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The BBC Trust may have found its saviour - TV Radio - Media - The Independent
The former Sun editor and Brunswick PR David Yelland has described her as an excellent choice. Ms Fairhead would be the first woman in the job and her candidacy has been a well-kept secret after many potential applicants ruled themselves out of a part-time role that proved difficult for the previous incumbents, Lord Patten and Sir Michael Lyons. Its said Ms Fairhead left the Financial Times Group, where she was chairman and chief executive, because she didnt get the top job in 2012. - independent.co.uk
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Rona Fairhead offers relief but no respite for BBC | Media | The Guardian
These are testing times for the BBC, as they will no doubt be for the new trust chair. Relief mainly that she was not one of the other mooted candidates for example, the former BBC chairman Michael Grade. There are several things about Fairhead that are ideally suited to the circumstances. - theguardian.com
www.theguardian.comDaily Mail on the wrong trail over BBC’s Sherlock success | Media Monkey | Media | theguardian.com
But thats ancient history, and this week the Emmy awards in Los Angeles delivered fresh humiliation. This level of success at the Primetime Emmys is pretty much unprecedented for UK shows in the events 65-year history. American television shows swept the board. Er ... theyve always swept the board year in, year out until Downton and Sherlock. - theguardian.comwww.theguardian.comNew Statesman | Gee up, Newsnight: is it time to stop flogging the dying horse?
Its possibly because of the grimness of the news agenda that I find myself ending the day with BBC2s Newsnight less often than I used to. Twenty-four-hour news channels and all the commentary online make it ever harder to offer a definitive take on the day, and over on Radio 4 the Today programme mops up the key interviews. I would move the programme to a new slot start it at 11pm and give it up to an hour, with a brief to be more discursive. - newstatesman.com
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The test suites are available as an free update to existing licensees. For new customers, pricing information is available from customerservicesdtg.org.uk DTG Staff 28.08.2014 - dtg.org.uk
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Ariel - Imagine never needing the remote
27 August 2014 Last updated at 1544 From Ceefax to gesture-controlled devices, London's Barbican is currently hosting an exhibition celebrating digital creativity. In a single room, the Digital Revolution exhibition charts the rapid progression of mass consumer technology over the last 40 years. For those seeking a dose of digital nostalgia, there was the chance to play classic arcade games like Pong 1972 and Pac Man 1980 or boot up early home computers such as the ZX Spectrum 1982. - bbc.co.uk
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BBC News - White space between TV signals could save lives at sea
The leftover white space between TV signals is raising the hope of saving lives at sea and proving broadband for remote communities. He is using VHF radio, a technology virtually unchanged for a century. It was from the cliffs above Freshwater Bay on the Isle of Wight that Guglielmo Marconi first proved that radio could be used for two-way wireless communication with ships at sea. - bbc.co.ukwww.bbc.co.ukSaturday 30 August 2014, PM
BBC News - Rona Fairhead to be BBC Trust chairwoman
She was chairwoman and chief executive of the Financial Times Group between 2006 and 2013 as part of a 12-year career with its owner, Pearson. - bbc.co.ukwww.bbc.co.ukWednesday 27 August 2014, PM
Media: Exploitation in South Yorkshire - TV election debates - Jihadis and social media
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RadioToday | RadioDNS launches new information website
RadioDNS the open standards code which connects broadcast radio and internet data together has a new website. It has a cleaner, more modern design, is fully responsive and contains lots of information on hybrid radio along with documents to help broadcasters, developers and manufacturers launch RadioDNS Hybrid Radio services. The project has 26 members from the United States, Europe and Australia, and over 60 supporters, withover 1900 stations currently using the technology. - radiotoday.co.uk
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BBC News - LG to put 'the first 4K OLED TVs' on sale in September
The firm said a curved 65in 165cm set would go on sale in Europe, South Korea and North America in September. The two companies offer 4K sets based on synthetic LED tech instead. The difference is that OLED makes use of a carbon-based compound that emits light when struck by an electric current. - bbc.co.ukwww.bbc.co.ukMonday 25 August 2014, PM
It seems to be Groundhog Day for public service broadcasters | Media | The Guardian
