NRK recently took part in a very successful experiment with distributing the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation programme, Nordkalotten 365, via BitTorrent.

A little while afterwards, I was interviewed by the German news web site www.tagesschau.de about the process, and how this could affect distribution of similar programmes in the future.

Although the article is in German, my original conversation with Mr. Wulf Rohwedder is in English. It reveals some of my thoughts about this project so I decided to share it:

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It’s now been confirmed that after poor ratings for the first episode of Quarterlife, screened on NBC last Thursday night, the show has been dumped by the network.

Quarterlife started on MySpace TV and after a swathe of positive reviews, was picked up by NBC to fill the void left by the writers strike. Unfortunately, the hype didn’t translate to ratings.

The show about a bunch of tech savvy twenty-somethings, from creators Ed Zwick and Marshall Herskovitz, will now be heading for cable channel Bravo.

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