BBC Opens TV Listings For Remix

ntoll writes "In a continuation of their free software friendly activities the BBC has announced that they want to open up their TV listings to creative developers. They explain, 'Developers and designers are being encouraged to come up with innovative ways of using TV and radio schedules by taking part in a BBC competition. The competition, announced at the Open Tech conference in London, has been organised by the BBC's backstage developer network. Backstage lets people remix the BBC's content to make new applications. We want people to innovate and come up with prototypes to demonstrate new ways of exploring the BBC's TV schedule.'"

Comments

Remix

[Tyler Eaves]

Could people PLEASE STOP USING THIS. Seriously, shove it up your blogosphere.

Re:Scam?

[Xarius]

What's so bad about that? I assume anyone who does anything with this is going to know they're not getting paid...

Isn't that what OSS is all about, helping each other for an ego boost^W^W^W the greater good?

Re:Brittania Rules

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To be fair to your country (as I understand it), you don't have a "tax" (the tv license isn't obligatory, just nearly so... and often enforced with just as many goons in suits...) paid television channel, so all the media companies actually have to pay out of their profits for the programs... The BBC afaik doesn't (as long as it doesn't make a loss) - they're a public service, like pavements. About the only British institution that I'm actually still proud of - and the only one I'm getting more proud of as time goes by :D
Hell, I'd probably still pay my TV license even if we didn't have a tv, just for the web content alone - they deserve it.