Great things to read about British TV from March 2008 to today

Thursday 15 September 2016, AM

DTG :: News :: Nokia demonstration of the flexibility of the UHF TV broadcast band

However the event started with a presentation from Finnish Minister for Transport and Communications-Anne Berner-saying that the European Council should consider fully flexible use of the 470-694 MHz band including uplink and mobile networks should be developed to replace DTT. Anthony Whelan, Director for Electronic Communications Networks Services, DG Connect added that flexibility for downlink use is needed in the sub 700 band but with enough direction to avoid fragmentation in the market. Lastly a snapshot of interactive services available with the mobile connected to a laptop to deliver catch-up and on demand services as well as live TV. There was not a demonstration of LTE broadcast with Nokia and Qualcomm adding that developments to eMBMS with 3GPP rel-14 will enable greater opportunities for use of LTE broadcast with handsets including rel-14 features available by around 2019. - dtg.org.uk

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Wednesday 14 September 2016, PM

Theresa May's role in BBC chief's exit 'brutal and extraordinary' | Media | The Guardian

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Monday 12 September 2016, PM

C4 relocation back on the agenda

Reports have emerged that Channel 4 is to be moved to Birmingham as it prepares for its first official meeting with the government’s culture secretary. Karen Bradley, who took over from John Whittingdale in July, is expected to meet with C4 chief executive David Abraham this week and, according to The Telegraph, will set out her support for relocating the broadcaster. Bradley and culture minister Matt Hancock are not expected to pursue privatisation but believe moving the broadcaster’s headquarters north would boost the creative economy outside London. - www.broadcastnow.co.uk

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Capital goes national on DAB Digital Radio

Global's Capital has appeared on the Digital One multiplex as Capital UK, taking the London based hit music station truly national for the first time. Capital joins other Global brands Capital XTRA, Smooth Extra, Heart extra, LBC, Classic and Radio X on D1. The only Global station not on national DAB now is Gold. - radiotoday.co.uk

Friday 09 September 2016, PM

09/09/2016 Radio 4 Feedback

Wednesday 07 September 2016, PM

John Hardie, CEO of ITN, Keith Vaz and public interest journalism, The Archers as a brand, Reporting on Taylor Swift

Monday 05 September 2016, AM

BONUS: Sally Wainwright in conversation with Russell T Davies

Sunday 04 September 2016, PM

BBC Studios boss: 'We're not looking for another Chris Evans on Top Gear'

Until the white paper's publication, BBC bosses were working on the assumption that, in return for freeing Studios to make programmes for other broadcasters, a minimum of 40 of BBC shows would be opened up to tender from independent producers, as had been negotiated with industry association Pact. Career 2016 director, BBC Studios 2015 acting director of television 2013 deputy director of television 2011 head of editorial standards, BBC Television 2010 member of BBC Television board 2009 controller of entertainment commissioning 2007 executive editor for entertainment commissioning 2004 director of entertainment, Talent Television 2001 managing director, Zeal Television 1997 head of entertainment, Tiger Aspect 1994 freelance series producer. - www.theguardian.com

Sunday 04 September 2016, AM

The BBC's fixation on 'balance' skews the truth

It was never clear, at least to this listener, why Steve Hilton, a US resident who once fell out with the last prime minister, became one of the anti-EU stars of the BBC's Brexit coverage, to the point of assisting with analysis on referendum night. To be fair to Mr Hilton, he could hardly be blamed for embracing a dazzling career in EU punditry when the BBC pressed it upon him, nor was his inexplicable prominence the most bizarre or regrettable aspect of the coverage which, according to polling by the Electoral Reform Society, played the biggest part in the referendum in keeping the British public informed. - www.theguardian.com

Thursday 01 September 2016, PM

BBC iPlayer: Viewers now need TV licence to watch catch-up

Viewers are now prompted to declare if they have a TV licence when they try to watch any content on iPlayer. The new rules apply to all devices used to access iPlayer - including laptops, smartphones, tablets, TV streaming devices and games consoles, as well as through third-party services such as Sky, Virgin or BT. A licence is not needed to watch S4C on iPlayer or to listen to BBC radio programmes. - www.bbc.co.uk

DAB digital radio reception gets a boost in Hull

A special radio event took place in Hull on Thursday morning urging listeners in Northern Lincolnshire and East Yorkshire to retune their digital radios sets. The retune is part of a programme of essential work which will immediately switch-on four new digital transmitters at High Hunsley, Hull Clough Road, Patrington and Garrowby Hill, and one further transmitter in Scunthorpe in October, improving and expanding DAB coverage for over 220,000 listeners in Scunthorpe, Goole, Bubwith, Market Weighton and Stamford Bridge. - radiotoday.co.uk

