IPTV news - Over half of UK broadband users interested in next-gen IPTV services

However, good value was named most often 36 as the most important aspect for a new service to get right, followed closely by a strong content lineup. The good news is that the country's broadband infrastructure is on a path of improvement but there's still a long way to go. - iptv-news.com

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BBC - Research and Development: Elbow in 3D Sound

As part of the BBC Audio Research Partnership, that was launched earlier in the summer, we are looking at potential next generation audio formats. If you want some more detailed information about what weve done, you can read this paper of ours, which is available from the AES. I think the headline from the paper was that first-order ambisonics is not as good as traditional channel-based audio, like 5.1 surround, for what can be considered point sources, but it does work very well for reverberation and diffuse sounds. - bbc.co.uk

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BBC - BBC Internet Blog: What's On BBC Red Button 12th - 20th November

Programmes will be broadcast across TV, radio, online and the Red Button so viewers across the UK can take part in the commemoration services and pay homage to the heroic service of those men and women who lost their lives for their country. Available on all platforms Sun 13th November, 855pm-400am Autumnwatch Autumnwatch Live are tracking the very best wildlife action from the beginning to the end of this dramatic season, finding unique insights into some of our best loved animals. On Red Button, we have a seasonal selection of photos. - bbc.co.uk

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BBC constrained by need to avoid political bias, admits Lord Patten - Media - The Guardian

As the Leveson inquiry into the culture, practices and ethics of the press begins on Monday, the former Conservative party chairman said the broadcaster has its hands tied by the regulator Ofcom and the ethics code of the Trust itself. Patten also argued for continued self-regulation of the press. Other witnesses will include journalists, newspaper groups including News International, the Metropolitan police, and politicians of all parties. - guardian.co.uk

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£90m grant boosts BBC World Service - TV Radio - Media - The Independent

BBC World Service broadcasts will benefit from a 90 million Government grant less than a year after the body revealed cuts to jobs and services. Following the decision, the corporation unveiled plans to close five of its 32 World Service language services and axe up to 650 jobs over three years. Ministers want the Trust to target 14 countries suffering from conflict, poverty, poor education and restrictive freedom of information, including Pakistan, Burma and the Palestinian territories. - independent.co.uk

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Sky: Bectu's argument is "bizarre" - Comment - Broadcast

11 November, 2011 Earlier this week, Bectu branded retransmission fees a scandal and claimed Skys practices hindered others. 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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Fraudster Gerald Smith admits media company Body in Balance close to collapse - Yahoo! UK Ireland Finance

Gerald Smith, the twice convicted fraudster, has emerged at the centre of a media company teetering on the edge of administration. The businessman, who was jailed for eight years in 2005 for a multi-million pound fraud, is understood to have been working at Body in Balance for more than six months. His presence at the company comes despite being banned from acting as a director until 2021 over the 34m fraud at Aim-listed Izodia. - uk.finance.yahoo.com

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PURE launch new in-car Highway 300Di DAB radio - James Cridland

The old PURE Highway was decent enough, but not really very pretty. The new PURE Highway is a really nice thing. The D stands for Dual, Im guessing, since there are dual tuners in there one to listen to DAB radio, the other to continuously scan to work out whats available and what isnt. - james.cridland.net

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Public needs to be aware of changes to Irish TV standards - New Media - New Media - siliconrepublic.com - Irelands

The change to Ireland's TV standard results from the move from a national analogue television network to a digital television network. The current analogue TV standard will cease to be used by broadcasters in Ireland after analogue switch off on 24 October 2012. I would ask retailers to ensure that the TVs and other TV receivers they are selling are compatible with the digital standard being used in Ireland, Rabbitte said. - siliconrepublic.com

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Ariel - Myers to conduct BBC Local Radio review

As with his previous report on the network services, Myers will focus on how BBC Local Radio can become more efficient and maximise productivity. He will not be expected to review content. The strategy also proposes more content-sharing among neighbouring stations during off-peak slots. - bbc.co.uk

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BBC News - Councils plea to save BBC Somersets medium wave service

