US communities pin hopes on 'super wi-fi'

White spaces are unused, unlicensed frequencies that fall between TV channels, freed up as older analogue transmissions are converted into digital signals. Put to use carrying broadband instead of television signals, the frequencies could spell a revolution. It works like this a fibre-optic cable carries a broadband signal to a central location in a city or town. - bbc.co.uk

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Channel 4s push for public funds was a tactical error, says Lord Puttnam | Media | guardian.co.uk

Lord Puttnam also said the BBC's Mark Thompson had 'lost the plot' on the issue of executive pay. Puttnam publicly revealed for the first time his misgivings about the strategy pursued by Channel 4's former chief executive, Andy Duncan, and ex-chairman, Luke Johnson, over several years up until their departure from the broadcaster at end of 2009. Duncan began lobbying for some form of subsidy shortly after his arrival at Channel 4 in late 2004, basing his strategy on an appeal to the government for extra cash to plug a predicted shortfall in programme funding as advertising revenues declined. - guardian.co.uk

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North Norfolk News - Digital TV switchover date set

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U.K. regulators should let Rupert Murdoch buy the rest of satellite broadcaster BSkyB. - By Jack Shafer - Slate Magazine

Rupert Murdoch The U.K. media establishment, which likes nothing better than to gang up on Rupert Murdoch, has ganged up on him again. They oppose his proposed takeover of satellite broadcaster BSkyB, of which he already owns 39.1 percent, and are hectoring regulators to block the transaction. Murdoch's hold on 37 percent of U.K. newspaper circulation comes at a high price. - slate.com

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Will Vince Cable check Rupert Murdochs power? | Media | guardian.co.uk

Vince Cable will decide in the next month or so whether to block Rupert Murdoch's bid to take full control of BSkyB. Was Rupert Murdoch, who has administered the last rites to many of his competitors, listening At some point in the next month or so, Cable will decide whether to block Murdoch's bid to take full control of BSkyB on public interest grounds. - guardian.co.uk

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BBC finances to be scrutinised -TV Radio, Media - The Independent

The BBC is to submit its finances to scrutiny by the public spending watchdog. The National Audit Office NAO will be able to look at executive pay and examine details of financial contracts between the public sector broadcaster and other companies. The move could lead to many stars' pay being exposed, as many of them charge for their services through independent production companies. - independent.co.uk

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Welsh minister queries Jeremy Hunts claim that S4C agreed budget cut | Media | guardian.co.uk

In a letter on 21 May Jones said that on the basis of legal advice S4C could not agree to the 2m cut in its 101m annual grant from the government. However, it is unclear whether this contributed to Jones's abrupt departure from S4C in July, which brought out into the open the tensions over the Welsh-language broadcaster's future direction and the cuts it faces as part of the government's spending review. Hunt is understood to have asked the pair to make the case for why S4C continues to be the right organisation to supply a Welsh-language service. - guardian.co.uk

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DTG DTV Consultation

The DTG's mission is to enable the development of fully compliant and reliable digital TV and media products and services, primarily for the horizontal market, through world-class specification development, conformance testing and consensus building. In accordance with that mission, in 2010 the DTG launched a consultation on how an interoperable, efficient, stable and innovating horizontal digital TV market might best continue to be delivered. The consultation was open to any organisation or individual with an interest in digital terrestrial television DTT in the UK. - dtg.org.uk

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The Bromsgrove Standard - Digital switchover just six months away

You have come to this page by mistake, if you came via a normal link and think this in error, please let us know by dropping us as email at internet at bullivantmedia.com telling us what you clicked to bring you here. - bromsgrovestandard.co.uk

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Technical delivery options for local television services in the UK

You might like to try one of the following to help find what you were looking for Make sure the address of the page you are looking for is spelled correctly. Try submitting a question to our FAQ system Go to the Ofcom homepage and navigate to the information you want. Click the 'back' button to try another link. - stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk

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Seeing the big picture on content

