Wednesday 03 June 2015, PM
Rory Bremner on political satire; Sky's strong figures; Tory media policy
open.live.bbc.co.ukPolitico, Labour's Media Policy, Katie Hopkins, Google
open.live.bbc.co.ukVictoria Derbyshire; Leaders' debates; Telegraph chief's exit; Lib Dem media policy
open.live.bbc.co.ukSpider Memos, Dermot Departs The X Factor, Mental Health Headlines, Plaid Cymru Media Policy
open.live.bbc.co.ukJeremy Clarkson fired by the BBC, SNP media policy
open.live.bbc.co.ukThe Clarkson Row and Handling 'Difficult' stars, The Future for Netflix, The Green Party Media Policy
open.live.bbc.co.ukOlder People in the Media, Clarkson and the Top Gear Brand, TV Election Debates
open.live.bbc.co.ukTony Hall, BBC Director General
open.live.bbc.co.ukBuying BBC Three; BARB Measuring TV audiences; 'FIFA Files' Journalists Win Award
open.live.bbc.co.ukDo advertisers influence editorial?; British drama overseas; Immigration Street
open.live.bbc.co.ukProtecting Journalists' Sources, American News Anchors, Football Rights, Sports Radio
open.live.bbc.co.ukHead of BBC Trust's first major speech; The battle for sports rights; Sky's Fortitude
open.live.bbc.co.ukThe future of news; Entertainment shows; Page 3 and The Sun
open.live.bbc.co.ukEnd of Page 3, Josie Cunningham's Agent, Sir Alan Moses on Press Feedom
open.live.bbc.co.ukPublishing Charlie Hebdo Images, Newsbeat's Editor, Channel 4's Diversity Plan.
open.live.bbc.co.ukPrince Andrew coverage; postponing of royal doc; Peter Greste retrial; 10 years of FOI.
open.live.bbc.co.ukHost Graham Norton on the changing nature of the chat show
open.live.bbc.co.ukABC President Paul Lee; Monty the penguin; filming Arctic wolves; John Sergeant on John Freeman.
open.live.bbc.co.ukBT's EE Talks, Journalism and PR, Ofcom's Review into C4, London Weeklies Launch
open.live.bbc.co.ukBBC3 plan; Press recognition panel
open.live.bbc.co.ukChristopher Jefferies; The Times turns a profit; Front page newspaper content
open.live.bbc.co.ukSun editor on white van man; The National launches in Scotland; Kenyan Young Journalist; Local TV in Birmingham
open.live.bbc.co.ukOfcom's Ed Richards; MP Andrew Bridgen on scrapping the licence fee; Trinity Mirror closures; Teen blogger on OCD
open.live.bbc.co.ukCharlotte Moore, BBC One Controller; Patrick Collins and sports journalism; Serial podcast
open.live.bbc.co.ukBBC R1 on iPlayer; BT Sport and Sky Sports; Pay-per-view news; Al Jazeera English chief
open.live.bbc.co.ukGuardian Media Group CEO; Broadmoor doc; Facebook and Twitter results; RT launches in UK
open.live.bbc.co.ukLiddiment and Hastings leave the Trust; Women in the media; Mirror complaint
open.live.bbc.co.ukReporting the EU; TV Election Debates
open.live.bbc.co.ukFacebook's apology to drag queens; Anonymity online; Inquiry into the use of RIPA
open.live.bbc.co.ukSunday Mirror Sexting, Journalists' Safety, Political Interviews
open.live.bbc.co.ukDevolved powers and the BBC, Inside police custody, Phone hacking
open.live.bbc.co.ukWednesday 03 June 2015, AM
BBC 'paying prospective scriptwriters the equivalent of £2 an hour'
The BBC is paying writers working on potential scripts for soaps such as EastEnders, Holby City and Casualty as little as the equivalent of pound2 an hour, according to the head of the writers' union. quotWe're proud of our work training and supporting writers through these schemes which have been successful in helping writers to secure commissions on our shows,quot said a BBC spokeman. - www.theguardian.com
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News boss 'astonished' by complaints
The director of news and current affairs said that often it was a politician saying either 'I want more of me on the BBC' or 'my side of the story is the story'. Speaking to VLV members, the news boss believed the BBC delivered on its responsibilities as a public service broadcaster but that there remain some questions. - www.bbc.co.ukwww.bbc.co.ukDanny Cohen: cuts to BBC revenue would mean a lot less content
BBC TV chief Danny Cohen has suggested programmes would have to be cut if the corporation was forced to bear the costs of free licence fees for the over-75s or decriminalising evasion of the charge. The BBC took on a number of new funding responsibilities in the 2010 licence fee settlement, including the World Service, resulting in its pound700m Delivering Quality First cost-saving programme. - www.theguardian.comwww.theguardian.comTuesday 02 June 2015, PM
