Thursday 02 July 2020, PM
Bauer turns off AM radio services in the West Midlands – RadioToday
The frequencies were most recently used by Absolute Radio Classic Rock but were once home to local services such as BRMB, Beacon Radio, Wyvern, WABC, Xtra AM, Gold and Free Radio 80s. Bauer declined to comment on the reason for the closures when contacted by RadioToday, but did confirm there are no plans to switch off any further services. BBC Radio Scotland also recently turned off its 585kHz frequency, and BBC local radio stations are currently working through a plan of turning off dozens of frequencies. - radiotoday.co.uk
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BBC Local Radio to cut 139 jobs in England
BBC local radio stations in England will lose 139 jobs as the network keeps the simplified schedules it created in March and adds a new all-England late show. Helen Thomas held an all-staff virtual meeting on Thursday morning to communicate the changes with staff. She said the BBC needed to ‘refresh, reinvent and reinvigorate’ as a result of recent events. - radiotoday.co.ukradiotoday.co.uk
Dotty to leave BBC Radio 1Xtra breakfast show this month – RadioToday
BBC Radio 1Xtra's breakfast presenter Dotty is leaving the show at the end of July after six years at the station. Dotty - real name Ashley Charles and also known as Amplify Dot or A.Dot - joined 1Xtra in 2014 and has hosted weekend shows, weekday afternoons and then the 1Xtra Breakfast show since July 2016. - radiotoday.co.ukradiotoday.co.ukWednesday 01 July 2020, PM
Times Radio launches and Twitch faces reckoning
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Times Radio programme director Tim Levell
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Important channel broadcast changes
From 22 June 2020 changes are being made to the way some channels are currently broadcast. The following channels will be making changes to the way they are broadcast on 22nd June 2020. - www.freeview.co.uk
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500 Mbps broadband at heart of new Virgin packages
Virgin Media has launched a range of new packages for broadband, TV and mobile. Customers who take Virgin Media's top-tier bundle, Ultimate Oomph - which includes two state-of-the-art Virgin TV V6 set-top boxes with 265 TV channels, including Sky Sports HD, Sky Cinema HD and BT Sport Ultimate, plus a SIM with unlimited data and inclusive anytime home phone calls - will also be upgraded from M500 broadband to M600 broadband at no extra cost when the speed tier becomes available. - www.broadbandtvnews.com
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Rupert's radio: can Murdoch's Times Radio compete with the BBC?
On the early evidence, Times Radio most resembled a good-quality karaoke BBC Radio 5 live. Abell's breakfast co-host, Aasmah Mir, has Radio 4 on her BBC CV, but Mir learned her craft at Radio 5 live in her new role, she echoed the youngest BBC speech station's chatty informality. - www.theguardian.com
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26/06/2020 Radio 4 Feedback
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#139 - Daily Mail Outshines The Sun; Journalists And Political Unrest; TV Diversity Boost;
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Premier League matches free on TV: How to watch free-to-air games on Sky and Amazon Prime
Again, not necessarily a fixture that the neutral had circled on their calendar at the start of the season, but there were plenty of viewers tuning in to Sky Sports for that 6pm fixture, ahead of Man City vs Arsenal at 8pm. Will Sky be making games available for free The newest entrant to the Premier League right landscape, Amazon Prime has got four matches and they are going to make all four of them available for free, i.e. you will not need to be a paying member of Amazon Prime. - www.telegraph.co.uk
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Disney+ to become exclusive Disney Channels home in UK as Sky Virgin deal ends – TBI Vision
Streaming service Disney is to become the exclusive home of programming from Disney Channel, Disney XD and Disney Junior in the UK after pay operators Sky and Virgin Media failed to strike a carriage deal for the kids networks. Disney, whose VP of kids programming for the UK, Europe and Africa left earlier this month, will still offer some of its networks via the pay operators, with National Geographic and Fox remaining on Sky and Virgin services. - tbivision.com
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Rethinking advertising
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Dan McQuillin from Broadcast Bionics on radio tech in the pandemic
The radiated a program with broadcast bionics creators of The Bionic studio the smarter way to make radio hello, I'm Stuart Clarkson coming up this week. We'll talk radio tech with demaquillant from broadcast bionics. How has radio adapted and use technology to their advantage during the last few s…Download MP3audioboom.com Read transriptFriday 19 June 2020, PM
Premier League matches free on TV
Sky Sports have confirmed that all 25 of their additional games will be shown live on free-to-air channel Pick TV. Free-to-air Premier League football on BT Sport. For the full breakdown of what games are coming up across all channels, check out our Premier League fixtures on TV guide. - www.radiotimes.comwww.radiotimes.com
19/06/2020 Radio 4 Feedback