His speech, which came just after the general election that put a seemingly hostile coalition government in power, fought for public service broadcasting in a world in which no one seemed to balk at the idea that profit is all, the chilling conclusion to James Murdochs MacTaggart lecture of the year before. For Thompson, the main target was the Murdochs and their attack on the licence fee, which was renewed in October 2010. For Abraham, who after all broadcasts some Murdoch-made material including Homeland and The Simpsons, the target was broader. - theguardian.comwww.theguardian.comMonkey at Edinburgh: Keith Lemon naked, Peter Fincham’s man cave | Media | The Guardian
Monkey has a new contender for most embarrassing session at Edinburgh previously held by Jana Bennetts singing in an execs version of Britains Got Talent in 2009. You feel really vulnerable when someone comes in and wipes their anus on your kitchen counter. A mystified Lemon also found a cupboard in the sitting room containing some old pants and socks. Finchams house included works of arts and a giant man cave in the garden where Lemon kept finding planted wads of 50 notes. - theguardian.comwww.theguardian.com
#10 - SPECIAL: Guardian Edinburgh International TV Festival 2014
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Digital Communications Infrastructure Strategy consultation - Consultations - GOV.UK
This consultation is collecting evidence and views to develop a new Digital Communications Infrastructure Strategy. This Strategy will look at what digital communications infrastructure is needed in the UK over the next 10-15 years to maintain our position as a world class digital nation. The Strategy will also consider what needs to be done by Government, industry and others to put this digital communications infrastructure in place. - gov.uk
www.gov.ukDavid Abraham’s MacTaggart lecture - full text | Media | theguardian.com
Thank you Elaine, Melanie and the festival committee for inviting me to give the MacTaggart lecture this year. Its a tremendous honour to be speaking, both personally and on behalf of Channel 4. Its going to be one of my creative highlights of the year. - theguardian.comwww.theguardian.com
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Media: BBC's coverage of raid on Sir Cliff; covering the Missouri riots; Sky's diversity targets
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4K years from mass market adoption | informitv
4K or Ultra-HD video will remain a niche market for at least five years but will ultimately reach the mainstream. Online streaming and video on demand will play a critical early role but pay television will provide support as the ecosystem matures. The Diffusion Group report considers the prospects for 4K devices, programming and share of viewing. - informitv.com
informitv.comImportance of online performance | informitv
Responsiveness and overall performance are critical to the user experience of online services, particularly for media and entertainment experiences. A recent study from Limelight Networks suggested that over half of respondents thought that high performance streaming without buffering or waiting for pages to load was the most important expectation for user experience, ranking it above the availability of new content. The author of the report, and a recent book on improving engagement with digital audiences, spoke to informitv about the importance of performance for user experience. - informitv.cominformitv.comITV online revenue rise is relatively marginal | informitv
ITV, the leading commercial television broadcaster in the United Kingdom, reported an increased pre-tax profit of 250 million for the first half of 2014, on revenues of 1.23 billion. Total online, pay and interactive revenues were up 20 from 56 million to 67 million, which is around 6.8 of all broadcast and online revenue, or 5.5 of its total income. So is that going to be enough to make a material difference to the future of the company as a standalone business - informitv.cominformitv.com
Review: Humax HDR-1800T Freeview+HD set top box | SEENIT
Theres also an ethernet port for connecting the box to your broadband router necessary if you want to access the internet portal and a USB socket so you can play films and music stored on external drives. Setting Up For the most part setting up the box is pretty simple plug in the aerial cable and the on screen wizard will guide you through the process but when it came to getting the broadband connection working I had a few minor teething troubles. After connecting the cable and completing the set-up, the box reported that the connection had been successfully established. - seenit.co.uk
www.seenit.co.ukBBC looks beyond the walled garden in a changing media world | Media | The Guardian
