Lord Burns: Channel 4 does not need public subsidy | Media | guardian.co.uk

Lord Terry Burns 'We have to make our way in the market'. Burns also said the channel was not in talks to buy Channel Five. Ruling out any future attempt to seek a public subsidy, the strategy pursued by Channel 4's former chief executive Andy Duncan, Burns instead outlined a strategy of self-reliance. - guardian.co.uk

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BBC iPlayer on mobile: a new version and Adobe Flash 10.1 streaming on all Android 2.2 phones

Last week we launched the mobile version of the new BBC iPlayer website which Anthony Rose announced a few weeks ago. If you add a series to favourites, BBC iPlayer will automatically add all new episodes in that series as soon as they are available in iPlayer so you will never miss your favourite programmes. We are always looking to deliver the best BBC iPlayer experience on mobile. - bbc.co.uk

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Digital TV helps Channel 4 weather the recession | Media | guardian.co.uk

Channel 4 made a small profit of 300,000 in 2009 as a strong performance from digital TV and costcutting helped offset a 61.6m loss on its main network. Last year's recession, described by Channel 4 as the worst in its 28-year history, led to a 14 year-on-year decline in advertising revenues for the broadcaster's main terrestrial network, from 668.7m to 575.1m. The main channel's loss widened from 9.9m in 2008 to 61.6m last year, according to Channel 4's annual report for 2009, published today. - guardian.co.uk

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Budget 2010: broadband tax on telephone lines scrapped | UK news | guardian.co.uk

Private broadband coverage has been encouraged in George Osborne's debut budget. Photograph Corbis The coalition government has dropped Labour plans to introduce a controversial 50p-a-month levy on phone lines to pay for the rollout of superfast broadband, opting instead to use TV licence fee money to improve coverage in rural areas. As widely expected, chancellor George Osborne announced that the previous administration's plans for a telephone tax, designed to raise up to 175m a year, will be scrapped. - guardian.co.uk

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BT helps million of Freeview viewers enjoy World Cup fever in high definition

By the time the switchover is complete, the vast majority of TV viewers will be able to view high definition HD services. This provides the delivery of all the digital terrestrial TV programmes to people's homes via their aerial and Freeview set top box or decoder. BT has already migrated one third of the transmitters - covering approximately 8.5 million homes - to its UK media network. - tmcnet.com

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A Cumulative Update is available for Windows Media Center in Windows 7

A Cumulative Update is available for Windows Media Center in Windows 7. You reference a backup database when the guide database in Windows Media Center is corrupted. If you set a manual recording on a channel that is not listed in the backup database, the Mcupdate.exe process crashes. - support.microsoft.com

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Mobile phone firms test TV broadcast service | Media | guardian.co.uk

Mobile TV suffers from congestion if more than a handful of customers use the service in the same place. The three companies, who control the bulk of the UK mobile phone market, are testing technology which would enable them to provide broadcast TV over their existing 3G mobile phone spectrum, without clogging up their networks, which are being used by smartphone users to access the web and send emails. All the UK mobile phone companies offer mobile TV services on their 3G networks but they suffer from congestion if more than a handful of customers use the service in the same place. - guardian.co.uk

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BBC defends staffing levels at key events -TV Radio, Media - The Independent

The corporation said that of the 292 staff sent to the event, covering sport television production, BBC interactive, Radio 5 Live, online and news, around 35 would go home early and numbers could reduce further, depending on England's progress. Nicky Campbell is hosting his Radio 5 Live show from South Africa. - independent.co.uk

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ITV Live tops one million viewers

ITV Live, the new dual-screen initiative from ITV.com has attracted more than one million users in its first week. Launching with the World Cup, ITV Live allows users to watch games on screen while interacting online. The service saw 90,000 unique users for England v USA and 121,000 unique users for England v Algeria. - dtg.org.uk

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Google targeted by BPI for linking to illegal downloads | Music | guardian.co.uk

Google asked to remove links to illegal songs. To bolster its case, the BPI even cites the search queries that bring up the offending links. Last October, Google removed links to the Pirate Bay one of the most notorious illegal BitTorrent trackers from their search index. - guardian.co.uk

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Freeview hands senior role to BBC marketer - Marketing news - Marketing magazine

Joining next month, she will report to managing director Ilse Howling, who also worked at the BBC, before moving to Freeview in 2005. Leach joined the BBC in 2002 and was most recently responsible for marketing activity for factual programming. Freeview is also facing competition in its bid to become the UKs premier HD TV service. - marketingmagazine.co.uk

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Mum hits out at TV switchover charges - The Star