A BBC spokeswoman said it was currently examining the impact of the withdrawal of its AM service in Somerset. - bbc.co.uk

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Bectu: retransmission fees are a scandal - 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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Ariel - Consultation launched over on-demand syndication

The revised approach follows industry reaction after provisional conclusions of a routine review into on-demand content provision to third parties was published in January. Objections were raised over the original plan to syndicate on-demand content via three standard versions of iPlayer. In Wednesday's report, the Trust said that it still believes licence fee payers' interest are best served by content being available in a 'BBC environment' but it was now adopting a 'more flexible approach'. - bbc.co.uk

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BBC relaxes guidelines on providing content to rivals - Media - guardian.co.uk

Sky's pay-TV rival Virgin Media was the first commercial broadcaster to launch the iPlayer on its cable service. The iPlayer launched in 2007 and the cable TV operator launched it in 2008. However, the BBC and BSkyB have been unable to reach agreement in the intervening period of almost four years. - guardian.co.uk

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Get TV from your PC, anytime, anywhere

Watching TV using the Internet is nothing new, but sometimes you cant access the channel youd like to view from where you are. The simplest way to watch any form of television on your computer is with a TV tuner --whether its cable, satellite or terrestrial, it gives you access to the widest possible range of channels, including those you subscribe to. Once in place, you can access your TV tuner from over your network using a range of devices, including DLNA-certified kit, mobile devices and other computers. - betanews.com

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BBC brings online spend under control

C21Media.net is Everything about content in the 21st Century, from television to web, mobile, tablet and beyond. - c21media.net

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ITN news deal for Channel 5 - TV Radio - Media - The Independent

ITN has won the contract to produce Channel 5's news. The deal follows an agreement by Sky, which has produced the bulletins for the last six years, and Northern Shell, which owns Channel 5, to terminate their 5 News contract early. ITN originally launched the news service in 1997 and produced it until 2005. - independent.co.uk

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David Abraham: Channel 5 thinks its clever, but were still the No 1 - Features - TV Radio

David Abraham, chief executive of Channel 4 for the past 18 months, says he is not worried by the apparent resurgence of its rival Channel 5, owned by the maverick media mogul Richard Desmond. He sleeps easily at night, partly because he is convinced that Channel 4 is performing better than its critics suggest and partly because he doesn't accept the narrative that says Channel 5 is on the up, with profits soaring and a new, young audience arriving to watch Big Brother, a show his own channel made famous. Once an advertising executive himself, he told the key media agencies, who decide where to place the millions their clients spend on promoting goods and services, that they needed to put their cash with Channel 4 and not with Desmond's network or other commercial rivals. - independent.co.uk

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Channel 4 News: 'It will always be the Jon Snow show' - Media - The Guardian

Jon Snow is having a mea culpa moment. For 22 years he anchored Channel 4 News with a junior colleague sometimes a woman, often from an ethnic minority, occasionally both sat in a corner of the studio with a remit little beyond a brief news round-up. Which raises the question why did he not say something sooner - guardian.co.uk

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BBC - BBC Internet Blog: What's On BBC Red Button 5th - 13th November

On Red Button, we have a seasonal selection of photos. You can relive Red Button commentaries from the past weeks on the Strictly Come Dancing website. Elsewhere it will be broadcast on BBC Two as usual. - bbc.co.uk

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ITN poised to replace Sky as C5 news provider - 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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Could DAB Digital 2 be re-advertised? : Radio Today

Re-advertising a second national commercial multiplex could be one option to help the growth of DAB, it has been suggested. Digital One, the only national commercial multiplex, can accommodate new stations but only if other services reduce their bandwidth. Three years ago Channel 4 withdrew from launching a second multiplex after winning a licence in July 2007. - radiotoday.co.uk

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Ofcom says seven million homes to be hit by 800MHz digital TV retune - What Satellite Digital TV

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Richard Desmond to launch Channel 5+1 - Media - guardian.co.uk

Channel 51 will launch on Freeview, Freesat and BSkyB in early December. Channel 51 will join the broadcaster's existing one-hour timeshifted spin-offs from digital channels 5 and 5USA. ITV launched a timeshifted variant of its flagship channel in January. - guardian.co.uk

