BBC's Plan To Offer iPlayer To Other Broadcasters Blocked

The UK’s Guardian is reporting that the BBC’s plan to offer Channel 4, ITV and Channel Five the use of its iPlayer online video technology has been blocked by the BBC Trust because it will not deliver value to licence-fee payers (that would be the British public).

Open iPlayer, originally dubbed Project Marquee, was intended to create a “federation of on-demand public service broadcasting services” offering the best of the BBC and commercial PSB programming at the same online destination.

You can read more at http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/oct/20/bbc-iplayer-technology-sharing