Very few knew what broadcasting meant none knew what it might become. So John Reith recalled the first 18 months of his life as the general manager of the brand-new British Broadcasting Company. There was something big, even colossal, conveyed in the nature of the contract which had been undertaken. Reith and his bohemian flock as the head of variety, Eric Maschwitz, described the band of early colleagues were out to invent the future. Reith, that monstrous, tyrannical, tortured man, set his furious gaze at the new technological world of wireless telegraphy and saw that it could be, should be, placed in the service of society as a whole. - theguardian.comwww.theguardian.comTuesday 19 August 2014, AM
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There is a brown fog nobody is building it is drizzling, Virginia Woolf recorded in her diary for 6 May 1926. Rumours are passed round that the gas would be cut off at 1 false of course. One does not know what to do A voice, rather commonplace official, yet the only common voice left, wishes us good morning at 10. - gu.com
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Edinburgh?International?Television Festival finds an industry?questioning its own credibility - TV Radio - Media - The
The annual Edinburgh International Television Festival coinciding with the Fringe and bolstered by numerous late-night parties can descend into an orgy of collective back-slapping based on the rather arrogant presumption that British television is the best in the world. Such indulgence should not disguise the fundamental problems in the TV industry even if we accept it has shown resilience in continuing to define popular culture in defiance of doomsayers who wrote it off as a 20th-century medium. Today British television faces growing doubts over its relevance and credibility which threaten its enormous potential for generating revenue overseas and acting as a flagship for the UKs wider creative industries. - independent.co.ukwww.independent.co.ukMonday 18 August 2014, AM
Sheffield's local TV beats target through crowdfunding initiative | Media | theguardian.com
After a week-long burst of contributions, Sheffield Live TV managed to achieve, and even supersede, its fund-raising target to put it on course for launch. They applied for between 100 and 20,000 worth of community shares. The cash will be used to purchase equipment and complete studio facilities. - theguardian.comwww.theguardian.comFriday 15 August 2014, PM
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London Live switches its target audience to attract older viewers | Media | theguardian.com
The repositioning will see the channel forsaking the youth market to appeal to an older audience closer to the 25 to 44 age range, which happens to be the core readership of its print stablemate, the London Evening Standard. Barb's London panel of 855 people is said by ESI Media, to be too small a sample to provide figures of its true audience. - theguardian.comwww.theguardian.com
INFOGRAPHIC: A decade of change for TV | News | Broadcast
14 August, 2014 Click to see how British viewing habits have evolved over the past 10 years. We have recently launched our new Broadcast subscription packages, which means theres an option to suit everyone. Learn more about the new packages here and choose the one that best suits you. - broadcastnow.co.uk
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Ariel - BBC to air referendum debate across UK
BBC One Scotland will show the programme from 8.30pm. The programme will also be shared as a simulcast with other broadcasters and media outlets, including newspapers. Viewers outside Scotland could only see the debate on STV's online player, which was unable to cope with the demand. - bbc.co.ukwww.bbc.co.ukhttp://radioassistant.com/europe/2014/06/dab-in-tunnels-soon/
Their biggest problem in going digital is to put DAB in the tunnels. Why is DAB in tunnels taking so much longer than building transmitter sites around the mountainous countryside of Switzerland Safety for the road users and how tunnel control centers get in touch with drivers. - radioassistant.comradioassistant.comWednesday 13 August 2014, PM
Media: Local TV's first casualty; the class action against Facebook; reporting suicide
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RadioToday | Trust to hold BBC review of content supply
Currently, for radio, at least ten per cent of hours must be commissioned from independent suppliers, with a further ten per cent open to competition between the BBC and independent sector. Figures published last month in the BBCs annual report showed indies winning 75 of the competitive hours. Posted on Wednesday, August 13th, 2014 at 134 pm by Radio Today UK. - radiotoday.co.ukradiotoday.co.uk
Ariel - Trust to review radio and online supply
13 August 2014 Last updated at 1257 The BBC Trust will extend its review of content supply to radio and online this autumn. Announced in April, it was initially scheduled to assess TV commissioning but its scope has now broadened to cover other platforms and out-of-London production quotas. According to terms published on Tuesday, it will look at whether current production arrangements need to change. - bbc.co.ukwww.bbc.co.ukTuesday 12 August 2014, PM
When are BBC iPlayer and Freeview coming to Xbox One?
