Freeview MD questions need for lots of HD channels | News | TechRadar UK

Freeview's managing director Ilse Howling has questioned the need for lots of HD channels, insisting that the planned five HD channels already contained the programmes most people watched. At the Westminster eForum to discuss the future of digital terrestrial television, the problem of Freeview's limited bandwidth as data-hungry HD channels proliferated was an issue that arose several times. - techradar.com

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Freeview hd will aid takeup of mobile telly - The Inquirer

There was a standard for mobile telly, it was called DVB-H, but it was dogged by problems like bad reception, never a good thing for telly addicts. Another advance for the digital telly domain that will aid tablet or smartphone viewing is the DTG's next version of its digital TV technical standards. Companies like Sony, Philips, Sharp and Loewe all have their own Internet connected televisions but they all use their own standards and content providers have to abide by each of them. - theinquirer.net

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Ofcom | Radio Multiplex Licence Renewals

Statement published 070910 The Broadcasting Act 1996 sets out the statutory framework for the renewal of radio multiplex licences, including the timetable within which the holder of a radio multiplex licence is able to apply for renewal, and the circumstances in which a renewal can be granted. This statement follows on from the public consultation we published on 2 July 2010 entitled Radio Multiplex Licence Renewals. The consultation set out our proposals on the decisions we are required to make when renewing radio multiplex licences, and asked stakeholders for their views. - stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk

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The BBC executive board must cut their pay now | Media | guardian.co.uk

Marcus Agius, chair of the BBC executive board remuneration committee and Barclays Bank. When plans to cut the salaries of some top talent by between 25 and 40 were confirmed in the summer of 2009, why didn't these clever executives see the writing on the wall, and turn the knife on their own pay packages sooner The end result is that now, as they finally bow to the inevitable, they are so behind the curve that their sacrifice of a month's pay for this year and next is reaping them scant benefit. - guardian.co.uk

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Stephen Fry: BBC 'culture of fear' creating blandness

The BBC was not immediately available to respond to Fry's comments. - bbc.co.uk

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New BBC iPlayer live from today | Media | guardian.co.uk

The BBC's iPlayer is used by 5 million people every week, so any redesign needs to be pretty confident. The new version instated today has had extensive work done behind the scenes and has some social media and recommendation features added. This version is not new, exactly, as it has been running as a beta since June. - guardian.co.uk

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PCTV nanoStick T2 290e Freeview HD Tuner - Full Specs and Data Sheet | We Got Served

The nanoStick T2 will ship in the UK in October for 99. Since February 2007, the site has provided detailed coverage and analysis of the emerging home server category, and has subsequently grown into a trusted outlet for digital home news and reviews. - wegotserved.com

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James Robinson interviews Danny Cohen, controller of BBC3 | Media | The Guardian

BBC3's controller, Danny Cohen, wants to talk about the success of the channel, and who can blame him The problem is there is only one subject everyone else wants to discuss and that is whether he is about to leave. Cohen, 35, is regarded as a leading candidate for the new programming post of chief creative officer at Channel 4, where he previously worked for seven years. - guardian.co.uk

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Mediaguardian.co.uk: a constant over 10 years of change | Media | The Guardian

When MediaGuardian.co.uk started a decade ago it was underpinned by a simple concept to tell desk-bound people in the media industry what was going on, on a minute-by-minute basis. A web-based wire-type service for the media industry would, they confidently predicted, have no traction in a market already drowning in trade press. But, like so many of the first wave of content websites, it surpassed some expectations and undershot others. - guardian.co.uk

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BBC iPlayer gets even better

The BBC iPlayer team are very excited about the latest developments going live next week - this is a big step for the product, and its users, bringing A new design which is more fun to use, and distinctively styled. A range of personalisation features that let you shape your very own BBC iPlayer experience. Integration with your social network account that lets you add a social dimension to your viewing and listening. - bbc.co.uk

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BBC iPlayer Beta: What we did with your feedback

We've been running the latest version of BBC iPlayer in beta since May this year. About 8 of our existing user base has opted to use the beta version which is a good result. From the feedback, we're happy that 75 of our beta users preferred the new site to the existing version. - bbc.co.uk

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Mark Thompson should heed his own warning on the BBC and politicians | Media | The Guardian

BBC director general Mark Thompson unlikely to forget how precarious his job is. First, the BBC director general is snapped in Downing Street for meeting with the prime minister's head of strategy. After six years in the job, Thompson made the rookie error of displaying a briefing note in which Helen Boaden, his director of news, revealed details of a lunch with Andy Coulson, the government spinmeister-in-chief. - guardian.co.uk

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3D cameras and internet TVs at Berlins IFA tech show

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Choosing a DAB radio | Ask Jack | Technology | guardian.co.uk

