM users the SkyF1 channel, if we will be getting this 'exclusive' content from BBC ...

Martin_e93 said...

I'm wondering if Sky will allow VM users the SkyF1 channel, if we will be getting this 'exclusive' content from BBC

Virgin Media are in talks with Sky to get Sky Sports F1. Virgin Media are very confident that the HD version will also be on the Virgin Media platform.

Anthony said...

Lets hope so Martin!

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