Wednesday 31 August 2016, PM

Mark Thompson; Is TV failing young audiences; Autumn schedules

Friday 26 August 2016, PM

#58 - Edinburgh International TV Festival 2016 - The Media Podcast with Olly Mann

Thursday 25 August 2016, PM

Olympics v Brexit coverage, Diversity monitoring, Gawker closes, New series Gangland

Thursday 18 August 2016, PM

#57 - What Lad Bible’s rise means for online video - The Media Podcast with Olly Mann

Wednesday 17 August 2016, PM

Covering Trump, BBC sitcom season, Vice's new TV channel

Friday 12 August 2016, PM

BBC launches subtitles for live channels on BBC iPlayer in world-first

BBC - BBC launches subtitles for live channels on BBC iPlayer in world-first - Media Centre. - www.bbc.co.uk

Wednesday 10 August 2016, PM

Reporting statistics, Detecting iPlayer use, The New European

Monday 08 August 2016, PM

Help Receiving TV and Radio

On Red Button, viewers on cable, satellite and Freeview/YouView can access upto 8 scheduled streams showing all the key sports and highlights throughout the Olympic period - cable and satellite viewers will also have the choice of watching those streams in high definition. For Freeview/Youview, additional information on how to access our Red Button Services and help with any issues can be found at our Freeview/Youview Rio 2016 page. - www.bbc.co.uk

Video on demand viewing

Video on demand accounts for 12 of viewing time on average, but it is much higher among those aged 16-24, who claim to spend less than half of their viewing time watching live or recorded television. The video on demand adoption figure is based on Kantar Media TGI research as reported by the communications regulator Ofcom in its Communications Market Report 2016. - informitv.com

informitv.com

Monday 08 August 2016, AM

Will Self: Our digital lives and the chaos beneath

The last century has seen two related processes occur the creation of higher and higher reproductive fidelity, both of sound and image and the wider and deeper dissemination of these sounds and images. Our willingness to upload our social existence to the web, to rely on it for our orientation, and to depend on it for our memory, means that when the silvery interface between us and it becomes perturbed, we seem to be witnessing the very lineaments of the thing in itself, stripped of its fleshly and humanising coat. - www.theguardian.com

Friday 05 August 2016, PM

#56 - Olympics Coverage A French Ban On Naming Mass Killers - The Media Podcast with Olly Mann

Wednesday 03 August 2016, PM

Naming terrorists; Naked Attraction; Facebook results

Monday 01 August 2016, PM

Changes to some of our HD channels on Freeview HD/YouView for the Olympics

BBC - Changes to some of our HD channels on Freeview HD/YouView for the Olympics - Help Receiving TV and Radio. - www.bbc.co.uk

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Monday 01 August 2016, AM

TV Licence laws are changing from September 2016

Currently households only need a licence to watch broadcast TV - including through Sky and Freeview - however, new laws mean you'll need to hold a 145.50 a year licence to watch live BBC channels, stream or download programmes on demand. According to TV Licensing, if you don't require a licence, you'll need to fill out a 'no licence needed' declaration form - however this may include a household inspection by the TV licence authority. - www.mirror.co.uk

www.mirror.co.uk

Friday 29 July 2016, AM

Making switching easier and more reliable for consumers

This document sets out our provisional view on the difficulties consumers currently experience when they switch, or consider switching, one or more triple play services between the Openreach, KCOM, Virgin cable and Sky satellite platforms. It also sets out our provisional assessment of options for reform to reduce these difficulties and deterrents, making switching easier and more reliable for consumers. - stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk

BBC told to do more for colour blind people after election complaints

The BBC has been told to do more to help the 2 million people who are colour blind in the UK after the BBC Trust upheld a series of complaints about confusing general election graphics. Colour Blind Awareness commended presenter Jeremy Vine, the figurehead of the BBC's election graphics, but said a number of difficulties were caused by the on-screen colour palette. - www.theguardian.com

Wednesday 27 July 2016, PM

CEO of Liberty Global Mike Fries, Guardian losses, Fox News CEO Roger Ailes departs

Fireman Sam Qur'an row gets alarm bells ringing at BBC

Spare a thought, if you would, for the good people of the BBC complaints department. Only to be expected, you might think, after the production company apologised for the incident and cut all its ties with the animation studio, which it blamed for the mistake. - www.theguardian.com

Friday 22 July 2016, PM

#55 - Brexit Boosts Fleet St... But For How Long? - The Media Podcast with Olly Mann

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Thursday 21 July 2016, AM

Channel 4 privatisation review was Whittingdale's agenda, says Ed Vaizey

The Guardian reported in May that the government was backing away from proposals for full privatisation of Channel 4, but was still considering other measures such as part-privatisation or forcing it to sell off its 100m London HQ and move to Manchester or Birmingham. Channel 4 chairman, Charles Gurassa, has previously criticised the destabilising impact of uncertainty over the broadcaster's future that has been felt since plans for a potential sell-off emerged last autumn. - www.theguardian.com

Wednesday 20 July 2016, PM

Turkish media crackdown, Ed Vaizey's legacy, Live streaming.

