Sky looking at regional news

BSkyB has never openly expressed a wish to supply regional television programming but recently, as the traditional channels fight over who is going to provide public service broadcasting and where the financing is going to come from, it seems that this may have offered BSkyB an opportunity on plate. However, it would seem that BSkyBs idea of providing regional programming involves taking the online route, rather than fitting it into the schedules. Sky News is already used by Five and some radio stations as their new provider, which offers another outlet for regional television programmes if BSkyB is interested in taking it up. - techwatch.co.uk

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Elgato launches Diversity for Mac

Hot on the heels of its Mac-specific TV tuner, Elgato has announced the release of another TV-oriented device. Designed to pick up DVB-T or Freeview, as its known signals in areas with low reception or when on the move, this device features twin tuners which allow the user to watch one channel and record another, or even record two simultaneously. - cclonline.com

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BBC Media Show: 11 February 2009

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DTG News: Ofcom opts for AVC 4.0 for UK HD DTT

Ofcom said they expected that this decision would continue for at least the medium term, and that they would include it as their recommended option when they formally consult on the Reference Parameters later in the year when there is greater certainty on the choice of transmission mode. DTG Staff 10.02.2009 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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BBC mulls kids radio station

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BBC Post adds second 5.1 suite

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BBC NEWS | Technology | We want information, here and now

The information superhighway has a few intersections at country borders Old agreements on content distribution no longer work, says Bill Thompson. I'm old enough to have watched it the first time around and remember the shock we all felt at the last episode, so I was looking forward to revisiting a few episodes without having to make the effort to borrow the full DVD box set from somewhere. I would happily have watched online and let AMC advertise to me in return, but sadly it was not to be. - news.bbc.co.uk

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informitv - Sky comes down on Ofcom for interventionist regulation

British Sky Broadcasting has sharply criticised the communications regulator Ofcom in response to its latest review of the pay television sector. Criticising the imposition of highly interventionist regulation the satellite broadcaster says It is time for Ofcom to take a step back and avoid being led into a misadventure which threatens to push Ofcom far outside the bounds of mainstream regulatory thinking. Sky has successfully bid to retain the rights to the majority of Premier League football coverage through until 2013, regaining five of the six match packages on offerthe most it is now allowedat the cost of over 1.6 billion. - informitv.com

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DTG News: Freeview chosen for Switchover Help Scheme in Granada

Almost seven million people around the country will be eligible for help under the Help Scheme, according to eaga who manage the scheme. The ITV Granada region will be the most populated so far to switch to digital at the end of this year. The help also includes a demonstration of how to use the equipment, an aerial check and upgrade if necessary for those that own their own aerials, and a Help Line to ring for advice while they get used to it. - dtg.org.uk

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10 Luxuries You Can Get For Less - 06/02/2009

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MEN wins auction to launch Channel M on Freeview - Press Gazette

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ITV apologises for big match adverts own goal - TV Radio, Media - The Independent

ITV has apologised to football fans for showing adverts during the only goal in the Merseyside derby. Some just managed to catch the goal after a number of ITV regions and digital channels returned to the game seconds before Gosling's strike. The system is not designed for live events such as football games which can over-run and delay the schedule. - independent.co.uk

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House votes to delay DTV transition, President likely to sign | Betanews

At one point, Walden and other House Republicans invoked the name of R. Obama's transition team, implying that there may have been a conflict of interest that went uncontested. I look forward to joining my two colleagues, Acting Chairman Copps and Commissioner Adelstein, in quickly implementing the will of the Congress. - betanews.com

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Now we are 20 | Broadband TV News

It is difficult to imagine that in the first year of its existence the Luxembourg Socit Europenne des Satellites, the operator of the Astra satellites, had difficulty filling all 16 transponders on its first satellite. In 1982, the then Prime Minister Pierre Werner mooted the idea of a Luxembourg based television satellite. Also, each of these satellites only had capacity for five TV channels. - broadbandtvnews.com

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BBC Media Show: 4 February 2009

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ITV to reveal more cuts on 4 March

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Watchdog vetoes video-on-demand plan - TV Radio, Media - The Independent

The service, called Project Kangaroo, had been expected to launch last autumn with thousands of hours of TV. Plans for the service had included it containing some free and some paid-for programmes, launching online and eventually on TV sets. - independent.co.uk

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Doctor Who goes HD!

