Freeview tops 60 million sales

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The painful reality: no one is watching Seven Days -TV Radio, Media - The Independent

It was hyped as the reality show which gives power to the viewers. Seven Days, Channel 4's new docusoap, was supposed to point the way to the interactive television of the future. The idea was simple enough cameras follow the lives of real people living or working around Notting Hill and broadcast the highlights almost in real time. - independent.co.uk

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Rupert Murdoch-owned BSkyB open to abuse of power, says BBC boss | Media | The Guardian

News Corp is bidding to buy the 61 of Sky it does not already own in a move that will cement its status as the dominant player in British media. Thompson stopped just short of calling for the British government to block the bid, but gave the clearest indication yet of the strength of opposition to the deal from the BBC. The business secretary, Vince Cable, has the power to veto the deal on public interest grounds. - guardian.co.uk

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Superfast broadband gets Ofcom competition boost - October - 2010 - Which? News

In its announcement, Ofcom stated that superfast broadband network will 'drive new benefits' for UK consumers and businesses. It went on to outline the decisions it has made to promote competition and investment in the future of UK superfast broadband services over a fibre network. Broadband rivals to access BTfibre network Ofcom has announced two principal interventions to promote competition and investment in superfast broadband. - which.co.uk

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BBC Worldwide earns reprieve from government sale | Media | guardian.co.uk

BBC Worldwide this year reported record profits up more than a third to 145.2m in the year to the end of March. It has also been mooted as an asset that the BBC could use against raising money to help close its pension deficit, which is thought to be between 1.5bn and 2bn, although it remains to be seen what the Pension Ombudsman thinks. To contact the MediaGuardian news desk email editormediaguardian.co.uk or phone 020 3353 3857. - guardian.co.uk

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Channel 4 axes 4iP | Media | guardian.co.uk

The 4iP website the fund was billed as 'the home of new digital talent' Channel 4 is axing 4iP, its 20m digital innovation fund, as part of a restructure that sees its online teams integrated into one department. Education, online products, cross-platform commissioning and remaining 4iP staff move to a single department overseen by Richard Davidson-Houston, who was appointed head of online in August. He will report to Channel 4's incoming chief creative officer, Jay Hunt, when she joins in January. - guardian.co.uk

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Views on YouView from Decipher

The Canvas project, now branded YouView, has come in for a lot of criticism over the last few months some of it deserving and some of it self-serving. As Nigel Walley of informitv partners Decipher writes, few people seem to be looking at YouView from the point of view of the consumer, who is already struggling to make sense of an increasingly confused television market. However, the Canvas project has been tortuously slow and since 2007 the world has changed. - informitv.com

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Blinkbox welcomes YouView despite its critics

There has been a great deal of discussion recently about the merits, or otherwise, of Project Canvas, now known as YouView. YouView promises to create an open, standardised platform where consumers will be able to view programming from a vast number of video providers across a broad range of devices. Viewers will be able to access catch-up television programmes, American television series, blockbuster movies and a host of great programming from the internet on their television sets. - informitv.com

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Viewers tune in to Freeview HD - Telegraph

About 420,000 Freeview HD-enabled devices, including both set-top boxes and television sets with the technology built in, have been sold. According to Freeview, the figures are on a par with those achieved by BSkyB when it launched its HD service in 2006. We didnt know how it would sell, so its exciting that weve reached this number already, said Ilse Howling, Freeviews managing director. - telegraph.co.uk

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Google TV: System Combines Television Shows, Online Video, Websites, Social Media - ABC News

First, Google revolutionized Web searches -- now it's trying to reinvent the way you watch TV. Inside a top-secret lab in Silicon Valley, programmers are putting the finishing touches on a new product called Google TV. The company says this new device will take all the best features of watching television, surfing the Web, playing online games, and connecting with friends on Twitter and Facebook, and combine them into a single experience. - abcnews.go.com

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The First Google TV device, Logitech Revue, gets unveiled, goes up for sale | Tech Gear News - Betanews

As expected, Logitech today officially launched the first piece of Google TV hardware, the Logitech Revue set-top box. Later, it was shown off controlling a DVR and offering Google-powered searches, but still it looked like a device without an absolutely clear identity. Earlier this week, however, Google rolled out the full list of Google TV's capabilities on its new website. - betanews.com

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Viewers told its time to change their tuning - Ross-shire Journal

The page you are looking for might have been removed, had its name changed, or is temporarily unavailable. Please try the following Make sure that the Web site address displayed in the address bar of your browser is spelled and formatted correctly. Click the Back button to try another link. - ross-shirejournal.co.uk

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Rock replaces Smooth in regions

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Stephen Mangan to play Dirk Gently in drama based on Douglas Adams novel

Anti-hero Dirk Gently operates his eponymous detective agency based on the fundamental interconnectedness of all things. Perpetually broke, hopelessly chaotic and utterly infuriating, most people suspect Dirk is nothing more than a cheap conman. When Dirk sets out to solve an apparently simple and harmless disappearance of a cat from an old lady's house, he unwittingly uncovers a double murder which, in turn, leads to a host of even more extraordinary events. - bbc.co.uk

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Channel 5 in commissioning team shakeup | Media | guardian.co.uk

Richard Desmond's takeover of Channel 5 resulted in a mass cull of staff. Keenan and Barnes acted as deputies in their current roles to Jeff Ford, who was promoted to the role of director of programmes following the mass cull of staff following Richard Desmond's takeover. Jessica Symons has been promoted from manager to commissioning editor, childrens, while Greg Barnett has been given the title of commissioning editor for entertainment, soaps and daytime. - guardian.co.uk

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Morrison Mounts Stout Defence of BBC ALBA

The radio stations will also continue to be accessed on Sky TV, cable or through the internet. BBC Alba appeals to a substantial number of viewers despite less than 50 per cent of households currently being able to access the channel. It should be remembered that Freeview is a TV platform and the roll-out of DAB radio services was designed to create a widely available platform for digital radio services. - allmediascotland.com

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Ofcom | Renewal of the Independent National Radio licences - Methodology for review of financial terms

These new statutory provisions represent a second opportunity for the three INR licensees to apply for licence renewal, and thus avoid having to apply for a new licence in an auction. All three licences were previously renewed in 1999/2000 for an eight-year period. 1.2 Licence renewal is a statutory incentive for the holder of an analogue licence to provide a digital service. - stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk

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Time Warner's Bewkes Tells UKs ITV: No Need For Micropayments| paidContent

Dont take the short-term events in advertising and forget the underlying value of your programming or the strength of the model when you put the network or the programming on-demand. If they took the ITV schedule and offered it on demand then their viewership would go up and theyd have more viewership and more advertising. - paidcontent.org

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Toshiba to launch 3D TV without glasses - October - 2010 - Which? News

04 October 2010 Toshiba has announced that it will launch two 3D TVs that don't need glasses, in Japan in time for Christmas. The two TVs are not likely to launch in the UK, but Toshiba claims that this is proof that 'auto-stereoscopic 3D displays are both technologically and commercially feasible'. The company also concedes that 'it will take several years to develop larger 3D TVs without glasses with screen sizes of 40 inches at a reasonable price'. - which.co.uk

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Google TV official site goes live, content partners announced, features shown | Tech Gear News - Betanews

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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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