Sheffield Homes is preparing 9,500 of its properties which have communal aerials for the digital switchover. Sheffield Council deputy leader Coun Bryan Lodge said a resident in his Birley ward had received a letter warning that her old aerial would be disconnected within 28 days - without offering work to connect her to a new communal aerial. Specialist engineers have identified where aerials must be replaced in order for everyone in the blocks affected to receive a high quality digital signal. - thestar.co.uk

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Channel 4 to cut a quarter of senior managers | Media | guardian.co.uk

David Abraham integrating commissioning and content teams Channel 4 is to cut 25 of its 48 senior managers and has appointed Julian Bellamy as acting chief creative officer, as new chief executive David Abraham completes his strategic review. Abraham is to halve the number of his direct reports from 13 to six, and is to reduce the senior management group by 12 posts before the end of the year. In addition Abraham said that there will be a new role of chief creative officer, who will oversee a new single content division bringing together all of digital and traditional TV commissioning and production. - guardian.co.uk

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Rupert Murdochs Sky bid marks a shift in the centre of gravity | Steve Hewlett | Media | The Guardian

City reaction to the news that News Corp plans to buy the 61 of BSkyB it doesn't currently own focused on the numbers. Sky is about to become even more profitable than it already is costs of investments in broadband and HD are winding down as revenues rise. Profits are forecast to double by 2012 to as much as 1.2bn a year. - guardian.co.uk

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Buyers line up for Channel Five | Media | guardian.co.uk

RTL is exploring a range of options for Five, including a sale or commercial partnership with the loss-making broadcaster, with a deal expected by the end of the year but with no deadline yet set. It is not yet clear how many of the expressions of interest will yet turn into serious approaches, but it is understood that RTL has been contacted by companies outside the media industry. Desmond, who has appeared in the media frequently recently making it clear he has 1bn to spend on acquisitions, has also emerged as a potential bidder. - guardian.co.uk

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Tesco launches UKs first HD Freeview+ PVR | PC Retail Industry | PCR

Tags Tesco, freeview, world cup, ip vision, smartbox, technika - pcr-online.biz

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Mapping News by Mapperz

Yellow is the area where the transmitter provides the best signal, green is where there is overlap and the selected transmitter is not the strongest signal. Example http//www.ukfree.tv/transmitters.phpPRH130TRsmap The green/yellow fades to white where the signal is weakest. By frequency this lists broadcast frequencies from C21 to C68, showing the services on each. - mapperz.blogspot.com

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Sky Sports News to go behind paywall in battle with Freeview broadcasters | Media | The Guardian

News Corporation is to put another of its services behind a paywall as it emerged yesterday that Sky Sports News is to be pulled from Freeview. Industry experts also believe that BSkyB could decide that its Sky News website, currently freely available on the internet, should go behind a paywall. With subscription charges about to start on the Times's website as Rupert Murdoch's media empire searches for new revenue streams, News Corp is undergoing a major restructuring of its business model. - guardian.co.uk

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US television gives us The Wire. We give them Piers Morgan | Nick Cohen | Comment is free | The Observer

So you check Clive James's television column, pour yourself a glass of one of the surprisingly good Australian wines which have just reached the off-licences and turn on a quality drama. Foreigners were meant to envy our monarchy, although, as a young republican, I couldn't help noticing that they were not rushing to replace their elected presidents with spare members of the House of Windsor. To put the case more starkly, once we gave the world The Jewel in the Crown now we give it Piers Morgan. - guardian.co.uk

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Introducing coloured subtitles on BBC iPlayer

One area of key importance in enabling access to BBC iPlayer content for our deaf and hard of hearing users is subtitles. In December 2008 we were able to upgrade the iPlayer subtitles technology to deliver well over 90 of iPlayer programmes with subtitles, and we've consistently achieved this level over the last 18 months. Having achieved the quantity of coverage that our deaf and hard of hearing users wanted, I mentioned at the time that we were next going to look at improvements to the quality of the subtitles experience. - bbc.co.uk

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Getting the most from your digital TV recorder - TV, music and radio - Which? Advice

Sometimes pages move or become out of date and are deleted, so older bookmarks may no longer work. It's possible that the page you were looking for has either changed name or is no longer available. To find what you are looking for, you might like to try one of the following You may like to view our latest videos - which.co.uk

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Whats On BBC Red Button: 19th June - 2nd July

More details on the artists and other special interactive features can be found on the BBC Glastonbury website. Viewers will also be able to enjoy a choice of BBC commentary or a court-side no-commentary option during the Finals. A digital text service will also be available with news, results and score updates. - bbc.co.uk

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ITV to offer childrens shows exclusively via digital TV