The 'high bandwidth copy protection' scheme has been in use since 2004 even though the possibility that someone would be able to reconstruct the master key by examining HDCP-capable devices was known even before any systems were commercially available. Now it seems that this has been done, and as a result anyone who wants to - and has access to the appropriate technology - will be able to build hardware that can read HDCP-protected material and make perfect digital copies if they want. It works by creating a secure digital channel between different components in a system, such as a set-top box and a flatscreen TV, that cannot easily be eavesdropped by software or hardware, thereby reducing the chances of programmes or films being copied without permission. - bbc.co.uk

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How should the BBC be governed? | Media | guardian.co.uk

There are very powerful commercial and political influences that want to revisit the BBC charter of five years ago. The BBC must not become the state broadcaster. Second, the BBC has to think carefully about its market impact, for good or ill. - guardian.co.uk

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FT urges Vince Cable to investigate News Corps BSkyB takeover | Media | guardian.co.uk

Murdoch could drive other publishers out of business in a price war not seen since the 1990s with access to such massive financial resource, the paper added. The deal would give Mr Murdoch substantial firepower to cross-subsidise his loss-making UK newspapers, enabling them to compete with rivals on price. This is a reference to the Italian prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi, who owns Italy's biggest commercial broadcaster, Mediaset. - guardian.co.uk

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Motive Buying Bestv Majority For Freeview Pay-TV Roll-Up| paidContent:UK

AIM-listed Motive is paying 1.6 million and has raised 4.75 million, to grow Adecq Digital, make certain debt repayments and to provide additional working capital for the enlarged group. Adecqs Bestv offers services to broadcasters for managing the delivery of their repertoire as VOD to set-top boxes. This could be a take-off area as hybrid Freeview PVRs gain popularity, particularly approaching YouViews launch. - paidcontent.co.uk

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Science reporting on the BBC. Your chance to have a say.

Jump to follow-up It is not uncommon for bloggers to be critical of science reporting in the mainstream media. Many programmes are superb David Attenbrough is an obvious example. His programmes cant be bettered. The photography is breathtakingly beautiful and the science is always accurate. For me, they alone are worth the licence fee, and I dont want the licence fee to be reduced. It helps that Attenborough knows the science so well. It also helps that most of the time the science isnt very difficult and isnt very controversial either. - dcscience.net

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Switchover Help Scheme publishes progress review

With switchover at the halfway stage, the Help Scheme has directly contacted nearly 2.5 million eligible people and installed equipment for more than 350,000. An estimated 150,000 more have taken detailed advice from its helpline, which helped them with their digital TV choices. By the completion of switchover in 2012, the Help Scheme will have contacted more than 7 million eligible individuals and couples and expects to have installed equipment for around one million people. - bbc.co.uk

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Sky TV Branded A Rip-Off

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Why News Corps buyout of BSkyB is much more than a business deal | Media | The Guardian

Photograph Eamonn McCabe Claire Enders knows what the future looks like. Enders wants ministers to at least understand the gravity of what they are being asked to sign up to. So what's wrong with the Murdochs' media organisations - guardian.co.uk

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BBC licence fee freeze could prove costly | Media | The Guardian

With negotiations about the next six-year licence fee settlement due to begin next spring, the trust is betting that if it compromises now, a softer line will be taken when those discussions get under way. Reserve judgment Tellingly, Hunt welcomed the trust's proposal to forego next year's rise, but said that he would reserve judgment on whether to accept its offer to give up the right to try to negotiate a further increase of up to 2 in 2012. That will now be considered as part of negotiations over the next licence fee settlement, which will run until the end of 2016, when the BBC's current 10-year royal charter ends. - guardian.co.uk

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Michael Lyons may be a greater loss to the BBC than Jay Hunt | Media | The Guardian

Sir Michael Lyons, the departing chairman of the BBC Trust. Photograph David Levene The BBC lost two of its most senior figures last week. One loss Jay Hunt, the controller of BBC1 was widely written up as a matter of great regret. - guardian.co.uk

