All Blog Posts Tagged 'channel' (22)

From Edinburgh to the world

Edinburgh-based photography blog Blipfoto.com are like Duran Duran - big in Japan (joke © Graham Maclachlan). Here they are featured in design magazine 'Quotation'. Continue

Added by Nicola More on December 22, 2009 at 10:06am — No Comments

Channel 4 & TalkTalk Join Project Canvas

Channel 4 and TalkTalk have signed up to join Project Canvas - a proposal to deliver television programmes and other online content to the living room over broadband, on-demand and subscription-free. Channel 4 and TalkTalk join the BBC, ITV, Five and BT in committing to a project which… Continue

Added by Ewan McIntosh on December 17, 2009 at 10:04am — 1 Comment

4iP Invests In Slugger O'Toole: Local political news networks

Investing in the stability and growth of the UK’s political blog with arguably the most local reach represents what Channel 4 and 4iP is all about. This week 4iP announced its investment in the Northern Ireland-based political blog Slugg

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Added by Ewan McIntosh on November 26, 2009 at 12:03pm — 2 Comments

Unstaged is Unveiled

A call to arms for budding photographers... Channel 4, Blipfoto and the National Theatre of Scotland have teamed up to launch a global photography event running throughout 2010. The event - Unstaged - takes the form of three photography competitions, starting in Scotland then opening up for entries f… Continue

Added by Nicola More on November 18, 2009 at 12:00pm — No Comments

Have your Embarrassing bits checked out in Glasgow

The Embarrassing Bodies team hit Glasgow tomorrow (Saturday) to help with your aches and pains. For the stars of the digital world, enslaved to binary and widgets, showing your awkward smells, bumps and boils seems a small price to pay for a s… Continue

Added by Ewan McIntosh on November 6, 2009 at 11:57am — No Comments

Make a 3D Film for Channel 4

Channel 4 wants you to get involved with 3D Week an upcoming week of 3D programming. Submit your 10-second 3D videos with the theme, number 4, and your clip is in with a chance of appearing on Channel 4 during the week. It's really easy to make a 3D video. Just follow Ally & Morgan's simple steps in th… Continue

Added by Stuart Cosgrove on October 26, 2009 at 5:30pm — No Comments

Meet Channel 4's Digital Commissioners: The Wrap

For the past month digital commissioners from Channel 4's Education, Cross-Platform and 4iP departments have traveled the country sharing what we are looking for in 2010, how much money we want to be spending and what learnings we've had over the past year's projects. Caroline Beavon, journo student in Birmingham, had the fastest fingers and has banged out… Continue

Added by Ewan McIntosh on October 22, 2009 at 10:12am — No Comments

Channel 4 Meets You Tube

Channel 4 has signed a content deal with YouTube following six months of negotiations, under which it will make its 4oD catch-up service available via the Google-owned site as well as 3,000 hours of archive content. C4 CEO Andy Duncan said: “Making our programmes directly accessible to YouTube's… Continue

Added by Stuart Cosgrove on October 16, 2009 at 9:04am — No Comments

Meet the Commissioners hits Glasgow: Make sure you're on the list

Channel 4's new media Commissioners end a month of UK-wide briefings in Glasgow on Wednesday, October 21. Louise Brown from Cross-Platform, Matt Locke from Education and Tom Loosemore from 4iP will outline their areas of interest for… Continue

Added by Ewan McIntosh on October 5, 2009 at 5:11pm — 1 Comment

Meet the Commissioners hits Belfast: follow online

This week sees Channel 4's new media Commissioners hit the road, starting in Belfast today. Louise Brown from Cross-Platform, Matt Locke from Education and Tom Loosemore from 4iP will outline their areas of interest for 2010 and beyo… Continue

Added by Ewan McIntosh on September 30, 2009 at 8:30am — No Comments

What does Channel 4 want? Take a peep...

What's top of the Channel 4 commissioners' wish list? What makes their blood boil? And where will they spend their money post Big Brother? If you missed this week's Pact briefing but are interested in finding out what the commissioning team are looking for, see the Channel 4 group for all the latest in… Continue

Added by Nicola More on September 23, 2009 at 5:07pm — No Comments

Educational gaming: pushing the right buttons?

When I was a kid, gaming was all about sitting an inch from the telly with my little brother, guiding a pixellated plumber or blue hedgehog through a maze of adventures against a backdrop of repetitive tinny music. Yet primitive as it was by today’s standards, it was an escape from parents, tidying my room and… Continue

Added by Nicola More on September 22, 2009 at 10:00am — 4 Comments

Typeface - Get it Right Or You Die?

People have died for less. Its amazing that when projects get tense, client deadlines approach or edits are running late the one thing that is guaranteed to tip people into frenzy is typefaces. As a Verdana man with Calibri tendencies I'm never amazed by the divisions that the creat… Continue

Added by Stuart Cosgrove on September 16, 2009 at 12:13pm — 8 Comments

Alone in the wild... tweeting

Channel 4 has become one of the first broadcasters to harness the power of Twitter in a unique new TV experiment. 'Alone in the Wild' from Channel 4 and Tigress Productions sees Scottish cameraman and adventurer Ed Wardle going into the wilderness of the Yukon for 12 weeks totally alon… Continue

Added by Nicola More on July 13, 2009 at 3:23pm — No Comments

Telly On Demand

Friday saw the official launch of the revitalised 4oD on Channel4.com. In addition to Catch-Up there are thousands of hours of Archive programmes from Comic Strip Presents to The Mark of Cain. Over the we… Continue

Added by Stuart Cosgrove on July 8, 2009 at 12:58pm — 8 Comments

Digital TV - dynamic driver or dead duck.

One of the curious things about digital media is how polarised opinions can become. New technology platforms bring unique possibilities whether its mobile, web 2.0 or hyper local search capabilities. TV provokes equally passionate reactions - brand power, mass audiences and su… Continue

Added by Stuart Cosgrove on May 14, 2009 at 2:08pm — No Comments

Channel 4, Film and New Talent

Several people have asked me to post detailed information on the various Channel 4 new talent film initiatives: All the relevant information is in the Channel 4 Group discussion, here's the highlights 3 Minute Wonder is… Continue

Added by Stuart Cosgrove on March 31, 2009 at 3:46pm — No Comments

Interactive Fallopian Tubes

For those of you with a passing interest in sexual intimacy, you… Continue

Added by Stuart Cosgrove on March 28, 2009 at 3:00pm — 1 Comment

Google's Street View - Essential Tool or The Triumph of Nosiness?

First up a confession I am an avid user of Google's ground-level imaging system - Street View. Its ideal for research, travel planning, house hunting and meets all my obsessional needs. So for example, if you want to see the house in West Outer Drive, Detro… Continue

Added by Stuart Cosgrove on March 19, 2009 at 4:00pm — 3 Comments

The BBC and the Imbalance of Power

At a speech delivered at the FT, Andy Duncan the CEO of Channel 4 attacked the imbalance of spending power between the licence-funded BBC and the commercially funded public media sector. The… Continue

Added by Stuart Cosgrove on March 9, 2009 at 6:00pm — 3 Comments

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