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What are the options for radio in a digital age? - Technology - theguardian.com
With the topic of analogue FM radio turn-off in the news again, I would be very grateful if you could clarify the options, given the Quad aspiration. I have a rather fine, if old, hi-fi system into which any radio signal can be delivered. Where I live, the web is not an option, but it may be for others. - theguardian.com
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Local TV plan on the rocks as funding frozen, while London Live head quits - Media - The Guardian
Local TV station London Live's viewing figures average 2,400 for its breakfast show. Eight times it has broadcast to an audience of zero. London Live the biggest station to launch so far, which shares the same owner as the capital's Evening Standard newspaper has recorded close-to-zero audience figures for some of its news programmes. - theguardian.comwww.theguardian.comFeedback: The Archers Editor: 25 Apr 14
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BitTorrent: Netflix should defeat ISPs by switching to peer-to-peer - Ars Technica
Klinker writes Many smart researchers are already thinking about this problem. Broadly speaking, this re-imagined Internet is often called Content Centric Networking. The closest working example we have to a Content Centric Network today is BitTorrent. - arstechnica.com
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Why Do So Many People Describe Aereo 'Complying' With Copyright Law As The Company 'Circumventing' Copyright Law? - Tech
We mentioned this briefly in our writeup of the oral arguments at the Supreme Court in the Aereo case, but I wanted to focus in on one particularly annoying issue that has come up repeatedly throughout this company's history the idea that its compliance with the law is actually the company circumventing the law. We'll fully admit, as that article does, that the setup of Aereo is simply insane from a technology standpoint. There is no good reason at all to design the technology this way. - techdirt.com
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London Live TV suffers terrible Barb ratings three weeks on from launch - Media - theguardian.com
London Live, the news-based TV channel launched on 31 March, has failed to win many viewers. For example, the key three-hour breakfast show, Wake Up London, is averaging 2,400 viewers while the early evening show is attracting just 4,000. Midgeley quotes statistics from the official ratings monitor, Barb, between 31 March and Tuesday 22 April. - theguardian.comwww.theguardian.comThursday 24 April 2014, PM
Hubris, chemistry and Susanna Reid: welcome to ITV's 'new' breakfast show - Life and style - The Guardian
Monday sees the launch of Good Morning Britain the last possible combination of jaunty, early-birdy words the channel has not yet strung together in its 900-year quest to render the slot something other than an eternally unlearned lesson in broadcasting hubris. Unless you devote yourself to recherche news concerns such as the Ukraine crisis, you will already know that drifting TV ghost ship Daybreak is finally to be broken up for scrap. In the event of nuclear holocaust she would still be there, linking gamely from an item about radiation poisoning to a ham-radio call-in on fallout fashion. - theguardian.comwww.theguardian.com
London Live's Disastrous TV Ratings: 2,400 Watch Breakfast Show In City Of 9million - Forbes
Id already been behind the scenes at the channel before its March 31 launch, to write a feature for Britains Radio Times magazine. Having seen one of its live programmes being piloted, I was skeptical that the channels news output could be a success. Almost nobody is watching London Lives flagship programmes the live news and current affairs that fill five and a half hours every weekday. - forbes.com
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BBC iPlayer - Help - iPlayer Radio - Problems since 22 April 2014 on PC and Mac
Some users have encountered the error message, Content not working'. This is currently under investigation and when we obtain further information it will be added to this FAQ. Did this answer your question - iplayerhelp.external.bbc.co.ukiplayerhelp.external.bbc.co.ukTuesday 22 April 2014, PM
Aereo s Supreme Court case could catch TiVo and others in its crossfire Quartz
The word to listenfor in todays arguments is Cablevision, as in the 2008 appeals court decisionapproving that companys cloud-based DVR. Prolonged discussion of thecase would suggest the justices disagree with the ruling inCablevision, which would in turn raise questions that go way beyond Aereo. The publicly traded company recently started selling products that let peoplewatch recorded television on phones and tabletsover the internet.If the justices think Aereos service is a copyright violation, then TiVos might be, too. - qz.com
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Aereo Supreme Court case: What happens if CBS, ABC, NBC, Fox lose? - Fortune Tech
By Peter Suciu Aereo is the brainchild of engineer and inventor Chet Kanojia. Aereo has been signing up subscribers in markets around the country since it first launched in New York City in February 2012. Should Aereo win the right to retransmit the OTA signals, other operators could use similar technologies to also avoid paying the retransmission fees, and that, say some legal experts, could undermine the entire broadcast business model. - tech.fortune.cnn.comtech.fortune.cnn.comArgument preview: Free TV, at a bargain price? : SCOTUSblog
