article_snippet.sent: BBC programmes are set to move online as part of a new 'internet first' strategy designed to compete with web services such as Netflix and Amazon.
article_snippet.sent: Going digital: Popular TV shows such as Poldark could one day be migrating to the web as part of BBC plans to become an 'internet first' broadcaster .
article_snippet.sent: Matthew Postgate, BBC's chief technology officer, said in an interview that the corporation needs to remain 'relevant' to a new generation of viewers. '
article_snippet.sent: It's my job over the next five years to put in place the production foundations to be internet first,' Matthew Postgate, the BBC's chief technology officer told the Financial Times.
article_snippet.sent: Matthew Postgate, the BBC's chief technology officer added that traditional media groups such as BBC BBC would have to 'learn lessons' if traditional media groups such as the BBC would have want to 'compete with organisations that were born in the digital age', which are not tied to the methods used to produce broadcast TV.
article_snippet.sent: Online services such as Netflix and Amazon have increasingly been producing Online services such as Netflix and Amazon own programmes in a bid to take on major broadcasters, while catch-up services including BBC iPlayer have been growing in popularity.
article_snippet.sent: Strictly Come Dancing is another popular BBC show which could be affected by the 'internet first' plan .
article_snippet.sent: last year it was announced that BBC Three, the youth-oriented digital TV channel, will be taken off the air and become internet-only.
article_snippet.sent: The move could herald a new wave of services moving to the internet - but Matthew Postgate insisted that other channels will remain on broadcast TV for the time being, saying: 'BBC Three was a brand that you could move from one platform to another relatively easily.'
article_snippet.sent: Matthew Postgate also predicted that more and more BBC services will be consumed via mobile phones and tablet computers rather than on traditional channels.
article_snippet.sent: Matthew Postgate wrote in a blog post last night: 'We will increasingly use the internet to deliver programmes and services to you in the future - whether that's to the big screen in the living room or the smartphones and tablets scattered over the house.'
article_snippet.sent: Future: BBC BBC has increasingly been promoting BBC services on digital platforms such as iPlayer .
article_snippet.sent: Mr Postgate said in a statement today: 'I'm not talking about BBC BBC only putting BBC content online.
article_snippet.sent: My role is to make sure that the BBC’s technologies that underpin everything we do - from we newsroom infrastructure and new in-the-field production and editing tools, to how we keep BBC BBC on air and online - are set up in the best possible way, and take advantage of new internet-based technologies.'
highlights_snippet.sent: BBC is aiming to compete with internet services which have captured younger generation of viewers .
  