BBC - BBC Internet Blog: What's on BBC Red Button 2nd June - 9th June

Follow the Diamond Jubilee Celebrations on the Red Button. There will be uninterrupted coverage from the events not available on Freeview during the BBC One programmes, you will be able to watch the events in full without commentary. Highlights are available on the red button and the full archive collection is available online at BBC Four Collections. - bbc.co.uk

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A licence to improve public service broadcasting – or political meddling? - Media - guardian.co.uk

Headline act the provision of national news, with presenters such as Julie Etchingham, is a key part of Channel 3's public service remit. The flash points are rising demands for national Scottish and Welsh TV services, sustaining high quality national news, better regional news, and investment in original UK programmes. An auction has to be the worst option, especially for anyone who lived through the only previous attempt, the 1991 shambles over the ITV licences. - guardian.co.uk

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BBC - Media Centre - BBC iPlayer Performance Pack Jan-Apr 2012

Summary headlines from Jan Apr 2012 BBC iPlayer has seen a very strong and stable performance throughout the beginning of 2012. Total requests between January and April have averaged around 190 million per month - with over 140 million for TV and around 46 million for Radio programmes - up 24 on the same period last year. Mobile and tablet devices delivered a significant increase in requests up 94 on April 2011 with 15 of total programme requests coming from mobiles and tablets in April 2012. - bbc.co.uk

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Video: Freeview looks to capitalise on summer of sport with new ad campaign - The Drum

Freeview has today launched a new advertising campaign urging the nation to watch the summer's sporting events on Freeview HD. Created by Leo Burnett, the ad uses the helium balloons from from previous Freeview campaigns to illustrate the immense amount of sport on screens this summer - including the Euros, Olympics and Wimbledon. There will also be point of sale literature placed in 2,000 retail stores across the country and experiential activity will take place in nine town centre locations across the UK during key sporting weekends. - thedrum.co.uk

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BBC - Research and Development: Opening Up the Archives: Part 1 of a 6 part film about R

If you're reading via RSS, you'll need to visit the blog to access this content. - bbc.co.uk

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Home - Channel 4 - 4viewers

At Channel 4, we believe that knowing more about you, our viewers, will help us give you more of the programming and services you love. However, we want to be clear about how we collect this information, what exactly we collect, and what we do with it. And, if you want more details, please visit our Viewer Promise section. - channel4.com

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BBC News - RTE channels will go on Freeview in Northern Ireland

Freeview delivery of the channels will be supplemented by overspill coverage from Saorview, its equivalent in the Republic. Digital switchover is to be completed in Northern Ireland on 24 October of this year. - bbc.co.uk

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Channel 5 recovers with £26m profit despite advertising slowdown - Business News - Business - The Independent

Northern Shell, owner of Channel 5 and a stable of national newspapers, saw its revenues increase by 40 per cent during 2011, despite difficult trading conditions. The year saw the first full-year contribution from Channel 5 since Northern Shell acquired the broadcaster in July 2010. Channel 5 boosted turnover by 23 per cent to 353m in 2011, despite a largely flat UK TV advertising market. - independent.co.uk

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BBC News - YouView net TV service gets first public trial in UK

YouView, formerly known as Project Canvas, will initially be tested in 350 homes. Originally the system, which requires a set-top box to use, was earmarked for a 2010 launch but has been beset with technical problems. 'Surprise' As well as viewing catch-up TV, users will also be able to access add-ons such as Amazon's on-demand movie service LoveFilm. - bbc.co.uk

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Big Brother helps C5 into profit - News - Broadcast

29 May, 2012 By Lisa Campbell Northern Shell has announced its first full-year accounts since taking control of Channel 5, reporting an increase in group revenues of almost 40. It takes just 2 minutes and offers full, instant access to the Broadcast website along with a copy of the magazine delivered every week. - broadcastnow.co.uk

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BBC iPlayer app on Windows Phone? Not according to the BBC - Pocket-lint

News that an app that is already available on the iPhone, Android smartphones and BlackBerry devices, wont be arriving on Windows Phone will only exacerbate the situation. Do you think it's a big concern that they'll be no BBC iPlayer app for Windows Phone - pocket-lint.com

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informitv - Options for future commercial television licences

The public service broadcasting licence for ITV, the main commercial television channel in the United Kingdom, expires at the end of 2014. The communications regulator Ofcom has published options for the future of commercial public service television broadcasting, including the possibility of re-auctioning the licence. The key question is what value can be attributed to public service broadcasting over the following ten years. - informitv.com

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ITU adopts two ultra-high def TV specs • The Register

You'd think the ITU would have learned from global confusion around just what constitutes a 4G network, but the respective respective resolutions will be known as 4K and 8K respectively. No details of niceties like frame frequency, colour depth or sound schemes are mentioned in the statement, or offered on the ITU's website. - theregister.co.uk

