Monday 26 January 2009, AM
Greg Dyke on how Ofcoms big idea is too little too late for ITV |Media |The Guardian
ITV was created as a regional system to counter the blatant London metropolitan bias of the BBC during the 1950s. We ended up with 15 ITV companies each running at least one regional news service - some ran two or three which the individual ITV companies were proud to broadcast. In fact, for the smaller ITV companies regional news was their raison d'etre. - guardian.co.uk
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What will Ofcoms second BBC mean for Channel 4 and other broadcasters? |Media |The Guardian
And, if they come to pass, they are likely to affect all the major players in public service broadcasting in one fell swoop. Ofcom's proposals could see Channel 4 as we know it subsumed into a wider entity with a completely new corporate structure. This idea of creating a second major public broadcaster is new and, according to government insiders, has come straight from the good Lord himself. - guardian.co.ukwww.guardian.co.ukSunday 25 January 2009, PM
Broadband for all plan under threat |Business |The Observer
Last week's dire profit warning from BT has put the company's plans to build a new super-fast broadband network for 10 million British homes in jeopardy. The warning also appears to have made it critical that the rest of the telecoms industry now help meet the estimated 3.5bn cost of realising the government's ambition to bring some form of broadband to every home by 2012. It emerged on Thursday that BT's corporate IT business had wildly over-estimated the potential profits it could make from a handful of large contracts. - guardian.co.ukwww.guardian.co.uk
ITV to become "limited" PSB
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
www.broadcastnow.co.ukOfcom risks making a pigs ear of C4 if we lose gourmet selection of quality TV | Business
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Teletexts public service remit at risk |Media |guardian.co.uk
The growth in internet usage and the arrival of nationwide digital television in 2012 means there may no longer be any reason for Teletext to have any public service remit, according to Ofcom. Losing its public service protection would mean Teletext would have to pay for the television signal which carries its text-based news service. It wants to merge some of its regions and reduce national news to 20 pages. - guardian.co.ukwww.guardian.co.uk
UKTV: its origins and its destiny |Media |guardian.co.uk
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The DTV delay -- would this be the last? | Betanews
The Act would push mandatory rollover back to June 12. The coupon program will be extended to July 31, and customers whose coupons expired before they could be used will be allowed to get fresh coupons. Rockefeller has been an outspoken critic of the timing and details of the changeover for years now as the current chair of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, he's gone from being one of three lonely votes against changeover-related issues to leading the pack on how to make it right. - betanews.com
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Premier League braced for ruling on pubs showing live football |Football |The Guardian
Legal experts said yesterday that the case, the latest round of a long-running battle with publicans over showing overseas broadcasts on a Saturday afternoon, could overturn the basis on which the Premier League sells its TV rights. Lawyers at Denton Wilde Sapte, which has acted for a range of sporting bodies including the Premier League, said the threat was significant. If it were to lose the case, then not only would pubs be able to avoid paying an average of 9,000 a season to show Sky and Setanta matches, with a knock-on effect on the amount broadcasters were prepared to pay, but it could impact on Saturday match attendances. - guardian.co.ukwww.guardian.co.ukPay-TV grey market could be fully legalised in Sky pubs challenge - What Satellite Digital TV
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-blog.wotsat.comTV regulator says C4 should merge in order to survive - Business News, Business - The Independ
The possibility of diverting some of the licence fee to C4 also remains on the table. Among the proposals were those relating to C4, and Ofcom called for an overhaul of the broadcaster to create a rival to the BBC. It proposed a remit of public service broadcasting content including news, current affairs, older children's programmes, shows made outside London and a range of digital media content. - independent.co.ukwww.independent.co.uk
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DTG News: Switchover Help Scheme to launch in Wales
The Digital Switchover Help Scheme will soon be offered to older and disabled people living in Wales. The Switchover Help Scheme has been set up to help eligible older and disabled people to switch to digital on one of their TV sets. People are eligible if they are aged 75 or over, are receiving or could receive attendance allowance, mobility supplement or disability living allowance, have lived in a care home for six months or more, or if they are registered blind or partially sighted. - dtg.org.ukwww.dtg.org.ukDTG News: Switchover messages to appear in Devon and Cornwall
From today, analogue viewers will see a series of intermittent messages such as This TV gets its signal from the Huntshaw Cross transmitter group, and needs to be ready for digital switchover on 12th August 2009. Viewers in the West Country who see the messages know they have to get ready. There are a number of ways to go digital depending on where you live. - dtg.org.ukwww.dtg.org.ukDTG News: Isle of Man to switch in 6 months
The Isle of Man is less than six months away from starting the switch to digital TV on 18 June 2009. Digital UK has published a message to all the island's residents don't leave it too late to get advice or buy equipment. If you are unsure about the different ways to get digital television, speak to your local retailer, call Digital UK on 08456 50 50 50, or visit digitaluk.co.uk. - dtg.org.ukwww.dtg.org.ukRadio Today with United Radio: Digital One plans DAB expansion
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Is Radio 4 too posh? Mark Damazer serves up his recipe for change - TV Radio, Media - The Ind
5 Live, with its cab drivers calling in to debate their favourite topics traffic wardens, roadworks and UK immigration policy Late last year, I suggested to Damazer that I should spend a week of continuous listening to his station, after which he'd talk to me in his office at Broadcasting House. From October 2009, Stourton 51 will be replaced by Justin Webb, currently North American editor. - independent.co.ukwww.independent.co.ukMonday 19 January 2009, PM
Senate considers delaying DTV transition until June | Betanews
If approved, Sen. Rockefeller's bill would extend the transition date by 90 days to June 12. This despite the fact that broadcasters say they are already ready, and most US stations are already broadcasting in DTV -- the real switch being thrown would be the one that turns off the analog signal. Already, broadcasters are being permitted to leave those signals running after February 17, if only to show images informing viewers that regular analog broadcasts have ceased. - betanews.comwww.betanews.comFriday 16 January 2009, PM
Media Talk: Putting the 'Da' into the Evening Standard
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Rochdale Online -Are you ready to go Digital?
