Kevin Spacey Delivers the Definitive Wake Up Call to Anti-Tech TV Execs

The House of Cards star had plenty of ammunition to demonstrate definitively that the anti-tech approach will eventually result in the old guard's demise, unless viewers are allowed to determine the means of consumption. - gawker.com

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Kevin Spacey's MacTaggart lecture prompts defence of traditional TV - Media - theguardian.com

Those millions of soap fans could be forgiven for thinking the technological revolution espoused by the Hollywood star had passed them by when in fact, it is just beginning. There was no shortage of warmth in Edinburgh for Spacey's sentiments. Figures released the following day revealed that mobile viewing on iPads, smartphones and laptops still has only niche appeal, accounting for an average of three minutes and 30 seconds a day, compared with the four hours we still spend in front of a TV set. - theguardian.com

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Media Monkey's Edinburgh diary: Tony Hall, Peter Fincham and Club X - Media - The Guardian

Hall had not officially been due to attend the festival at all, but waited backstage before making his Surprise Surprise entrance about 20 minutes before the session's end. He added that Club X producer Charlie Parsons revelled in the bedlam and later tweaked the concept for another live late-night show The Word. Do I protect my life or my modesty - theguardian.com

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Tony Hall should look back 40 years if he wants to restore the BBC's ethos - Media - The Guardian

As scandal after scandal about pay and rations rocks the BBC, and the grandest of its mandarins are humbled before the public accounts committee, it is hard to recognise the institution as it was 40 years ago. Then though far from perfect, especially if you were female its faults were not those of luxury and excess in pay and perks. Staff knew we'd earn more if we took the commercial broadcasting shilling, but there were other rewards. - theguardian.com

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UK TV beware: As Spacey's House of Cards shows, too much power corrupts - Media - The Guardian

That show was Hill Street Blues a global hit that Spacey identified as the forbear of many great TV dramas of more recent times. There will not be a producer in the land without stories to tell of all the above. Had television here remained the producer-driven medium it once was and not embraced the kind of professionalised, audience-focused commissioning now so prevalent, there is every chance that irrelevance and the slow death that inevitably follows might already have taken hold. - theguardian.com

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BBC - Blogs - Internet blog - What's on BBC Red Button 24 - 31 August

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NewsHour at a crossroads : Columbia Journalism Review

On September 7, the program will expand to seven days a week, debuting a weekend edition of the NewsHour and ending years of frequent questions from viewers, along with the services own ombudsman, about the lack of scheduled weekend news programming. This set of changes might be the shake-up the NewsHour desperately needs, especially since 2013 hasnt been the best year for news at PBS. The staff and funding used to produce the weekend NewsHour were mostly transferred from the cancelled Friday night newsmagazine Need to Know, a program which, despite winning several awards, failed to build a significant audience in its three-year run. - cjr.org

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Guardian Edinburgh International TV Festival 2013 - Media - The Guardian

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Sky Living director: 'I am de-pinking the channel' - Media - theguardian.com

Sky Living director, Antonia Hurford-Jones, says she is rebranding the channel so that it will appeal to men as well as women. Antonia Hurford-Jones, the director of Sky Living, said the channel is undergoing a makeover that will involve swapping the pink branding for a blue and silver logo. They don't want to sit alone in their pink fluffy bedroom, wearing their pink fluffy negligee, watching shows on their own. - theguardian.com

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Yentob: BBC to drop in-house quotas - News - Broadcast

BBC creative director Alan Yentob has suggested that the corporation may scrap its in-house commissioning quota in the next five years. The Imagine host said it was right that the BBC’s programming supply was a “mixed ecology”, but said the current system of quotas will change as the corporation evolves. - broadcastnow.co.uk

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Alan Yentob: BBC must tackle 'toxic' issue of pay - Media - theguardian.com

BBC creative director Alan Yentob has said he is a programme maker and not one of the officer class at the corporation. Yentob said he could understand staff anger about the controversial issue of payoffs, with 60m paid to outgoing BBC executives over an eight-year period. The question of how creatives are looked after is not total abandon. - theguardian.com

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Ariel - DG out to close appalling divide at BBC

23 August 2013 Last updated at 1100 Tony Hall wants to close the rift between management and staff created by severance pay revelations. The director general, speaking at the Edinburgh International Television Festival on Thursday, said staff fury over the 60m spent over eight years by the corporation on senior manager pay-offs - some of which went beyond any contractual entitlement - was justified. 'I really do want to heal this appalling divide between the people who are running the BBC and the people who are doing really hard work day in, day out, doing amazing things,' he told delegates. - bbc.co.uk

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BBC - Blogs - About the BBC - Edinburgh TV Festival 2013: Looking forward to even more from BBC Three

In comedy, new sitcoms like Bluestone 42 pictured proved a big hit with our audiences Weve had a great year on BBC Three. Weve also commissioned Siblings, a brand new scripted comedy series from the producers of The Inbetweeners. Next year we will continue to tackle emotive issues with our Justice Season, reflecting on crime and punishment in the UK and the US and asking whether young adults are treated fairly. - bbc.co.uk

