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It includes 70 channels, a smattering of HD options, a YouView box for recording content, and 17Mbps of fixed-line broadband. Its the survival box of TV packages all the essentials but no luxuries. The majority of free extras are part of the broadband service. - cable.co.uk

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?24.99 Xbox One Digital TV Tuner now on sale in the UK | Expert Reviews

Unfortunately this wasn't possible for the millions of UK residents that use the integrated Freeview tuner built into their TV, rather than a set-top box. That changed today when the Digital TV Tuner accessory went on sale. The dongle receives free-to-air HD broadcasts, supports the OneGuide onscreen programme guide, and lets you set favourite channels for quick access. - expertreviews.co.uk

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Fairhead indicates support for BBC3 online move | News | Broadcast

BBC Trust chairman Rona Fairhead has indicated that she supports the proposal to move BBC3 online to help the channel keep pace with the viewing habits of its audience. Speaking in front of a Culture, Media and Sport Committee on Tuesday, Fairhead said the strategy was “in and of itself” a “good idea”, but the BBC’s proposals will need to be examined in detail. She explained that the channel’s target audience of 16-34 year olds was now “watching less and very differently” than ever before. “Although sometimes this audience views by appointment, typically they eat or watch on the go through different devices,” she said. - broadcastnow.co.uk

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Ariel - Rona Fairhead has not 'gone native'

Fairhead also believed the business was being run more efficiently and was 'more convinced' of the BBC's economic benefit to the UK than she was before taking up her new job. Outgoing trustee David Liddiment said more detail was needed from the BBC before the trust could move forward with a public value test. In another exchange, Liddiment admitted that many licence-fee payers weren't aware of the BBC Trust, despite it safeguarding their interests. - bbc.co.uk

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BBC Trust chair appears to back BBC3 TV closure | Media | theguardian.com

Her fellow trustee David Liddiment, who also gave evidence to MPs on Tuesday, said there was a widespread view that the trust was not fit for purpose and admitted there was a faultline in the way that the trust was set up. Fairhead, making her first public appearance since succeeding Lord Patten last month, said The idea of moving BBC3 and making it online in and of itself is good. We havent done our final review of BBC3. - theguardian.com

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Ariel - Fran Unsworth to lead World Service

She will also continue to be deputy director of news and current affairs, a position she was given in late 2012 to help steer the division through the Jimmy Savile/Newsnight crisis. 'I have known Fran since she joined the BBC and watched in admiration as her career has developed,' said director general Tony Hall. 'Proudest day' Unsworth, who will take up her new role in December, described getting her new job as 'the proudest day of my professional life'. - bbc.co.uk

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The postponement concluded, temporarily at least, a long period of impassioned debate from stakeholders throughout the sport industry. The panels remit was to review the principle of listing generally the criteria against which events were currently, or might in the future, be listed and the events which make up the current list and which events should be on the list for the future. The findings and recommendations of the Davies Report were strongly resisted by sports rights holders. - whoswholegal.com

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BBC - DAB Phase 4 - Help Receiving TV and Radio

This phase of national DAB expansion is expected to be completed by the end of 2015. We are not able to provide specific details on when improvements in coverage will reach particular areas for a number of reasons weather and other variables can impact on the build of particular transmitters. The postcode checker for DAB at www.getdigitalradio.com will also be updated as the roll-out progresses. - bbc.co.uk

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Why Cameron can’t be allowed to scupper televised election debates | Media | The Guardian

The broadcasters showed every sign of being jolly pleased with their announcement last week that they had agreed a format for TV party leader debates for next years general election. Which, remember, was subject to an unsuccessful legal challenge from the SNP. BBC bosses will also hope that, assuming the debates happen in more or less this form, theirs might be last in the sequence and therefore closest to the poll. - theguardian.com

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Media Monkey’s Diary: Jason Seiken, naked ski jumping and Fi Glover | Media | The Guardian