BBC news chief: politicians of all parties made threats to funding
The BBC's news chief James Harding has said politicians quotFrom all partiesquot threatened the BBC's future funding because they were unhappy with the corporation's election coverage. The quotHell on wheelsquot comment was made to Harding by the BBC's head of editorial policy David Jordan when the BBC News chief suggested before the election that it would be quotFunquot. - gu.com
gu.comTuesday 02 June 2015, AM
Danny Cohen: licence fee cuts will threaten BBC programmes or channels
Previous suggestions have included decriminalising the licence fee, to cut down the lengthy process of prosecutions, and having the BBC take on the pound500m cost of offering free licence fees to the over-75s. The annual bill is currently met by the Department for Work and Pensions. BBC Three, the channel considered aimed at young audience, is already moving online under proposals submitted to the BBC Trust under cost-cutting measures. - www.telegraph.co.uk
www.telegraph.co.ukDAB radio changes in Yorkshire as MXR closes
There's no news on other services on MXR such as Radio Yorkshire, UCB Gospel, UCB Inspirational or XFM moving multiplexes yet, meaning some or all of them may no longer be available on DAB in the area once it closes on June 29th. Capital currently covers the whole of Yorkshire on FM, whilst Heart only covers West and South Yorkshire. For full Yorkshire coverage, Capital and Heart would need to join the join the MuxCo's North Yorkshire and UTV's Bradford and Huddersfield multiplexes but no changes have been made public as yet. - radiotoday.co.uk
radiotoday.co.ukMonday 01 June 2015, PM
Avoiding the television licence
In February the cross-party committee published a report on the 'Future of the BBC'. It concluded quotThere currently appears to be no better alternative to funding the BBC in the near-term other than a hypothecated tax or the licence fee.quot It continued quotHowever, the principle of the licence fee in its current form is becoming harder to sustain given the changes in communication and media technology and changing audience needs and behaviours. So why not simply abolish the television licence entirely and let the government fund the BBC from general taxation, saving around pound100 million a year in collection and enforcement costs - informitv.com
informitv.comSunday 31 May 2015, AM
TV's 'Golden Age' Won't Last Because You're Not Watching Enough
With too many shows chasing too few viewers, say industry executives, most original programs lose money and half the shows now running probably will disappear by next year. Cable networks keep such shows on the air, hoping viewers will eventually find them on demand or in a Netflix afterlife in some cases they renew poorly performing shows because they fear blowback from viewers who've invested in the characters. - www.bloomberg.com
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BT switch-off signals the end for traditional pay TV over terrestrial platform
Sky came back two years later with a new basic pay TV service, circumventing Ofcom's regulatory jurisdiction, by launching Now TV as an internet-based service, targeting Freeview homes who wanted low-cost, entry-level pay TV. And the internet ultimately killed off any hope of a multi-channel terrestrial pay TV service cheaper distribution free from the technical, regulatory and coverage constraints of terrestrial TV, along with the ability to provide catch-up TV and vast libraries of on-demand content enabled Sky and new players such as Netflix to provide low cost access to content accessed by the increasing numbers of connected TVs, boxes and dongles. With the ongoing push to connected TV services, helped by the UK's expanding superfast broadband network and new 4G mobile services, plus changes to the number of frequencies allocated to terrestrial TV from the end of the decade and doubts over the platform's existence beyond 2030, the odds are against pay TV services becoming widely distributed over the UK's terrestrial TV airwaves once again. - www.a516digital.com
www.a516digital.comSaturday 30 May 2015, PM
Talking TV: BBC campaign Hoff the Record
On the latest Talking TV, Broadcast editor Chris Curtis explains why Broadcast has launched a campaign Backing the BBC and we go behind the scenes of Hoff The Record. - soundcloud.com
