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Saorsat to launch in February - Broadband TV News

Documents released by RTNL, the networks division of the public broadcaster, said tests have been underway since December 2011. Saorsat will be carried on Eutelsats Ka-Sat at 9 degrees East. It is anticipated that suitable receivers will be available within the next few weeks. - broadbandtvnews.com

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Fetch TV enters administration - Broadband TV News

IP Vision, the company behind the Fetch TV receivers and movies on demand service, has entered administration with the possible loss of up to 20 jobs. Purchasers will be able to take full advantage of the Companys many strengths in these respective areas which include a fully-operational end-to-end hybrid TV platform and a multi-device, premium video on demand service with broad reach in conjunction with major TV manufacturers and approximately 30 content partners. The statement added that advanced discussions were underway with interested parties. The Fetch TV video on demand service will continue for the time being. - broadbandtvnews.com

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Ofcom chief seeks common media standards - FT.com

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Broadcasters may win higher EPG slots for more public service content - Media - guardian.co.uk

Photograph David Sillitoe for the Guardian The government's forthcoming communications green paper will suggest broadcasters could be rewarded with a higher slot on digital TV electronic programme guides if they commit to transmitting more public service programmes such as news and children's shows. The government is planning to extend superfast broadband to 90 of the UK by 2015. To contact the MediaGuardian news desk email editormediaguardian.co.uk or phone 020 3353 3857. - guardian.co.uk

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BBC News - Who will win video streaming 'war'?

Read more Can Netflix compete with 'offline' TV - news.bbc.co.uk

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BBC News - Can Netflix compete with 'offline' TV?

On first glance, this seems a lofty claim - a web service known for its watch again services competing with an established company with over 10 million subscribers, the network spending billions of pounds to commission and buy content from the major studios. Thus far, the true success of streaming TV has been limited because a large number of people are still most comfortable watching television on TV sets. Last year, some movies from Sony disappeared from the Netflix site because, it was reported, a pre-agreed cap on the number of subscribers was exceeded. - news.bbc.co.uk

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Channel 4 to report first annual loss in more than a decade - Media - guardian.co.uk

Photograph Clara Molden/PA Channel 4 will report its first annual loss in more than a decade this year, after reporting a bumper 40m profit in 2010. Earlier on Wednesday Abraham announced a 12.5 year-on-year increase in Channel 4's budget for UK originated programming for 2012 to 450m, which it said is a record high. The broadcaster has only ever run up a couple of annual losses in its 30-year history since launching in 1982 but Channel 4 said the dip into the red is planned. - guardian.co.uk

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David Holdsworth's email to BBC staff - Media - guardian.co.uk

It is also gratifying to see that so many listeners and viewers value public service broadcasting at a local level and wrote to the trust to say so. We will want to look at ways of maintaining local editions but also to use this opportunity to generally raise the profile of regional current affairs in the way it sits in the rest of the BBC news family. Many of you have already offered opinions on the proposals. - guardian.co.uk

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Mark Thompson's email to staff on the BBC's Delivering Quality First plans - Media - guardian.co.uk

The chairman's speech and the findings are embargoed until 2.20pm but I wanted to let you know the main themes now. I'm pleased to say that at this stage the trust has endorsed the great majority of our proposals. They agree that we were right to focus our resources around protecting the five editorial priorities and maintaining investment in those parts of the BBC that bring the greatest value to the greatest number of people peak programming on our flagship television and radio channels. - guardian.co.uk

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BBC Trust chairman's speech to the Oxford Media Convention – full text - Media - guardian.co.uk

This conference will not be the last in 2012 to debate the future of the creative industries indeed politics, technology, economics and consumer behaviour make this topic ever more interesting. So conferences like this are likely to become a sort of creative industry themselves. The BBC has an interest, of course, in the policy debates around the Communications Review. - guardian.co.uk

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BBC local radio cuts rejected - 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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Ofcom - BBC Proposals for coverage of the London 2012 Olympic Games

Many of the events will be shown on the BBC's channels, which are qualifying services for the purposes of section 98 of the Act. In order to provide comprehensive coverage, the BBC plans to make all other Olympic events available through additional streams. These additional streams would be made available on the BBC's website, and, in whole or part, through satellite, cable and digital terrestrial broadcasts. - stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk

