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. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Recently, Channel 4 commissioned some research from OTX into the relationships that kids aged 12-24 have with technology. The report is called A Beta Life, and I thought I’d share a few of the salient points and how they relate to the future of television on and offline.
Some top-line stats may surprise you about the [...]

When you spend a year re-doing a web site like Channel4.com it is with some trepidation. No matter how much “business modelling” you do, the proof is in the pudding, and the pudding is usage.
All the essential components of the new Channel4.com were in place on April 1st. So we now have a full month’s [...]

Britain’s Forgotten Children

Yesterday afternoon saw the launch of my latest project – Adoption Experience www.channel4.com/adopt – this is the thinking behind it:
“Adoption is an area of childcare and family life shrouded in misconception, myth and confusion. The best way to untangle the realities from the rumours and hearsay is to focus on real people’s [...]

A number of Channel 4 news forum users have expressed disappointment that the forums were closed and have been asking questions about the new news blogs.
As  Forked Tongue remarked in his comment, the old news forums did not appear to have anything to do with the flagship Channel 4 News programme.
The idea behind channelling comments [...]

For many years Channel4 has run forums as an adjunct to the main site. They are perennially popular. The Big Brother forum in particular is huge when the show is on air.
The problems with running forums, from a publisher’s perspective are:
1) They need moderating and moderation is expensive; running into the hundreds of thousands of [...]

Over the past week, we’ve received a few emails and comments from customers of some ISPs explaining that their router  seemed to ‘cut out’ after a certain period of time when playing content on the new 4oD Catch Up service
Our investigation into this suggests that updating to the most current version of the Flash player [...]

Well over a million people have watched 4oD Catch-up in the last few days, so we must be doing something right. However things haven’t been totally smooth for some users. Here is a quick update on what’s been going on behind the scenes in the last week.
Issues and fixes
We know that some of you have [...]