soundcloud.comSaturday 30 May 2015, AM
Broadcasters attack Theresa May's plan to vet TV programmes for extremism
A government plan to strengthen the role of media regulator Ofcom to take quotTough measures against channels that broadcast extremist contentquot was outlined in the Queen's speech last week. quotStephen Whittle, former controller of BBC editorial policy and ex-director of Ofcom forerunner the Broadcasting Standards Commission, saidquotPowers to vet or prevent broadcasts went away with the Independent Broadcasting Authority more than 25 years ago. - www.theguardian.comwww.theguardian.comThursday 28 May 2015, PM
Indies unite to back the BBC
BACKING THE BBC: THE PLEDGE We believe the licence fee is the best way to fund the BBC and that it should be set at a level that ensures the corporation remains the cornerstone of the successful British creative industries. We support a transparent, accountable and effi cient BBC and believe charter renewal should be conducted openly, giving the creative community and audiences a voice in the broadcaster’s future.edition.pagesuite-professional.co.ukWednesday 27 May 2015, PM
UKTV prepares Watch re-brand
UKTV is set to re-brand pay-TV channel Watch to appeal to a more female-skewing audience. The multichannel broadcaster is understood to be ramping up the number of original factual entertainment formats which appeal more to women. At the same time it is to reduce its reliance on acquired US dramas. It is believed that UKTV is in talks with external partners over the move, which could include a name change for the channel that launched in October 2008. - www.broadcastnow.co.uk
www.broadcastnow.co.ukMedia: Trinity Mirror damages; Sir Martin Sorrell; BBC's Lyse Doucet
downloads.bbc.co.ukWednesday 27 May 2015, AM
Daily Mail's attack on 'BBC lefties' doesn't quite stack up
One number the Mail fails to include is how much the Guardian cost, which at pound1.60 was nearly three times the cover price of the weekday Mail. As a BBC source put it quotWe know accusing the BBC of bias is a favourite pastime for some people, but given we bought nearly as many copies of the Mail as the Guardian it's difficult to see how these figures are evidence of it. - www.theguardian.comwww.theguardian.comTuesday 26 May 2015, PM
BT TV channel numbers are changing on 2nd June
Channels currently located between 400-599 are moving to 300-599. Subscription channels are additional channels you pay for. - tv.bt.comtv.bt.comTuesday 26 May 2015, AM
BT TV Review
Paying for the HD Extra bolt-on sees you getting all of the BT Sport channels in high definition, plus channels like FOX HD, Nat Geo Wild HD, Comedy Central HD and MTV HD. Perhaps crucially for sports fans, BT Infinity also opens the doors to the Sky Sports channels - you can get Sky Sports 1 and/or 2 with BT TV which, combined with BT Sport, means you can get the complete run of all Premier League games for the next three seasons. These don't give you any extra channels, but do give you access to content libraries that you can stream on your TV. You can't get the live Sky Movies channels and you don't have the option of watching any non-terrestrial channels in HD. If you've got BT Infinity, then you can order the HD Extra channel pack. - recombu.com
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BBC News Channel schedule changes from 1st June
At 900pm, the two channels will show interactive news show Outside Source with Ros Atkins from Monday to Thursday, giving the BBC World News show its first regular timeslot in the UK - it's previously turned up at short notice during international breaking news coverage in place of the Six O'Clock News on the BBC News Channel. At the weekends, BBC News Channel will join BBC World News for the latest international news in World News Today at 9pm. Together with changes to morning programming made in April with the introduction of the Victoria Derbyshire show, a simulcast with BBC Two, the BBC News Channel's daily rolling news output is effectively reduced to 1100-1800 and 1830-2030, with the last 90 minutes of unique news programming between 2230 and 0000 taken up by two editions of The Papers and Sportsday with the 11pm news sandwiched in-between. - www.a516digital.comwww.a516digital.comSunday 24 May 2015, PM
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