He showed a vision of the future of television, in the form of a BBC application running on the forthcoming Windows Vista platform.

“You can partly explain that I guess by the take up of broadband in the UK,” he said, “but there’s something more than that. I think that what we’re seeing is the audience expectations that they’ve got from the music industry of being able to consume the music on their terms,” he said. “They’re now starting to expect that from television. They want television on their terms, they want to watch it whenever, however, wherever. And we as a media company, need to respond to that.”

People want television on their terms, they want to watch it whenever, however, wherever.

“They’re now starting to expect that from television. They want television on their terms, they want to watch it whenever, however, wherever. And we as a media company, need to respond to that.”