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Expensive HDMI cables make no difference - the absolute proof - Expert Reviews

Posted on 25 May 2012 at 1100 Whether or not to buy an expensive HDMI cable is one of the most contentious subjects on the internet. On pro the side of buying them are home cinema magazines and audiophile websites, which sing the praises of more expensive cables, heralding how they can do remarkable things, such as boosting flesh tones. On the other side, you have the sceptics that say HDMI uses digital, so all cables are equal. - expertreviews.co.uk

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DTG :: News :: Freeview urge Government to revise 4G proposals

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ITV could lose its prime slot as Ofcom suggest third channel could be put up for auction - Mail Online

The broadcasters licences, along with those for Channel 5, expire at the end of 2014 and the Government has to decide if it will renew them or not. Yesterday media regulator Ofcom set out options for Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt. Among them was the suggestion that there could be a bidding war for the right to run the third channel and Channel 5. - dailymail.co.uk

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YouView trials enter final stage - FT.com

Printed from http//www.ft.com/cms/s/0/a43fbde8-a821-11e1-b8a9-00144feabdc0.html Print a single copy of this article for personal use. - ft.com

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BBC - BBC Internet Blog: What's on BBC Red Button 26th May - 2nd June

You can watch the Springwatch webcams for the first time on Red Button this year, as we follow the early lives of the UK's best-loved animals. On weekends the tone becomes more conversational when Red Button viewers can watch a topical interview in 'Five Minutes with...' or a round-up of the week's weird and wonderful videos in Odd Box. This has enabled the Red Button team to offer the best games tailored to each system. - bbc.co.uk

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Sales of digital radios hit 15 million : Radio Today

New figures from GfK Retail and Technology show that 15 million digital radios have now been sold in the UK. The numbers include DAB and internet-only WiFi radios, plus hybrid sets which contain a digital radio tuner. It comes as were told sales were up 11 in April compared with the same month last year and up 8 year-on-year in the latest 3-month period. - radiotoday.co.uk

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Amazing space offered on Digital One : Radio Today

The capacity on the national commercial digital radio multiplex previously used by Amazing Radio is being advertised to interested parties. Digital One is looking for expressions of interest from groups wanting to run either an audio or data service using its network of 135 transmitters across England, Scotland and Wales. Amazing Radio left Digital One last Monday, saying it had been unable to secure acceptable terms for an extension of its contract. - radiotoday.co.uk

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BBC - Research and Development: Audio on the Web - Rediscovering the era of the Radiophonic Workshop

For the past two years, our team has been involved in the W3C audio activity, participating in an effort to bring open, standard technology to process and synthesise audio on the web. We knew we wanted our work to link the BBC's long history of audio 90 years this year and what we think is its future - on the web. We also knew there were many things the BBC might want to build with a working web audio processing technology. - bbc.co.uk

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DTG :: News :: Freeview urge Government to revise 4G proposals

Freeview has called on the Government to revise its proposals on the level of support offered to consumers regarding potential DTT interference from the introduction of 4G mobile services. At a parliamentary briefing Freeview expressed concern that the Government commitment to securing a 180 million fund to pay for countering the effects of 4G interference 'does not go far enough to meet consumer needs'. Ilse Howling, Managing Director of Freeview, said It is vital that any strategy listens to what consumers want and need. - dtg.org.uk

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Media Analysis: My soft spot has hardened as Hunt’s shown his colours - Media - Business - Evening Standard

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BBC - BBC Internet Blog: A refresh of BBC's TV channel homepages

How times have changed When the team relaunched these channel homepages nearly four years ago, how people interacted with the web and what people expected of it was quite different. Four years on, BBC iPlayer continues to grow from strength to strength with approximately 2bn requests served to audiences last year and an average of1 in 4 online users in the UK accessed it weekly last week. The approach - serendipitous discovery Showcasing the breadth of content unique to that channel in a way which would deliver simple and serendipitous discovery was a key editorial goal. - bbc.co.uk

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BBC - BBC Internet Blog: Reimagining the BBC's TV channels in a four screen world

Rather than a static website designed for a single screen size the PC, the new channel sites are responsively designed to work across multiple screen sizes and orientations. Whilst there's still some polishing to do e.g. support for swiping on touch screen devices, it feels like an important step in the right direction. The new designs also reflect the increasingly mainstream nature of on demand viewing. - bbc.co.uk

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The Stage / TV Today / The CBBC channel dilemma

Ive been away from the world of TV news, by which I mean news about TV, for the best part of two weeks. Part of my job at The Stage, apart from burbling about the world of telly and editing the rest of our papers online content, is overseeing our web development strategy. Thats taken up a huge amount of my time recently and will continue to do so, as were looking at rewriting every single line of code that drives the various sections of our website throughout 2012. - blogs.thestage.co.uk

