Here comes Google TV - Google TV Blog

One of our goals with Google TV is to finally open up the living room and enable new innovation from content creators, programmers, developers and advertisers. By bringing Google Chrome and access to the entire Internet, you can easily navigate to thousands of websites to watch your favorite web videos, play Flash games, view photos, read movie reviews or chat with friendsall on the big screen. Since our announcement, weve been overwhelmed by interest from partners on how they can use the Google TV platform to personalize, monetize and distribute their content in new ways. - googletv.blogspot.com

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Freesat launch for Men and Movies | News | Broadcast

It takes just 2 minutes and offers full, instant access to the Broadcast website along with a copy of the magazine delivered every week. - broadcastnow.co.uk

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Export of British television shows overseas rises by 9% | Media | The Guardian

Paul Daniels and Ann Widdecombe in this year's Strictly Come Dancing. Overall sales of formats, when a foreign TV company buys rights to a series such as Come Dine With Me and then makes the show itself, rose 25 to 119m. Meanwhile, the trend towards producing UK formats abroad a foreign TV company buys the rights for a show but asks a UK-owned company to make a localised version gathered pace last year with a 124 rise in revenue to 41m. - guardian.co.uk

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Why arent there any openly gay staff at the top of the BBC? | Media | The Guardian

It would be graceless to suggest that Auntie hasn't modernised herself a little in the last couple of years. In September last year, 62-year old Ian Baynham was brutally attacked in the middle of Trafalgar Square in a homophobic attack. The outrage, which caused significant levels of fear among gay people, never made the BBC's national TV news even after Baynham's life support was turned off 18 days later. - guardian.co.uk

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Daybreak still watched by fewer viewers than its predecessor GMTV | Media | The Guardian

Two presenters on multi-million pound salaries, an expensive new set, a host of fresh faces and a ratings slump that shows no sign of ending. Daybreak, ITV's expensive breakfast programme, is not proving a bright new dawn for the broadcaster's new management. An average of 3.2 million viewers watched the show in its third week, a 19.7 audience share. - guardian.co.uk

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Ofcom needs sharper teeth | Media | The Guardian

Many insiders claim it is retreating from its horizon-scanning role, and consumers will inevitably suffer as a result. Ofcom was given a broad set of duties by the 2003 legislation that set it up. In its hyperactive first six years it carried out strategic reviews of every major communications sector, and two multivolume reviews of public service broadcasting. - guardian.co.uk

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Jeremy Hunt: what lies beneath? | Steve Hewlett | Media | The Guardian

Jeremy Hunt, who will be speaking at the Conservative conference. He's friendly, approachable and - on first impressions at least - quite a lot more open than you may expect a cabinet minister to be. He declared himself and his party absolutely opposed to the previous government's policy of using the licence fee for non-BBC purposes any surplus, he said, should be given back to licence fee payers. - guardian.co.uk

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Europe to decide on non-Sky TV satellite football in UK pubs

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Isps admit to taking money for handing over subscribers data - The Inquirer

Sky was the first up to face the media after the personal information about more than 5,000 of its customers was leaked onto the Internet by ACSLaw. Since then, an interesting image has tipped up in our inbox, an image of what appears to be a price list for Sky to look up its subscribers' names and addresses based upon whatever IP addresses might be provided by copyright holders. We have heard on the grapevine that the costs are close to 1 per IP address for the volume of data that Sky was asked to fork over. - theinquirer.net

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Ofcom | Reviews of the financial terms for the Channel 3 and Channel 5 licences

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Sky 3D channel launches - Which? takes a look - October - 2010 - Which? News

Unfortunately for Sky, the event was hampered by poor weather, and play had to be suspended due to waterlogging. The poor weather illustrated two key issues that might have otherwise been missed, however. Firstly, while a rain drop on a regular video camera lens can be irritating, it's worse when on one of the two lenses required for filming 3D, and it causes a smudging effect when watching the 3D channel that is difficult to ignore. - which.co.uk

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Local TV Groups Looking YouView s Gift Horse In The Mouth| paidContent:UK

Ive always thought that local services would benefit most. Your system will understand where it is, will be able to look up where it is by IP. It will make it easier for viewers to discover and interact with localised content and open up the television set to all kinds of new content producers. - paidcontent.co.uk

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Sky Atlantic

Sky Atlantic will provide an exclusive home to some of the most hotly anticipated shows in television to customers throughout the UK and Ireland. The content will also be offered to Sky customers via Sky's on-demand platforms, including the soon-to-launch Sky Anytime service. Mad Men burst onto the scene when it debuted on AMC in July 2007 and quickly became one of the most talked about series on television. - corporate.sky.com

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Is 3D TV more than an expensive leap of faith?