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BBC Trust has never made sense, says former BBC chairman | Media | The Guardian

Sir Christopher Bland, the former BBC chairman, says the Trust's challenge is to operate 'a structure no one now has confidence in'. Industry insiders claim he stepped down because he suspected he was unlikely to be reappointed to the role by the culture secretary, Jeremy Hunt. Hunt has criticised the trust in the past and suggested it has failed to hold executives to account, but he appears to have decided against replacing it. - guardian.co.uk

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Sunday reading - James Cridland

I was at a conference in Hilversum last week presenting in a special breakout day for the folks at Radio 1, I was unable to see Aleks Krotoskis keynote at the main session. Anyone whos worked in a radio station is aware of the type of people who also work there behind the scenes, there are some dedicated, funny, knowledgeable people who never make it to air. Absolute Radio has a nice man called Stuart Eddie Edwards, whos an intelligent, customer-focused member of the technology services team. - james.cridland.net

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Our democracy is under threat if Murdoch wins control of Sky | David Puttnam | Comment is free | The Observer

There were many on the opposition benches who were astonished by the decision, given the OFT's prior clearance. He, like others, suspected that Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation had been lobbying for a referral on the basis that it had little interest in seeing an enlarged and strengthened competitor in cable television threaten its stranglehold on pay-TV. For him, it was an all too familiar pattern elected politicians, members of a sovereign parliament, even those with the best of intentions, being seduced, manipulated or worse, into making decisions that just happened to converge with the objectives of the most powerful media empire in the country. - guardian.co.uk

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The BBC must reprogramme itself to win | Media | The Observer

The decision to freeze the licence fee for at least one year, and probably two, also announced last week, illustrates the momentum is with those who want to curb the BBC's power and influence. Lyons's decision to retire as chairman of the BBC Trust after four years was taken in part because he had little prospect of being reappointed. BBC1 controller Jay Hunt left because she had a better and more lucrative offer from Channel 4. - guardian.co.uk

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Intel Threatens to Sue Anyone Who Uses HDCP Crack | Threat Level | Wired.com

Intel threatened legal action Friday against anybody who uses its proprietary crypto key leaked on the internet to produce hardware that defeats the so-called HDCP technology that limits home recording of digital television and Blu-ray. There are laws to protect both the intellectual property involved as well as the content that is created and owned by the content providers, said Tom Waldrop, a spokesman for the company, which developed HDCP. Should a circumvention device be created using this information, we and others would avail ourselves, as appropriate, of those remedies. Intels comments came as it confirmed that the internet leak of the master key to the High-Bandwidth Digital Content Protection systemwas authentic. - wired.com

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Sony adds iPlayer to Bravia TVs

The service will give users the option to watch television programmes from the last seven days. - dtg.org.uk

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HDCP antipiracy leak opens doors for black boxes | InSecurity Complex - CNET News

An antipiracy code used in set-top boxes, Blu-ray and DVD players has been cracked and published on the Internet, and as a result, we may soon see devices on the market that allow people to make unauthorized copies of movies. These are some of the 376 lines of HDCP master key code posted anonymously to the Internet earlier this week. Intel created HDCP to be used for ensuring that only authorized devices are playing copyright-protected video and audio, and it licenses the technology to hardware manufacturers. - news.cnet.com

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Which? test lab unveils its latest LCD TV results - September - 2010 - Which? News

Which tested models from LG, Samsung, Sony, Sharp and Technika, and found there are big differences in quality between the best and the worst. In it's latest LCD batch, Which pitted eight small screens against each other in its unique head-to-head, in-depth test. One of the TVs on test has been labelled a Which - which.co.uk

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YouView: New 200 set-top box that lets you watch 7 days of TV for free | Mail Online