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Channel 5+1 to launch next month - 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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TechCon a look back - James Cridland

Monday was TechCon, the annual event that is a curtain-raiser for the Radio Festival. TechCon is for the engineers and techies in radio, rather than the content people and is unashamedly techie in places. I try to keep this light-hearted and humorous something normally rather required at that time of day. - james.cridland.net

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ITV briefs team on digital news plan - News - Broadcast

2 November, 2011 By Jake Kanter ITV has briefed more than 70 of its regional and national journalists on its digital news plans. 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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Ariel - Outsource local radio, says Radio Centre head

Speaking at the Radio Festival in Salford on Wednesday, he said, 'Twenty-five percent of tv is required to be made by outside production. He added 'Despite the efforts of some, even the reaction to the BBC Local Radio changes has been relatively muted. Harrison said the BBC missed an opportunity to make more cuts in its DQF plans and therefore do more with less. - bbc.co.uk

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The Media Show: BBC move north, Radio Festival. 2 Nov 11

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BBC to exceed budget savings but goals questioned - report - Media - guardian.co.uk

The BBC's new headquarters at MediaCity in Salford. A report by the National Audit Office says BBC annual savings are on target, but questions if they are 'sufficiently stretching'. The BBC set up an efficiency initiative called the Continuous Improvement Programme with the money to be reinvested to deliver its planned strategy and to meet inflationary pressures. - guardian.co.uk

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BBC - Research and Development: RadioTAG wins Innovation Award

The annual meeting of the radio industry, Radio Festival, happening right now in Salford, has an associated conference called TechConwhere all sorts of interesting technical talks and demonstrations take place. TechConhas an award for Innovation around radio and audio - the shortlisted applicatants show their research to the conference attendees before a panel of judges selects the winner. So submitting a joint submission for work done together seemed natural. - bbc.co.uk

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Channel 5 takes Freeview HD slot - Broadband TV News

Channel 5 was the only applicant for the fifthhigh definition channel on Freeview HD, when the window closed on October 17.Its place on the terrestrial platform will now beevaluatedby the regulator Ofcom. We recognise HDs potential role in driving penetration of new improved transmission equipment and standards for the platform and thereby allowing a still wider choice of channels and services in the future. Although planning a simulcast of the existing station, Channel 5 said it wanted to explore with Ofcom ways of subleasing daytime capacity. - broadbandtvnews.com

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Thompson: we will listen to public on local radio - 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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Mark Thompson's 2011 Radio Festival speech – full text - Media - guardian.co.uk

Tomorrow marks the 75th anniversary of the launch by the BBC of the world's first continuous television service. By any standards, a landmark in broadcasting and an event which you'd have thought that any DG would have been only too proud to preside over. When the great day arrived, he decided to give it a miss and, when the first transmission took place, he was nowhere to be seen. - guardian.co.uk

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Freeview MD: Gloves are off after digital switchover - Interview - Media News - Digital Spy

There has been suggestion that Freeview will gradually fade away as a platform brand once the UK switches permanently from analogue to digital TV in 2012, but Howling is of a different opinion. The DTT platform is now on 10.2m main sets in UK homes, and 18m sets in total. Freeview HD has passed 3m product sales since the high definition TV service commercially launched in spring 2010. - digitalspy.co.uk

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RadioPlayer founder: 'Let's nail this' - Media Monkey - Media - guardian.co.uk

RadioPlayer expect big things Coming soon to the RadioPlayer a whole bunch of improvements including a new embedded media player and better search results, including podcasts. Not before time, you might think, after a slightly underwhelming launch of the BBC and commercial radio joint venture earlier this year. It is also busy making a mobile prototype which will be up and running by Christmas with between 20 and 30 of the 293 stations currently available online. - guardian.co.uk

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BBC: no need for licence fee reform - 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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BBC News - Google Maps to charge for usage