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Opinions on opinion
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BBC offers voluntary redundancy to any public service staff – RadioToday
The BBC Director-General Lord Hall has announced plans to allow any member of staff in the public service part of the corporation - including radio - the chance to ask for voluntary redundancy. He said he hoped offering the chance of voluntary redundancy would mean the BBC doesn't have to make compulsory redundancies further down the line. - radiotoday.co.ukradiotoday.co.uk
Commercial radio in a pandemic - Radiocentre's Siobhan Kenny
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#138 - Equality in Audio Pact; Tim Davie named BBC DG; Journos out, AI in at MSN
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#138 - Equality in Audio Pact; Tim Davie named BBC DG; Journos out, AI in at MSN
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Media organizations have evolved their content offer from a limited number of linear radio and TV channels into a rich and differentiated offering available across a range of different distribution platforms. This includes IP-based services with linear as well as nonlinear and catch-up content. Portable and mobile devices such as smartphone and tablets play an increasing role for the consumption of media content and services in the home, as well as on the move.- tech.ebu.ch
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BBC facing $320m shortfall as BBC Studios dividend ‘not going to happen' – TBI Vision
The UK's BBC is looking at a 250m budget black hole after it emerged that the impact of Covid-19 on commercial arm BBC Studios will mean that the latter's annual contribution to its public broadcaster parent is unlikely to be made. The impact of Covid-19 on production and advertising has hit BBCS hard, and Fran Unsworth, the BBC's director of news, yesterday said that the effects of the pandemic would mean that there would be no payment from the broadcaster's commercial arm, which have topped almost 1bn over the past five years. - tbivision.comtbivision.comThursday 11 June 2020, AM
Local broadcasting is dying out with a whimper. We'll miss it when it's gone | Frances Ryan | Opinion | The Guardian
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Who sets the news agenda?
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Audio Content Fund and new BBC DG
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talkRADIO and talkSPORT2 switching to DAB + – RadioToday
Wireless stations talkRADIO and talkSPORT2 are moving from DAB to DAB. Wireless says DAB will allow the stations to use stereo, although the original DAB service is also capable of stereo transmission. - radiotoday.co.ukradiotoday.co.ukMonday 08 June 2020, PM
Decision on further sanction
Ofcom has decided not to impose any further sanction on ESTV Ltd after an interview with David Icke on its local television channelLondonLive included potentially harmful content about the coronavirus pandemic. Ofcom's decision not to impose any further sanction on ESTV was published on 8 June 2020. - www.ofcom.org.uk
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Younger viewers show increased affection for public service broadcasting
The results suggest that lockdown has led to a reappraisal of public service broadcasting from the likes of with young people placing high value on the four public service broadcasters - that is the BBC, ITV, C4 and Channel 5 - for content that informs and entertains. Among younger audiences, almost two-thirds said that they value content from the PSBs more now than before the onset of Covid-19 and three-quarters of 16-34s said that the PSBs played an important role in bringing together the nation in times of crisis. - www.rapidtvnews.comwww.rapidtvnews.comSaturday 06 June 2020, PM
How to watch the Premier League on Pick TV
As part of the push to make the Premier League free-to-air, Sky has chosen the little-known Freeview channel to be the lucky broadcaster of 25 of their Premier League fixtures - and will almost certainly smash the channel's viewing records in the process. What is Pick TV Pick TV may be more familiar to some as Sky Three, the channel's original name when it launched as Sky's first free-to-air channel in 2005. - www.radiotimes.comwww.radiotimes.comFriday 05 June 2020, PM
Tim Davie: BBC executive named director general
Davie has been promoted from chief executive of BBC Studios, the commercial subsidiary that sells BBC and other British programmes abroad. He became acting director general after the resignation of George Entwistle in 2012, and will now replace Tony Hall. Davie returned to BBC Worldwide after Lord Hall's appointment as Entwistle's permanent successor, and Davie oversaw the merger of BBC Worldwide with the BBC's production arm to form BBC Studios in 2018. - www.bbc.co.ukwww.bbc.co.ukFriday 05 June 2020, AM
BBC names BBC Studios' CEO Tim Davie as new chief – TBI Vision
BBC Studios boss Tim Davie has been named director general of the BBC, replacing the outgoing Tony Hall. She is the only woman among the leading four contenders and is responsible for BBC Television's strategy, the ideas that are developed and all programmes that are commissioned for transmission on BBC One, BBC Two, BBC Four and on BBC iPlayer. - tbivision.comtbivision.comWednesday 03 June 2020, PM
Making news free to the world
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BBC launches beta testing for ‘Beeb' voice assistant – TBI Vision
