Livestation’s iPhone App Finally Goes Live - With Only BBC World News
Microsoft-backed desktop TV streamer Livestation first showed off its iPhone demo in December. It didn’t yet have App Store clearance and all had gone quiet since then.
Until now. BBC Worldwide is launching an iPhone app for its BBC World News channel - it’s basically a version of the Livestation app that offers just one channel, rather than its usual 21.
The BBC-badged app offers a stream of the channel plus a link to the news website, works over WiFi and 3G and sells for a hefty €7.99. It’s available only in Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland, but other countries are due.
The app is actually listed as being distributed by Livestation, not BBC. Livestation will offer its app on a white-label basis like this to individual broadcasters. Livestation CEO Mattero Berlucchi told me: “We decided not to launch a multi-channel app under our brand on the iPhone but to create broadcaster-branded apps ‘powered by Livestation’.”
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Jun 4, 2009 4:33 AM ET
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