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Broadcasters Kangaroo tied down | BBC NEWS | Entertainment

The Competition Commission had made similar provisional findings in December, but had said changes could be made to allay fears from other broadcasters that they would not be able to compete with Kangaroo. - news.bbc.co.uk

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WIN! A Metronic Freesat HD receiver - What Satellite Digital TV

Like other Freesat receivers, theres a bespoke EPG for Freesat channels where you can view information and synopses for programmes 7 days in advance. You can also group channels into favourites lists. Metronic hasnt forgotten those who want even more than the growing number of channels Freesat has to offer either as, with the right dish setup you can use the receiver to scan other satellites for channels too for which a separate EPG is provided. - futurecompetitions.com

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Media Monkey: Sky News feels the squeeze |Media |guardian.co.uk

Noticed anything different about Sky News over the past few days Monkey, who loves a news channel rejig and has been avidly watching to see the join, hears the new Sky News will be unleashed at 6am tomorrow. To find out more information about driving traffic to your content or to place this widget on your site, visit outbrain.com. - guardian.co.uk

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Terrestrial - News - Russia Today launches on Freeview - Digital Spy

The channel, which secured a limited slot on Freeview last month, broadcasts on digital terrestrial from 6am-8am daily. It broadcasts for 24 hours a day on digital satellite. - digitalspy.co.uk

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TV news has been a Darwinian evolution - TV Radio, Media - The Independent

Since Darwin's bicentenary has prompted a small industry it seems appropriate to assess the influence of Sky on the evolution of the news industry. During its 20-year history, Sky News' innovative techniques have played a pivotal role in the transformation of news. Before Sky News launched as the first European news channel, on 5 February 1989, the television news landscape was a grey place. - independent.co.uk

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Whats in a name? In TV, quite a lot - TV Radio, Media - The Independent

With comfort brands reportedly faring well in these times of economic hardship, the broadcaster has chosen decidedly feel-good names for the re-branding of three of its channels. It is a process that began with UKTV G2 being renamed as Dave nearly 18 months ago. Matthew Littleford, UKTV's controller, refutes such simplicity, wafting his multi-coloured graphs and computer printouts to demonstrate the scientific nature of the exercise. - independent.co.uk

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Directgov gets its own Freeview channel | News | TechRadar UK

The government has formed a partnership with Teletext to bring the delights of the Directgov to Freeview. Directgov is the government's digital information service, helping people with things as diverse as motoring, finding a job or how to receive benefits. The service will now be available to people through page 750 on Teletext, but there is also a dedicated service on Freeview channel 106. - techradar.com

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Signals to switch in district - Midhurst and Petworth Today

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informitv - Digital delay uncertainty confuses switch off message

The end of analogue television transmissions in America continues to be covered in confusion. The House of Representatives failed to reach the required two thirds majority to pass a fast-tracked delay to the end of analogue broadcasts. The Senate had unanimously approved a bill to postpone the planned switch off on 17 February until June 12. - informitv.com

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Charlie Brooker: Chudge, nowtrage and plebbledash - just three of the words to learn from my New Media Dictionary |

This week, in a break from my traditional self-centred misanthropic festival of whining, here's an abridged version of the New Media Dictionary a useful compendium of terms and definitions for the exciting world of modern mass communication. To believe that airing one's views in either a newspaper column or the Have Your Say section accompanying the online version of said newspaper column is a meaningful activity. Self-consciously odious celebrity who trades on their own widely accepted repugnance to infuriatingly lucrative effect, thereby creating an unassailable feedback loop of violent loathing in absolutely everyone other than themselves eg Piers Morgan. - guardian.co.uk

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Industry reaction

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DTG News: Two thirds of Tourism TVs still need to switch

Two thirds of tourism businesses in the West Country have televisions that risk going blank when the region completes the switch to digital this summer. Research from Digital UK reveals that only 40 of hoteliers and BB owners across the region have fully converted televisions in all guest rooms up from 27 in January 2007. 25 have partly switched to digital and more than a third have analogue only. - dtg.org.uk

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Six weeks to strike C4/BBCW deal

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informitv - Channel Four and BBC discuss future of UKTV channels

Quite how Channel 4 would contribute cash is currently unclear. In 2007 Channel Four made a profit of just half a million pounds on a turnover of nearly a billion. The corporation has around 200 million in reserves and a 250 million borrowing facility. - informitv.com

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ITV prepared to set 35m cap on PSB programming | Media | guardian.co.uk

Michael Grade spoke before the Lords communications committee today. Grade added that ITV would provide international and national news as part of the 35m public service broadcasting spend and government could decide what it should do with the remaining budget. Under the Ofcom proposal, ITV might continue to provide airtime for regional news supplied by other companies. - guardian.co.uk

