BBC Two to simulcast via broadband

BBC Two will be simulcast via broadband from next year, channel controller Roly Keating has confirmed.

Earlier this year the corporation announced that it would be making one of its main stations available over the internet as part of a drive to increase content availability over new media platforms.

"We will start at the website - upgrade that and move it in to broadband," Keating confirmed at Broadcast's commissioning conference in Manchester. "We want to have as full a service as possible."

The BBC is also trialling the BBC iMP, an on-demand service that allows viewers to download recently-aired programmes to their home computers.