Monday 21 June 2010, PM
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.ukwww.guardian.co.uk
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.ukwww.guardian.co.ukTesco launches UKs first HD Freeview+ PVR | PC Retail Industry | PCR
Tags Tesco, freeview, world cup, ip vision, smartbox, technika - pcr-online.biz
www.pcr-online.bizMonday 21 June 2010, AM
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.ukwww.guardian.co.uk
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.ukwww.guardian.co.ukFriday 18 June 2010, PM
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
www.bbc.co.ukGetting the most from your digital TV recorder - TV, music and radio - Which? Advice
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www.which.co.ukWhats 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.ukwww.bbc.co.ukITV 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.ukwww.mediaweek.co.ukThe Value of Everything
We have the size, the value and the mission to change the fundamental nature of public access. - bbc.co.ukwww.bbc.co.ukFriday 18 June 2010, AM
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.ukwww.dtg.org.ukThursday 17 June 2010, PM
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.ukwww.cable.co.ukSky Sports News to be removed from Freeview - Press Gazette
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Media: 16 June 2010 Bloody Sunday, Wikileaks
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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
www.kurzweilai.netWednesday 16 June 2010, AM
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
www.digitalspy.co.ukIntel, 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.ukwww.guardian.co.ukMurdoch 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
www.independent.co.ukTuesday 15 June 2010, AM
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.ukwww.bbc.co.uk
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.ukwww.guardian.co.ukMurdoch 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
dealbook.blogs.nytimes.comMonday 14 June 2010, PM
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
paidcontent.co.ukinformitv - 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
informitv.comWhat 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.ukwww.guardian.co.ukWorld 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.ukwww.guardian.co.ukJeremy 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.ukwww.guardian.co.ukFears 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.ukwww.guardian.co.uk
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.ukwww.bbc.co.ukITV 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.ukwww.guardian.co.ukSunday 13 June 2010, AM
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.uknews.bbc.co.ukSaturday 12 June 2010, PM
ITV1 HD massive world cup fail - James Cridland
Turns out I made the wrong choice ITV1 HD managed to go to an ad break at the worst possible time. Watch the video above to discover how badly they messed up. Adrian Chiles at half time apologised for some breaks if you were watching in HD hardly an honest apology and the channels been in SD since. - james.cridland.net
james.cridland.netSaturday 12 June 2010, AM
Goodbye, radio via 3G we can t afford you - James Cridland
The typical refrain of poor journalists and sub-grade radio consultants is that broadcast radios days are numbered. Talk to them and theyll tell you not to bother with DAB, or HD, or whatever because the internet is the future of radio. In the US, 50 of total hours TSL is spent in a mobile situation, like in a car. - james.cridland.netjames.cridland.netRadio Today.. with BIONICS: NME Radio to leave DAB
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Thursday 10 June 2010, PM
Project canvas could engage by september - The Inquirer
If it comes to fruition, Project Canvas should be available to all ISPs that want it, offering a range of on-demand services through broadband Internet and a television set. All content will be in one place without any subscription required, so in effect anybody with a broadband connection will be able to use it. Also speaking at the event was Bob Hannent, chief technologist at Humax, who said that Project Canvas is all about the seamless combination of broadcast and broadband, truly integrated with each other so that consumers don't have to worry about it. - theinquirer.netwww.theinquirer.netMedia Talk: Jeremy Hunt, GMG's losses, and Big Brother
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High definition brings fans closer to World Cup action Ofcom
It has been 40 years since the last major development in World Cup viewing technology, when in 1970, the Mexico World Cup was broadcast in colour for the first time. This year, fans will be hoping for a better result from HD. HD sales figures Up to five times more detailed than standard definition TV, every flick of the ball, every blade of grass, and every bead of sweat will be more visible than ever before in HD. - ofcom.org.uk
www.ofcom.org.ukWhich? Tech weekly podcast 10 June 2010 - TV, music and radio - Which? Advice
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Dont mind your language: public relaxed over TV swearing | Media | The Guardian
More recently, 10 million ITV viewers saw John Lydon use the C-word and fewer than 100 complained. Ofcom, which is responsible for policing taste and decency on the airwaves, said the public were willing to tolerate mild swearing and offensive language at any time of the day. It is the first detailed research on attitudes towards offensive language on television and radio to be published by Ofcom in five years. - guardian.co.ukwww.guardian.co.uk
BBC The Media Show, 09/06/2010
At the same time, he has cancelled plans to pilot replacements for ITV's news in Wales, Scotland and the north east of England. The architect of the local tv plans, Roger Parry, explains how they could work and media analyst Claire Enders gives her view on whether they really are viable. Sue Ayton, who represented Adrian Chiles for 10 years, looks behind the speculation. - bbc.co.ukwww.bbc.co.ukTwo cheers for Jeremy Hunts plan for ultra-local TV services | Markets Analysis
In signalling his intention to sweep away cross-media ownership rules he hopes that the absence of restrictions will lead in turn to investment in local TV. Surely the capital is crying out for similar screen-based coverage of news, weather and traffic reports. English attempted to emulate NY1, adopting its main news-gathering operation, which involved a battalion of young video journalists running around London streets and in the days before digital transmission returning as fast a possible to base to edit and transmit their stories. - thisislondon.co.uk
www.thisislondon.co.ukWelcome to Project Baird Project Baird
Project Baird is a collaborative effort to collate a set of open-ended specifications for delivering different kinds of content to digital TV devices across the Internet. The specifications are intended to be device, broadcaster and platformagnostic as much as possible. Project Baird is built upon, wherever possible, existing standards and projects. - projectbaird.comprojectbaird.comWednesday 09 June 2010, AM
BBC Trusts Sir Michael Lyons reaches out to Jeremy Hunt | Media | guardian.co.uk
Lyons and Hunt are said to have had a lengthy private meeting, without the presence of advisers, over the past few days. A BBC Trust spokeswoman declined to comment on Lyons's diary appointments. The pair disagreed publicly in the run up to last month's general election over the future of the BBC Trust. - guardian.co.ukwww.guardian.co.ukOfcom online copyright infringement consultation : | OfcomWatch |
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