BBC News - Can turning off analogue TV make broadband better?

Marc Cieslak looks at implications of white space technology on consumers Insatiable demand for wireless services means that, despite new technology, the airwaves are running out of room. Could making use of the space between signals be the solution to all our problems By 2014, global data traffic will increase by 39 times from current levels, reaching 3.6 exabytes around 3.9 billion gigabytes per month, according to wireless firm Cisco. - news.bbc.co.uk

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BBC - BBC Internet Blog: What's On BBC Red Button 10th - 18th December

Coldplay return to the snug and intimate Dingwalls venue in Camden for an access all areas gig, performed exclusively for Radio 2 in Concert. The band first played Dingwalls on the 25th of May 1998 - in a show to raise funds for their debut public release, the Safety EP. BBC Radio 2 brings Coldplay back to this tiny venue to play classic tracks and songs from their new album Mylo Xyloto. - bbc.co.uk

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Rupert Murdoch met David Cameron at Downing Street twice during BSkyB bid - Media - The Guardian

Rupert Murdoch's second visit to 10 Downing Street was disclosed in fresh information on goverment hospitality. Murdoch had already been known to have visited No 10 in May after the election, a visit convened by the prime minister to thank the newspaper proprietor for his help during the election. Murdoch admitted in his appearance before the parliamentary media select committee in July that he had visited Cameron in Downing Street, entering by the back door. - guardian.co.uk

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BBC AI scores rise again - News - Broadcast

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Delivery crisis: a call to arms - In-depth - Broadcast

At a Broadcast debate on the future of TV, industry-wide specifications were top of the agenda for content providers coping with the rapid growth of VoD and catch-up services. He told an audience of senior technology, channel and platform executives Every deal we have for catch-up or VoD has a different specification. Add to that multiple formats for smooth streaming on the internet even if you are delivering to one platform, you may have to deliver the same file in five or six different bit rates, he said. - broadcastnow.co.uk

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BBC and ITV peak-time viewing down on 2010 - Media - guardian.co.uk

ITV's peak-time viewing fell despite the success of shows such as Downton Abbey. ITV1's fall is less marked if you include figures for timeshift service ITV1. Then its peak-time audience falls only slightly, from 22.2 last year to 22 and its all-hours share from 16.9 to 16.7. - guardian.co.uk

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DTG :: News :: Sky Broadcasts 3D Test Card

Sky has launched a 3D test card to help viewers get the best out of their 3D TV viewing experience. The pair take viewers through a series of steps demonstrating how to set up a 3D television to get the optimal viewing experience. Zoe explains how to set your aspect ratio, colours and contrast of the picture, through where to position your TV, setting the lighting in your living room and getting the right sound settings for your space. - dtg.org.uk

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ITV s Crozier says YouView has it all to play for - Broadband TV News

ITV chief executive Adam Crozier has said the connected TV market is far from fully developed and presents itself as having it all to play for. VOD accounts for less than one per cent of viewing and I cant see the suggestion from anybody that in three years it will be more than three times that, said Crozier. ITV is in the process of finalising its own pay-TV strategy that is expected to be annouced early next year. - broadbandtvnews.com

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BBC - Research and Development: White Papers Published Lately

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Comment: The fight to save local radio : Radio Today

Yes, lots has been said and written about whether Global have abandoned local radio in favour of national brands delivered locally but the fact remains that most of the licences in question covered sizeable TSAs in the first place. The coverage areas for the Telford, Shrewsbury and Kidderminster licences awarded by Ofcom and the Radio Authority before it, however, had adult populations of around 100,000 each, so even with a fairly decent 25 reach were only ever going to hit a relatively small number of people. By the end of this year, pushing 20 commercial radio licences will have been handed back to Ofcom in the space of just over five years. - radiotoday.co.uk

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BSkyB Perplexed By On-Demand Movie Judgement

