Newsplayer

Newsplayer
Newsplayer
Type Private
Industry Video
Founded October 1999
Headquarters London, England, UK
Key people Niall Donnelly, Brendan Morrissey
Website Newsplayer website

Newsplayer is a streaming video website of historical news footage. The service provides online access to newsreel video clips and television news reports spanning the last 100 years.[1] The online digital archive features over 14,000[2] video clips of licensed material from the libraries of ITN, Reuters, Pathe News and EMI[3]

Contents

Background

Newsplayer allows users to browse and retrieve video clips by keyword, topic or year. The Newsplayer library includes news footage of key moments in history from the 20th Century from 1896 to the present day.[4] Videos are streamed on demand via Adobe Flash progressive download.

Company history

First launched in October 1999.[5] Newsplayer broadcast Paramount News, Pathe News, ITN and Reuters video archive to users on a subscription based model. Original board members of the Newsplayer group included co-founder Paul Duffen[6] (the ex chairman of Hull City association football club) and Steven Smith. Original directors also included Sir David Frost who granted Newsplayer access to his onscreen interview archive spanning four decades[7]

In 2008 Newsplayer was acquired by Niall Donnelly and Brendan Morrissey.

Development

On December 8, 2008, Newsplayer beta was re-launched as a free to view video streaming website. The company announced on their website that a fully featured version of Newsplayer is planned for January 2009. The company is currently expanding its video archive by forming alliances with media and technology partners, alongside its current license with ITN and Reuters which allows Newsplayer ongoing access to new material.

References

External links


Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.

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