I'm about to reluctantly upgrade from my existing extremely old but dearly loved radio. I'm intending to spend as much as I can afford on a top range, high specification standalone DAB radio. Radio now comes from a variety of sources, including thousands of internet radio stations. - guardian.co.uk

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North East Scotland switchover underway

The first stage of digital switchover in Aberdeen City and Shire has now been completed, according to Digital UK. Shortly after midnight on 1 September, analogue BBC Two was turned off permanently at the Durris transmitter and digital signals were switched on at 13 relay transmitters serving the region. Viewers in Tomintoul, Brechin and Gourdon will also start switchover from today. - dtg.org.uk

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BBC staff vote for strike over pensions | Media | guardian.co.uk

BBC staff on strike in 2005, over job cuts. Today's overwhelming vote in favour of industrial action could threaten BBC coverage of the closing stages of the Proms and the pope's visit to the UK later this month. However, with BBC management understood to be planning concessions on its controversial proposals to overhaul the final salary pension scheme, the unions held back from naming strike dates in order that talks can be held over the next two weeks to resolve the dispute. - guardian.co.uk

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BBC iPlayer Beta: Less is More

The following four design strategies informed our solution framework Navigation We recognised that watching TV and listening to the radio are two different activities that respond to different user needs. The previous version of iPlayer mixed radio and TV content on each page. Table 1 most likely overstates the overlap as the number reflect hardware not users. - bbc.co.uk

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DTG Testing achieves UKAS accreditation for DTT testing

DTG Staff 01.09.2010 Links open in a new window. The DTG is not responsible for the content of other web sites. - dtg.org.uk

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File sharing solicitor to face disciplinary body

Campaigns Making consumers as powerful as the organisations they deal with. Consumer Rights Your essential guide to consumer rights and what to do if things go wrong. Conversation Want to comment on burning consumer issues of the day - which.co.uk

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GMTV on the scrapheap | Media | guardian.co.uk

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Thompsons MacTaggart cut at the last moment | Media | guardian.co.uk

'So I chopped and chopped and finally got it down to a mere 8,000 words' Mark Thompson. The BBC director general cut 1,000 words from what was still one of the longest ever Edinburgh addresses at the last minute, he told MediaGuardian the day after he'd delivered it. He and his son scaled a cliff face in Switzerland by clambering up the tiniest of ladders fixed to the side of the mountain, the bearded one revealed, adding that delivering the MacTaggart was not half as scary. - guardian.co.uk

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Local TV group to complain to Ofcom over BBC-Canvas joint venture | Media | The Guardian

Ofcom, which has already received a complaint from Virgin about the Canvas joint venture, will now be hearing from Six TV. Ofcom has already received a complaint from Virgin Media, which sees Canvas as an anti-competitive cartel that will crush the nascent online TV market. Orange and Channel 5 are also looking to get involved. - guardian.co.uk

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FT.com - Edinburgh Television Festival

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Mark Thompson: Once gone, it will be gone for ever | Media | The Guardian

Mark Thompson's MacTaggart lecture, one of the longest ever delivered, contained many messages, but the most important was hidden in the subtext of the speech. One of the biggest laughs of the night came when Thompson mocked the head of News Corp's European operations for attacking the British Library's plan to digitise its newspaper archive. Although discussions are understood to have been held between Thompson and senior executives at Channel 4 and ITV, neither appeared to embrace the idea over the weekend. - guardian.co.uk

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The Full-On Assault On Cable Is Underway

All of these companies are currently sitting in the same boat about to storm the beaches. Those belonging to the the cable television providers in the U.S. It has only just begun, but the assault is underway. Let me start by saying that of course the cable companies arent about to go away. - techcrunch.com

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Media: Making a stand against Sky | Comment is free | The Guardian

The issue is partly, but only partly, the future of public service broadcasting. It is also about media plurality and market dominance. It is a profound issue about the ownership and regulation of our media. - guardian.co.uk

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Edinburgh wasnt about TV, it was all about Murdoch | Media | The Guardian

Not the knockabout or the mickey-taking but the serious business of News Corp's likely purchase of the 61 of BSkyB it doesn't already own. As Thompson pointed out, this would not be allowed in the USA or Australia. The past five years have seen Sky's business transformed as the benefits of major investments in digital, HD, broadband and telephony have started to pay off. - guardian.co.uk

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Stephen Glover: Thompsons attack is more than it seems -Opinion, Media - The Independent

That about sums up this slightly childish exchange between the two men. Apart from controlling BSkyB, which they would like to own outright, the Murdochs have four national newspapers accounting for approximately 35 per cent of all sales. Mr Thompson's aggressive counter-attack on the Murdoch empire should be interpreted in this light. - independent.co.uk

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BBC1 chief declares truce in Saturday night ratings war -TV Radio, Media - The Independent

I'm sort of agnostic about ratings, I don't think it matters. - independent.co.uk

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MGEITFs Channel of the Year Awards | Media | guardian.co.uk