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TV viewing 'peaks at four hours a day' - Media - guardian.co.uk

A family in Bolton gathered around a television set in 1951. Viewers were also exposed to an average of 47 TV ads a day in 2011, up an average of one a day from 2010. Viewers watched an average of 18 hours and 11 minutes of commercial TV a week last year, up 22 minutes on 2010. - guardian.co.uk

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BBC - Research and Development: 2D compatible 3D broadcasts

The BBC has been trialling 3D broadcasting over the last year. The stereoscopic video is merged into a single HD frame by anamorphically compressing the view for each eye into half of the HD frame. This 'frame compatible' video can then be transmitted on a separate 3D channel or broadcast as part of a 2D HD channel. - bbc.co.uk

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Ten... IPTV set-top boxes • reghardware

IPTV Week Nearly every new gadget can be connected to the internet. IPTV means the delivery of TV shows and films over broadband. It can include live channels but the most common use for net-connected boxes is catch-up TV and video-on-demand from online libraries. - reghardware.com

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Hugh Cudlipp lecture: Poised for journalism s golden age - Snowblog

You can read the full text of his speech below. How timely that we should be celebrating the life of so legendary and pivotal figure as Hugh Cudlipp a man who inaugurated one of the finest periods of tabloid journalism. How apt then that we should be paying obeisance to an emblem of a Golden Age of tabloid newspapers in what is inescapably the darkest and bleakest moment this end of the industry has ever known. - blogs.channel4.com

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Ariel - BBC steps in where market fails, Chairman tells Leveson

He pointed to the huge volume of criticism the suggestion had attracted, all hinged to the belief that without the BBC's involvement there would be no local talk radio. Despite the dominance of BBC News, which reaches 80 of adults every week, Patten denied that there was a problem with plurality in the media. 'Sky News has probably devoted more time to the hacking story than the BBC proportionately,' he said. - bbc.co.uk

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Mark Thompson's witness statement to the Leveson inquiry - full text - Media - guardian.co.uk

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BBC - Research and Development: Prototyping weeknotes #92

We're starting a new format for our weeknotes this week to make them a bit easier to read. We'll feature one project in detail each time and just give a quick summary of our other projects. This has been an exploration of how people remember programmes and tools to help them do that. - bbc.co.uk

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informitv - KPMG survey shows awareness of streaming television

Research released by KPMG shows an increasing level of awareness of streamed television services in the United Kingdom. The BBC iPlayer was recognised by 90 of respondents, 68 of whom said they use it. General awareness of such services is remarkably high at 95, although that does not necessarily translate into usage, particularly when it comes to paying for services. - informitv.com

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BBC director-general to give Leveson evidence - Press - Media - The Independent

On another occasion a BBC journalist commissioned a private detective to find out the owner of a car from its number plate, the hearing was told. BBC director-general Mark Thompson told the press standards inquiry that the corporation's staff used investigators 232 times between January 2005 and July 2011 at a total cost of 310,000. News accounted for 43 of these occasions, at a cost of 174,500, excluding the use of private security teams. - independent.co.uk

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The UK TV Licence Fee Must be Preserved

The proposed new system would mean that iPlayer would still be free for the 7-day catch-up service as it is now, but users would pay a fee to watch content beyond that period. If it ever came to fruition, the micropayment would cover costs rather than boost its coffers directly, going towards the rights to make it permanently available. The Twittersphere temporarily burst into overdrive, with every second tweet relating to the story seemingly mentioning the TV licence fee. - thenextweb.com

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DTG :: News :: Report: Connected TV to 'dominate' global TV shipments

Connected TVs will lead the way in global TV shipments, with forecasts escalating from 27 of units shipped in 2011 to over 80 by 2015, according to new research from Futuresource Consulting. On a regional level, Japan leads the way in the adoption of connected TVs, with 59 of shipments in 2011 integrating IP connectivity as standard. The worlds emerging markets including Brazil and India have witnessed 40 and 86 growth respectively. - dtg.org.uk

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BBC - BBC Internet Blog: What's On BBC Red Button 21st - 29th January

