The Met Office will this week announce plans to reposition itself as a content provider for mobile phones and other digital media platforms in the hope of "significantly" boosting revenues the state agency earns from broadcasters.

A new production studio in Millbank will give Met Office Media the capacity to produce tailored live and packaged video content for a wider range of television, online and mobile partners. The new studio will allow it to stream video to 3G mobile phones of threedimensional, "fly-through" weather maps akin to those provided for BBC and ITN television bulletins.