November 6, 2009 by Matt Thomas
A limited roll-out of the BBC’s iPlayer service will begin on free satellite TV provider, Freesat at the end of this month, with a full service scheduled to be launched at the start of next year. The new service will allow people to access the full iPlayer site through their TVs rather than their computers.
Freesat users will be able to view the entire iPlayer package, which includes almost a complete selection of the programmes across the BBC’s more than 140 television and radio channels, for a period of seven days after they are first shown on television, just like the online version.
This is just the latest in a long line of deals that has seen BBC negotiate with other platforms about how they can show iPlayer content, in order to provide iPlayer users with more than one way in which to view the content. Existing content partners include Playstation 3, Nintendo Wii and Virgin Media. The latter now accounts for a quarter of all BBC iPlayer views, that’s not bad going for an affiliate.
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