Friday, June 18th 2010 by Editorial A leading broadcaster has revealed it is to move its children's shows from its terrestrial services to digital TV channels. Only people with access to digital TV services will be able to access children's shows from ITV in the near future, it has been revealed. News of the plans has come after Sky confirmed that its leading sports news channel will only be available to those on digital TV subscriptions later this year. - cable.co.uk

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BT wins approval to offer Sky Sports 1 and 2 on Freeview

BT will now be able to broadcast Sky Sports 1 and Sky Sports 2 on spare capacity which has been freed up on due to the digital switchover. This will be combined with Arqiva capacity to be offered for use for two new national terrestrial digital TV channels. ' else if google_ads.length gt 1 / For text ads, append each ad to the string. - mediaweek.co.uk

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The Value of Everything

We have the size, the value and the mission to change the fundamental nature of public access. - bbc.co.uk

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First portable T2 analyser unveiled

Promax has launched a HD portable analyser incorporating DVB-T2 technology the first in the world to do so according to the company. DTG Staff 16.06.2010 Links open in a new window. - dtg.org.uk

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Digital TV switchover running smoother than expected

Work to get households across the UK on to digital TV services appears to have gone smoothly, new reports have revealed. It has emerged that Digital UK, the body responsible for the changes, is set to finish its campaign of engineering with a 54 million surplus that will be handed back to the government. - cable.co.uk

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Sky Sports News to be removed from Freeview - Press Gazette

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Media: 16 June 2010 Bloody Sunday, Wikileaks

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Nasa warns solar flares from 'huge space storm' will cause devastation

Attention seniors French scientists have developed a process that permanently dyes white hair without harmful chemicals. Philippe Walter and colleagues soaked white hairs in a solution containing fluorescent gold nanoparticles. The hairs turned pale yellow and then darkened to a deep brown. - kurzweilai.net

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Freeview viewers could not see ITV4s TT shows - Isle of Man Today

The situation means that viewers in the Island who rely on terrestrial digital television from Manx transmitters can't watch Sky News, Dave or some shopping channels. Reception from Winter Hill is best in hilly areas in the east of the Island while signals from Caldbeck in Cumbria are received by many viewers in the north. Many people in the west of the Island watch Freeview directly from Northern Ireland. - iomtoday.co.im

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Broadcasters challenge TVCatchup - Digital Spy

Web-TV service TVCatchup has been hit with a joint legal challenge from three British broadcasters alleging infringement of their copyright. The two channels are already available on TVCatchup's website and mobile app, along with a near-live simulcast of Channel 4, E4 and Five. In response to the legal filing, TVCatchup told the Financial Times that it has already applied for court approval of its streaming service. - digitalspy.co.uk

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Intel, itv and lovefilm outline the future of web tv - The Inquirer

Last year only about two per cent of TVs sold in Europe had internet connectivity and 12 per cent this year, so obviously it's something that is growing incredibly rapidly. Intel, although it's mainly known for making chips, is one of the companies that has looked at this trend with great interest. It has put big resources and research into how it can take advantage of TVs, which vastly outnumber PCs and smartphones put together. - theinquirer.net

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BSkyB: Going global | Editorial | Comment is free | The Guardian

Type news.sky.com into your internet browser and you get an impressive news website that would make any newspaper proud. He could easily bump up the price of a Sky subscription and chuck in complimentary access to the Times or Sun online and hardly any of the nearly 10 million Sky subscribers would notice the extra cost direct debits have that strange power of semi-invisibility, after all. The business logic of this deal is partly why, one presumes, share markets are putting a high likelihood on the takeover coming off provided News Corp raises its offer for the 61 of Sky it does not own already. - guardian.co.uk

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Murdoch prepares to tighten his grip -Business Analysis Features, Business - The Independent

News Corporation owns a near 40 per cent stake in the pay-TV provider and the Australian tycoon has decided the time is right for one of the company's founding shareholders to take full control. The target's independent directors also announced they had dismissed both, and the shares leapt 16 per cent, the most in a decade, on the belief a deal will be done at a full price. Insiders said this was the first time such an approach had been made. - independent.co.uk

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Peston: Murdochs London-based global news hub

BSkyB's board and its advisers believe the business is worth around 1bn more, or greater than 800p per share. Well, News Corporation will press ahead with the process of trying to buy Sky by initiating the process of having the European competition regulator scrutinise the deal. One interesting question is whether British regulators, the Office of Fair Trading and Ofcom, and the British government will want to repatriate scrutiny of the deal, as they have the right to do. - bbc.co.uk

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News Corp courts BSkyB board with improved offer | Media | guardian.co.uk