The clues were there, in Telegraph editor-in-chief Jason Seikens Twitter feed, to the news on Friday that he will henceforth be redirecting his energies away from editorial and towards future strategy and direction. Whether through genuine charitable impulses, self-interest or sadism, indie producers were quick to respond, and by the end of the week more than 17,000 had been donated. Monkeys quote of the week Who are you and what do you do - Radio 4 presenter Fi Glover to someone with their hand up at a Radio Festival event she was hosting. - theguardian.com

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BBC News - BBC to publish 'right to be forgotten' removals list

Following the ruling, Google set up a form on its site allowing people to request which links should be taken down. Google decided to notify affected websites each time a link had been removed. Mr Jordan said the BBC had so far been notified of 46 links to articles that had been removed. - bbc.co.uk

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Prices Add Up With a la Carte TV - WSJ - WSJ

s ESPN is also developing online-only platforms that would be offered separate from traditional channels. This is a watershed moment for the industry. But cord-cutters should be careful what they wish for. A future where television viewers subscribe to each channel individually could be cheaper for young people who only watch two or three channels, industry executives said. - online.wsj.com

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Newsrooms must reflect modern Britain | Comment | Broadcast

The Open Newsrooms Day scheme is a step in the right direction, says Michael Jermey Yesterday was a memorable day in many newsrooms across the country. Not because of a big breaking news story but because hundreds of people, most of them young and from Black, Asian or Minority Ethnic backgrounds, took the opportunity to spend an enjoyable day experiencing life first hand in a busy newsroom, talking to people who produce, present and report the news. The energetic enthusiasm of all involved, both the newsroom visitors and the news professionals talking about their work, was palpable. - broadcastnow.co.uk

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Freeview HD - Which BBC regions will go HD in the future? - BBC - FAQs - Home

The BBC is committed to developing a plan for the rest of the regions as soon as practically possible. - bbc.co.uk

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Freeview HD - Why are there no Red Button Interactive Services on Freeview HD? - BBC - FAQs - Home

Technical constraints mean that it is not possible to run the full existing Red Button service, in the broadcast capacity we have available. We have run some limited data services on the Freeview HD multiplex to support major broadcast events. However we are working on an alternative solution, which will allow us to provide the usual Red Button functionality within the capacity we do have available. - bbc.co.uk

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John Simpson signs BBC deal allowing him to stay as long as he likes | Media | theguardian.com

Veteran foreign correspondent John Simpson, a 45-year BBC lifer, has signed a new contract that effectively allows him to work for the corporation for as long as he wants. It is understood that the 70-year-old BBC world affairs editor has been given a deal that will see him stay on indefinitely. Previously Simpson who hit the headlines this summer when he reportedly said the BBC was grotesquely managed was on an annual contract. - theguardian.com

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BBC - Blogs - The Radio 4 Blog - Saturday Drama: Under Milk Wood in Surround Sound

The 2003 production was streamed online in 5.1 surround sound and now that 5.1 mix will also be available on-line in an experimental player on the Radio 4 website. This version of Under Milk Wood was recorded in surround sound and when first broadcast in 2003 it was available in this format to listeners at home who had the right equipment and software. When the play is repeated on Saturday 18 October at 2.30pm the surround sound version will be available as a live stream the play will also be available on demand from about 5pm that day for the next 30 days. - bbc.co.uk

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Ariel - When Tony Hall met Terry Walsh...