ProtectMyAntenna.org At its core, this dispute is about the meaning forthe broadcast world of two words and variations thereon perform or performance and public or publicly.Those words appeared in the landmark Copyright Act of 1909, and have remained in that law ever since. That opinion established two concepts for broadcast copyright law the nature of the middleman in delivering the entertainment counts, but so does the identityof the end user, or listener. The Supreme Court decidedin 2005 that this was different from the Betamax approach, because the distributor of the software made significant efforts toactually encourage file-sharing of the copyrighted movies, and so wasa copyrightviolation enabler. - scotusblog.com
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Ofcom begins review of wholesale offer of Sky Sports 1 and 2 - UPDATED - Recombu
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The making of an icon: Celia Chapman, co-designer of the BBC 2 ident, relives creating that fat, sharp-edged little nume
Controller Alan Yentob recognised that the existing identity was singularly unmemorable and commissioned Lambie-Nairn to come up with something new, different and memorable. Why was it chosen over all other 2s This provided space for things to happen to it, and things did happen to it it had paint thrown at it, it was dropped into paint powder, it was made from copper, paper, neon, and glass. - thedrum.com
www.thedrum.comWe dont all look to the Sky for the best TV Express Star
There I was at the last Saturday afternoon home match, minding my own interference and tucking into a particularly fiery chicken balti pie at half time, when a conversation struck up around me. Is it worth paying for satellite TV in these cash-strapped times, or does the ever expanding Freeview give you everything you need these days We just watch freeview through the dish and I listen to the footie on the radio. Hang on, replied small Bob Ive made that one up, but hes only about 5 6. - expressandstar.com
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Media Monkey's Diary: BBC, Tony Gallagher, Ipso and Zai Bennett - Media - The Guardian
You've got Mail Tony Gallagher returns to the fold. I was watching a competing music show and some girl was murdering Get Here by Oleta Adams, and I thought, you know what I'd rather watch a singing dog. - theguardian.comwww.theguardian.comSunday 20 April 2014, AM
Concept for Live TV On-the-Go Was Around Long Before Aereo - Variety
The mantra for the digital age has been to give consumers what they want, anywhere and anytime they want it. Theres also a question of demand, and whether a standalone mobile TV service makes sense in an era of apps. The presumption, however, is that there would be a natural audience for live TV on the go, particularly for sports, news and weather. - variety.com
variety.comSteady on Jeremy Paxman, Radio 1Xtra is music to my ears - Kieran Yates - Comment is free - The Observer
Photograph Sunday Alamba/AP Oh, that's novel a radio station specialising in black music being attacked by an older white male who doesn't listen to it. The odd lift encounter aside In case you missed the headlines, Jeremy Paxman has been having a go at his employer, the BBC, describing it, among other things, as too big. I started listening to 1Xtra as soon as it launched in 2002. - theguardian.comwww.theguardian.comBBC2 at 50: The 50 facts you might not know - News - TV Radio - The Independent
The logo of a mother kangaroo with a baby emerging from her pouch was used to advertise BBC2 in the run-up to the channels first transmission, and a live animal was brought in for opening night. 2 The channel was the result of a recommendation in the Pilkington Committee review of broadcasting in 1962. 3 On launch night, 20 April 1964, a huge power cut in west London forced transmissions to switch to Alexandra Palace, where newsreader Gerald Priestland stoically delivered a news bulletin before the channel was cut off. - independent.co.uk
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Comcast: Binge watching actually helps live TV ratings (exclusive) - VentureBeat - Media - by Tom Cheredar
The best way to hook someone into an existing series of stories is to make sure they can start from the beginning. The same is also true of TV shows, and Comcast has the data to back it up. As part of its seasonal Watchathon promotion, Comcast has added all current-season episodes for a handful of shows to its on-demand video library. - venturebeat.com
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Audio engineering pioneer John Meyer: Stop chasing the next big thing, and go with FLAC instead Tech News and
John Meyer may be making really expensive loudspeakers, but when it comes to high-end audio, the audio engineering pioneer prefers free. FLAC, the open source audio format developed by Grateful Dead fans to trade bootleg recordings, is the perfect format for music aficionados looking for higher-resolution audio, Meyer told me during a recent interview. Ordinary music fans may never have heard of John Meyer, but chances are, he has helped them to enjoy music at one point or another. - gigaom.com
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ITN reports pre-tax profit of £6.6m - Media - theguardian.com
The news and multimedia company, which produces bulletins for ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5, posted its fourth successive year of operating profit growth despite turnover falling 3 to 105.8m. Revenues for the year to end December 2013 were down in part due to a small fall in news revenues and demand for archive clips from ITN Source which the previous year supplied footage from major events such as the Olympics and diamond jubilee. The rise in pre-tax profits was in part due to exceptional items including the sale of ITN's stake in digital education company Espresso Group for 2.5m in cash, which netted a 700,000 profit on disposal. - theguardian.comwww.theguardian.com
Aereo Launches ProtectMyAntenna.org To Explain Its Position Vs. Broadcasters - TechCrunch