News Corporation has increased its offer to take full control of BSkyB, which has again been rebuffed by the broadcaster, but the two companies have agreed to hold talks to find a mutually agreeable price and tackle regulatory issues. The offer was rejected by BSkyB's independent directors as undervaluing the company. BskyB's share price rose 21, up by 126p to 726.5p, in early trading. - guardian.co.uk

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Murdoch Said to Seek Full Control of BSkyB - DealBook Blog - NYTimes.com

Rupert Murdoch appears to be on the prowl again, with British Sky Broadcasting as his target. The newspapers said Mr. Murdochs offer valued the entire company at 11.6 billion to 12 billion, or more than 17 billion a valuation that would represent a premium of more than 10 percent over BSkyBs market capitalization on Monday. The Financial Times quoted an unidentified person familiar with BSkyBs position as saying, This is not a price that can be considered. - dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com

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Freeview Allowed To Use DRM To Curtail Online Piracy| paidContent:UK

We dont know how many Freeview receivers out there dont currently use DRM, which controls viewers what can do with the programmes. The impact of the BBC proposals on the supply of receivers to the mass market is negligible. The BBC proposals do not prohibit the use of open source software in receivers, but we recognise the proposal may introduce some restrictions on how it is used. - paidcontent.co.uk

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informitv - Sky buys Virgin Media channels and secures distribution

Some might question why the cable company would want to sell its channels to a satellite competitor, or indeed why Sky would want to buy them. The mainstream media has focussed on the facts of the deal at face value. Sky will pay 160 million in cash for the Virgin Media Television channels business, with 105 million up front and the remainder payable subject to regulatory clearance. - informitv.com

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What is the BBC platform strategy?

Up until now, I could have believed that the BBCs iPlayer platform strategy was plausibly based on customer reach. The BBC did manage to make an iPad version before a single iPad had been sold in the country. The strategy isnt based on anything measurable. - po-ru.com

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Neil Berkett: why Virgin Media wants to work with Project Canvas | Media | guardian.co.uk

Neil Berkett says Project Canvas partners must change their approach. Virgin Media's opposition to Canvas has been widely but not always accurately reported we stand squarely behind the project's aims as they were originally presented we question whether, in practice, it's evolving in a way that matches the joint venture partners' rhetoric. Like its predecessor, Freeview, the Canvas joint venture will not make or sell set-top boxes. - guardian.co.uk

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World Cup 2010: viewers locked out of ITV watch and chat service | Media | guardian.co.uk

World Cup 2010 Siphiwe Tshabalala of South Africa scores. The initiative allows viewers with laptops to customise the ITV.com live stream with a range of interactive elements from a chat service which can link to Facebook to polls, quizzes and statistics on teams and players. England's third and final qualifying game, against Slovenia, is on BBC1 at 3pm on Wednesday 23 June. - guardian.co.uk

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Jeremy Hunt: We have a media policy, not a BBC policy | Media | The Guardian

For a man determined not to talk about the BBC, the new culture secretary can't seem to help himself. At the very mention of BBC pay something he was more than happy to talk about during almost three years as shadow culture secretary he protests that he hasn't even met the director general, Mark Thompson, in the same tone most of us would use if we'd just been accused of sleeping with someone. It all seems a bit odd unless you think of the history, not just of the Conservatives but more recent clashes between Labour culture secretaries and Auntie. - guardian.co.uk

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Fears grow over funding for childrens television | Media | The Guardian

Peppa Pig, a homegrown television hit for children from Five. Photograph Five A funding crisis has gripped the production of children's programmes in the UK, threatening a long tradition that extends from the Clangers to the Teletubbies. Last week Ed Vaizey, the new culture minister, pledged to look afresh at a problem that has been debated for years, and which he was made aware of when he was an opposition spokesman. - guardian.co.uk

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BBC House style: news and web lingo as explained to an Iraqi

A new generation do not remember the Troubles Flag protests a question of context The peace process in Northern Ireland in 2013 is facing the twin challenge of dissident republican violence and loyalist street protests. - bbc.co.uk

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ITV apologises for clanger after 1.5m viewers miss England goal | Media | guardian.co.uk

England captain Steven Gerrard celebrates scoring his team's first goal against USA in Rustenburg. The audience peaked near the game's end at 9.15pm, attracting 20.1 million viewers, 73 of the total TV audience, on its two channels. As an investigation got under way, ITV blamed Technicolor, its transmission supplier. - guardian.co.uk

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ITV HD viewers miss Englands first World Cup goal

Viewers did not see Steven Gerrard's early strike against the USA in the 1-1 match. The match was seen by an average audience of 13.2m, which equated to 56 of the total number of people watching television at that time. - news.bbc.co.uk

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