Mark Thompson announces MyBBCPlayer

In a speech in Edinburgh, BBC Director General Mark Thompson has announced the next stage in the BBC's plans to expand programme delivery online.

In 2006 - of course subject to scrutiny and approval from our Governors and all necessary consents -– we hope to launch a new offering with the working title of MyBBCPlayer, a window through which licence-payers will be able to access a host of BBC content. The last seven days worth of programmes from BBC Television and Radio. A bigger range of international, national and local news content than we could ever get into a single bulletin. And an ever-expanding proportion of the BBC's sound and video archive.