UK pubcaster the BBC has revealed more details of its 'Beeb' voice assistant, including a public trial. Beeb also promises to have more of a personality than competitors like Amazon's Alexa and Google Home, with material written for it by BBC comedy writers and QI facts narrated by the show's presenter Sandi Toksvig. - tbivision.comtbivision.comWednesday 03 June 2020, AM
RadioToday Roundtable June 2020
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#137 - Spotify Podcasts; Freelancer Support; Bauer Radio Rebrands; Twitter Fact Checking
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Virgin Media to disappear from UK high street
Virgin Media is to disappear from the high street after deciding its network of more than 50 retail stores will stay shut once the coronavirus pandemic lockdown ends. In recent years, its rival Sky has also moved to dramatically reduce the number of physical stores it has across the UK. In March, Virgin Media moved to employ 500 new call centre staff in the UK over concerns that the outsourcing of customer calls to offshore workers in countries including India and the Philippines could be interrupted by the spread of the virus. - www.theguardian.comwww.theguardian.com
How to stream HBO Max
What's the difference between HBO Max and HBO / Go / Now WarnerMedia's streaming options have grown complicated, to say the least, with the addition of HBO Max. For existing HBO Now customers If you pay for HBO Now through HBO Now directly or through Apple, Google Play, Samsung, Optimum, Verizon Fios, Consolidated Communications, or Liberty Cablevision of Puerto Rico, then your account will be converted to an HBO Max account. - www.theverge.comwww.theverge.comThursday 28 May 2020, AM
Dozens of local radio stations to vanish across England
Dozens of towns and cities across England will lose their own distinctive local radio stations later this year, after the commercial group Bauer announced plans to fold almost 50 regional outlets into a national radio network. BBC local radio stations are seizing on this consolidation in the commercial radio market to reposition themselves around personality-led local programmes, with the corporation's 40 local outlets across England increasingly presenters from former commercial rivals. - www.theguardian.comwww.theguardian.comWednesday 27 May 2020, PM
Christiane Amanpour and a brief history of CNN
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Bauer’s plans for former Wireless, UKRD, Celador and Lincs stations
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The drama of TV production
BBC sounds music Radio podcasts hello, I'm Andrea catherwood, and this is the media show from BBC Radio 4 from game shows to drama the documentaries British TV companies produce some of the most popular programs in the world, but the doctor has put a halt to it all for now so today on the media. Sh…Download MP3www.bbc.co.uk Read transriptFrom Fleabag to Monkey Dust: the 20 best BBC Three shows
In a bid to attract the young viewers who have long since deserted it for Netflix, the BBC is toying with the idea of doubling the budget of BBC Three and bringing it back as a regular TV channel. To commemorate what could be one of the greatest comebacks in television history, here's a look at the best ever BBC Three shows. - www.theguardian.comwww.theguardian.com
BBC explores BBC Four int'l roll-out as ‘global subscription service' – TBI Vision
The news follows confirmation that the BBC is also looking at a potential linear return for BBC Three, the youth-skewing channel that moved online in 2016, further underlining the broadcaster's belief in linear channels, something it said are a vital tool to market shows to audiences. None of us have all the answers today but the BBC has demonstrated its unique value to the country, and future change - in whatever form - should always be guided by the values and principles that founded the BBC. Tony Hall, BBC director general. - tbivision.comtbivision.com
#ForgottenFreelancers at the BBC
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BBC eyes linear return for youth-skewing BBC Three, doubles budget to $100m – TBI Vision
It also follows a move last year that saw the BBC create a dedicated slot devoted to the best of BBC Three programming on its flagship BBC One channel, offering comedy drama dating show Eating With My Ex and Stacey Dooley-fronted make-up competition Glow-Up. The decision to move BBC Three online was controversial when it was first mooted in 2015, with UK production companies Avalon and Hat Trick attempting to take over the youth-skewing network. BBC Three's return also comes at a time of increasing uncertainty over the future of arts and culture channel BBC Four, whose editor Cassian Harrison recently took a nine-month attachment at commercial arm BBC Studios. - tbivision.comtbivision.comMonday 18 May 2020, PM
TBI Tech Analysis: Where next for Netflix Disney+? – TBI Vision
Netflix and Disney are among the few services to have seen an upside to lockdown but where next for these two SVOD behemoths Sarah Henschel and Max Signorelli, analysts at TBI sibling Omdia, explore how the two streamers might fare against three different scenarios. Like all others, Disney will face delays in production of content but as a brand new OTT subscription service, original content bolsters Disney's service and could impact growth. - tbivision.comtbivision.compick a page