Rather than send a standard congratulatory reply, Tony Hall decided to visit the radio veteran, who's 'just about presented every programme going', according to his biography. He spent six years travelling the world, producing and directing television coverage of sports such as rally driving, hang gliding, windsurfing, golf and sailing. Tech apprentice of the year went to Salford native David Hewitt, who has completed a work placement with 'diligence, drive and leadership'. - bbc.co.uk

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BBC weather presenter Helen Willetts in double trouble | Media Monkey | Media | theguardian.com

Viewers saw double during a BBC weather bulletin when two moving images of presenter Helen Willetts appeared on screen at once. A technical gaffe meant the forecast on Thursday became a two-cast as the BBC News channel presenter and her twin guided viewers through the outlook for the next few hours. - theguardian.com

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DTG :: News :: DTG appoints new Head of Communications

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About this project - BBC Genome

You can search the site for BBC programmes, people, dates and Radio Times editions. We hope it helps you find that long forgotten BBC programme, research a particular person or browse your own involvement with the BBC. This is a historical record of both the planned output and the BBC services of any given time. - genome.ch.bbc.co.uk

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About the BBC Blog

Our aim on this project is to curate a comprehensive history of every radio and TV programme ever broadcast by the corporation, and make that available to the public. Were really pleased to get the site live, not least because so many of you have been asking when, how soon and telling us how useful it would be. The challenges in making available the 4.42 million programme records so far have been significant - you can read about some of the recent ones on the Internet blog. - bbc.co.uk

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BBC News - BBC's Genome Project offers radio and TV archive listings

The Genome Project is based on scans of Radio Times magazine listings published between 1923 and 2009. It is designed to help the BBC identify programmes missing from its recorded archive and try to find copies of them. A total of 4,423,654 programmes are included, from 4,469 issues. - bbc.co.uk

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BBC News - Railways 'dead zones' for mobiles, report reveals

The research, by Global Wireless Solutions GWS, found one in three mobile internet tasks failed, as did one in seven voice calls. Engineers tested the 10 most popular routes in and out of London. Voice calls were more likely to fail on open track than in a station, and the most failures occurred when a train was travelling above 50mph 80km/h. - bbc.co.uk

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DTG :: News :: Google reveals Nexus Player STB for Lollipop-powered Android TV

Made by Asus, Nexus Player is being presented as a platform for streaming music and video and games, controlled via remote control, smartphone and a wireless gamepad. The compact device will be launched in the US this autumn with pre-orders from October 17, but there are no details yet on price or international launch dates. Lollipop will be launched across Google's recent Nexus phones and tablets in the next few weeks, and includes a universal search across all devices, with the ability to pick up media playback from one device on another. - dtg.org.uk

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Local TV station Made in Cardiff goes on air - Journalism News from HoldtheFrontPage

The first of the new network of Local TV stations to be based in Wales has gone on air. Made in Cardiff went live at 8pm last night and will broadcast daily news and magazine programmes on Freeview channel 23, Sky channel 134 and Virgin channel 159. The Welsh capital is the 10th town or city to get a new local TV channel under the governments initiative to create a network of up to 60 local stations. - holdthefrontpage.co.uk

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RadioToday with RCS | Indies wants statutory 25% of BBC radio

Leading radio production companies have called on the BBC to introduce a statutory 25 quota of value of programme making for radio in the corporations next charter in 2017. As well as the quota, he also called for the BBCs Window of Creative Competition to be expanded to cover 25 of the value of contracts issued. In 201213 indies won 80 of WoCC hours, in 201314 they won 75 of hours. - radiotoday.co.uk

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BBC looks to develop ‘hybrid’ radio to allow mobile users to listen without the internet

The BBC is one of the companies looking to develop a hybrid radio for mobile phones, which will combine the strengths of broadcast radio - free-to-receive, robust reception and reliability - with the digital enhancements and interactivity of internet radio. New research commissioned by the BBC shows the majority of smartphone users want to use radio in their devices but have worries around mobile data costs, battery use and reception issues when using streamed audio services. The coalition, named Universal Smartphone Radio Project, has been discussing hybrid radio with mobile and technology manufacturers, and how to build the functionality into handsets. - thedrum.com

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#14 - Radio Festival 2014 SPECIAL - The Media Podcast with John Plunkett

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Ed Vaizey's full speech to #radfest2014

