Because FLO is aimed at the smartphone market, the broadcasters behind the mobile DTV effort are eager to see their service developed for cellphones, too.
The third wave of success followed broadcasting's early burst of innovation in the 1950s and a second creative high point in the 1980s, with the likes of Hill Street Blues, but he warned that a fear of risk-taking and the "warp speed" of technological change could leave programme makers and broadcasters behind.
He believes that many of those broadcasters fell behind because they failed to embrace the technology.Two companies with a little imagination and a lot of cash snapped up chunks of the spectrum in the newly available S-bandNevertheless, satellite radio cannot depend on the same lures as cable providers, who tempt prospective customers with complimentary receiver boxes and free home set-up.
NBC, the TV broadcaster behind the US version of The Apprentice, in which he starred, has bolted.
The US cable TV broadcaster behind shows including Mad Men, Breaking Bad and The Walking Dead has acquired a 49.9% stake in BBC America for $200m£125m5m).
The Danish broadcaster behind The Killing has snapped up a Welsh-language detective drama after declaring the remote landscape and supressed violence of Aberystwyth to be the "new Noir".
DR, the Danish broadcaster behind the award-winning crime drama The Killing and political series Borgen, is collaborating with Bentley Productions, the company which makes Midsomer Murders, for the special episode, marking the 100th edition of the ITV series.
HBO, the American broadcaster behind Game of Thrones, is considering a remake of All Creatures Great and Small, the BBC drama which began in the 1970s about a vet in the Yorkshire Dales.
This deal, just announced, follows the acquisition of the show by DR Denmark, the Danish broadcaster behind The Killing, and can only mean one thing: Hinterland has the potential to become a global hit.
Under Ross, Film4 has become an altogether different beast: smaller, leaner and more integrated with the broadcaster behind it (Ross doubles up as controller of both film and TV drama).
Hinterland – which, in something of a coup, has already been sold to DR, the Danish broadcaster behind The Killing – was created by Ed Thomas, an award-winning playwright and creative director at Cardiff-based film company Fiction Factory.