Aereo is about to present its case to the U.S. Supreme Court, but first it wants to present its case to you. Basically, Aereo maintains that each of its subscribers are using their own micro antenna, so in terms of the letter of the law, theres no difference between what it does and what users who own their own antennas and hardware them to their TVs at home do. Aereo says this new site is in part an answer to requests it has received from its users regarding how they might be able to help the startup in terms of spreading the word about the service, how it works and what its legal position is relative to the broadcasters who would see it shut down. - techcrunch.comtechcrunch.com
BBC News - BBC and Sky catch-up apps experience iOS fault
Neither organisation was able to provide a full explanation at this time. Game of Thrones This is the second technical fault that Now TV has experienced this month. Sky's subscription service - which targets people who do not subscribe to its satellite TV channels - crashed during the first episode of the latest Game Of Thrones season. - bbc.co.ukwww.bbc.co.ukDiscovery withdraws bid for Channel 5 - Media - theguardian.com
US factual broadcaster Discovery made a bid earlier this week in the second round of the acquisition process, but in the latest twist in the long-running Channel 5 sale saga has now dropped out of the running, MediaGuardian understands. According to sources Discovery's offer was thought to be in the region of 250m to 300m, and was made in association with BSkyB. However, it is thought that BSkyB's involvement was limited to handling Channel 5's advertising sales on behalf of Discovery, rather than taking an equity stake in the free-to-air broadcaster. - theguardian.comwww.theguardian.comThursday 17 April 2014, AM
Barry Diller: Broadcasters Don t Own the Airwaves - WSJ.com
ET On April 22, the Supreme Court will hear a case that could alter the way Americans have used and benefited from broadcast airwaves since the dawn of radio and television. When radio and television entered American life in the 1920s, the government made a bargain with the nation's broadcasters They would receive free use of the nation's airwaves in exchange for providing free, advertising-supported programming in return. The deal has paid off handsomely for both broadcasters and citizens. - online.wsj.com
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download.guardian.co.ukAereo Shows Off Their Rooftop Antenna Farm Ahead Of Supreme Court Ruling - TechCrunch
Exclusive Aereo Rooftop ArrayTour A lot has been said about Aereos technology so much, in fact, that there are hundreds of pages worth of legal documents discussing the matter as it relates to the law. That said, we thought it would be helpful to take a closer look at how Aereo actually works when it lets customers rent out remote DVR antennas and watch what amounts to live television on any device. Once Aereo establishes itself in any new market, the team brings in what they call an Antenna Farm, or internally, a Raz-12. - techcrunch.comtechcrunch.com
BBC News - BBC Twos 50th anniversary: Disastrous launch remembered
In fact, a massive power cut wiped out the entire launch schedule and led to one of the most disastrous nights in broadcasting history. It was supposed to be a spectacular opening night for BBC Two. The channel was due to appear at 1920 on 20 April 1964. - bbc.co.ukwww.bbc.co.ukBroadcasters Seek an Aereo Plan B - WSJ.com
They are suing for an injunction that would shut down Aereo, which pitches its product as a complement to online video services like Netflix. Aereo says it is merely facilitating consumers' rights to watch free-to-air broadcast TV. The high court takes up the case April 22. - online.wsj.comonline.wsj.comMurdoch’s BSkyB Said to Join Discovery in Channel 5 Offer (2) - Businessweek
Desmond, who initially sought more than 700 million pounds for the station, has also considered an initial public offering for the channel instead of selling, people familiar with the plan said this month. BSkyB and Discovery are close to buying Channel 5 for 350 million pounds 585 million, according to Broadcast magazine. Representatives at BSkyB, Discovery and Viacom declined to comment. - businessweek.com
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The BBC: there to inform, educate, provoke and enrage? - Charlotte Higgins - Media - The Guardian
The BBC is like the Greeks Hydra vast and many headed. Whatever qualities it has, it often seems to embody the opposite, too. I love the BBC in many ways, but at the same time it has made me loathe aspects of it, and thats a very odd state of affairs. - theguardian.comwww.theguardian.comTuesday 15 April 2014, PM
BBC Trust to conduct fresh review into how much it pays biggest stars - TV Radio - Media - The Independent
The review of the broadcaster's 200 million annual bill for on-screen talent will determine whether licence payers are getting value for money. The BBC has 250 performers and presenters earning more than 100,000 a year according to its latest annual report, including 14 who made over 500,000. The review will benchmark BBC salaries against those offered by commercial broadcasters. - independent.co.ukwww.independent.co.uk
Discovery on brink of Channel 5 deal - News - Broadcast
Discovery Communications and BSkyB are poised to announce a £350m deal to acquire Channel 5 from Richard Desmond’s Northern & Shell, Broadcast understands. Full details are not known, but Discovery is thought to have a 70% share of the deal with BSkyB taking the remaining 30% share, allowing it to add C5’s advertising inventory to its own sales operation. The deal will mark a significant step for US media giant Discovery, which has been keen to ramp up both its international portfolio and its exposure to free-to-air broadcasting in key markets.
