Thursday 27 August 2015, PM
#20 - Predictions 2015 - The Media Podcast with Olly Mann
feedproxy.google.com#19 - Sony’s PR Disaster, Serial breaks records - The Media Podcast with Olly Mann
feedproxy.google.com#18 EXTRA - Women in Film and Television Awards 2014 - The Media Podcast with Helen Zaltzman
feedproxy.google.com#18 - Kids TV tax breaks, Times profit shocker - The Media Podcast with Olly Mann
feedproxy.google.com#17 - Dapper Laughs, Fake Sheik, Julia Davis at Breakfast - The Media Podcast with Olly Mann
feedproxy.google.com#16 - Radio 1 to launch iPlayer channel, BT wins access to Sky Sports and the TV ads going viral for Christmas - The Med
feedproxy.google.com#15 - RAJARS, Vice Media plans, Whisper scoop - The Media Podcast with Olly Mann
feedproxy.google.com#14 - Radio Festival 2014 SPECIAL - The Media Podcast with John Plunkett
feedproxy.google.com#13 - Viacom invests in C5 / MIPCOM preview - The Media Podcast with Olly Mann
feedproxy.google.com#12 - Trinity Mirror payouts, Emma Watson hoax - The Media Podcast with Olly Mann
feedproxy.google.com#11 - Save Our Sources, Next Radio Conference - The Media Podcast
feedproxy.google.com#10 - SPECIAL: Guardian Edinburgh International TV Festival 2014
feedproxy.google.com#9 - Scotland debate update, Company magazine closes, Edinburgh preview
feedproxy.google.com#8 RAJARs, Sky Europe NYT app confusion
feedproxy.google.com#7 BBC News Cuts, Murdoch bids for Time Warner
feedproxy.google.comThe Media Podcast #6 - BBC levels the playing field, George Clooney apology
feedproxy.google.comThe Media Podcast #5 - Radio 5 Live reshuffle and kids' TV tax breaks
feedproxy.google.comThe Media Podcast #4 - hacking trial verdicts, Rising Star US
feedproxy.google.comThe Media Podcast #3 - John Oliver and World Cup take over the US
feedproxy.google.comThe Media Podcast #2 - Robert Peston Michael Woolf go off-message
feedproxy.google.comThe Media Podcast #1: BBC News Cuts, Freeview Connect
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The Media Podcast
www.acast.com#34 - BBC debate begins, Quirker launch Moyles on XFM - The Media Podcast with Olly Mann
feedproxy.google.com#33 - BBC Three cut gets Trust approval – The Media Podcast with Olly Mann
feedproxy.google.com#32 - Chris Evans gets BBC out of a tight corner - The Media Podcast with Olly Mann
feedproxy.google.com#31 - Broadcast Backs the Beeb, Lineker’s BT Transfer and Creative Week 2015
feedproxy.google.comThursday 27 August 2015, AM
Sinclair Fight With Dish Could Spur Action on TV Blackouts
Sinclair blocked Dish customers' access to 129 stations in 79 markets on Tuesday, Dish said in a statement. Dish in a filing with the FCC said Sinclair unfairly coordinated negotiations for stations the broadcaster doesn't own. - www.bloomberg.com
www.bloomberg.comWednesday 26 August 2015, PM
John Whittingdale claims he is not 'dismantling the BBC' and that it's future is not under threat
BBC sympathiser Dame Judi Dench The decision to make the BBC cover the cost of providing free licences to the over-75s and the consultation on the broadcaster's future role has prompted high-profile sympathisers, from Dame Judi Dench and Stephen Fry to former Tory minister Lord Fowler, to warn of the consequences of damaging the BBC. Similar sentiments were voiced last night by Armando Iannucci, in a lecture at the festival. Read more BBC wanted to make royal epic but 'could not compete' with Netflix financiallyBBC experiment finds licence fee completely justified and 'incredibly good value'. - www.independent.co.uk
www.independent.co.ukWhittingdale: Channel 4 privatisation 'not under discussion' but not ruled out
Whittingdale said a sale of Channel 4 was not currently being discussed, but said whatever its future, its remit to cater for minority audiences and take risks must not change. The question comes in the wake of several reports in July that the government is considering proposals to privatise Channel 4, which is state-owned but supported by advertising, in a move that could raise more than 1bn to aid deficit reduction. - www.theguardian.com
www.theguardian.comUnless you want TV by diktat, defend the BBC
Here's the thing that's exactly how the BBC worked some 15, maybe 10 years ago. Let's stop playing games, let's talk properly, and honestly, about what we value and want to preserve in the BBC. The question shouldn't be how do we cut it down to size, but why should we. - www.theguardian.comwww.theguardian.comBBC considers replacing news channel with mobile streaming service
