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Ofcom blocks BSkyB spoiler move against Top Up TV | Media | guardian.co.uk
Top Up TV subscribers with more basic set-top boxes that could only take the two sports services, rather than have them as part of a bundle of channels, would have been prevented from having them. Top Up TV lodged a complaint with Ofcom over the issue. For all other inquiries please call the main Guardian switchboard on 020 3353 2000. - guardian.co.uk
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Enter Desmond, exit Airey with a sting in her tail -TV Radio, Media - The Independent
Richard Desmond announced a savage programme of job cuts at the terrestrial television Channel 5 yesterday, just weeks after his 103.5m takeover of the loss-making broadcaster. He told the channel's 300 staff that up to a quarter of them would lose their jobs. Its outgoing chief executive, Dawn Airey, will be one of seven executives to leave. - independent.co.uk
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Knives at Five: Can Richard Desmond rescue his new channel? -TV Radio, Media - The Independent
Despite a dramatic cost-cutting drive during the downturn, Desmond has left employees reeling as he axed seven out of the nine executive-board directors and revealed plans to slash 80 further jobs. However, it is understood that she was asked to stay and will be managing the handover process over the next few months, before joining the broadcaster's former owner, RTL. Only Five's sales director, Kelly Williams, and Jeff Ford, its managing director of digital channels, remain from the senior team. - independent.co.ukwww.independent.co.ukMurdoch s BSkyB Bid Becomes More Expensive as U.K. Pound Gains - BusinessWeek
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Streaming video within a website is becoming a standard feature on most Android phones. Owners are now able to download the Google Android 2.2 operating system, which supports Flash. - bbc.co.uk
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Five shocks staff with plans for 80 job losses | 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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Five brings TV to Facebook | News | New Media Age
The companies have struck an integration agreement which will see Fives TV-on-demand player Demand Five embedded into Facebook. new media age gives you practical, expert knowledge on how to demystify the latest digital trends and make them work for your business. - nma.co.uk
www.nma.co.ukChannel Five cuts may be brutal, but they are inevitable | Media | guardian.co.uk
Richard Desmond cutting Channel Five down to size. The previous management structure was one for a standalone terrestrial channel, aping Channel 4, in a highly regulated market. Five is now part of a publishing empire, owned by a tycoon used to operating in the far more loosely regulated newspaper and magazine industry. - guardian.co.ukwww.guardian.co.uk
Richard Desmond rebrands Five as Channel 5 | Media | guardian.co.uk
The marketing overhaul has emerged on the day that Desmond's Northern Shell announced a sweeping management restructure and up to 80 job cuts at the broadcaster. Channel 5 will be reverting to the onscreen brand used from its 1997 launch until late 2002, although in a new style. To contact the MediaGuardian news desk email editormediaguardian.co.uk or phone 020 3353 3857. - guardian.co.ukwww.guardian.co.ukCanvas invites expressions of interest from manufacturers
The Project Canvas partners have formally invited expressions of interest from consumer equipment manufacturers to develop and bring Canvas devices to market in 2011. Bringing on board further consumer equipment manufacturers will ensure people have the widest possible choice of devices and we remain focused on supporting the industry to stimulate a competitive market. DTG Staff 11.08.2010 Links open in a new window. - dtg.org.uk
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Desmond culls Five management | 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.ukwww.broadcastnow.co.ukChannel Five bloodbath as Richard Desmond culls seven directors | Media | guardian.co.uk
Channel Five is to lose seven of its nine executive board directors in a brutal management cull as new owner Richard Desmond looks to cut 20m from the business. Five staff were informed at a 10am meeting today of the changes, which will include a 20m cost-cutting drive and up to 80 job losses more than 25 of about 300 employees. Dawn Airey, the Five chairman and chief executive, will be among those leaving, as revealed by MediaGuardian.co.uk yesterday. - guardian.co.ukwww.guardian.co.ukTVB | 2014 Web-enabled Set-Top Market Pegged at $1.3 Billion
Market value for the hybrid boxes is projected to be 1.3 billion in four years. TV programs have come to the Internet, In-Stats Gerry Kaufhold said. Now, the Internet is coming back to TV, and savvy software engineers and smart TV producers are finding ways to create new hybrid services that bring it all together. - televisionbroadcast.comwww.televisionbroadcast.comTuesday 10 August 2010, PM