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Ofcom raises prospect of auctioning off ITV and Channel 5 public service licences - TV Radio - Media - The Indepen

Communications watchdog Ofcom has raised the prospect of auctioning off the public service licences currently held by ITV and Channel 5. It said Channel 5 spent 62 million on UK original programming in 2010, down from 122 million in 2007, but said that figure had increased in 2011. - independent.co.uk

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Ofcom - Summary

Proposals for access services on non-domestic channels Summary Introduction 1.1 Within the UK, many people with hearing or visual impairments are nonetheless able to understand and enjoy television because of the access services subtitling, signing and audio description that Ofcom requires the more popular channels to provide. It is clear from the feedback that Ofcom has received that these access services are particularly valued by viewers with sensory impairments. 1.2 This document a seeks views on how Ofcom proposes to require certain television licensees which serve other European countries non-domestic channels to provide access services for the benefit of viewers in those countries with sensory impairments and b explains the proposed arrangements and when these would come into force, and invites views from interested parties by 5pm on 11 July 2012. - stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk

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4seven launching July 4th - imediamonkey

Announced in March by Channel 4s chiefexecutive David Abraham, the new channel is said to reinvent catch up television. It has been announced that the station will launch on all major TV platforms on 4th July 04/07. Freeview it will launch on channel 47, and on Sky it will replace More 4 2 at number 269. - imediamonkey.com

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Tokyo Skytree: the world's tallest broadcasting tower - in pictures - World news - guardian.co.uk

The Tokyo Skytree, the world's tallest broadcasting tower at 634 metres 2080 feet, has opened to the public on a grey, cloudy morning in Tokyo. Despite the weather, 8,000 visitors turned out to see the limited 360-degree views of the Japanese capital from two observation decks - guardian.co.uk

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BBC iPlayer - Help - Why are BBC iPlayer downloads no longer working on my mobile phone?

Over the last year, we have seen demand for full programme downloads decrease by over 87 on these phones. The BBC will continue to offer users of these devices the ability to stream programmes. - iplayerhelp.external.bbc.co.uk

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Leveson inquiry: Tessa Jowell quizzed Tony Blair over Murdoch deal - Media - guardian.co.uk

The former Labour cabinet minister had the task of reviewing cross-media ownership law as part of the Communications Act that was due to go before parliament at that time and wanted to be assured she had a free hand in rewriting the rules. She asked the prime minister about whether his relationship with the media mogul would colour her thinking. She told Lord Justice Leveson that Blair was content with this approach. - guardian.co.uk

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informitv - TalkTalk suggests YouView is still on track for launch

TalkTalk says that YouView is still on track for a gradual ramp up from July to a marketing launch from September. Far from being an open platform, YouView appears to be increasingly driven by commercial interests. The company said YouView is on track for launch during Q2 FY13 that is in the second quarter of the the financial year beginning April 2012. - informitv.com

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Does Blue Peter's CBBC move mean kids' television is being ghettoised? - Media - The Guardian

It said viewing of children's programmes on BBC1 was in long-term decline, with reach down more than 50 over the last five years. Children's shows including Blue Peter were shifted earlier in the schedule and audiences fell. We are always concerned about the marginalisation of children. - guardian.co.uk

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4G networks to disrupt TV signals for two million homes - Telegraph

The culture minister Ed Vaizey said 945,000 households that use signal amplifiers could be afftected, as well as 953,000 households that rely on communal aerials. The mobile operators are currently preparing to introduce 4G networks, which offer mobile internet access typically 10 times faster than 3G, over the next three years. An Ofcom auction of radio spectrum licences has been delayed by legal wrangling, however. - telegraph.co.uk

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BBC News - Ceefax founding editor Colin McIntyre dies at 85

Colin McIntyre, who worked for the BBC for 30 years, died in hospital on Thursday after a short illness. When Ceefax was launched in 1974, he updated all 24 news pages on his own, feeding punch tape into machines. When he retired in 1982, Ceefax had a 20-strong team. - bbc.co.uk

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Why London can’t afford low-budget TV if it’s a world city - News - East London Advertiser

To send a link to this page to a friend, you must be logged in. Its aim is to reflect London lifebut could also promote the capital as a true world city. London is among the first 21 areas across the UK being offered franchises next year, under Government plans for a new network of city-based channels. - eastlondonadvertiser.co.uk

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BBC - BBC Internet Blog: What's on BBC Red Button 19th - 26th May

Press the Red Button for an interactive Eurovision experience allowing users to sing along to the lyrics of all the songs, in both English and the original languages. Along the way, they'll ask lots of fun questions which you can answer using the coloured buttons on your remote control. Every Saturday press the Red Button during the show to pit your wits against the studio contestants. - bbc.co.uk

