The joys of jostling for position - Comment - Broadcast

Netflixs model is marvellous, but conventional slots are still crucial The Broadcast team had busy Valentines Day weekends by all accounts but there wasnt a trip to Paris or a bunch of garage-bought flowers in sight. Either way, its easy to think that binge viewing has become the default for my colleagues, and that Netflixs strategy of delivering an entire series in one go has delivered a terminal Frank Underwood FU to linear broadcasting as we know it. Thinkboxs figures this week on consumption of VoD content versus linear viewing can be cut in different ways, but overall the picture is of traditional viewing proving remarkably robust. - broadcastnow.co.uk

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Ofcom - Ofcom renews ITV, STV, UTV and Channel 5 licences

Earlier this month, Ofcom confirmed that it would renew the licences and set out the terms for renewal, which all the licensees have now accepted. The Channel 5 licence covers all of the UK. Ofcom consulted on the programming obligations for the Channel 3 and Channel 5 licences, proposals to change the areas covered by two licences held by ITV, and the methodology for determining the financial terms for the licences in February 2013. - media.ofcom.org.uk

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Richard Desmond sets deadline for Channel 5 bids - Media - theguardian.com

CSI Crime Scene Investigation questions remain over Channel 5's deals for key franchises. BT and one other potential bidder are understood to have held private discussions with Desmond last year, with a public sale process pursued after talks petered out. The document, which runs to well over 100 pages, has left some recipients with more questions than answers. - gu.com

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Utah Federal Court Halts Aereo in Salt Lake City - Variety

A federal judge in Utah has imposed a preliminary injunction on Aereos operations, a win for broadcasters as they seek to halt the startup streaming service in Salt Lake City and Denver. Despite its attempt to design a device or process outside the scope of the 1976 Copyright Act,Aereos device or process transmits Plaintiffs copyrighted programs to the public. The scope of the injunction is the 10th Circuit, which covers six western states. We are very pleased that the U.S. District Court in Utah has granted our request for a preliminary injunction. - variety.com

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BBC World Service to reduce shortwave transmissions as part of savings drive - Media - theguardian.com

BBC director of global news, Peter Horrocks, has said it would be a real stretch to find 15m in savings across the World Service. The money will be used to invest in new TV and digital services, part of a programme called Invest to Innovate. An extra 6.5m is being pumped into the World Service's budget this year, alongside an extra 1.5m of savings, helping to create 130 jobs. - theguardian.com

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Media: World Service; Daybreak changes; Reader's Digest

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BBC - Media Centre - BBC iPlayer Performance Pack - January 2014

January saw an average of 10.2m daily requests, the highest ever seen. The Voice has also had a strong start, along with the new series of Outnumbered. With so many tablets and mobiles being gifted at Christmas, the number of requests via mobiles and tablets accounted for 40 per cent of all requests, a total of 127 million overall another record high. - bbc.co.uk

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BBC - Media Centre - Peter Horrocks announces £8m investment plan for BBC World Service

World Service TV programmes and responsive mobile sites will play an increasingly important part in the World Service, but radio will remain its bedrock. He said the World Service had weathered the deep cuts it was subjected to and used them as a spur to innovation. He said commercial top-up funding will enable more investment in content and services without increasing costs to licence fee payers. - bbc.co.uk

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BBC and ITV satellite moves cut off expat viewers - Recombu

For instance, the official footprint of the two satellites doesnt include the hotspot which seems to have emerged again over the Costa Brava, although even large dishes seem out of luck further south and west. Ross Lockley, aka Analoguesat on the satellites.co.uk forum, has mapped members reports onto Google Maps, creating a guide of dish sizes which might work. In January, the satellite operators ended their dispute, which had run since both launched satellites to the 28 degrees East orbital position in the late 1990s. - recombu.com

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BBC News - Viewers prefer TV sets to mobile devices

The traditional television set is still at the heart of UK viewing, with only 1.5 of total viewing in 2013 watched via mobile platforms, figures suggest. The average viewer watched three hours and 55 minutes of TV a day last year, according to commercial TV marketing body, Thinkbox. - bbc.co.uk

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BT needs to have confidence in itself and stop chasing Sky’s channels - seenit.co.uk

The pay-TV landscape has changed a lot since the satellite broadcasters rivals first grumbled that they couldnt secure what they saw as fair access to the channels which Sky risked billions of their shareholders pounds into establishing and growing. Much that change has been driven by BT which has finally provided Sky with a rival which can take away key rights and, even where its unsuccessful, force up costs. I single out BT because its the last of the complainants and the force behind todays appeal which hasnt agreed to carry Sky Sports on terms theyre happy with. - seenit.co.uk