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Media Talk podcast: Edinburgh TV Festival 2013

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ITV named Channel of the Year as hit drama series Broadchurch wins award

These formats all date to a narrow period at the beginning of the last decade and nobody could have predicted they would have the life they have had but I think they have still got a lot of life in them. The corollary of that is that it has become a difficult period to launch big new entertainment programmes. - independent.co.uk

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ITV boss Peter Fincham calls for "new Big Brother" to safeguard British television

These formats all date to a narrow period at the beginning of the last decade and nobody could have predicted they would have the life they have had but I think they have still got a lot of life in them. The corollary of that is that it has become a difficult period to launch big new entertainment programmes. - independent.co.uk

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Tony Hall admits to BBC 'officer class' - News - Broadcast

Director general Tony Hall has acknowledged an “appalling divide” between the people running the BBC and programme-makers on the ground and a perceived “cosiness” with the likes of consultants KPMG. Hall was the surprise guest on the panel Tony Hall’s Big Decisions’ after flying straight into the Edinburgh International Television Festival from San Francisco.. - broadcastnow.co.uk

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BBC - Blogs - About the BBC - Edinburgh TV Festival 2013: Looking ahead to BBC One in the next twelve months

Ive inherited the channel in a great place, 2012 was a record-breaking year for BBC One and it remains Britains most-watched channel so far this year, with by far the biggest reach of any other. My focus is to build on that success and ensure BBC One remains the nations favourite. My vision for BBC One is all about storytelling. - bbc.co.uk

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BBC payoffs caused divide between managers and staff, admits Tony Hall - Media - The Guardian

Hall made the comments during a surprise appearance towards the end of a panel session on the issues facing the director general. Liz MacKean, one of the two Newsnight reporters responsible for its aborted Jimmy Savile investigation who has since left the corporation was one of the panel's members and had earlier criticised the payoffs. Hall announced a new BBC initiative to put more female voices on air, with a quota that will require at least 50 of presenters on BBC local radio breakfast shows to be women by the end of 2014. - theguardian.com

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Ariel - Hall wants more female breakfast hosts

The director-general told the Edinburgh Television Festival on Thursday that he wanted 50 of local stations to have a woman presenting their most important show - either alone or as part of a team. 'We have got to be more reflective of the audiences who are listening to our programmes,' insisted Hall during a panel session at the festival.' The move could have wider implications for the industry, for which BBC local radio has traditionally been an important training ground. David Holdsworth, English Regions controller, said that finding new and diverse voices was key to local radio's role. - bbc.co.uk

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Kevin Spacey Mactaggart lecture – full text - Media - theguardian.com

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Spacey dismisses line between TV, film News C21Media

The labels are useless except perhaps to agents, managers and lawyers who use these labels to conduct business deals. The obligation of a pilot from the writing perspective is that you have to spend about 45 minutes establishing all the characters, create arbitrary cliffhangers and generally prove that what you are setting out to do will work, Spacey said. When the story is good enough, people will watch something three times the length of an opera. Spacey told the audience that the king of television is the creatives, but said he was disappointed the industry did not do more to support new talent. - c21media.net

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BBC - Blogs - About the BBC - Edinburgh TV Festival 2013: Introduction

There will be posts from them on this blog, showreels and a selection of announcements posted on the BBC Media Centre site. - bbc.co.uk

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BBC - Blogs - Internet blog - Designing new icons for the BBC's Global Experience Language

This included an insight into the development of a distinctive new suite of icons for GEL. All the new icon sets were designed over the last three months, in collaboration with the agency Planning Unit. As done previously, these icons were designed to enable a consistent visual language across all BBC digital platforms - web, mobile and television. - bbc.co.uk

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http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/jonathan-boseley-to-shake-up-british-television-with-new-london-

Details have been revealed of Londons first dedicated 24-hour television channel, London Live, which will go on air in the Spring of next year. He told the audience that London Live was not interested in celebrity driven formats. Boseley said the channel would share cross platform reach opportunities with the London Evening Standard, also owned by Mr Lebedev. - independent.co.uk

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Police investigate News Corporation for ‘sabotaging rival to Sky’ - ExaroNews

Renamed ITV Digital three years later, it was plagued by widespread piracy and folded in 2002. The development is bound to rock News Corporation, which is listed on stock exchanges in New York, London and Australia. News Corporation, which owns 39 per cent of Sky, is due to be split into one entity for newspaper and book publishing, and another for television and movie companies. - exaronews.com

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European broadcasters shut down emergency Greek TV service - Media - theguardian.com

ERT some staff are still occupying the main Athens building. EDT, the new broadcaster has been airing mainly documentaries and old Greek movies over the last two months but on Wednesday morning launched its first news service with a two-hour programme. The broadcast that began at 8am, focused mainly on the analysis of domestic news by a panel of journalists, but also included international news items based on BBC website stories and footage from al-Jazeera and Sky News. - theguardian.com