3D films have hit cinema screens and boosted box office takings during the last 12 months. Peter Price looks at the challenges involved in getting content made and delivered, and wonders who will be watching it. - news.bbc.co.uk

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Media Talk: The rise of Red Ed and the return of The Apprentice

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Logitech unveiling Google TV product on Oct. 6 | Crave - CNET

Falcone It looks as if Logitech will beat Sony across the Google TV finish line. In other words, we should finally be getting all of the juicy details on the Logitech Revue--price, release date, specs--which was first unveiled at last May's Google I/O event. Either way, this is certainly shaping up to be the biggest season for Internet TV products to date. - news.cnet.com

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IPTV news - eGov project Looking Local confirms support for YouView

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Ofcom | Letters to the BBC and Arqiva on the joint release of DTT capacity and the broadcast of Sky Sports 1 and Sky Spo

Digital switchover is happening region by region until 2012. In these unique circumstances, pairing the BBC's diminishing spare capacity with Arqiva's growing spare capacity would enable two additional national TV channels to be broadcast in the near term rather than only after the completion of digital switchover. In January 2010, the BBC and Arqiva requested Ofcom's consent to start a joint sales process in respect of the paired capacity. - licensing.ofcom.org.uk

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DMGT chief casts doubt on local TV and online news plans | Media | guardian.co.uk

However, Morgan said that more generally DMGT was extremely positive about the commercial viability of providing content for local markets. The most recent figures on the performance of division, which has seen revenues fall 6 for the 11 months to the end of August, dragged down DMGT's share price earlier this week. To contact the MediaGuardian news desk email editormediaguardian.co.uk or phone 020 3353 3857. - guardian.co.uk

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BSkyB promises separate channel boss for Living | News | Broadcast

It takes just 2 minutes and offers full, instant access to the Broadcast website along with a copy of the magazine delivered every week. - broadcastnow.co.uk

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BBC trumpets 40p value | News | Broadcast

It takes just 2 minutes and offers full, instant access to the Broadcast website along with a copy of the magazine delivered every week. - broadcastnow.co.uk

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Welsh stars defend S4C | Media | guardian.co.uk

Singer Katherine Jenkins was among signatories to a letter stressing how important Welsh language channel S4C was to starting their careers. For all other inquiries please call the main Guardian switchboard on 020 3353 2000. - guardian.co.uk

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New Credit Rating: British Sky Broadcasting

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Ben Bradshaw: Tories worse than I feared on broadcasting -UK Politics, UK - The Independent

They have condemned ITV news in the regions of England and in Wales and Scotland to a slow death. We know to whose tune they are dancing when it comes to media policy. - independent.co.uk

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Deadline set for Lincolns analogue signals

Analogue TV signals will be switched off in Lincoln on August 3 2011, it has been announced on Wednesday, September 29. Five analogue TV channels will be switched off permanently, and the Freeview digital service boosted to reach all households in the region. Boosting of the Freeview signals will also mean that thousands of homes previously in digital blackspots will be able to receive over 50 digital channels. - thelincolnite.co.uk

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BBC - Research and Development: Super Hi Vision (and 3D, and Stereoscopic, and DSLRS) in TC0

CC Ella Chambers Oliver Grau calibrates the perimeter cameras. - bbc.co.uk

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Sky TV falls far short of 340-million-euro capital goal - DW-WORLD.DE

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'Historic' broadcast of super HD from UK to Japan