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BBC's great meetings of mindlessness - Media Monkey - Media - theguardian.com

Where the idea for that next great programme comes from Eddie Mair has revealed the BBCs policy on meetings. Well, according to Eddie Mair, it's have meetings. - theguardian.com

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CBS Admits Aereo Supreme Court Win Wouldn t Hurt CBS, Might Make Things Better For Everybody - Techdirt

It's part of a long, long history of broadcasters pretending that if things don't go just they way they want them to, they'll surely go out of business. The threat to pull broadcasts was aimed at scaring Congress into passing protectionist legislation, and as we noted at the time it's something CBS should just shut up and do -- given the public could probably come up for better uses for their spectrum. However, if that should happen, if the worst should happen, there are so many other alternatives that will not so this will not affect our bottom line. - techdirt.com

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Sky to be accused of ripping off X Factor rival show idea - TV Radio - Media - The Independent

After what they describe as eight months of negotiations with Skys commissioning team, the couple claim they were told the satellite broadcaster did not wish to proceed with their proposal. Wade and Perry allege that the shows use of a judging panel of celebrity singer-songwriters rather than music executives was another of their ideas. The show was made by Princess Productions, which is a subsidiary of Shine, the super-indie production company which Ms Murdoch founded in 2001. - independent.co.uk

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Court Favors BT in Sports-Channel Dispute With BSkyB - MarketWatch

Former telecom monopoly BT challenged the tribunal's decision, leading to Monday's ruling from the Court of Appeal. The court also dismissed a challenge brought by BSkyB to Ofcom's jurisdiction, and said the tribunal must reconsider the case. The outcome of the dispute could lead to cheaper packages of premium sports coverage for U.K. viewers, analysts said. - marketwatch.com

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BT wins court battle forcing review of Sky wholesale pricing decision - Media - theguardian.com

BT challenged this decision and on Monday the court of appeal handed down a judgment forcing the CAT to reopen the issue. A spokesman for Ofcom, which had its reputation battered by the CAT's original decision, said that it welcomed the decision. For all other inquiries please call the main Guardian switchboard on 020 3353 2000. - theguardian.com

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Parks Associates mobile research: TV apps gaining popularity, with 61% of tablet owners, 55% of smartphone owners using

The number of global TV app users on smartphones will reach 1.29 billion by 2018. For more information, contact salesparksassociates.com, call 972-490-1113, visit www.connectionsconference.com. - parksassociates.com

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TV viewing figures show Brits prefer traditional sets over smartphones - Media - The Guardian

Predictions of the death of living room TVs continue to be wide of the mark with 98.5 of average daily viewing done via traditional sets. The average UK viewer watched a total of three hours and 55 minutes of TV a day last year. This was a nine minute year-on-year drop, due in part to a comparison with the hugely popular London 2012 Olympics the previous year. - theguardian.com

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UKTV creates “built for innovation” new HQ - Rapid TV News

Editor 17-02-2014 Weeks after revealing record annual ratings for 2013, UKTV has announced its intention to create a new headquarters for its 250 staff. Technology will be at the heart of our progressive new workspace, and it will give everyone at UKTV the freedom to work creatively and collaboratively. - rapidtvnews.com

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Ad of the Day: Freeview - Cat and Budgie - The Drum

Freeview has been teasing us all week with its catandbudgie What happens next trailer, and we certainly didnt see this coming. The trail ominously cut off with the cat managing to open the poor budgies cage and to be honest we thought the little bird would either be lunch, or about to star in its own version of Sylvester and Tweety Piehow wrong we were. - thedrum.com

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Clover s Week: A change of view

When Canvas was making its regulatory progress it was suggested that outside partners be brought in. The Adshel posters dont dispel the image either. The men in suits were sniffy about Skys involvement in YouView, but as it turned out the platform has given a home to its Now TV service. - broadbandtvnews.com

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Despite rise of the tablet, TV set viewings are still strong - TV Radio - Media - The Independent

Just 1.5 of television viewing was on other screens such as tablets, laptops and mobiles, according to the figures released by television marketing body, Thinkbox. The average viewer watched just over three hours, 55 minutes of TV a day during 2013. Of that figure, just three minutes, 30 seconds a day of live stream viewing was conducted via PCs and mobile devices. - independent.co.uk

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BT needs to up its game in the pay-TV market - Business - The Observer

BT needs to find its own Game of Thrones if it is not to be dwarfed by Sky. Industry observers suggest that BT may well look to follow Sky into film and entertainment next, adding another pillar of must-watch programming to its offering. Netflix has shown the power of a well-marketed TV property. - theguardian.com