Ed Vaizey made his first appearance in person at a Radio Festival, more than four years since taking over as the minister responsible for radio. Read his keynote speech in full below This is the first time I have actually spoken at the Radio Festival I have been here twice virtually. I also spend a lot of time with Absolute 80s and their incredibly long playlist and of course Jack FM, my fantastic local independent station which I visited recently. - radiotoday.co.uk

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Ed Vaizey urges radio stations to engage young listeners | News | Broadcast

Culture minister Ed Vaizey has claimed that the decline in younger audiences for radio is “troubling” and urged the industry to engage with new listeners. Speaking earlier today at the Salford Radio Festival, the minister for culture, communications and the creative industries claimed that while radio’s strengths included the “human touch, the live presenter, the active curation of content, the engaging and entertaining formats along with trustworthy news and information,” it faced a raft of challenges. Vaizey dubbed Ofcom’s Communications Market report, which charted a decline in listening among 15-24 year olds from 18.7 hours in 2007 to 15.5 hours in 2013 as “troubling”. However he acknowledged that the awareness level among young people of stations such as Kiss, Capital Xtra and BBC 6 Music remained high, and called on broadcasters to develop an active social media presence to continue to grow their reach and engagement. - broadcastnow.co.uk

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Aereo to the FCC: Let us join the cable companies we tried to replace - The Washington Post

It's been weeks since we last heard from Aereo, the shuttered streaming video service that lost bigat the Supreme Court this summer. Now it's back, and the company isrolling over in its fight against TV broadcasters in hopes of a longer-term victory in Congress. Other MVPDs pay broadcasters money for the right to retransmit free, over-the-air television signals to their subscribers. The last few months has seen Aereo looking for creative waysof getting out of payingretransmission fees. - washingtonpost.com

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RadioToday with RCS | Hybrid Radio planned by BBC and partners

The BBC is working on the development of a new generation of hybrid radio with international partners in Europe, America and Australia. New research commissioned by the BBC shows the majority of smartphone users want radio in their devices but have concerns around mobile data costs, battery use and reception issues when using streamed audio services. Together they will research and develop a new radio unit which combines internet and broadcast DAB or FM radio for use in mobile phones. - radiotoday.co.uk

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#13 - Viacom invests in C5 / MIPCOM preview - The Media Podcast with Olly Mann

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Sky urged to pay for content from Freeview channel providers ahead of results | This is Money

Analysts have estimated the three companies could share 150m in fees if Sky and Virgin Media were forced to pay out. Until last year, free channels had to pay Sky down 6.5p to 880p and Virgin to show their programmes. - thisismoney.co.uk

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Ofcom | The Use of Non-Geographic Numbers in Broadcasting

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RadioToday with RCS | 0 to 60 in 4 years for in-car DAB radio

The government minister responsible for radio has told the Radio Festival in Salford that the number of new cars with DAB as standard has now reached almost 60 percent. Ed Vaizey, Minister for Culture and the Digital Economy announced that in September 2014, 58 of all new cars registered almost 250,000 came with digital radio. Four years ago, the proportion of new cars with digital radio was 0 according to industry body Digital Radio UK. - radiotoday.co.uk

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RadioToday with RCS | Ofcom to invite small scale DAB testers

Small-scale DAB is to get a boost as Ofcom prepares to licence a number of smaller multiplexes. The regulator will launch a consultation next week inviting stations to be part of the test, which will giveexisting stations a chance to go on DAB for a nine month period. Peter started off his session by admitting that DAB has not been a good platform for small scale radio so far and this new consultation will take a look at the licence conditions and awards process. - radiotoday.co.uk

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BSkyB Invests in Internet-Video Startup Pluto.TV | Variety

Pluto.TV, launched this spring, pullsinvideo from across the web andorganizes it inabout 100 thematicchannels like music, news, sports and comedy as well as more niche areas like anime and cats 24/7. Users then watch the channelsaslinear, TV-like continuous streams or access the video on-demand on a range of devices. Pluto.TV, meanwhile, expects to tap into the pay-TV providers experience packaging and promoting content. Pluto.TV is currently available in the U.S., but the startup expects to roll out worldwide eventually. - variety.com