With less than 12 months to go before Rochdale makes the digital television switch over, Digital UK is urging viewers to make sure they are ready. Almost nine out of ten households in the town now has a digital television set ahead of the 4 November switch over. Television in Rochdale is powered by the Winter Hill transmitter, which lies between Manchester and Preston. - rochdaleonline.co.uk
www.rochdaleonline.co.ukTelegent chip to bring Freeview to netbooks? | News | TechRadar UK
Telegent has developed a new single-chip TV receiver that will allow laptop manufacturers to bring Freeview enabled computers out of the box. The TLG2300 offers both digital and analogue television integration on a chip, opening up the possibility that your netbook or laptop will come fully equipped to act as a digital television. We've contacted Telegent Systems to find out just how effective the chip is without an external aerial, but the early suggestions are that it should work fine. - techradar.com
www.techradar.comBBC HD: "Creeping" DOGs Update - BBC Internet Blog
I had hoped that I could come back and tell you that the creeping DOGs which I also noticed watching the channel at home over the holidays were just a temporary seasonal aberration, caused as a result of staff less familiar with the channel or more stretched because of the holidays, making mistakes. The system for taking the DOG off certain content is not effectively automated, and therefore changes like adjustments to junctions between programmes can cause it to reappear. However, while that may have been a factor it does not explain - as a number of you have noted - why it was on Anne Frank or Larkrise which like you I don't expect to see it on. - bbc.co.uk
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Lord Carter could propose Channel 4 merger into wider entity, claims report |Media |guardian.co.uk
Lord Carter will publish the Digital Britain report in the next few weeks. Carter's report will conclude that Channel 4 is no longer unique in a multichannel TV and digital media age and is struggling to balance its public service broadcasting remit with its need for commercial funding, according to the FT. The report is understood to say that the BBC will remain the cornerstone of public service broadcasting, suggesting that the government will reject calls to top-slice the licence fee. - guardian.co.ukwww.guardian.co.ukThursday 15 January 2009, PM
Andy Duncan dismisses merger of Channel 4 with Five |Media |guardian.co.uk
Andy Duncan said a merger 'made no sense whatsoever'. Duncan also made a thinly-veiled attack on US web search giant Google's lack of investment in the UK creative industries. However, other broadcasters have questioned whether these initiatives would provide this level of financial benefit. - guardian.co.ukwww.guardian.co.ukThursday 15 January 2009, AM
The Office of Fair Trading: Review of the Contract Rights Renewal Undertakings
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York council homes to get digital TV aerials (From York Press)
The new systems have recently been introduced in the Nunnery Lane area of York. The work is being carried out to prepare tenants for Yorks switch-over to digital TV in 2011. The work is being funded by charging tenants 50p per week for maintenance of their community aerial, rather than 17p. - thepress.co.uk
www.thepress.co.ukDigital set-up hits residents pockets - Scarborough Evening News
Kevin Drinkall, 53, of Woodland Walk, is frustrated that Yorkshire Coast Homes is insisting on charging its 1,200 tenants who live in sheltered accommodation an additional 26 a year. The money will fund the new service, which will give residents access to Freeview, using a digital TV or set top box, plus access to Sky Plus by subscription without an additional aerial or dish. He said They now want to charge me 26 a year for something I dont need. - scarborougheveningnews.co.ukwww.scarborougheveningnews.co.uk
Dave brings +1 to Freeview | Broadband TV News
Dave, the self-styled home of witty banter, is adding its 1 hour channel to the UKs DTT platform Freeview. The channel, already available on Sky and Virgin Media, will go live on January 22 and continue between 08.00 and 04.00 daily. Its mix of popular comedy, panel games, and light hearted documentary features has helped define the channel while providing Freeview households with a glimpse of multichannel television outside of the public broadcasters. - broadbandtvnews.com
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Timeshifted Dave to launch on Freeview.
