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The new model for media consumption

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16 Aug 2006

http://theinternetispeople.com/2006/08/16/the-new-model-for-media-consumption/

In the Independent this week, the head of web operations at the BBC discussed how he’d like to put the entire back catalogue online: By putting this content online, he says, the BBC will eventually allow users to edit their own composite TV shows and structure their own schedules so that they can view programmes whenever [...]

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