[SWLUG] BBC's "iPlayer"

[Dave Cridland]

On Thu Jun 28 16:42:01 2007, Richard John wrote:
> Channel 4 is not publicly owned - they receive public funding, but 
> they are
> not publicly owned!
> 
> 
Pretty sure that the Channel Four Television Corporation is 
state-owned, in the same way as the BBC is. It used to be a 
subsiduary of the IBA, when that existed. AFAIK, it's not publically 
funded at all, however - it gets its funds from advertising and other 
ventures, and used to have some kind of weird cross-funding from ITV 
(although I think that's stopped).


> Out of interest, are you a direct relation to James Cridland?
> 
> 
That'd be my brother.

I should probably declare a conflict of interest, of sorts, here - 
James is starting work for the BBC soonish, with some wonderous job 
title such as "Head of Future Music, Audio, and Radio" or something 
vaguely similar. But then again, he's not working there yet, and 
won't, as far as I know, have much to do with the iPlayer stuff, 
which'd be "Future Film, Video, Television" or something equally 
inane. At least, I assume so.

Dave.
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