Dawn Airey set to leave as Richard Desmond shakes up Channel Five | Media | guardian.co.uk
Channel Five chief executive Dawn Airey is expected to join RTL. She is not expected to leave Five for several months. These are understood to include job cuts and a restructure of Five's management. - guardian.co.ukwww.guardian.co.ukWhat radio platform is best? - Media UK
This is a full overview of broadcast radio platforms, with benefits, drawbacks and rough costs for each and, roughly, which countries are using these technologies. FM can be subject to interference from pirate radio stations and occasionally atmospheric effects as well as poor signal strength. Current listeners 61.1 of all radio listening in the UK is to AM or FM. - mediauk.comwww.mediauk.com
Rupert Murdoch claims to own the Sky in Skype -Online, Media - The Independent
BSkyBs legal challenge to Skype using its name within the EU was revealed in the 250-page document announcing the intended flotation. Skype notes that its applications in respect of the Skype name are being opposed by BSkyB plc. The company says that it has won the right to use its name in Switzerland, Turkey and Brazil, but that the European Union has ruled against it. - independent.co.ukwww.independent.co.uk
Virtual cable TV service GenosTV seeks beta testers worldwide | Web Apps News - Betanews
The service will differentiate itself in three ways by not requiring a dedicated set-top box, by offering complete la carte pricing, and by not being an on-demand service like Hulu and its competitors. The service aims to be a platform agnostic linear streaming service, so any connected TV, media player, or set top box will be able to access the GenosTV service. To become a beta tester for GenosTV, send an email to betatestersgenos.tv. - betanews.com
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Is radio in rude health or terminal? | Media | guardian.co.uk
People listen to the radio less often, but more of us are tuning in at some point in the week. Yet last week's official Rajar figures suggested radio audiences had reached an all-time high. The top-line figures suggest radio is in rude health, with a record weekly reach the number of people who tune in for at least five minutes a week of 46.77 million people, 91 of the adult population, in the second quarter of this year. - guardian.co.ukwww.guardian.co.ukMonday 09 August 2010, PM
Jeremy Hunt urged to intervene in S4C row | Media | guardian.co.uk
Iona Jones the S4C chief executive departed suddenly last month. I have been told that the new management has the complete confidence of the DCMS. S4C's new regime has also opened talks with some of the smaller Welsh independent producers who faced being sidelined by proposals from Jones, aimed at absorbing potential staggered budget cutbacks of 24. - guardian.co.ukwww.guardian.co.ukBBC staff far from retiring over Thommo pension Q A | Media Monkey | Media | guardian.co.uk
Mark Thompson given 'a hard time' by BBC staff. Seeing as Monkey was not privy to the occasion, it's only right to revisit Thommo's date with Paxo back in March . 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.uk
Ofcom recommends cross-media ownership rules should be relaxed | Media | guardian.co.uk
Ofcom has recommended the liberalisation of local cross-media ownership regulations, which could enable a single company to control newspapers, a TV licence and radio stations in one local area. Ofcom was asked under the Labour government to review local cross-media ownership rules and last November recommended liberalisation that would only bar a company from owning all three of more than 50 of the local newspapers in a regional market, a radio station and the ITV licence for the area. When Jeremy Hunt took over as culture secretary in May, he asked Ofcom to look at a further liberalisation that would axe the rule relating to newspaper ownership restrictions. - guardian.co.ukwww.guardian.co.ukSaturday 07 August 2010, PM
BT apologises for shambolic new Sky Sports service - Telegraph
They seemed to think it was up to the customer to solve the problems, with no mechanism for taking control of the situation. BT said that it would compensate people who had been affected by giving them a months free Sky Sports, which would normally cost 6.99 or 11.99 a month. However customers must also sign up for a BT phone line and BT broadband, taking the total cost to over 30 a month. They will get one months free rental, which will be worth 6.99 or 11.99 depending on their package. - telegraph.co.uk
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New Developments on Freeview+ and Freeview+HD: Trailer Booking
This new feature allows broadcasters to send metadata about a trailer in-time with on-screen trailers. The metadata tells the recorder what is being trailed so the viewer can book a programme to be recorded when the green 'Book Me' icon pops-up. We are using this table to transmit two kinds of links links to programmes and links to whole series. - bbc.co.ukwww.bbc.co.ukMedia Talk: ITV, Sky and the silly season
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How CNN went from breaking records to yesterdays news -TV Radio, Media - The Independent
Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait, exactly 20 years ago this week, didn't just set in train the events which led to Operation Desert Storm. It also kick-started the first war of the rolling news era. The world, which had previously huddled around transistor radios for their real-time headlines, became addicted to real-time TV news. - independent.co.ukwww.independent.co.ukThursday 05 August 2010, PM
Smooth goes national on D1
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radiotoday.co.ukNews empire eyes government-funded network | TradingMarkets.com
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New satellite channel launches down 70% - Digital Spy
The number of new channels being launched on Sky has fallen 70 this year, as independent broadcasters struggle to establish themselves, a new report has claimed. According to research conducted by broadcast operator Information TV, there were 24 new channels launched on Sky's digital TV platform in the first half of 2010, compared to 72 in the whole of last year and 71 in 2008. Unless there is a major flurry of activity in the final months of this year, the number of brand new channels on Sky will be well down on the last two years. - digitalspy.co.uk
www.digitalspy.co.ukGoogle denies deal to end net neutrality | Technology | guardian.co.uk
Today the search giant has said it remains as committed as ever to an internet where content exists on a level playing field. We have not had any conversations with Verizon about paying for carriage of Google traffic. As we said in our earlier FCC filing, our goal is an internet policy framework that ensures openness and accountability, and incorporates specific FCC authority, while maintaining investment and innovation. - guardian.co.ukwww.guardian.co.uk
Miliband and Jowell: BBC should be a co-operative | Media | guardian.co.uk
Jowell and Miliband, respectively the shadow minister for the cabinet and shadow foreign secretary, made the case in an article for centre-left pressure group Progress, published online today. To contact the MediaGuardian news desk email editormediaguardian.co.uk or phone 020 3353 3857. For all other inquiries please call the main Guardian switchboard on 020 3353 2000. - guardian.co.ukwww.guardian.co.ukThursday 05 August 2010, AM
BSkyB rebrands Virgin1 as Channel One | Media | guardian.co.uk
The channel will be broadcasting the recent remake of 1980s alien invasion series V, first seen in the UK earlier this year on SyFy. It is to replace the channel with a one-hour time-shifted Sky 31 service later this year. To contact the MediaGuardian news desk email editormediaguardian.co.uk or phone 020 3353 3857. - guardian.co.ukwww.guardian.co.uk6 Music up, Chris Evans down
-radiotoday.co.ukCompetition inquiry over fears of Sky supremacy -Business News, Business - The Independent
Alongside concerns over first-run Hollywood films, the referral also covers the wholesale supply of pay-TV packages that include the movie channels that offer them. The move is the culmination of Ofcom's three-year inquiry into the pay-TV market. In March, the regulator ruled that Sky must cut the wholesale price of its sports packages for its rivals, BT Vision and Virgin. - independent.co.ukwww.independent.co.ukRadio listening breaks record
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Can Sky Sports News keep punching above its weight as the competition gets fiercer? -TV Radio, Media - The Independent
A service that began life as an hourly update on Sky News has, for many sports addicts, become their default channel. Rival broadcasters have been granted rights by the media regulator Ofcom to offer the Sky Sports 1 and Sky Sports 2 channels at a knockdown price. The executive editor of Sky Sports News, Andy Cairns, is not one of Britain's most high-profile journalists. - independent.co.ukwww.independent.co.ukWednesday 04 August 2010, PM
BBC The Media Show 04 Aug 10 pay-TV films, Tolo TV, Dr Petra Boynton of UCL, viral videos
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ITV to tinker with micropayments The Register
Only half of ITV's income will come from advertising within five years, the company announced today. Micropayments have been the holy grail of online payments for 15 years, and always run into two large obstacles. One is the reluctance amongst punters to pay small amounts for content, which contrasts with the willingness of punters to pay really quite large amounts for pay TV and broadband. - theregister.co.uk
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Former Independent editor tipped for BBC Trust role | Media | guardian.co.uk
Hargreaves, who is also a former director of BBC news and current affairs, is understood to have applied for the post, which becomes vacant this autumn when Janet Lewis-Jones steps down. Candidates to replace Lewis-Jones and the vice-chair, Chitra Bharucha, who is also stepping down, will be interviewed over three days 2, 3 and 16 September. Applications for the 77,000-a-year and 41,000-a-year jobs closed at the beginning of July and it emerged at the weekend that the former home secretary Jacqui Smith has applied for the vice-chair role. - guardian.co.ukwww.guardian.co.ukOfcom refers Pay TV movies to Competition Commission
