Dynamic Interactive Content from the Radio

I note that Virgin Media customers will be able to get "dynamic interactive content" from BBC Radio services later this month. Basically this gives you lots of "now playing" type information when you're watching a BBC Radio channel.

As the press release explains, this has been available on Freeview for sometime. And the release also coyly mentions that "BBCi now visualises radio listening on most major digital TV platforms."

In other words: you can get it on Freeview, and you can get it on cable. But you can't get it on Sky.

If there's one glaring in hole in Sky's otherwise very good system, it's the lack of flexibility in their radio section, without even basic Now & Next functionality. You can't see anything beyond a description of the current programme on the EPG - certainly not a list of programmes over the coming days. And you can't set your Sky+ to record a radio programme without prior knowledge of programme times, and an understanding of how to manually record things.

Let's hope that releases like this get Sky to pull their finger out and do something. It really can't be that hard!