A 200 set-top box will let viewers pause live TV, access the internet and watch a week's worth of programmes with just a few touches of a button. Sky accused the corporation of expanding beyond its remit and said YouView was 'nothing short of mission creep', while Virgin Media lodged a complaint to regulator Ofcom complaining that the project was anti-competitive. A Virgin Media spokesperson said 'Theres a pressing need for a thorough and independent examination of this closed, anti-competitive platform as it will restrict consumer choice and stifle innovation. - dailymail.co.uk

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Stairway to Heaven Climbing a 1786 ft Tower

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Intel: Leaked HDCP copy protection code is legit | InSecurity Complex - CNET News

These are some of the 376 lines of HDCP master key code posted to the Internet. Intel has confirmed that code posted to the Internet earlier this week is the master key that is part of an Intel-created standard used to make sure only authorized devices are playing copyright-protected movies. With the master key code it is possible to build devices that play copyright-protected content without having to pay for licenses. - news.cnet.com

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The internet revolution will be televised: broadcasters unveil their plans for future -TV Radio, Media - The Independe

If you wanted to name a landmark new internet television service that combined the content of Freeview with the online accessibility of YouTube, what would you call it, if not FreeTube The chief executive of YouView, Richard Halton, predicted that the initiative would transform habits in British living rooms. Connected TV creates all kinds of creative possibilities, for existing networks as well as local services and new developers of interactive applications. - independent.co.uk

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Watchdog rules dyke is offensive -Press, Media - The Independent

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BBC chief gives warning as licence fee faces freeze | Media | The Guardian

The BBC has already announced a cap on sports rights of 9p in every licence fee pound and said it will spend 20 less on foreign imports, including Hollywood films and US dramas. The unprecedented decision to freeze the licence fee at this year's 145.50 per household may mean it has to go further, however. The licence fee freeze will leave the BBC with 72m less than it had budgeted for in each of the next two years at a time when it is paying for an expensive move to Salford and facing a pension black hole of up to 2bn. - guardian.co.uk

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Media Talk: Jay Hunt and Sir Michael Lyons leave the BBC

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BBC Trust proposes two year freeze to licence fee to 2013

Please visit the BBC Trust homepage to find the information you want. you may have typed the web address incorrectly - please check the spelling, or that there are no spaces or capital letters. Alternatively, please try the other links and search box on this page. - bbc.co.uk

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BBC to freeze licence fee until 2013 | Media | guardian.co.uk

Today's move by the BBC Trust comes after intense political pressure from the government, which has repeatedly made clear that it wants the corporation to recognise the difficult economic environment and sacrifices being made elsewhere in the public sector. The BBC is giving up a planned 2 increase in March next year and the chance of a smaller rise in 2012. The trust said it had asked BBC executives, led by the director general, Mark Thompson, to find short-term savings in June. - guardian.co.uk

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BBC licence fee freeze: tactical retreat or total surrender? | Media | guardian.co.uk

David Cameron, then leader of the opposition, first talked about freezing the BBC licence fee in March last year. Two months later Cameron forced a parliamentary debate over the 2009 licence fee increase, although his motion was easily voted down by Labour and Lib Dem MPs. The BBC Trust has volunteered a two-year freeze until 2013, at what the corporation's management claims is a hypothetical cost of 144m. - guardian.co.uk

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Project Canvas rebrands as YouView | Media | guardian.co.uk

YouView has said it expects to launch sometime before July 2011, despite companies including Virgin Media submitting complaints to Ofcom to try to block the service. It is thought that beta testing of the service is likely to start in the first quarter of 2011. However, Halton said other content owners including newspaper groups have also expressed an interest in launching services on the platform and that the company intends to launch a section on the new YouView website to fully engage with prospective content partners. - guardian.co.uk

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Richard Halton to be Project Canvas chief executive | Media | guardian.co.uk

Meek, the former chief policy partner at Ofcom who MediaGuardian.co.uk revealed was joining the venture in July, is expected to announce Halton's appointment today. A number of companies, including Virgin Media, have lodged official complaints with the media regulator Ofcom. According to the BBC, Project Canvas will have a marketing budget of 48.4m in its first four years. - guardian.co.uk