Ofcom has today asked the Competition Commission to investigate concerns regarding the sale and distribution of subscription premium Pay TV movies. First-run Hollywood movies are particularly important to competition in the Pay TV sector. This content is a key factor for many consumers when signing up to a pay TV service. - media.ofcom.org.ukmedia.ofcom.org.uk
Homes prepare for digital switchover
3 August 2010 Last updated at 2030 ET More than 200,000 households will have to retune their TVs and set top boxes as the latest stage of the digital switchover gets under way. On Wednesday, the analogue BBC2 signal from Angus was switched off and the remaining four channels will follow on 18 August. The move will mean more than 75,000 viewers are able to access Freeview for the first time. - bbc.co.ukwww.bbc.co.ukTuesday 03 August 2010, PM
A day about innovation at BBC Audio Music Interactive
Four times a year the team meets to share ideas, case studies and war stories. The meeting is imaginatively called the 'departmental' and it takes place in Broadcasting House - big presentations in the Radio Theatre and smaller 'break-out' meetings in various conference rooms. Mark Friend, Controller of the department, will chair. - bbc.co.ukwww.bbc.co.ukITV plans online micropayments system and Project Canvas pay-TV offer | Media | guardian.co.uk
It is understood that ITV plans to launch a mixture of pay and free content on Project Canvas, although much of it is likely to be ad-funded in line with the venture's aim to remain a mostly free service. To contact the MediaGuardian news desk email editormediaguardian.co.uk or phone 020 3353 3857. For all other inquiries please call the main Guardian switchboard on 020 3353 2000. - guardian.co.ukwww.guardian.co.ukUPDATE 3-ITV moves into pay-TV with new strategy| Reuters
New Chief Executive Adam Crozier, who has been scathing about the company's previous strategy, announced the new plan as he revealed that first-half ad revenue was up 18 percent due to the World Cup. Ad revenue is expected to be up 15 percent in the third quarter before comparatives with 2009 toughen, leaving the company more cautious for the end of the year and beyond, ITV said. It will also work to improve the quality of its programming, so it can be sold abroad and online, with an investment fund of 75 million pounds to be used over the next three years. - reuters.com
www.reuters.comAdam Crozier: ITV considered buying Channel Five | Media | guardian.co.uk
Adam Crozier said he considered Channel Five as 'more old iron'. He also said the acquisition of Five might have faced insurmountable regulatory issues. To contact the MediaGuardian news desk email editormediaguardian.co.uk or phone 020 3353 3857. - guardian.co.ukwww.guardian.co.ukTuesday 03 August 2010, AM
ITV to launch HD channels on Sky
The move is part of an overall strategy to increase revenues from non-television advertising sources. The news came as the broadcaster reported a pre-tax profit of 97m for the first half of the year, compared with a 105m loss a year ago. The broadcaster also said it would launch an ITV11 channel in January 2011. - bbc.co.ukwww.bbc.co.ukITV unveils pay-TV push | Media | guardian.co.uk
ITV's chief executive, Adam Crozier, said the broadcaster had not faced up to the challenges of pay-TV and the internet. It is the first step in a five-year strategy designed to overhaul ITV's business model, with the aim that half the broadcaster's income should come from non-advertising sources. The announcement came as ITV set out its half-yearly results, including adjusted pre-tax profits of 118m in the first half with a market-beating 18 year-on-year increase in TV ad revenue. - guardian.co.ukwww.guardian.co.ukVirgin Media aims to block Project Canvas with Ofcom complaint | Media | The Guardian
Sky maintains that there is no rationale for the BBC's involvement in Canvas and is understood still to be considering its options over whether or not to lodge an official complaint to regulators. Virgin Media has complained that Project Canvas has wrongly rejected what the company considers fair offers of integrating the technology into its own set-top boxes with a compromise on user interface. It is thought that Virgin Media believes that at this stage it is not worth pursuing a case against the BBC in Europe on the grounds of state aid. - guardian.co.ukwww.guardian.co.ukMonday 02 August 2010, PM
S4C appoints Arwel Ellis Owen to top spot | Media | guardian.co.uk
S4C, which had been warned it faced a potential 24 cut to its annual grant of 101m, moved quickly to fill the management void by announcing the appointment of Ellis Owen late on Friday evening. Ellis Owen, the current chief executive of the Cardiff-based PR firm Cambrensis, starts immediately and will remain in the role until a permanent chief executive can be appointed. According to one report his initial intention is to work for three months, on three days a week, but to possibly to stay on if a replacement chief executive is not found at the end of that period. - guardian.co.ukwww.guardian.co.ukpick a page