Your Web News in One Place

Help Webnuz

Referal links:

Sign up for GreenGeeks web hosting
April 17, 2013 08:03 pm

BBC Worldwide to offer first-run TV to Australia through Foxtel in mid-2014

BBC Worldwide offers firstrun TV to Australia through a premium Foxtel channel

Australians have long had access to the BBC, although a current four-channel lineup on Foxtel won't completely satisfy fans of British TV when it's just a sliver of the content they know. BBC Worldwide should be closing some of that (figurative) distance, though, with plans to offer a premium channel through Foxtel's network. The as-yet-unnamed service will give Aussies a chance at first-run BBC shows about a year before they'd broadcast over the air there. and without ads. (Pretty good for not having a UK TV license.) The BBC content will naturally be available in HD, as well as for mobile streaming through Foxtel Go. About the only drawback to the channel outside of its premium nature is the mid-2014 start date, but that may be a small sacrifice for determined Anglophiles and ex-pats.

[Image credit: Teknorat, Flickr]

Filed under: ,

Comments

Via: The Next Web

Source: BBC Worldwide


Original Link: http://www.engadget.com/2013/04/17/bbc-worldwide-to-offer-first-run-tv-to-australia-through-foxtel/

Share this article:    Share on Facebook
View Full Article

Engadget

Engadget is a web magazine with obsessive daily coverage of everything new in gadgets and consumer electronics. Engadget was launched in March of 2004 in partnership with the Weblogs, Inc. Network (WI

More About this Source Visit Engadget