We just launched the beta of ‘Who knows Who‘, a site that aims to show the connections between politicians, celebrities and business leaders and reveals the surprising stories behind the headlines.
Each one of the 3000 entities (people, companies, organisations) that we’ve got at the moment has a profile page and a interactive [...]
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As of this morning the Channel 4 On Demand service is now available for users in the Republic of Ireland. The 4oD app used to be available but unfortunately we could not make the service on C4.com available immediately, because we were not able to differentiate between content where we had rights for ROI and [...]
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To those of you who have made the effort to let us know your thoughts and suggest new features for 4oD, thank you very much. We hope that today’s release helps to address some of these requests…
Notably there is now a list of all programmes that are available on 4oD. On the 4oD [...]
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If you’re seeing this message, it’s probably because you’ve tried to visit the Football Italia website on Channel 4, and you hadn’t previously seen our announcement that the site has gone to a new home: www.football-italia.net
The Football Italia website was part of Channel4.com for 10 very successful years, starting when we had the rights to [...]
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We’ve followed up the 24th June release with more new functionality on 4oD this morning. Notable highlights are:
Re-sizable pop-out player
Now you can choose between 4 different sizes of player – from mini to full-screen. Select an icon or drag the browser window.
Video Finder on every video brand page
We’ve had some feedback about the demise of [...]
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Update:
This competition is closed. The lucky winners of the commercial spot products were Vivienne White, Marcia Soares, Martin Taylor, Val Hunt and Lorraine Foster.
You may have noticed a new campaign to promote the 4oD service on channel4.com, which now includes every programme from our archive, as well as the 30-day catch up window that was [...]
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Over the past two months, we’ve been busily migrating thousands of hours of TV shows from the 4oD application onto the new channel4.com. It would be impossible to migrate all our archive shows at once so we have chosen a selection of the most requested titles and most popular genres. From today, around 4,000 hours [...]
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As Richard posted we have been gearing up to make 000s of hours of classic programmes from the Channel 4 archive available on the 4oD service on Channel4.com. These are now becoming available at www.channel4.com/programmes/4od and the collection will increase on a daily and weekly basis.
We’ve got some freshly designed pages and new features. [...]
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All being well, the next release of Channel4.com will happen next week.
Here’s what’s new in the release:
First batch of Archive 4oD programmes
Addition of a Pop-Out player
Subtitles (where available)
New 4oD landing-page including predictive-text video finder
Player tweaks for smoother playback
Enhanced PIN / access-control functionality
Channel 4 Blogs hub page
We hope you’re going to enjoy the new content and [...]
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In a few weeks – around 25th June - we’ll begin adding programmes from the Channel 4 archive to the 4oD flash-streaming service on Channel4.com.
As we’ll soon be making ‘000s of hours of content available on a free, streamed basis to Mac and Linux as well as Windows PC users via the web site, we’re [...]
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