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BBC News - Groklaw news website abandoned over US surveillance

Groklaw had promised its sources anonymity, but said it could not now ensure contributors would stay secret. Experts said they were worried that a site like Groklaw was closing. One of those services, Lavabit, alluded to harassment by the US government in a statement to its customers when it shut down. - bbc.co.uk

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London Live eyes short film commissions - News - Broadcast

Local TV broadcaster London Live is looking to commission a raft of short films from young directors after teaming up with The Smalls Film Festival. This is the company’s first major commissioning initiative since it acquired the license and comes after the broadcaster hired former Disney executive Jonathan Boseley as head of programming.. - broadcastnow.co.uk

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Google Helpouts let you get -- or offer -- video guidance on any topic

Google is testing a new Hangout-based feature which will allow experts to offer video tips and advice. According to Google, Helpouts is a new way to connect people who need help with people who can give help, over live video, anytime, anywhere. Helpouts is at the sign-up phase at the moment. - betanews.com

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MHL 3.0 specification -- 4K Ultra HD video on your smartphone

However, this new format is not the only benefit of MHL 3.0. - betanews.com

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DTG :: News :: Comux announces technical infrastructure partners for local TV

Comux UK has announced details of its technical infrastructure and the companies selected as infrastructure partners and suppliers. Alongside broadcasting on digital terrestrial TV, some of the local channels are planning carriage on satellite and cable TV, and online. DTG Staff 20.08.2013 Links open in a new window. - dtg.org.uk

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DTG :: News :: DTG publishes Government-backed Innovation Taskforce (FITT) update

The Taskforce brings together senior content executives, consumer specialists, technology leaders, mobile and network providers and leading academics in the field in order to capture both technical and consumer perspectives. A full list of FITT Taskforce members is available here. The DTG is not responsible for the content of other web sites. - dtg.org.uk

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Comcast asserts copyright over its court filing, is attempting to shut down news site that reproduced it - Boing Boing

In an article published last week, TorrentFreak reproduced Comcast's response to a subpoena regarding the copyright troll Prenda Law. TorrentFreak's hosting provider has given them 24 hours to resolve the issue or face shutdown. The thing that we would like you to remove from you post is the copy of the subpoena form that contains Comcast subscribers information, The rest of the post can stay, we were told. - boingboing.net

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Exclusive: TV licence offences responsible for a tenth of all UK court cases - City A.M.

More than 180,000 people almost 3,500 a week appeared in front of magistrates during 2012 after being accused of watching TVwithout paying the 145.50 fee. Magistrates handled a total of 1.48m cases last year, meaning a record 12 per cent of court cases now involve TV licensing. Last night the TVLicensing authority said the gender imbalance was because women are more likely to be at home when their inspectors call. - cityam.com

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ukdigitalradio: News

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Ofcom - Ethnic Minority Groups and Communication Services

The research looks at availability, take-up and consumption of communication services and investigates attitudes towards these services. We publish this report to support Ofcom's regulatory goal to research markets constantly and to remain at the forefront of technological understanding. In order to achieve large enough samples to make statistically meaningful comparisons we have combined data collected from the TGI survey between July 2009 and December 2012. - stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk

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CBS, Time Warner Cable, and the Disruption of TV : The New Yorker

Then a new technology came along, one that gave viewers many more options to choose from, completely disrupting the way that people watched TV. In 1976, the average home had seven channels by 1991, it had thirty-three. Then Congress came up with a solution that would help the broadcast networks. - newyorker.com

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LA Times

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BBC Radio 5 live - Richard Bacon, Live from the Edinburgh Festival, Johnnie Walker on Savile: evil and manipulativ

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informitv - Higher frame rates improve viewing experience

Higher frame rates may be as important as more pixels for improving the quality of television. The Broadcast Technology Futures group of the European Broadcasting Union is testing the significance of higher frame rates, up to 240 frames per second. The current recommendation for Ultra HD production and programme exchange allows for a maximum rate of 120 frames a second in addition to rates currently used for film and television, but researchers are also considering other frame rates. - informitv.com

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Premier League opener nets 760k for BT Sport - News - Broadcast

Premier League football made its debut on BT Sport this Saturday as Liverpool put Stoke City to the sword in front of a 764k peak audience. Premier League Live (BT Sport 1) 11.30am-3pm 447k (5%) - broadcastnow.co.uk

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Digital media: Counting the change - The Economist

The preposterous plot of Sharknado may strike a chord with media bosses who have watched the internet ravage their business over the past decade. Newspapers have lost readers and advertising to the internet. Book and music shops have closed for good. - economist.com

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BBC - Blogs - Internet blog - What's on BBC Red Button 17 - 24 August

Cast your eyes over the items as they appear on screen, and see if you can guess how much the shows experts think theyre worth. Theres also a new challenge for this year can you pick out the fake from Fiona Bruces four suspect items Tune in at 8pm on Sunday on BBC One, and play along at home by pressing red or using the shows own play-along app. - bbc.co.uk

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