31 October 2011 Last updated at 0840 ET Users of Google Map links for their websites will be charged for heavy usage of the service, it has been revealed. Websites, especially travel firms, use Google Maps to link customers to a view of the destinations they inquire about. Google is rumoured to be charging 4 per 1,000 views in excess of the limit. - bbc.co.uk

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BBC News - Cymdeithas drops BBC licence fee boycott over S4C

Cymdeithas yr Iaith Gymraeg had been calling for a refusal to pay in protest at changes to the way S4C is funded. The UK government is handing over part of the responsibility for funding the Welsh-language channel to the BBC. Cymdeithas, which ended its campaign at its monthly meeting in Aberystwyth, will now focus on having broadcasting devolved to the Welsh assembly. - bbc.co.uk

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BBC TV licence fee may extend to iPlayer - Media - guardian.co.uk

British viewers must pay for a 145.50 television licence if they watch or record programmes as they are broadcast, whether viewed via a television, computer, mobile phone or video games console. However, computer catch-up services such as the BBC iPlayer via which 153m television and radio programmes were broadcast in September do not require a licence. The issue is likely to intensify over the next year, as a rash of new internet-enabled set-top boxes, including the BBC-backed YouView, are expected to launch. - guardian.co.uk

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BT Plans to Accelerate $4 Billion Broadband Network Rollout by One Year - Bloomberg

BT will advance the rollout by one year by bringing forward 300 million pounds of funding, the London-based company said today in a statement. BT now plans to reach two-thirds of British homes by the end of 2014, rather than 2015. Our rollout of fiber broadband is one of the fastest in the world and so it is great to be ahead of what was an already challenging schedule, Chief Executive Officer Ian Livingston said in the statement. - bloomberg.com

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The BBC's agreement with S4C is a watershed moment for broadcasting - Media - The Guardian

This S4C solution appears very different from the usual imperial outposts firmly controlled from London. On the face of it this is quite a result for S4C an organisation that only months back had no effective management, no effective governance and no strategy to arrest calamitous declines in audiences for much of its programming. Welsh-language campaigners suspect the deal, cooked up they say by the BBC and S4C behind closed doors, represents a major threat to the independence of what they see as their national broadcaster. - guardian.co.uk

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The BBC must fix the on-demand loophole in the licence fee - Media - The Guardian

If viewers only ever watch on-demand TV, they can avoid paying the licence fee. The ramifications of the six-year freeze, hammered out over 48 hours with Jeremy Hunt, the culture secretary, became clear this month the corporation will shed 2,000 jobs as it tries to save 700m. The deal which fixed the licence fee at 145.50 until 2017 left the BBC with a 16 real-term cut to the 3.5bn it receives annually via the levy. - guardian.co.uk

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Google TV 3.1 is coming next week!AndroidGuys

Google TV was, well kind of a failure. It wasnt mature, it wasnt finished, and it didnt have what Android is famous for Openness and apps from the Android Market. Keep it simple Google has simplified the interface. - androidguys.com

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BBC - BBC Internet Blog: What's On BBC Red Button 29nd October - 6th November

Press red from 9pm on Thursday 27th October to watch them perform live from Manchester Cathedral. If you miss the live coverage, press red from 6pm on Friday 28th October for highlights and additional interviews with the band from some of their favourite locations in Manchester. You can relive Red Button commentaries from the past weeks on the Strictly Come Dancing website. - bbc.co.uk

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Tenants in apartment blocks are being blinded by technospeak based on outdated information - What Satellite

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3D: a white elephant?

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SeeSaw shut down - reghardware

At the eleventh hour, Arqiva pulled in a consortium of banks, venture capitalists and private equity firms to whom it sold 75 per cent of the IPTV company. Clearly the input of new money - not to mention the appointment of one-time Channel 4 chief Michael Jackson - was not enough to ensure SeeSaw's survival. SeeSaw desperately needed deals with Smart TV vendors to get its content on their products and with set-top box makers. - reghardware.com

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BBC - BBC Radio 3 Programmes - Night Waves, Chris Patten

He discusses the role of the BBC in the twenty first century as it faces cuts and radical reshaping. - bbc.co.uk

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Real Digital misses launch date again - What Satellite Digital TV

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