The standard could be used on giant public viewing screens, some of which may be in place for the 2012 Olympics. NHK hope to broadcast in Super Hi-Vision by 2020, although no television currently exists that can fully show off the 7680-by-4320 pixel signal. A trial run of the technology was shown off at a conference in 2008, beaming a live image from City Hall in London to a conference centre in Amsterdam. - bbc.co.uk

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BT in privacy row after sending customer data to ACS:Law | Technology | guardian.co.uk

The details of more than 500 of BT's customers were sent by email in an unencrypted spreadsheet, following a court order obtained by ACSLaw, which alleged that they had been illictly file-sharing copyrighted information. At a later date, due to a cyber-attack on the systems of the law firm, data that it held was leaked. Plusnet will contact customers directly regarding this over the coming days. - guardian.co.uk

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No, minister - your plan to boost local media is a non-starter | Markets Analysis

Clearly, he has a vision of Britain following the United States and various European countries with local TV stations. He believes that democracy will be enhanced by local political access to the small screen. More pertinently, it is fair to ask what kind of output on local TV is expected in the lengthy periods between elections. - thisislondon.co.uk

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Yorkshire to switch in August 2011

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Town set for big digital TV switch - Business - Scarborough Evening News

THE countdown is under way for Scarboroughs long-awaited switch to digital television. Scarborough viewers will join the digital revolution on August 3 next year, as the country gears up to welcome Freeview programming and bring down the curtain on television screened through analogue transmission. Staff from Scarboroughs Harbour Bar, in Sandside, were on hand to mark the occasion and were joined by mascot Digit Al to give viewers a taste of the forthcoming changes. - scarborougheveningnews.co.uk

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Witney TV making its mark with local scoops -Business News, Business - The Independent

One local news broadcaster that has made a splash just four months after its launch is Witney TV as it beat the national press to an exclusive on The Stig. The launch of the website, which shows a weekly news bulletin on local news, can also be traced back to the Prime Minister. One of the founders, Barry Clack, a freelance stills photographer, was recording the election count in Witney for the local district council. - independent.co.uk

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Mark Thompson: BBC acted promptly on executive pay concerns -TV Radio, Media - The Independent

Director General Mark Thompson has defended the BBC from accusations that it failed to act quickly enough on the issue of executive and talent pay. The corporation has come under fire in recent years for the pay packets of its top stars and executives. - independent.co.uk

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Hunts plan to put the local back into TV -Business Analysis Features, Business - The Independent

The US has six local channels even in small cities, There are 100 such broadcasters in France and 80 in Sweden. He hopes this will create independent broadcasters prepared to focus on local content. Mr Hunt said he plans to redefine public service broadcasting for the digital age, asking Ofcom how to ensure enough emphasis is given to the delivery of local content. - independent.co.uk

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BSkyB to challenge requests for customer information from ACS:Law | Technology | guardian.co.uk

The company appears to compile lists of alleged infringers tracked by IP addresses, then appeals for a court order to the relevant internet service provider to hand over more information about the customer before taking the accused to court. Sky now says it will challenge these court orders until ACSLaw can prove it stores customer informtion in a secure way. This suspension will remain in place until ACSLaw demonstrates adequate measures to protect the security of personal information. - guardian.co.uk

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BSkyB could ride to Beebs rescue at Tory conference | Monkey | Media | guardian.co.uk

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BBC involvement in local TV proposal would be limited, says Mark Thompson | Media | guardian.co.uk

The BBC subsequently offered to enter into resource-sharing partnerships with local newspapers and commercial radio stations. For all other inquiries please call the main Guardian switchboard on 020 3353 2000. - guardian.co.uk

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Fresh ACS:Law file-sharing lists expose thousands more

It comes after a database of more than 5,000 people suspected of downloading adult films emerged on Monday. In addition, they contain details of how much compensation infringers paid ACSLaw, along with internal case notes. The BBC has also seen e-mails which contain credit card details of people who have paid the firm compensation. - bbc.co.uk

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Traditional channels safe from being pushed down EPGs, says Jeremy Hunt | Media | guardian.co.uk

Jeremy Hunt appeared to backtrack on the issue of the traditional broadcasters falling down electronic programme guides. For all other inquiries please call the main Guardian switchboard on 020 3353 2000. - guardian.co.uk