The BBC is thought to be considering whether to close the channel as it looks for ways to cut costs, and the corporation's head of news, James Harding, on Wednesday refused to say whether it would still exist in 10 years. Speaking on the same panel as Harding, Channel 4 News editor Ben De Pear said the prospect of the channel being privatised was worrying because news was not profitable for Channel 4. - www.theguardian.comwww.theguardian.comEdinburgh TV Festival, BBC director of strategy James Purnell, Channel 5 director of programming Ben Frow, Spotify
open.live.bbc.co.ukTuesday 25 August 2015, PM
'Proper debate' needed over ownership of Channel 4, says former chairman
The question comes in the wake of several reports in July that the government is considering proposals to privatise Channel 4, which is state-owned but supported by advertising, in a move that could raise more than 1bn to aid deficit reduction. Channel 4 executives have fiercely defended the broadcaster's unique status and made clear their opposition to privatisation. - www.theguardian.comwww.theguardian.comTreasury refuses to publish BBC funding deal details despite FoI request
Chris Bryant, the shadow culture secretary, has threatened to turn to the Information Commissioner to get the full details of the BBC's shotgun licence fee deal revealed after the government admitted it has more documents but refused to make them public. Last month, Bryant forced the publication of the licence fee deal letter from chancellor George Osborne and culture secretary John Whittingdale to BBC director general Tony Hall. - www.theguardian.comwww.theguardian.comBBC deprivation study made people change their views on the licence fee: "Being without the BBC was absolutely dreadful"
More than two-thirds of those originally opposed to paying the 145.50 licence fee changed their minds after being cut off from BBC services for a nine-day period, according to a study commissioned by the corporation. Of the seventy households, 48 had initially said that they would prefer either to pay no licence fee and have no BBC access, or pay a reduced licence fee. - www.radiotimes.com
www.radiotimes.comTuesday 25 August 2015, AM
Danny Cohen: no public desire for market failure BBC
BBC director of television Danny Cohen has claimed that there is no public desire for the corporation to become a “market failure” broadcaster. Writing in the Radio Times ahead of the Edinburgh International Television Festival this week, Cohen warned the government that the BBC must not become an organisation that “fills the gaps” left by commercial rivals. “I believe we need a strong BBC that offers a wide range of British-made programmes – dramas, documentaries, news and entertainment,” said Cohen. “I don’t believe the public want a ‘market failure’ BBC that fills the gaps by only making the kind of niche television that commercial TV simply won’t make. They want a BBC that can compete with the very best the world has to offer, driving up standards and delivering for them night after night.” - www.broadcastnow.co.uk
www.broadcastnow.co.ukEly entrepreneur Pete Dawe celebrates the launch of his latest venture, Cambridge TV, 'for bright, curious people'
The channel features a schedule of local shows and programmes from the community on Freeview channel 8 and Virgin 159 in the Cambridge area- the TV station hopes to attract viewers, too, from the Ely area. As part of the scheme, Mr Dawe was to give away three mini-buses in return for a commitment to pick up and drop off fellow commuters at three designated stop-off points in Ely and Cambridge Science Park. - www.cambstimes.co.uk
www.cambstimes.co.ukMonday 24 August 2015, PM
The BBC must resist Alex Salmond's attempt to control its coverage
Of course the BBC can never be immune from attempts to influence it by those who set its income and appoint its governors or trustees - witness the current debate and controversy about cuts to the licence fee or the future of the BBC Trust. Others want to see the creation of a new Scotland editor to work alongside the BBC's political, business and UK editors to lead coverage of news from Scotland for the UK audience. - www.theguardian.comwww.theguardian.comSunday 23 August 2015, PM
The Media Column: Culture Secretary John Whittingdale will be the centre of attention as telly types gather in Edinburgh
Self-identification as a creature from Hades fits with Whittingdale's positioning at the festival as the spectre haunting the future of the BBC and public-service broadcasting in general. Not since Whittingdale loaded the BBC with a 650m bill for covering the cost of free licences for the over-75s, then launched a consultation paper which leaves the organisation anxious about its future. - www.independent.co.ukwww.independent.co.ukMedia Monkey's Diary: best of Edinburgh International TV Festival