Music producers, promoters, publishers, record label execs, managers, agents, musicians, remixers, DJs, and BBC talent worked together with two hundred bands and musicians to create this Masterclass. Watch funny clips, out-takes, star interviews, pop music, backstage previews and episodes from Children's BBC. 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 OddBox. - bbc.co.uk

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TV energy running costs - LED, LCD and plasma TV reviews - TV DVD - Which? Technology

Buying a TV can be a major household expense, but consider also the hidden long-term running costs. From our extensive lab testing, Which has identified TVs that can cost you as little as 4 a year to run, to as much as 83 a year. That's why we've developed this handy TV running costs calculator, which shows you the true cost of buying and running a TV over the years. - which.co.uk

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Sony Acquires U.K. Channels From Dolphin   - 2012-01-19 16:40:23 - Broadcasting Cable

Is also expanding European ad business with a majority stake in advertising sales house Dolphin TV Ltd. The channels target an older, male demographic, offering movies and television programming with war, western and action films. Dolphin TV, the advertising business, will continue to operate under the same name and management team, and from the same office in London. - broadcastingcable.com

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BBC and Sky at odds over kids' channels EPG - 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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C4 eyes repeats channel launch on Freeview - News - Broadcast

19 January, 2012 By Balihar Khalsa Channel 4 is expected to launch a new repeats channel on the Freeview platform later this year in an attempt to boost its overall portfolio share. 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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C5 set for landmark move into in-house production - News - Broadcast

19 January, 2012 By Jake Kanter Channel 5 is on the brink of launching an in-house production division. 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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More 4 rebrand set for launch - News - Broadcast

17 January, 2012 By Balihar Khalsa More 4s new branding will go live on 23 January ahead of a more prominent push in April. 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 - Research and Development: An Affective Interface for Mood-Based Navigation

Whether we notice it or not, we use affective i.e. mood-based language pervasively in life. The Multimedia Classification project in Archives Research is attempting to address this by answering the question of how we can use mood as a meaningful navigation tool. From hundreds of thousands of hours of programmes spanning over 75 years, simply searching for comedy isnt going to get you very far - bbc.co.uk

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BBC names David Shukman as first science editor - Media - guardian.co.uk

The new role was created following an independent review of the BBC's science coverage last year. Shukman, currently the BBC's environment and science correspondent, has held a number of roles since joining the corporation in 1983, including world affairs correspondent, defence correspondent, and Northern Ireland reporter. It cost the BBC a reported 500,000 in a libel payout. - guardian.co.uk

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BBC - BBC Internet Blog: What's On BBC Red Button 14th - 22nd January

Watch funny clips, out-takes, star interviews, pop music, backstage previews and episodes from Children's BBC. 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 OddBox. CBeebies Red Button is available now on the CBeebies channel, and via page 5900 on other channels. - bbc.co.uk

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Ariel - A record year for iPlayer

As the public takes up internet-connected tv, smartphones and tablets in increasing numbers so the use of the iPlayer is also expected to grow. Last month 7 million programmes were requested on connected TV sets, a year-on-year increase of more than a 1000 percent. Mobile phones and tablets recorded 13 million and 10 million requests respectively, an annual increase of 163 per cent and 596 per cent. - bbc.co.uk

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DTG :: News :: Report: Standard Definition switch off looms in 'developed markets'

HD-ready penetration will double from 25.9 at end-2011 to 50.9 in 2016. Simon Murray, author of the report, said Most sets on sale in developed markets are now HD compatible, with a growing proportion also providing 3D functionality. More than 300 million HDTV-ready households existed at end-2011 for the 40 countries covered in the report. - dtg.org.uk

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Broker snap: Football rights a concern at BSkyB, says Nomura - ShareCast - News you can use

The broker forecasts 55,000 net TV adds in the second quarter, 140,000 in broadband and 100,000 in HDTV. For the first half, revenues are expected to rise by 5.9 to 3,374m, while earnings per share are estimated to grow 21 to 24.1p. Nomura keeps a buy rating and 1,000p target price. - sharecast.com

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ITVS to close Norwich base - News - Broadcast

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BT adds social media element to pay-TV - FT.com