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Daybreak loses a fifth of its viewers -TV Radio, Media - The Independent

ITV1's new breakfast show, Daybreak, has lost a fifth of its viewers since its first show last week. - independent.co.uk

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Big trouble at BBC2? Critics say its lost its identity but the channels controller is calm under fire -TV Radio, Media

The Stig, the previously anonymous Top Gear character dressed like a Star Wars stormtrooper in a white full-face helmet and white racing suit, has been taking up rather more of Hadlow's time than she would have liked. Since she inherited the channel in November 2008, BBC2's audience share has fallen from 8.3 per cent and an average weekly watch of two hours, 16 minutes to a 6.5 per cent share and average view of one hour, 40 minutes a week. In that time, it has been overtaken in popularity by Channel 4. - independent.co.uk

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Vince Cable adopts hands-off approach to News Corporations BSkyB takeover | Politics | The Guardian

Vince Cable has distanced himself from rumours that he could intervene in News Corporation's proposed takeover of BSkyB. He can opt to exercise an intervention notice, under the 2002 Enterprise Act, calling on Ofcom to advise him whether the takeover would restrict plurality in the industry. It is understood Cable has not yet consulted Ofcom on the issue, even informally. - guardian.co.uk

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BBCs Thompson - Project Canvas will be creative playpen for artists

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Pestons Picks: Ofcom expected to review News Corps bid for Sky

So News Corp will be concerned that a reference to Ofcom and then potentially to the Competition Commission could delay and even stymie the deal. BSkyB's directors said the offer was 1 per share too low, but agreed to resume negotiations after regulatory hurdles have been cleared. BSkyB is the biggest broadcaster in the UK. - bbc.co.uk

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BSkyB to close Bravo and Channel One | Media | guardian.co.uk

Bravo's programming includes US import Spartacus Blood and Sand. BSkyB has decided to focus on the Living TV channel portfolio, which will see a 25 boost to its programming budget, and the gameshow and quiz channel Challenge. There will be just 58 roles after integration, but it is understood that there are a significant number of positions potentially available in other parts of the BSkyB operation. - guardian.co.uk

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OFT clears Skys acquisition of Virgin Media Television - Brand Republic News

Sky OFT clears Virgin Media's acquisition The competition watchdog has published its decision without explanation, saying this will follow in a few days. Sky agreed the deal with Virgin Media in June, pledging to pay 105m on completion and 55m once it had secured regulatory clearance. Virgin 1 was rebranded as Channel One on 3 September. - brandrepublic.com

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Regions analogue TV transmitter turned off | Aberdeen and North | STV News

TV viewers in Aberdeen City and Shire have said goodbye to analogue channels for good. The final stage of the switchover saw all analogue channels, including STV, turned off permanently at midnight on Wednesday. The switch to digital TV will bring Freeview to approximately 44,000 homes in the region for the first time. - news.stv.tv

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Alleged HDCP master key leaked, HDTV copy protection may be dead | Security News - Betanews

The entertainment industry may have encountered another setback in its efforts to protect its content Monday as a hacker has reportedly cracked high definition content protection, more commonly referred to as HDCP. With the master key, the system no longer works, as hackers would now be able to create their own source and sink keys, both of which are needed to playback content on HDCP-protected devices. Thus a perfect connection could always be ensured between transmitting and receiving devices. - betanews.com

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Jay Hunt and Channel 4: a match made in heaven? | Maggie Brown | Media | guardian.co.uk

Jay Hunt has been appointed chief creative officer by Channel 4. The post of director of vision, Hunt's immediate boss, is held by Jana Bennett, and it is she who is now stepping in to run BBC1 and lead the hunt to find the successor. Nor was the BBC, under heavy attack for lavish executive salaries, in a position to match the estimated 45 rise in salary to around 395,000 she will receive from Channel 4, excluding any bonuses. - guardian.co.uk

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