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Broader context: iView (from the ABC in Australia, a publicly funded broadcaster) was pretty much first to market here for streaming TV, and view on demand. Th
by hiisukun 5y ago
Broader context: iView (from the ABC in Australia, a publicly funded broadcaster) was pretty much first to market here for streaming TV, and view on demand.
The other stations have all since caught up, but ABC have a tremendous amount of quality children's content so it's a very popular service with families.
However, the current government is not a fan of funding the ABC and as such they've been operating with a very tight and reducing budget for most of the last decade. The edges of their products including interactive news pieces and election/pandemic coverage (and some of these API key issues) are a bit rough but the overall achievement is excellent.
- cormacrelf 5y agoGreat summary. One last recent detail relevant to HN is that despite being a public broadcaster, they've recently started forcing everyone to make an account to watch things, in order to track viewers more closely & get better data. The BBC also does this, I think, not sure when they started. It's a good question -- should you have a right to view content from the public broadcaster without making an account?