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Moms PC is Google TV

The weekend before Christmas, mom phoned, excited, to tell me about her new 46-inch TV. She lives on a tight budget, but received an unexpected 350 windfall from Social Security. The purchase inspired her holiday present, which I hadn't yet decided on Google TV. - betanews.com

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Reed Hastings interview: 'Everybody would welcome a rival to Sky' - Media - The Guardian

Not that the gently spoken Californian looks like a revolutionary but the company he helped found, Netflix, will change the nature of film and television. Spend five minutes using Netflix and it is obvious that all the things that were on DVD will soon be consumed this way press a button and video starts playing within a few seconds and the quality, if not high definition, matches standard definition down an ordinary broadband connection. Netflix dates back to 1998, when it was founded as a mail-order DVD business, but Hastings says the company always planned to get into digital distribution. - guardian.co.uk

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BBC News - CES postscript: Smart TVs get ready for prime time

Fast-forward to CES, and the newly unveiled smart TVs may have avoided this pitfall, but other limitations were apparent. Voice instructions were often misunderstood, or ignored altogether, if operators added an unapproved word to their commands. Unleash the apps At the end of 2011 there were 82 million connected TVs in homes worldwide according to research group Informa. - bbc.co.uk

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Traditional TV has survived the net threat, but for how much longer? - John naughton - Comment is free - The Observer

The show is one of the few TV programmes that still attract a mass audience. It's all based on the realisation that, since the 1990s, most media print, audio, video, graphics have been reduced to the lowest common denominator bits, the ones and zeroes of binary arithmetic. Finally, after these two decades of promise, we might now have reached a tipping point in this convergence story. - guardian.co.uk

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Ariel - BBC considers archive fees for viewers

13 January 2012 Last updated at 1135 The BBC is considering whether to charge people who want to watch or listen to archive programmes outside the iPlayer catch-up window, as more of its back catalogue becomes available through digitisation. The idea is one of a number of options being looked at in order to recoup the expensive cost of transferring many decades of BBC content onto the internet. - bbc.co.uk

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CES 2012: the rise of smart TV - Technology - guardian.co.uk

Samsung showed a range of TV sets with voice and motion-controlled interfaces. The smartness is more than internet-deep Samsung, LG and a number of others showed off voice and motion-controlled interfaces which in the latter case could give you a way to control games, as well as changing channels and surfing the net, rather than wrestling with a remote. Samsung, which sold 57m sets worldwide last year and has been the world's biggest TV maker for the past six years, also reckons the TV will become like a giant computer screen in the corner of your lounge so we will share photos from our phones on to it and use them to make video calls. - guardian.co.uk

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The future of the BBC: Auntie’s big year - The Economist

Celebrations in June to mark the 60th anniversary of the queen's reign will remind people that Auntiethe BBC's nickname combines familiarity with respectis the narrator of the national story. In July the Olympic torch should cast a benign light on the corporation, as sports devotees use smart new interactive tools to replay favourite moments. Lord Patten, chairman of the BBC Trust, which oversees the corporation, wants to make a mark and is thought to be keen to see a change at the top. - economist.com

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DTG :: News :: Ofcom revises 4G mobile coverage proposals

Ofcom has announced new measures expected to extend 4G mobile coverage to at least 98 of the UK population and revised plans to promote competition. Between March and May 2011, Ofcom consulted on its assessment of how 4G spectrum is likely to affect future competition in mobile electronic communications services markets. The responses to the consultation and the evidence submitted, together with further analysis by Ofcom, have resulted in today's revised proposals. - dtg.org.uk

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C4 planning repeats channel - News - Broadcast

11 January, 2012 By Balihar Khalsa Channel 4looks set to launch a new station that would show the last seven days most popular programmes. 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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DTG :: News :: Virgin Media boosts broadband speeds

Virgin Media has announced it will double the speeds of over four million of its broadband customers and boost its top speed to 120Mb, in order to meet the growing demand for next generation broadband. Starting in February 2012, the upgrade programme will continue over 18 months and is expected to be complete by mid 2013. 120Mb broadband will allow users to download an entire music album in 4.4 seconds and a high definition movie in around 5 minutes. - dtg.org.uk

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