It has been almost a year since the launch of the iPlayer (an online TV-on-demand service run by the publicly funded broadcaster, the BBC).  This has prompted much discussion and debate.  Here's a sample ;

The BBC iPlayer on-demand online TV catch-up service is a year old, but it cannot rest on its laurels...Such has been its impact on the media landscape, it’s hard to believe that it’s been a year since the BBC’s online TV catch-up service, iPlayer, was launched. It has even won over technophobes with its simple premise of “making the unmissable unmissable”

Plus then the BBC talked of offering the technology to its rivals as the BBC director general said "[The BBC should] share the benefits of its scale and security with the rest of the industry". However Channel 4 shot back calling these plans 'inaccurate'.