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The battle for male viewers heats up | Comment | Broadcast

Can Viacom crack the male audience with the UK launch of Spike TV? Stephen Arnell weighs up the evidence In taking youth-skewing music/entertainment channel Viva off Freeview to make way for male-biased Spike TV, Viacom is showing it means business in the UK, and is moving fast. The Channel 5 family is already integrated into Viacom’s cross-promotion across UK channels and there’s been a steady stream of announcements of co-commissioned shows.. - broadcastnow.co.uk

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BBC News - No charges for broadcaster Paul Gambaccini in Yewtree case

10 October 2014 Last updated at 1816 BBC broadcaster Paul Gambaccini will not face action over alleged historical sex offences, prosecutors say. The 65-year-old was held at a south London address in October last year as part of the Metropolitan Police's Operation Yewtree investigation. The Crown Prosecution Service said the inquiry followed claims of sex offences against two teenage boys in the early 1980s. - bbc.co.uk

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Chinese demand for British TV shows rises 40% | Media | The Guardian

The annual TV export report, published on Monday by independent producers trade body Pact, reveals that for the second year running China represented the fastest growing market for British shows and formats. The Chinese have fallen for dramas including Downton Abbey and formats such as gameshow The Cube, fuelling a 40 year-on-year rise in the amount spent on programmes to 17m. Mexico was the second fastest grower, up 23 to almost 1m. - theguardian.com

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Americans test next-generation standards | informitv

An American broadcaster has transmitted an ultra-high-definition signal over the air in a test of next-generation television standards. It is the first test transmission using the proposed ATSC 3.0 standard, in which scalable video and audio can be delivered over the air to the home and mobile devices simultaneously. It is claimed to be the first successful broadcast of Scalable High Efficiency Video Compression anywhere in the world. - informitv.com

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TV licences - hundreds of thousands still pay by cheque | News | theguardian.com

Cheques have been declining as a method of tender for years now but there is still a sizeable minority who are using them to pay for their TV licence, according to new data from the BBC. There are roughly 350,000 people from across the country who paid the 145.50 needed for their access to British television using cheques last year, making up around one percent of the 25m plus licences in circulation. We do not have the figures for what proportion cheques make up of overall licences in each of these towns but an alternative measure is to look at how the use of cheques compares to the number getting e-licences - a paperless way of paying online, which 5.6m used last year. - theguardian.com

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UK TV exports grow 5% to ?1.3bn | News | Broadcast

Mipcom: Demand for UK television shows abroad has increased 5% over the past 12 months, fuelled by growing sales in the US and China. Pact’s annual UK Television Exports Survey found that total TV programming sales were worth £1.28bn in 2013, compared to £1.22bn in 2012. China was the largest growth market with a 40% boost in this period, taking total sales to £17m in 2014, compared with £12m last year. This meant that the country overtook Holland and Spain, which both acquired £16m of UK content respectively.- broadcastnow.co.uk

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VoD: time for a united front | Comment | Broadcast

PSBs must play the likes of Netflix at their own game, says Kate Bulkley Nostalgia in the TV business used to mean looking back a generation, or at least a decade, to spot an emerging trend. But the rapid uptake of new technologies means the ‘next big thing’ happens as fast as you can say Snapchat. Lord only knows which app will be attracting a $10bn (£6.2bn) valuation next week. For broadcasters, video-on-demand (VoD) has had a similarly swift development. It was only in 2009 that the Competition Commission killed Kangaroo, the shared VoD platform proposed by BBC Worldwide, ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5, saying it would harm the nascent VoD market in the UK. Rivals at the time, such as Joost, are now defunct – despite there never being a Kangaroo.. - broadcastnow.co.uk

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