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Next series of Doctor Who to be split transmission

The split transmission is the result of a request from Steven Moffat to write a new Doctor Who story arc which involves a big plot twist in the middle of the series. By splitting the series Moffat plans to give viewers one of the most exciting Doctor Who cliffhangers and plot twists ever, leaving them waiting, on the edge of their seats, until the autumn to find out what happens. For the kids it will never be more than a few months to the next Doctor Who - bbc.co.uk

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Go global or face huge cuts, says BBC boss -TV Radio, Media - The Independent

This could be the future of programmes in a new, leaner BBC described yesterday by its director general, who is this weekend wrestling with critical press, worried staff and the threat of a reduced licence fee. The public broadcaster faces a pension deficit of up to 2bn and future partnerships with American producers in order to make programmes like Wallander to sell around the world, according to Mark Thompson. I don't think in five or 10 years anyone is going to remember any of this. - independent.co.uk

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New ITV1 Factual Strand unveiled at Edinburgh - ITV Press Centre

Perspectives will be the umbrella title encompassing single, factual films from a variety of film-makers and, on occasions, presenters, offering their take on subject matter ranging from life in Britain today to the arts. The unlikely group now have a million pound record contract, a book about their life and a film deal. The film follows them over six months as men who have spent a lifetime working around a small, sleepy harbour face the glitz and glamour of the showbiz world. They were ordinary working men who had spent years down the pits before organising an art appreciation class for themselves in the 1930s. Despite their lack of professional training, their works, which drew on their own lives, were bought by collectors and praised by connoisseurs, which begs the questions what makes an artist, and can anyone paint - itv.com

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Yamgo Live Mobile TV and Video Streaming

Yamgo is a leading global provider of end-to-end linear TV and video streaming services delivering transcoding, encoding, distribution, publishing and advertising solutions for digital media owners. - yamgo.com

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Culture secretary Jeremy Hunt tells BBC to prepare for deeper cuts | Media | guardian.co.uk

Link to this video The culture secretary, Jeremy Hunt, has warned the BBC that it faces making deeper cuts and refused to rule out a reduction the licence fee. He was then asked if he considered the BBC to be a government department. He added that on this basis he could not categorically rule out the licence fee being cut. - guardian.co.uk

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MediaGuardian Edinburgh International Television Festival - MGEITF 2010 - Highlights

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For BBC chief Mark Thompson, revenge is a dish best served cold -TV Radio, Media - The Independent

The director-general has himself faced criticism, particularly over the size of his annual remuneration of 838,000, which he recently agreed to reduce by 20 per cent. Mr Thompson also drew attention to News Corporation's press interests and complained of what he depicted as an unprecedented level of hostility in coverage of the BBC. Other organisations might rise and fall but the BBCs income is guaranteed and growing. - independent.co.uk

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Mark Thompsons MacTaggart lecture the full text | Media | guardian.co.uk

We all know the ingredients of a classic MacTaggart. If you can manage it, rage though no one's ever going to match Dennis Potter, not just for eloquence and passion, but for sheer undiluted bile. If you study the best MacTaggarts, there's always a proper, black-hearted villain. - guardian.co.uk

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On TV: perspectives on television in words and numbers | Media | Telecommunications, Media Technology | Deloitte UK

Background On TV perspectives on television in words and numbers is Deloittes fourth annual report on the current issues impacting the television sector. The in-depth research was based on interviews with senior industry executives and a detailed survey of the UK public designed by Deloitte and conducted by YouGov between 9th and 12th July 2010. Online television has proved more supportive than disruptive to broadcast television while social media has so far proven to be a powerful ally in raising awareness of televisions most compelling content. - deloitte.com

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YouTube UK to launch free movie service | Technology | guardian.co.uk

YouTube, which already delivers TV through deals with Channel 4 and Channel 5, will initially make more than 400 titles available for free and on-demand. For Blinkbox, which will receive revenue from advertising around the films, the move to make content available for free is about building the brand and reaching new audiences. To contact the MediaGuardian news desk email editormediaguardian.co.uk or phone 020 3353 3857. - guardian.co.uk

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MediaGuardian Edinburgh International Television Festival - MGEITF

Dr Schmidt will be discussing the impact of the internet revolution and how the television industry can engage with new technologies. - mgeitf.co.uk

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The new Sky Sports News in HD gives me a headache - Sportingo

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PURE offers sub-40 DAB radio

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BBC Media Show: "The Web is Dead", Press freedom in South Africa, and Mark Thompson 25 Aug 10

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Prototype: BBC TV Made Richer By Hypertext| paidContent:UK

What if your TV automatically showed you links to related material Right now, its just a prototype, and works only with the web stream of the BBC News Channel. Some of the suggested material also looks a bit off-topic. - paidcontent.co.uk

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Feedback: 20 Aug 2010: Political coverage

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