Previously the Xboxs OneGuide was only compatible with cable and satellite set-top boxes. Now Freeview viewers will be able to use features like the voice-controlled OneGuide, or watch television at the same time as playing video games using Snap Mode. - radiotimes.com
www.radiotimes.comMonday 11 August 2014, PM
DTG :: News :: The DTG starts work on the next-generation free-to-air technical specification to support Freeview Connec
reviewing the current logical channel number LCN swapping and regional handling behaviour 2. preparations to smooth the potential 700 MHz clearance transition 3. Non-members should contact membershipdtg.org.uk or visit http//www.dtg.org.uk/dtg/joining DTG Staff 07.08.2014 - dtg.org.ukwww.dtg.org.ukGeneration gap in view of television | informitv
Online television and video receives a lot of media attention but still accounts for a relatively small proportion of all viewing and a small but growing share of total industry revenues. However, there are significant generational differences in the use of online video and attitudes to television. Watching live television was not even ranked in the top ten responses for the media activity that those aged 16-24 would miss most, in recently published research from Ofcom. - informitv.cominformitv.comThirst for control of hit shows puts ITV in prime takeover territory | Business | The Observer
This has made for an increasingly cut-throat battle to become king of content and win consumers' attention and drive profits. It dropped the bid last week but the corporate logic remains deep-rooted in the mind of media executives and bankers create a content company big enough to shift the balance of power away from cable companies and internet firms. In the last two years, ITV has bought about a dozen production companies and could pay out as much as 808m in bonuses to executives at those firms if management hits stretching targets in the coming years. - theguardian.comwww.theguardian.com
RadioToday | Radio industry split over future regulation
Responses to Ofcoms review of music in radio formats reveal a deep split in the radio industry over the future of its regulation. Ofcom is considering changes to the way it regulates the music part of the format that describes an analogue local stations character of service. RadioCentre agreed with Ofcoms proposal that the review should focus only on the formats of local commercial radio stations, and exclude other categories of radio licence, including national commercial stations, commercial DAB stations and community radio. - radiotoday.co.ukradiotoday.co.ukSaturday 09 August 2014, PM
Citizen Space - BBC Trust service review: Music Radio Consultation
One of the ways we do this is by carrying out an in-depth review of each of the BBC's services at least once every 5 years. What do you like, what do you dislike and what should the BBC do to make these radio services better for you You will see that for some questions we will ask you to think about the speech programmes on these services too. - consultations.external.bbc.co.ukconsultations.external.bbc.co.ukFriday 08 August 2014, PM
Feedback: Centenary of the start of WWI: 8 Aug 14
downloads.bbc.co.ukDTG :: News :: Ed Vaizey MP adopts a new title and responsibilities as the UK's first Minister of State for Culture and
For full details of the new role, visit gov.uk. DTG Staff 08.08.2014 Links open in a new window. - dtg.org.ukdtg.org.ukDTG :: News :: DTG releases an update for D-Book 7.4 related test suites
The beta release update to the MHEG test suite will be announced when available. The test suites are available as an free update to existing licensees. - dtg.org.ukdtg.org.ukSacked BBC technology chief wins unfair dismissal case | Media | The Guardian
Linwood claimed in an employment tribunal in central London earlier this year that he had been made the fall guy for its failure and said the project need never have been axed. In a verdict handed down on Thursday, it was the tribunals unanimous verdict that Linwoods claim of unfair dismissal was well founded and succeeds. It said Linwood had contributed to the extent of 15 to his own dismissal. - theguardian.comwww.theguardian.comHouse of Cards, Breaking Bad and binge viewing pull audiences online | Media Network | Guardian Professional
We know that subscription video on demand SVOD is big business, but so many of the facts and figures are hazy. Netflix's audience insights have led to confident and successful series launches, such as House of Cards and Orange is the New Black, where full series commissions were made from the outset, without a pilot. Similarly, audience insights were used by Netflix to target market House of Cards to its subscribers via 10 different trailer cuts, depending on your past viewing habits on the platform. - theguardian.comwww.theguardian.com
RadioToday | National BBC local show sheds listeners
The figures released last week, which cover the period April to June 2014, are the lowest for the Monday to Friday evening show since the current audience research methodology began in June 2007. Forrests weekday evening programme now reaches 1,166k listeners each week compared to 1,607k in the first quarter of 2013. The shows share of listening fell to 4.6 from 6.2 over the same period. - radiotoday.co.ukradiotoday.co.uk
Ariel - BBC Trust launches its biggest radio review
Its assessment, announced in February, will look at the performances of Radio 1, 1Xtra, 2, 3, 6 Music and Asian Network and whether they provide value for money. The range of musical genres will also come under focus, along with the stations' record at supporting new and live British music. Commercial radio stations, meanwhile, increased their share to 43.2. - bbc.co.ukwww.bbc.co.ukWednesday 06 August 2014, PM
New laws for bloggers; the impartiality of reporters; radio presenters working for free
downloads.bbc.co.ukTuesday 05 August 2014, PM
BBC staff agree two-year pay deal – but plan strike ballot over job cuts | Media | theguardian.com
Trade unions have agreed a new two-year pay deal with BBC management weeks after a strike was called off but will now hold a new ballot for industrial action over job cuts. The National Union of Journalists, media and entertainment union Bectu and Unite all voted to accept the revised offer which will see an extra 800 for people earning less than 50,000 and a 650 rise for those earning more. The corporation had initially offered a 1 pay rise which unions had dismissed as derisory. - theguardian.comwww.theguardian.compick a page