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

Wednesday 06 April 2016, PM

BBC Trust chair Rona Fairhead, 'Tips' when interviewing will.i.am, Press freedom v privacy

www.exeterexpressandecho.co.uk

Judge us by our quality, says BBC's Tony Hall

It was an upbeat performance by Tony Hall, BBC director general, at an event held by the Future for Public Service Television inquiry. He said the BBC's reputation was based on quality and having the funding to be able to put on such series as Happy Valley, BBC 2's Inside Obama's White House and the work of the Natural History Unit. - www.nuj.org.uk

www.nuj.org.uk

Wednesday 06 April 2016, AM

REVEALED: Mystery cause of East Devon TV signal fault

The cause of a mystery signal problem, which saw thousands of residents in East Devon miss their favourite TV shows, has been revealed. The mystery depended when at800, a company set up by mobile phone operators to tackle issues related to TV signal interference, said that a mast was unlikely to be the cause of the fault. - www.exeterexpressandecho.co.uk

Tuesday 05 April 2016, AM

Residents angry they're unable to receive Freeview television channels

Hundreds of people around Exmouth are able to watch Freeview channels again tonight after being without television for four days. Most people should now be back to normal, But many people who tried re-tuning their TVs now have to set them up all over again. - www.itv.com

www.itv.com

Monday 04 April 2016, PM

Netflix, Channel 5 rebrand, The end of print?

Saturday 02 April 2016, AM

BBC Wales: Ofcom Welsh Govt push for radio coverage boost

Acknowledging that the availability of BBC Radio Cymru and BBC Radio Wales is primarily a matter for the BBC, it noted that while FM coverage of BBC Radio Cymru was high, BBC Radio Wales could only reach 81 of households on FM. With the BBC currently exploring options for improving BBC Radio Wales FM coverage, Ofcom confirmed that it saw no reasons why the existing BBC National DAB multiplex, which carries all of the BBC's UK-wide stations, can't be re-configured to add BBC Radio Cymru and BBC Radio Wales via 14 unnamed transmitter sites in mid-Wales. Due to the way the BBC National DAB multiplex is broadcast as a single frequency network across the country, a solution that is being portrayed by Ofcom for mountainous mid-Wales is unlikely to be viable in other parts of the UK. BBC Local Radio in England and BBC radio stations for Scotland and Northern Ireland are carried on a network of local DAB multiplexes, operated by commercial organisations. - www.a516digital.com

www.a516digital.com

Friday 01 April 2016, PM

#48 - Ed Talks 2016 - The Media Podcast with Olly Mann

Thursday 31 March 2016, PM

28% of Piracy Takedown Requests Are \"Questionable\"

This week, researchers from Columbia University's American Assembly and Berkeley published an in-depth review of the current takedown regime, with one study zooming in on the millions of takedown requests Google receives every week. The company currently acts in response to 97.5 of the takedown requests, which means that the vast majority of the questionable notices are honored. - torrentfreak.com

torrentfreak.com

Kermode and Mayo's Apple gag does not take the pith, rules BBC Trust

The complaint was initially rejected by the BBC's audience services department before being shunted upstairs to the trust's editorial standards committee. It also said that BBC presenters were allowed to refer to commercial products, whether directly or indirectly, and the complaint proceeded no further. - www.theguardian.com

reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk

http://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/sites/default/files/Public%20Service%20News%20and%20Digital%20Media.pdf

Public service news based on Q5a/b 'Which, if any, of the following have you used to access news in the last week' Social media use for news is based on Q3 'Which, if any, of the following have you used in the last week as a source of news' Calculations include for Finland, Yle tv-uutiset, Yle uutiset, Yle tv-uutiset and Yle radiouutiset for France, news in the following channels of France Tlvisions, francetvinfo. Bbc News has long worked with social media both as a means of news reporting and news distribution and many channels and news programmes have built their own social media profiles. - reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk

Wednesday 30 March 2016, PM

The Archers, From T20 to PM

Wednesday 30 March 2016, AM

Watch Freeview shows anywhere with EE TV: Service lets users stream and download programs to their mobiles to keep for a