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BBC - Press Office - Charlie Brookers News Wipe for BBC Four

The series will be a funny, thoughtful and scabrous digest of recent news events. News Wipe will take a look at the brilliant or preposterous way the news is presented to us. There will also be experts on hand to pick apart certain stories and analyse the news media's obsessions. - bbc.co.uk

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Digital Britain: Report is a rope bridge to the future |Media |guardian.co.uk

Very few people will find much to argue with there. Given the current pulsating madness of the media world, with its structural collapse, its almost daily dilemmas and scandals played out in public, Stephen Carter has produced a report which does just enough to reassure us that the direction of travel is correct but stops short of detailed planning and analysis. For that we have to wait for Carter Part II, due out in the summer, which will produce the framework for any changes in law that will be required. - guardian.co.uk

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Digital Britain: Lord Carter reports, we report |Technology |guardian.co.uk

Today, the British government has published the Carter report, which is intended to position us for our digital future Stephen Carter published the Digital Britain report today. No, forget that you can just skim this passage Today's interim report from Lord Carter sets out the scale of our ambition to compete in the digital economy, a market currently worth over 50 billion a year in Britain alone and expected to grow rapidly in the future. Our digital networks will be the backbone of our economy in the decades ahead. - guardian.co.uk

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Broadband for every home by 2012 - Online, Media - The Independent

Lord Carter's Digital Britain report proposed to scrap BT's obligation to ensure every home has access to a telephone line and replace it with a requirement to provide broadband. This so-called universal service commitment would aim to ensure everyone had quick enough internet access to watch videos online. The report also proposed the creation of a new body to deal with the problem of people illegally copying and sharing music and films over the internet. - independent.co.uk

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BBC Worldwide facing stricter control

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Digital Britain report set to be unveiled

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Tanya Byrons role in Digital Britain |Media |guardian.co.uk

Tanya Byron part of communications minister Stephen Carter's review team. The specific challenge, as far as children are concerned, is to give fresh impetus to tackling peer to peer file sharing of child pornography, and the use of social networking sites by paedophiles. For instance, the Internet Watch Foundation, established 12 years ago, has won the respect of ISPs, which take down sites identified as hosting illegal content on its recommendation. - guardian.co.uk

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Ofcom: ITVs Home Office deal broke rules

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Emily Bell on the historic plan to preserve C4 from topslicing |Media |The Guardian

For those of us clustered in and around the tightknit, intense community of media policy wonks, last Thursday's Oxford Media Convention bordered on the historic. For those in the room with their Moleskine notebooks and MacBooks it was like seeing the Sex Pistols at the 100 Club - only with more specs and lanyards. It has taken an almost ridiculous number of reports, civil servants, thinktanks and ink to reach the unusual conclusion that what public service content provision really needs is for C4 to be topsliced in order to augment the BBC. - guardian.co.uk

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DTG News: TV Retune required for DTT viewers in South Coast

Digital UK announced that the changes are part of a re-organisation of the airwaves which will protect existing digital services from interference from neighbouring areas in the UK and France where switchover is starting in mid-2009. Analogue viewers who make the switch to digital now will be able not only to continue enjoying Five but also many extra TV channels, radio and text services. For digital viewers, retuning their equipment should only take a few moments and we are here to offer advice to anyone who needs it. - dtg.org.uk

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BBC Media Show: 28 January 2009

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The DTV Delay Act might not delay DTV for some | Betanews

328 released this morning to the Library of Congress. Should broadcasters within a given region vacate the analog spectrum prior to June 12, the FCC may determine whether public safety officials may be granted access to the vacated frequencies...evidently in separate determinations per region. Should an individual have been given a government coupon toward the purchase of a digital converter box, the Act states, and that coupon has not yet been redeemed, the government may issue a replacement coupon. - betanews.com

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House Republicans invoke bin Laden to expedite DTV transition | Betanews

That should be reason enough to go full speed ahead with the DTV transition. Rep. Waxman apparently worked with Speaker Pelosi to suspend the usual rules in which the bill would have debated in committee during a markup session this week. That suspension fast-tracked the bill, so it could be debated on the House floor without alteration. - betanews.com

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Government delays UK net report | BBC NEWS | Technology

The full report and action plan will be unveiled in late spring 2009. The report is examining a number of different areas, including broadband development, public service broadcasting and digital radio. It is thought the report may set minimum broadband speeds and impose obligations on telecom suppliers to provide universal coverage. - news.bbc.co.uk

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