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Jeremy Hunt gets a warning shot over local TV | Media | guardian.co.uk

Jeremy Hunt has apparently modified his stance over local TV provision. Photograph Linda Nylind for the Guardian A government minister in thrall to a big idea is a dangerous beast. That's why investment banker Nick Shott and his team of business worthies deserve congratulations for their interim report on creating a new generation of local TV services. - guardian.co.uk

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Jeremy Hunt: publishing BBC stars pay still on the agenda | Media | guardian.co.uk

Graham Norton one of the BBC's best-paid stars. Hunt and the Conservatives have been pressuring the BBC over financial transparency, particularly talent pay, since last year, when the party was in opposition. The BBC has resisted these calls, insisting that the pay contracts of individual stars are confidential and that publishing them could damage the corporation's ability to attract the best talent. - guardian.co.uk

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Jeremy Hunt to make local content a condition of public service licences | Media | The Guardian

Jeremy Hunt, who will be speaking at the Royal Television Society conference. In a speech to a Royal Television Society conference in London, Hunt will focus on how local content delivery could be guaranteed in the future. However, Hunt is pressing ahead with his local TV plan against a backdrop of industry scepticism about the commercial viability of the proposals. - guardian.co.uk

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iPlayer bandwidth diagnostic information - WhatDoTheyKnow

Specifically we are able to collect information about time spent buffering where the video is frozen while sufficient data is loaded to enable playback to continue stream bit-rate where adaptive bitrate is in use and connection rates where the iPlayer diagnostics have been used www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/diagnostics. This information allows us to see where traffic management technology may be in use by ISPs. I believe that it is now in the public-interest that the BBC should disclose the diagnostic data mentioned above to enable licence-fee payers to better understand the nature of their broadband service. - whatdotheyknow.com

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Adult video-sharing list leaked from law firm

Data breach The documents appeared online after users of the message-board 4chan attacked ACSLaw's site in retaliation for its anti-piracy efforts. The firm has made a business out of sending thousands of letters to alleged net pirates, asking them to pay compensation of about 500 per infringement or face court. Armed with IP internet protocol addresses - which can identify the internet connection used in any copyright infringement - its lawyers can then apply for a court order to get the physical address of the PC from the service provider whose network has allegedly been used for the file-sharing. - bbc.co.uk

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Audit of BBC risks political interference by stealth | Jane Martinson | Media | The Guardian

Doesn't bode well for the BBC, does it There's been little dissent over plans to give the NAO's value-for-money merchants greater power to investigate how the BBC spends licence fee payers' cash. BBC management simply shrugged that they are typically subjected to two significant spending reviews by the NAO a year. - guardian.co.uk

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Sale of BBC magazine titles such as Radio Times poses plenty of questions | Media | The Guardian

On the shelf Radio Times was once Europes top seller. It is also one of the most profitable magazines in the country, with a circulation of nearly 1m. BBC Magazines made pre-tax profits of 18.4m for the 12 months to the end of March 2010, up by 13.6 on the previous year accounting for more than 12 of Worldwide's total profits. - guardian.co.uk

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Why childrens television has to rely on merchandising deals | Media | The Guardian

Once upon a time, 60 years ago, the BBC children's department was born. Today there are 31 digital children's TV channels and related merchandise is a multi-million pound business. With other broadcasters increasingly avoiding the genre for more ad-friendly fare, one of the leading children's programmes, Milkshake, has just been taken over by the same company that makes adult TV shows such as Wobbling Whoppers 2. - guardian.co.uk

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Study Finds That Apple Dominates Tech News - NYTimes.com

A new study confirms what some in the technology industry have long sensed Apple commands an inordinate amount of the medias attention. Mitchell, the deputy director of the Project for Excellence in Journalism, citing the anticipation for new devices and Apples very public way of releasing products. Apple software powers only a tiny slice of the worlds computers, an area dominated by Microsoft. The release of a new version of the iPhone was the No. 2 most-talked-about tech story during that time, representing 6.4 percent of all coverage, and the release of the iPad was No. 4, representing 4.6 percent. - mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com

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