From today, EE TV customers will be able to download any programmes they record on their TV to their phones and keep them, for as long as they wish, to watch while offline. From today, EE TV customers will be able to download any programmes they record on their TV to their phones and keep them for as long as they wish, to watch while offline. - www.dailymail.co.uk

www.dailymail.co.uk

Don't buy a Freeview Play box until you've read these five facts

Since then its growth has stalled, but Freeview Play aims to modernise TV once again by bringing streaming services directly to your TV. But what can Freeview Play offer you over your standard TV recorder, smart TV and streaming devices such as Google's Chromecast and the Amazon Fire TV Stick Is it really worth investing in a Freeview Play box just yet If a separate set-top box doesn't appeal, Panasonic is offering up a line of Freeview Play compatible Viera TVs. Including a tuner into the TV as standard makes much more sense - it's how Freeview managed to reach a wide audience initially. - www.alphr.com

www.alphr.com

Tuesday 29 March 2016, AM

The Archers, From T20 to PM

Friday 25 March 2016, AM

UTV unveils new look as part of ITV family

The fresh look was designed by ITV Creative and the UTV Creative team and will be on air in the coming months. Rufus Radcliffe, Group Director of Marketing and Research at ITV, said the makeover firmly positions UTV as part of the ITV family. - www.u.tv

www.u.tv

Wednesday 23 March 2016, PM

Twitter's impact on journalism, Mail on Sunday editor Geordie Greig, Ashley Highfield of Johnston Press

Partial Channel 4 sell-off 'would leave it with Two Weddings and Half a Funeral'

- www.theguardian.com

Wednesday 23 March 2016, AM

Eight-second videos are long enough to infringe on copyright, says UK judge

Two factors help to determine whether fair dealing applies for a particular case. It's not yet clear whether the defendants will appeal or whether damages will be awarded against them. - arstechnica.co.uk

arstechnica.co.uk

Tuesday 22 March 2016, PM

BBC Names Mark Linsey as Director of Production Division BBC Studios

Linsey has been acting director of BBC Television since October 2015, and spent more than 20 years working in TV production before joining the BBC, including roles at Central, LWT, Hat Trick Prods. Charlotte Moore will be responsible for BBC television pending the announcement in the next few weeks of a new structure to simplify the BBC. Linsey will spend the next month working with the Studios teams before the new division launches on April 29. - variety.com

variety.com

Netflix races ahead of Amazon and Sky with 5m UK households

Netflix is far ahead of competitors such as Amazon's Prime Instant Video or Sky's Now TV, and is continuing to grow faster than the other services. According to the data, there are about 1.6 million households subscribing to Amazon's service in the UK, up about 300,000 over 2015, and fewer than 1 million signed up to Sky's Now TV. In total, more than 6.5 million households are signed up to some sort of video-streaming service. - www.theguardian.com

Tuesday 22 March 2016, AM

#47 - Radiodays Europe 2016 - The Media Podcast with Olly Mann

Saturday 19 March 2016, AM

DTG :: News :: New players help to boost broadband connections, John Whittingdale supports Channel 4 privatisation and O

This would align the UK with European Commission proposals that more spectrum should be available for mobile services. Ofcom has now launched a consultation process to accelerate the clearance of the 700MHz band, currently used by digital terrestrial TV services. - dtg.org.uk

dtg.org.uk

Thirty years of the TV sofa: from political strategy to sexism

The breakfast show presenters went back to desks for a bit, before returning to sofas. It's the same with famous fictionalised sofas - on the Royle Family, it's the dad who gets his own armchair while the rest of the family cram onto the sofa. - www.theguardian.com

Friday 18 March 2016, PM

#46 - Channel 4 fights to keep Black Mirror - The Media Podcast with Olly Mann

Desert Island discussion, Radio 2 country

Thursday 17 March 2016, PM

UKTV executive sacked after stealing huge cache of confidential TV data from media regulator