Most self-defining grooming/fashion item Mark Thompson's beard, which as two-time MacTaggart lecturer served him equally well as maverick creative renegade when Channel 4 chief executive and as bleak broadcasting prophet and BBC boss forced to agree to radical austerity. Frostiest interview session Krishnan Guru-Murthy's tough cross-examination of rookie BBC1 controller Charlotte Moore last year, after which her furious colleagues Danny Cohen and Ben Stephenson confronted the Channel 4 News presenter. - www.theguardian.comwww.theguardian.comITV to acquire Northern Ireland's channel, UTV, say reports
Irish newspapers have reported that ITV is to acquire UTV, the Northern Ireland television channel, in a multi-million pound deal. According to the reports, UTV Media will retain its profitable radio portfolio, built around TalkSport. - www.theguardian.comwww.theguardian.com
Met Office loses BBC weather forecasting contract
The Met Office has lost its BBC weather forecasting contract, it has confirmed. The UK's weather service has provided the data used for BBC forecasts since the corporation's first radio weather bulletin on 14 November 1922. - www.bbc.co.ukwww.bbc.co.ukSunday 23 August 2015, AM
What next for the BBC?
BBC One is Britain's most watched TV channel, Radio 2 is the most listened-to radio station and BBC News Online is the most used news website. Its business model does not lead to BBC levels of investment in British TV. Even if half of all UK households signed up, the total subscription fees would be well below the current cost of BBC One. - www.ft.com
www.ft.comFriday 21 August 2015, PM
BBC radio stations failing northern listeners, report says
BBC Radio 4 and Radio 5 Live are failing to appeal to northern listeners, according to a report published by the BBC Trust. A BBC Trust report said BBC Radio 4 has become even more skewed towards listeners in the south-east, while 5 Live's move to Salford has so far failed to resonate with northern audiences. - www.theguardian.comwww.theguardian.comBBC allowed to premier radio shows online
The plans have been approved as part of the Trust's service review of Radio 4, 5live, and their digital sister stations Radio 4 Extra and 5live Sports Extra, and apply only to speech radio. The approval of 'online premiering' is in place with immediate effect and while the BBC expects that it will mostly be used by Radio 4, all other BBC radio stations will, except for 5live Sports Extra whose output is entirely live, be able to premiere some speech programmes online first. - radiotoday.co.uk
radiotoday.co.ukThursday 20 August 2015, PM
Government publishing 'anti-BBC propaganda', says Labour's Chris Bryant
The Labour MP said that a post on the department's blog, which was recently given a 5,500 redesign, about the government's green paper on the future of the BBC was undermining attempts to run a consultation on the proposals. A DCMS spokesperson said the post reflected the content and language of the government's green paper on charter renewal. - www.theguardian.comwww.theguardian.comWednesday 19 August 2015, PM
Royal pictures, Managing talent, Archant's positive performance
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CBS Drama to launch on Freeview
Not sure yet Take a FREE ONLINE TRIAL or REQUEST A FREE DIGITAL ISSUE OF BROADCAST and see for yourself how Broadcast can benefit you. There's a package to suit everyone.... - www.broadcastnow.co.ukwww.broadcastnow.co.ukWednesday 19 August 2015, AM
Solent Wireless starts small scale DAB service
Express FM - the popular local community radio service Portsmouth featuring music, talk and live Portsmouth FC commentary will be simulcast on digital radio. These small scale DAB trials are very exciting as they encourage innovation and competition delivering six great new stations broadcast on DAB digital radio and encompassing stations from all sectors of the radio industry, including community, student and small local stations. - radiotoday.co.ukradiotoday.co.ukBBC iPlayer takes on Netflix with new catchup features
BBC iPlayer is introducing new catch-up features, as the on-demand TV service looks to keep pace with popular streaming services such as Netflix. Cross-device pause and resume - the ability to pause a stream on one device and then pick it up on another - has also been added, as has the My Programmes section, which already works on the iPlayer website, but will now expand to mobile devices. - www.theguardian.comwww.theguardian.compick a page