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Alan Yentob: 'The BBC can't compete with its hands tied behind its back' - Media - The Guardian

They ask us to move as flashes from the camera can be seen on-screen on the BBC News Channel illustrating the perils of having a newsroom as a backdrop for live bulletins. Yentob apologises and we retire to his office a former radio drama kitchen that sits between Old and New Broadcasting House. His office is narrow but cosy desk stacked with books and an Alan Yentob mask someone sent him. - theguardian.com

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As the waters rise, the sands run out for BBC funding - Media - The Observer

Tony Hall, keeper of the flame, was doing his valiant best last week. Come April, the Foreign Office grant that sustains the service all 245m of it per year stops short. The BBC and Lord Hall will have to find that money from licence-fee payers with 700m in wider cuts looming. - theguardian.com

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Feedback: Climate change: 14 Feb 14

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BBC - Blogs - Internet blog - BBC iPlayer Radio: your feedback

Im the senior product manager for BBC iPlayer Radio. A lot of these pages were being duplicated in BBC iPlayer. We appreciate that this is inconvenient and we looked really carefully at whether there was a way of transferring those favourites across, but unfortunately we couldnt find a simple way to do it. - bbc.co.uk

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Can we save AM radio? - The Verge

In its first 50 years, AM was a large enough player in the media landscape that it required lots of technical regulations to keep stations from interfering with one anothers signals while simultaneously serving their communities with adequate signals. Now that its audience is relatively microscopic and competition is low, those regulations need to be relaxed to make AM a viable medium, especially for minority and rural read small-budget broadcasters to be able to effectively serve their communities. If the FCC doesnt adopt these rules, or something like them, the AM band may simply be too big of a hassle for Americans to both produce for and listen to. - theverge.com

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Virgin Media falls behind as rivals BT and BSkyb sign up more customers - Media - theguardian.com

Virgin Media chief Tom Mockridge has said the companys cable business is improving in the face of more competition. The cable TV and telecoms operator added 18,600 pay-TV customers and 39,100 broadband customers in the three months to the end of December. BT's multi-billion pound drive into top-flight sports rights, including Premier League football, helped it add 70,000 TV customers and 150,000 broadband customers. - theguardian.com

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DTG :: News :: Report: 6 Billion new internet-enabled devices to be produced in 2014

The global market for connected devices that allow users to access the Internet is set to surpass 6 billion units this year, as new products including mobile phones, tablets and computers enter the electronics ecosystem, according to a new report from IHS Technology. Worldwide production of connected equipment will amount to 6.18 billion units in 2014, up a solid 6 percent from 5.82 billion in 2013, so the report. This will be the largest increase for the market in four years, surpassed only by the 10 percent hike in production during 2010, a year after the global economic recession ended. - dtg.org.uk

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Ready to break the internet? Netflix s House of Cards premiere is a big test of how video gets to yo

The buffering in Wheelers bedroom is familiar to any American who has tried to stream video over the internet at night, when their neighbors are doing the same thing. Look at the dip in average download speed between 8pm in the chart below where each datapoint spans the following two hours During that primetime, about a thirdpdf of all internet traffic heading into North American homes is carrying data-heavy movies and TV showsfrom Netflix. Transmitting all those bitswill become an increasingly severe challenge as more people opt for streaming video over traditional television. - qz.com

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DEBATE: ITV - to Be or not to Be - Comment - Broadcast

Is ITVs decision to launch a new female-focussed channel on the money Meanwhile, ITV2 will feature scripted and entertainment content for 16-34 year-olds, such as Plebs and Celebrity Juice. - broadcastnow.co.uk

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BBC World Service's sponsored content plan will 'threaten impartiality' - Media - theguardian.com

Peter Horrocks, BBC director of global news, said sponsored content on the World Service would enable them to make new investments. To contact the MediaGuardian news desk email mediatheguardian.com or phone 020 3353 3857. For all other inquiries please call the main Guardian switchboard on 020 3353 2000. - theguardian.com

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Linking to a website doesn't infringe copyright, Europe's Court of Justice says - PCWorld

Retriever provided its customers with hyperlinks to articles written by the journalists that were published and freely accessible on the website of the Gteborgs-Posten. Retriever did not however ask the journalists for permission to link to the articles. Retriever presented the linked articles in such a way that gave the impression that they appeared on Retrievers site. - pcworld.com

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Apple in Talks to Revamp Set-Top Box - WSJ.com

Apple might consider seeking some rights directly in the future, one of the people said. One of the people said Apple was aiming to release the new set-top box as early as June, though another cautioned the device might not be ready for several months after that. Apple TV, a digital media player introduced in 2007, offers users access to iTunes movies on the larger screen of a television as well as streaming video from Netflix, Hulu and other online services. - online.wsj.com