The disclosure of the data breach, which was immediately reported to Ofcom by UKTV, led to panic amongst rival broadcasters. Ofcom has now written to television companies, insisting that their data has been recovered, and adding that the 27-year-old employee, who worked for the regulator on a short term contract, has been sacked by UKTV. - www.telegraph.co.uk

www.telegraph.co.uk

John Whittingdale must allow the BBC board to be truly independent

When David Clementi's report recommended the creation of the unitary board, which I am on record as supporting, he appeared to accept that the government would have the right to appoint the chair, deputy chair and four non-executive directors for the nations. If the BBC is to be seen as free from government control, then the board must be seen to be entirely independent from it. - www.theguardian.com

Wednesday 16 March 2016, PM

Maria Eagle, Sir Joseph Pilling, Balancing journalism and security services

Tuesday 15 March 2016, PM

BBC News channel to merge its two paper reviews into one extended show

The BBC News channel's two late night paper reviews will be merged into one extended show as part of a raft of changes to the 24-hour service starting on Monday. Its 15-minute review of newspaper headlines, The Papers, currently airs twice a night, at 10.30pm and 11.30pm, but the latter slot has been dropped to allow a repeat of BBC2's Newsnight at 11.15pm. The new paper roundup will run for 20 minutes at 10.40pm after the 10pm bulletin and Sportsday. - www.theguardian.com

Monday 14 March 2016, PM

BBC Radio 5Live keeps the nation company. It would be wrong to take it off-air

The latest service to be threatened with digital exile is Radio 5Live. The station best equipped to dog your footsteps is Radio 5Live. - www.theguardian.com

BBC and ITV in online video talks

The BBC offers programming online through BBC iPlayer for up to 30 days after transmission. In 2007, the BBC, ITV and Channel 4 launched a joint venture online video service, known as Project Kangaroo. - informitv.com

informitv.com

BBC radio chief: government plans threaten our independence

The government-commissioned Clementi report recommended that the BBC's day-to-day operations be run by a unitary board, headed by a majority of non-executive directors, while full responsibility for regulation be handed over to the media regulator Ofcom, replacing the BBC Trust. The BBC's director general, Tony Hall, has already flagged his concerns about the proposals, pointing out that unlike any previous governing body, the unitary board would set the editorial direction of the whole BBC. Neither the trust nor its predecessor - the BBC governors who oversaw the corporation from its founding until 2005 - had such powers. - www.theguardian.com

Monday 14 March 2016, AM

Government will choose most members of BBC board, says Whittingdale

John Whittingdale said only two or three members of a 13-strong unitary board, which would replace the discredited BBC Trust model, would be BBC executives while the rest would be government appointees. In a speech last week, Lord Hall pointed out that unlike any previous governing body, the unitary board would set the editorial direction of the whole BBC. Neither the trust nor its predecessor - the BBC governors who oversaw the corporation from its founding until 2005 - had such powers. - www.theguardian.com

Saturday 12 March 2016, AM

UK viewers doubled amount of time spent streaming TV in 2015

Traditional TV viewing accounted for 76, or three hours and 51 minutes per day, close to 28 hours per week. While traditional TV still dominates viewing, there has also been growth - albeit only from 24.5 minutes a week to 28 minutes a week on average - in consumption on other devices such as tablets, smartphones and laptops. - www.theguardian.com

Friday 11 March 2016, PM

US Elections, In Tune

Thursday 10 March 2016, PM

BBC News most trusted source for more than half of people in the UK

The results of the poll, published on Thursday, also suggested more than half of people did not trust the government with the future of the BBC. The corporation's future size and scope remains uncertain following last year's funding settlement, in which it took on the 700m cost of free TV licences for the over-75s, with the government's BBC white paper likely to be delayed until after the EU referendum. The online YouGov survey commissioned by 38 Degrees, which was behind a petition signed by nearly 400,000 people in support of the BBC, said 53 of people did not trust the government to protect BBC services during charter renewal. - www.theguardian.com

Wednesday 09 March 2016, PM

Charlotte Moore, Turkish press crackdown, Concern about BBC independence