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BBC - About the BBC: The first Russian Service TV broadcast from New Broadcasting House

For me - someone who has spent almost 15 years of my professional life on the radio as a DJ, talk show host, reporter, and a news and current affairs presenter - it was a new chapter and a new challenge too. Our programme covers international events and reflects on how the international community, including Britain, reacts to significant news from Russia. - bbc.co.uk

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YouView 'on track for summer launch' - Telegraph

However, sources close to Lord Sugar revealed to The Telegraph last month that he did not think the box would be ready until the end of 2012. Boxes are expected to retail for around 200 and people can also acquire YouView as part of bundle offering when signing up for broadband with TalkTalk or BT. Consumers will need access to a digital TV signal and a broadband connection for the box to work. - telegraph.co.uk

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Sky News referred to CPS and attorney general after naming rape victim - Media - guardian.co.uk

Ched Evans was jailed for five years last month at Caernarfon crown court. To contact the MediaGuardian news desk email editormediaguardian.co.uk or phone 020 3353 3857. For all other inquiries please call the main Guardian switchboard on 020 3353 2000. - guardian.co.uk

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Volkswagen to fit DAB radio as standard : Radio Today

Vauxhall have also committed to the same timescale, with Ford saying the majority of new vehicles will include DAB by the end of 2013. People love listening to the radio in their cars and fitting digital means drivers and passengers will be able to enjoy the great range of stations on offer. VW, together with Ford and Vauxall, they represent 35 of annual new vehicles sold. The vehicle industry has been asked by Government to prepare for a transition to digital radio, and the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders has said it expects its members to include digital radio as standard in most vehicles by the end of 2013. - radiotoday.co.uk

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BBC iPlayer - Help - Why can I not download any editions of CBeebies Birthday Cards on BBC iPlayer?

CBeebies Birthday Cards are not TV programmes in the traditional sense, as they are part of the links that transmit in between programmes. This means that regrettably, for technical reasons, we are not able to publish them onto BBC iPlayer in the usual way, and currently can provide PC streaming options only, rather than the full range of viewing and download options. However we are aware of the demand for CBeebies Birthday Cards downloads to be made available. - iplayerhelp.external.bbc.co.uk

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Amazing Radio explains DAB disappearance : Radio Today

Amazing Radio has ceased broadcasting on the national Digital One multiplex this week, and has written an open letter to the radio industry to explain why. It states transmissions ceased because they were unable to secure acceptable terms for a contract extension. This letter explains what happened, and why we think it is important for all of us who love radio and care about music. - radiotoday.co.uk

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Communications green paper delayed while Jeremy Hunt deals with Leveson - Media - guardian.co.uk

Policy thoughts go on the back burner Culture secretary Jeremy Hunt had hoped to publish the communications green paper in the spring. Those close to Hunt's Department for Culture, Media and Sport say the communications green paper, which will set out the government's initial policy thinking in areas as diverse as internet piracy, public service broadcasting and spectrum allocation, has largely been written but is now unlikely to be published until autumn at the earliest. There are also suggestions that the green paper could be shelved completely, with ministers instead moving to publish a white paper that by then would incorporate any relevant recommendations arising from the Leveson inquiry about the future of press regulation. - guardian.co.uk

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BBC shrinks Red Button: Loses 8 channels after the Olympics • The Register

The changes were proposed last year, but have now been confirmed by the BBC Trust as picked up by the a516 blog. - theregister.co.uk

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Buying a new TV - LED, LCD and plasma TV reviews - TV DVD - Which? Technology

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RAJAR: More listeners for BBC Locals : Radio Today

It worked for 6 Music and has the threat of cutbacks has given BBC Local Radio a boost of a quarter of a million listeners in the last quarter. BBC Local Radio in England is up 263,000 listeners on the quarter to 7.6m with market share also up to is at 9, up from 8.2 last year. The increase comes as the BBC DQF program, announced yesterday, proposed a national evening show and the removal of local early breakfast shows. - radiotoday.co.uk

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Ariel - World News has breakthrough year

The record reach for the international news channel is boosted by significant new distribution deals and by the global audience's hunger for 'unspun' news in turbulent times, according to World News Commercial Director Colin Lawrence. 'No coincidence' Homes that receive the commercially-funded channel on a 24/7 basis have also increased, from 179m to more than 200m. 'It's no coincidence we've made this progress in what has been a year of huge international news and events,' he added. - bbc.co.uk

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EPG slots concern local TV bidders - News - Broadcast

It takes just 2 minutes and offers full, instant access to the Broadcast website along with a copy of the magazine delivered every week. - broadcastnow.co.uk

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