Tuesday 28 September 2010, PM
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
www.guardian.co.ukJeremy 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.ukwww.guardian.co.ukTuesday 28 September 2010, AM
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.ukwww.guardian.co.ukMonday 27 September 2010, PM
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
www.bbc.co.ukMonday 27 September 2010, AM
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.ukwww.guardian.co.ukSale 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.ukwww.guardian.co.ukWhy 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.ukwww.guardian.co.ukStudy 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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Stephen Glover: Should Murdoch be granted all of BSkyB? -Stephen Glover, Opinion - The Independent
Rupert Murdoch has become a hate figure for the Left again. Now that his papers have switched their support to the Tories, Mr Murdoch has once more become persona non grata on the soft Left and in most progressive circles. The issue galvanising his opponents is Murdoch's proposed takeover of BSkyB. - independent.co.ukwww.independent.co.ukSunday 26 September 2010, AM
Whats On Red Button 25th September - 8th October
This might be because You have typed the web address incorrectly, or the page you were looking for may have been moved, updated or deleted. Please try the following options instead Use BBC search above to see if it's available elsewhere Use our site index - bbc.co.ukwww.bbc.co.uk
Why the BBC is mad to sell my beloved, profitable 'Radio Times'
Flattering, indeed, to be asked a second time. Whatever my reservations, this was one of the true greats of the magazine world. If editing a magazine was a relationship, then Radio Times was The Big One the one I married, set up home with and had kids by. - independent.co.ukwww.independent.co.ukITV U-turn on regional news knocks culture secretarys aim off | Media | The Observer
Maybe, in fact, expel it in a long, plangent sigh, as ITV, with a fresh team and fresh thinking in place, actually waxes enthusiastic about keeping local news formats rethought in its accustomed place. Mulberry bushes begin to have very little to add to this saga. To find out more information about driving traffic to your content or to place this widget on your site, visit outbrain.com. - guardian.co.ukwww.guardian.co.ukSaturday 25 September 2010, AM
BBC - BBC Internet Blog: Some insights into how people use BBC iPlayer
The BBC iPlayer launched at Christmas 2007, and in 2008 we conducted our first survey of users. Unsurprisingly the people who picked up on BBC iPlayer the quickest were most likely to be male, 40-ish, affluent, with a partner but no kids - a classic early adopter profile. Nearly as many women use the BBC iPlayer website as men, and the age profile is similar to that of all internet users. - bbc.co.ukwww.bbc.co.ukFriday 24 September 2010, AM
download.guardian.co.ukThursday 23 September 2010, PM
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.ukwww.bbc.co.ukThursday 23 September 2010, AM
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.ukwww.guardian.co.ukWednesday 22 September 2010, PM
North Norfolk News - Digital TV switchover date set
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www.northnorfolknews.co.ukU.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
www.slate.comWill 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.ukwww.guardian.co.ukWednesday 22 September 2010, AM
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.ukwww.independent.co.ukTuesday 21 September 2010, PM
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.ukwww.guardian.co.ukDTG 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.ukwww.dtg.org.ukThe 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.ukwww.bromsgrovestandard.co.ukTechnical 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.ukstakeholders.ofcom.org.uk
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.ukwww.bbc.co.ukMonday 20 September 2010, PM
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.ukwww.guardian.co.ukFT 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.ukwww.guardian.co.ukMotive 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
paidcontent.co.ukScience 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
www.dcscience.netSwitchover 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.ukwww.bbc.co.ukMonday 20 September 2010, AM
Sky TV Branded A Rip-Off
- clareherald.comwww.clareherald.comWhy 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.ukwww.guardian.co.ukBBC 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.ukwww.guardian.co.ukMichael 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.ukwww.guardian.co.ukSunday 19 September 2010, PM
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.ukwww.guardian.co.ukSunday 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.ukwww.guardian.co.ukThe 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.ukwww.guardian.co.ukSaturday 18 September 2010, AM
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
www.wired.comFriday 17 September 2010, PM
Sony adds iPlayer to Bravia TVs
The service will give users the option to watch television programmes from the last seven days. - dtg.org.ukwww.dtg.org.ukHDCP 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.comnews.cnet.comWhich? 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
www.which.co.ukFriday 17 September 2010, AM
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
www.dailymail.co.ukStairway to Heaven Climbing a 1786 ft Tower
- liveleak.comwww.liveleak.comIntel: 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.comnews.cnet.com
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.ukwww.independent.co.ukWatchdog rules dyke is offensive -Press, Media - The Independent
- independent.co.ukwww.independent.co.ukBBC 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.ukwww.guardian.co.ukThursday 16 September 2010, PM
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