Wednesday 20 July 2016, AM

DTG :: News :: DTG HOSTS PMSE DEBATE

The DTG was recently delighted to host an informative debate on Programme Making Special Events as part of its DTG Spectrum Access Forum activity. One solution proposed by Ofcom to the reduction in spectrum available to PMSE, is for PMSE audio applications to share spectrum used by the Civil Aviation Authority between 960MHz and 1164MHz. - dtg.org.uk

dtg.org.uk

Tuesday 19 July 2016, PM

BBC+ The BBC, just for you – Android Apps on Google Play

BBC is the new app from the BBC that lets you mould all the content the BBC has to offer to suit your own tastes. The new BBC app lets you customise the categories so we only send you the bits of the vast store of content and contributors available through the BBC that you've shown an interest in. - play.google.com

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Tuesday 19 July 2016, AM

BT must 'put its house in order'

For its part, BT is keen to prove that it is getting its house in order and has just announced improvements in the time it takes customers to get an appointment for an Openreach engineer to repair or install broadband. Companies such as Sky, Vodafone and TalkTalk, who pay to use the network, have claimed in the past that BT underinvested in Openreach, leading to a poor service with interruptions and slow speeds. - www.bbc.co.uk

BBC 'personalisation' app ties together iPlayer and other digital services

The BBC has launched a new personalised app tying together access to all its digital services that it says will help the public get the most out of their licence fee. BBCPlus, which soft launches on Tuesday, collates BBC content and tailors recommendations, bringing together different services such as iPlayer and the BBC News website. - www.theguardian.com

Monday 18 July 2016, AM

http://www.digitaluk.co.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0009/88911/Digital_UK_Update_July_2016_web.pdf

- www.digitaluk.co.uk

www.digitaluk.co.uk

Radio Yorkshire returns to DAB in Leeds

Some of the services transferred to Bauer's Leeds multiplex but Radio Yorkshire didn't make the move. In programming news, Radio Yorkshire has also hired former Leeds and Rotherham boss Neil Redfearn as lead summariser for Leeds United Live coverage for the 2016/17 season. - radiotoday.co.uk

Saturday 16 July 2016, AM

Ed Vaizey ends role as Communications Minister

Minister of State for Culture, Communications and Creative Industries Ed Vaizey has left the Government. He previously served as jointly Minister of State for Business and Enterprise and Minister of State for Energy in the Conservative-Liberal Democrat Coalition Government. - radiotoday.co.uk

Friday 15 July 2016, PM

15/07/2016 Radio 4 Feedback

Thursday 14 July 2016, PM

John Whittingdale leaves role as Culture Secretary

John has only been in the role for 14 months, having been appointed by David Cameron in May 2015 following Sajid Javid's move to become Business Secretary. Since then he's attended many radio industry events, including the Radiocentre conference and the launch of DAB multiplexes. - radiotoday.co.uk

BBC News channel and World News face 10% cuts after merger is ruled out

The BBC News channel and the World News service face 10 cost cuts after the corporation decided against merging the two operations. The Guardian reported in December that the corporation had shelved plans to shut the BBC News channel and replace it with digital services after coming to the conclusion that it would only save in the region of 16m. Though the costs of running the channel exceed 110m, much of that budget in areas such as newsgathering would have to be assigned to other parts of the corporation if it were to close. - www.theguardian.com

Wednesday 13 July 2016, PM

BBC deputy director-general Anne Bulford, Should BBC have filmed the raid on Cliff Richard's home, Risks of true crime

Friday 08 July 2016, PM

08/07/2016 Radio 4 Feedback

Wednesday 06 July 2016, PM

THE MEDIA SHOW - 06.07.17

About 100 BBC Monitoring jobs to be axed amid £4m cuts

At least 98 jobs at the BBC Monitoring department are to be cut ahead of a 4m reduction in funding. BBC Monitoring was set up in 1939 to tap into foreign broadcasts and propaganda during the Second World War The service was independent from the BBC, and paid for by the Ministry of Defence, the Foreign Office and the BBC World Service Since its inception, it has provided coverage of the Cold War, the Yugoslav War and most recently, the Arab Spring The service translates communications from 100 languages from 150 countries, with offices across the globe In 2013 the service began being paid for by the licence fee. - www.bbc.co.uk