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Such strictures help Britain's TV networks maintain high standards of impartiality and accuracy in their reporting. But they can also make for dreary viewing. That's why 18 Doughty Street--which is broadcast exclusively over the Internet--is catching on. As many as 25,000 viewers daily are logging onto a website that offers five solid hours of live-streamed punditry and reams of archived footage. By existing online, Doughty Street can avoid the long arm of regulators, which means "we're completely up-front about our views," says Dale, 44, a Conservative blogger. His three co-directors...
...marketing tool, but it's Doughty Street's interactive features that have gained it the most attention. In one, viewers are invited to choose between competing pitches for campaign ads on themes like party funding or hidden taxes. The pitch that attracts the highest vote is then filmed and broadcast...
...Glance at New York, was the first play to feature rowdy working-class characters and street vernacular. It spun off sequels so quickly--several within a year or so, produced all over the country--that it's hard not to see it as a forerunner of the broadcast entertainment series...
...Popwire, which launched the first TV broadcast over a 3G network with Ericsson in 2000, Johansson helped develop an end-to-end media-streaming infrastructure. More recently, he has watched European carriers give up trying to create mobile-TV services in-house and start looking for outside vendors to handle them, which is MobiTV's opportunity. It's a classic make-or-buy situation; Johansson is in the middle of it. Says he: "They are the brand name. We are the one to run this service and develop the technology...
...give shape to that new paradigm is MobiTV's adoption of the WiMAX standard, a.k.a. "wi-fi on crack." It combines unicast (a stream to a single user at a time, like the Internet) and broadcast, increasing capacity to allow higher data rates, two-way communication and so on. "We're just beginning to scratch the surface," he says. Maybe he'll eventually get it to download chocolate bars...