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Accenture tries to find material gains from the BBC's DMI debacle - Media Monkey - Media - theguardian.com

Accenture's report on the BBC's DMI debacle contains a fascinating glossary of terms. DMI, of course, turned out not to be FitNesse for purpose. Now the BBC, having to spend 3m a year on a database system that previously cost less than 1m, has had to cut its cloth rather differently. - theguardian.com

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ITV's 'channel for women' isn't necessarily a disaster for feminism - Daisy Buchanan - Comment is free - theguardian.com

Gemma from The Only Way Is Essex, series 4. Photograph ITV ITV reckons it knows what women want. Let's spoil ourselves with a scrape of low-fat cheese spread on a dark rye cracker - theguardian.com

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Media: Al Jazeera; Panel Shows; Exposes; Twitter

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ITV to launch 'The Only Way is Essex' channel - Telegraph

When it launches later this year, ITV Encore will target households with premium Sky subscriptions and an appetite for quality and original drama. The Only Way is Essex, known as Towie to its fans, was first broadcast in 2010 and is due to return for an 11th series this year. - telegraph.co.uk

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DTG :: News :: Virgin Media announces two millionth TiVo customer

Virgin Media has announced that it has sold its two millionth TiVo receiver to the Lynch family from Manchester. The family had the device installed at their home alongside a surprise visit from Dancing on Ice and Hollyoaks star Jennifer Metcalfe. TiVo brings your favourite TV right to you, so we thought we'd go even further for Chris and Leigh by surprising them with a visit from their favourite television celebrity. - dtg.org.uk

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At last: an in-car DAB radio that looks quite good

Regularly, I'll moan and grump about the user experience for radios. Mostly designed by engineers, the user experience for most radio receivers that I've ever played with is woeful. Nowhere is this more the case than in-car. - mediauk.com

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Ariel - WS future funding not yet clear

12 February 2014 Last updated at 1030 Peter Horrocks admits there are no guarantees over future funding levels for the World Service. 'It would be preferable to have a longer term commitment,' conceded Horrocks, who pointed out that the Foreign Office had reduced World Service funding over the last three or four years. 'If that's not the case, we'll work within the circumstances.' Sponsorship It is likely, however, that it will be able to top up its licence fee funding with income from 'a limited amount of advertising and sponsored content that is not news and current affairs'. - bbc.co.uk

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ITV to launch ITVBe - presscentre

ITVBe, which will launch towards the end of the year, will be wholly funded by advertising and sponsorship, and will be available free on all the major broadcasting platforms, including Freeview, Sky and Virgin. ITVBe will complement ITV2 which will continue to strengthen its position as the home of unashamed entertainment for 16-34 year olds, focusing on scripted series, irreverent panel shows and formats, and youth skewing commissions and acquisitions with bold humour at their heart. We identified an opportunity to develop what is currently part of the ITV2 schedule - reality and non-scripted shows, which are very popular with young women and housewives with kids - into a distinct channel proposition, aimed more squarely at that audience. - itv.com

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Michael Grade: My blueprint for the BBC - Media - News - The Independent

How can the BBC argue its case to survive against such odds Intellectual logic, both economic and social how better could we spend 3.5bn is against it. On the other hand, political sentiment will usually follow the public mood and this is where the BBC scores heaviest. - independent.co.uk

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Have a look at community television Estuary TV on Freeview Channel 8. - HU12 Online

The channel, broadcasting from Grimsby, is bringing a daily diet of local community news stories and has an ethos of aiming to involve local people in creating local television. As a website aimed at bringing local news to a very local audience, HU12 Online is extremely interested and very supportive of the Estuary TV project. We urge our readers to have a look at Estuary TV and let us know what you think you may have to re-tune your digital TV receiver first. - hu12online.net

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Greg Dyke criticises Lord Patten after 'dismal' year for BBC - Media - theguardian.com

One shouldn't confuse what the Daily Mail thinks with what Daily Mail readers think. - gu.com

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Michael Grade calls for smaller BBC - Media - theguardian.com

Michael Grade told the Commons culture select committee that Channel 4 should be turned into a publicly funded broadcaster. For all other inquiries please call the main Guardian switchboard on 020 3353 2000. To get the latest media news to your desktop or mobile, follow MediaGuardian on Twitter and Facebook. - theguardian.com

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RadioToday - Financial Times sponsors new UK wide LBC

Global has secured a partnership with the Financial Times for LBCs national launch today. The station is now Leading Britains Conversation and is available nationwide on DAB. The station also has a revamped logo which swaps rugged edges for straight lines. - radiotoday.co.uk

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