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Ariel - Trust to take second look at talent pay
It will begin a review later this spring to see whether the Corporation is getting value for money from its presenters and performers. The BBC spends around 200m a year on tv and radio talent, with the last annual report stating that 14 big names earn more than 500,000 a year. The trust will examine how the BBC recruits and develops talent and how much it pays for talent compared to other broadcasters. - bbc.co.ukwww.bbc.co.ukDoes radio have something to fear from the connected dash?
Much has been said about the 'connected dash' in recent weeks the concern that radio has plenty to lose from forthcoming internet-connected cars, that'll offer internet radio, Spotify-like services, and plenty more. I'm here to tell you, after a brief trip to Las Vegas, that if you're a radio broadcaster, you should start worrying right now. My car, a Nissan Almera, didn't have a connected dash. - mediauk.comwww.mediauk.comBBC - Media Centre - Valerie Hughes-D’Aeth appointed as BBC Director of HR
Valerie replaces Lucy Adams, who left the BBC at the end of the last financial year. - bbc.co.ukwww.bbc.co.ukDoctor Who's Tom Baker: BBC bosses were monsters – but I'd come back - Media Monkey - Media - theguardian.com
I didn't fancy being a feed for other Doctors in fact, it filled me with horror. Now, of course, if someone asked me to do a scene with some other Doctors, I think, if they let me tamper with the script, it would probably be quite drole. - theguardian.comwww.theguardian.comTuesday 15 April 2014, AM
YouView: Easter TV viewing just got cheep-er - IP TV News
YouView has an exclusive Easteroffer to cut 20 off of the five star-rated YouView Humax set-top box. During the offer period, it also comes with free next-day delivery worth 5.95, so it can be ordered in time for the four-day Easter weekend. Next day delivery is available when orders are placed by 4pm the day before. - iptv-news.comwww.iptv-news.comWhat can the origins of the BBC tell us about its future? - Charlotte Higgins - Media - The Guardian
The manse on Lynedoch Street, Glasgow, is a handsome double-fronted house with nine steps up to its front door. It clings to the flank of its sandstone church, whose brace of tall, pencil-straight towers are linked by an elegant classical pediment. As he aged, the dark bushy eyebrows became more wayward and independently active, the white hair wilder. - theguardian.comwww.theguardian.com
BBC News - 3D sound experiments carried out by BBC R D engineers
To address this, the BBC's Research and Development team is developing new tools for the creation and delivery of binaural audio - a production technique that mimics natural hearing cues created by the head and ears. In the most recent experiment, the researchers borrowed 10 members of the BBC Philharmonic orchestra last month and surrounded them with a multitude of microphones - placed at different distances and heights from the musicians - to record new raw material to play with. The advantage of the binaural recording technique is that it can be used to create a richer sense of space, allowing for a more realistic, three-dimensional experience. - bbc.co.ukwww.bbc.co.ukMonday 14 April 2014, PM
Irish TV expansion to create 150 jobs - RT News
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RadioToday - Global confirms Heart expansion details
The addition of the Real brand will add an extra 2m listeners to Heart. A multi-million pound advertising campaign on TV, outdoor, press, online, social media and pr will take place in all the new regions. Real South Wales keeps the same line up too with Jagger and Wood on breakfast and Jason Harrold on drive. - radiotoday.co.uk
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Ariel - Garazi Goia engineers the good life
14 April 2014 Last updated at 0950 By Carla Parks Reporter Getting the right work/life balance is a tricky business. Garazi Goia, on the other hand, seems to achieve what most of us can't. Not only is she the published author of two novels and one compilation of short stories, but she's also the new acting director of distribution, a job that requires negotiating multimillion-pound contracts and driving the BBC's television and HD strategy. - bbc.co.ukwww.bbc.co.ukpick a page