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BBC sorry for misquoting experts views |Media |The Observer
Dorothy Rowe complained to the corporation that her interview on the Radio 2 programme What Do You Believe had been so heavily edited that the final version misrepresented her views. What was not broadcast was what I had said about how such structures can be damaging to people. An Australian who spends much of her time in the UK, she has become one of the most respected modern-day thinkers, named as one of the six wisest people in the UK by a magazine and voted one of the world's 100 living geniuses in a global poll. - guardian.co.ukwww.guardian.co.ukTuesday 13 January 2009, PM
BBC deal could secure ITV local news until 2016 |Media |guardian.co.uk
ITV executives believe a deal to share resources with the BBC would guarantee the commercial broadcaster's regional news services until at least 2016. The proposed deal would see ITV and BBC regional news services produce separate programmes but share buildings and even news footage. Grade is heavily lobbying for the removal of a swathe of regulations - including abolishing programming production quotas and abolishing public service broadcasting licence payments - which ITV says costs it hundreds of millions of pounds. - guardian.co.ukwww.guardian.co.ukSky introduces low-power LNB
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Terrestrial - News - No SuperCasino for Northern Ireland - Digital Spy
The service will be available 24 hours a day on channel 48 in England, Scotland and Wales. However, gambling regulations in Northern Ireland mean that it is not carried on the Belfast transmitter. - digitalspy.co.uk
www.digitalspy.co.ukStephen Brook on Channel 4s funding gap |Media |guardian.co.uk
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The channel will air on Freeview 84 seven days a week between the hours of 9pm and 1am. 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.ukMonday 12 January 2009, AM
Alok Jha on Skys plans to save tonnes of CO2 |Media |The Guardian
It was the first UK broadcaster to go carbon neutral and now Sky wants to do more. The company's latest plans, announced today, include energy-efficient studios, upgrading set-top boxes to automatically go into standby mode, and encouraging production companies to develop more sustainable ways to make programmes. To offset a total carbon footprint of just over 52,000 tones, the company, chaired by James Murdoch, has invested in wind and hydro energy schemes in China and India. - guardian.co.ukwww.guardian.co.ukSunday 11 January 2009, PM
The DTV launch is a shambles, say FCC commissioners | Betanews
Adelstein has served at the FCC since 2002, and McDowell began his first term in 2006. Remember the coordinated governmental effort to fix and work around potential Y2K problems That tech initiative, like the DTV transition, involved multiple agencies. - betanews.comwww.betanews.comSaturday 10 January 2009, PM
The UK government s plans to retain email data and rate online content will cost too much, destroy business, liber
JBL will be at CES this year, which is no surprise, and itll be showing off at least a trio of new speakers, which also isnt that surprising. ReadMore A number of startups have attempted to create what might be termed the Instagram for video. Now, before you throw up in your mouth at such an idea, consider the players so far. - uk.techcrunch.comuk.techcrunch.comFriday 09 January 2009, PM
Deadline announced for local TV licences
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.ukDigital television switchover is on July 1
As the credit crunch bites harder many people will want to know how much going digital will cost. The Huntshaw Cross transmitter and its smaller local relay masts which serve much of North Devon will be converted so they can broadcast digital signals, offering more choice in channels and services. Residents who want to receive television via an aerial will need to make sure their TVs can receive these digital signals. - thisisnorthdevon.co.ukwww.thisisnorthdevon.co.uk
Financial crisis boosts Freesat sales | News | TechRadar UK
The latest data from Freesat shows that sales of the subscription-free satellite service doubled in the run-up to Christmas. The success of Freesat, which launched in May last year, can be attributed to several factors. As the economic crisis continues to bite, Freesat's free digital TV package is an ideal choice for telly-watchers. - techradar.comwww.techradar.comU.K. Stocks Drop for Third Day; Anglo American, ITV, BSkyB Fall
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Ive read Ofcoms public service review submissions so you dont have to |Media |guardian.co.uk
Ofcom received some 300 submissions in December, in response to the regulator's Public Service Broadcasting Review phase two, and prior to its final recommendations, which it will publish later this month. Several worried stars, including Grand Designs' Kevin McCloud, plead Channel 4's case. now a backer of Danny Boyle's film Slumdog Millionaire and is exercised about the future of Channel 4 subsidiary Film4. - guardian.co.ukwww.guardian.co.ukBBC NEWS | Technology | TVs on show at tech expo
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