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LONDON: Internet users will be able to watch live BBC shows from next year as BBC Two plans to get into broadband. BBC Two's controller Roly Keating said some of the shows will be simultaneously telecast so that both internet users as well as TV viewers can see such shows at the same time.
Keating told the Broadcast Commissioning Conference in Manchester early this week that whatever the broadband revolution means for audiences and channels, BBC intends to be there, "in the frontline".
The broadcaster will do a pilot early next year along with a new programme-on-demand initiative through MyBBCPlayer, a service launched in August last that allows licence-fee payers to download TV programmes online. BBC programmes of previous seven days and selected items from archives will be shown.
BBC said it intends to partner with sites like Google and Autonomy in this effort. It is also updating its websites to include more broadband content next year.
It revealed that selected people are testing the download technology as part of the Integrated Media Player trial and BBC Two, will be the first of the five main channels to become digital-only in the weeks immediately before analogue broadcast signals are turned off in regions across the U.K between 2008-2012.
Meanwhile, a spokesperson for BBC Two clarified that any move to broadband would be "subject to the necessary approvals and consents", including approval of BBC governors.
Ricky Gervais' Extras, Newsnight and Top of the Pops will be among the first programmes to be broadcast live on broadband.
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