Every movie thats ever been on Sky Movies has had a theatrical release and has been in Asda or Tesco well before it has been on Sky. If theres demand out there from people who dont want a dish and a box and just want to be able to subscribe to Sky Sports on-demand, theres no reason at all why we wont be in the marketplace giving them that service. Anecdotally, its students in their dorm room using a laptop. Griffith also gave a gloomy UK economic indicator he expected Q4 advertising sales to be flat to down, with December the weakest month of the quarter. - paidcontent.co.uk

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Data caps a crude and unfair tool for easing online congestion

Two years ago, Felten and Herman Wagter the man who spearheaded Amsterdam's fiber rollout and wrote about it for Ars issued a challenge to Internet providers show us the evidence. Of course, if I find myself to be wrong and if indeed I manage to identify users that systematically degrade the experience for other users, I will say so publicly. If, as I suspect, there are no such users, I will also say so publicly. - arstechnica.com

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BBC - BBC Internet Blog: What's On BBC Red Button 3rd - 11th December

The Young Handlers, all of whom are under the age of 18, take to the field first, setting the pace and the standard for the rest of the competition. This round decides the ultimate winning team of One Man and His Dog 2011. Red Button has complete coverage of this year's competition. - bbc.co.uk

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Ariel - Capita keeps TV Licensing contract

The deal - which comes into force next July - consolidates two existing contracts held by Capita and iQor which provides business process outsourcing into one new arrangement. Estimated to be worth approximately 560m to Capita, the contract represents savings to the BBC of around 220m over the eight years of the agreement - savings that allow more money to be spent on programmes. 'Capita's bid was the best both in terms of innovation and efficiencies and so offered best value for money,' says Zarin Patel, chief financial officer. - bbc.co.uk

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EBU commits to hybrid future - Broadband TV News

More than 20 members of the European Broadcasting Union have agreed to a European-wide rollout of hybrid TV during 2012. - broadbandtvnews.com

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Ariel - BBC urged to reconsider local cuts

'What concerns me most is the decimation of the West Midlands with Birmingham due to lose its factual radio and TV programmes,' she said. - bbc.co.uk

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Freeview balloons hit 'Corrie' and 'Deal Or No Deal' sets - Media news - Media Week

It is the first time ITV and Channel 4 have allowed locations from any of their programmes to be used to promote another service or product and a spokesman from Freeview said it was to engage viewers with the Freeview brand. Media planning and buying was by WPP media agency MEC. The promotion brings to life the brand's new positioning based around the concept of generosity and highlights the quality of content that Freeview offers free from contracts and free from subscription. - mediaweek.co.uk

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Could the UK's original ITV kill Apple iTV brand? - Computer Business Review

Jason Stamper Published 01 December 2011 British broadcaster would have a strong case. Launched in 1955 to provide competition to the BBC, the broadcaster has certainly been using the three-letter acronym for long enough. The test of trademark infringement of course is whether the similarity is enough to cause customer confusion. - cbronline.com

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Ofcom - Channel 4 Schedule 9 Arrangements

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S4C is ‘secretive and arrogant’, says report - News - Broadcast

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Ariel, we'll miss you - Media - guardian.co.uk

Of course many publications see their ultimate future solely online, but Ariel at its best a couple of years ago was able, on a weekly basis, to select and place BBC news, policies, politics, personalities, even bereavements, into a thoughtful context. Ariel has 75 years of tradition behind it, as old as BBC television. Harvey was recruited from national newspapers by Greg Dyke in 2001 to refocus Ariel as an independent platform and voice for staffers, alienated by the John Birt producer choice era. - guardian.co.uk

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BBC - BBC Internet Blog: What's On BBC Red Button 26th November - 4th December

1Xtra Live is back and bigger than ever All of this year's 1Xtra Live performances will be streamed live on Red Button. Around 300 of these magnificent birds make the perilous 2,000 mile trip to spend the winter at WWT Slimbridge. - bbc.co.uk

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Charlie Brooker: There are two kinds of viewer in the world: right and wrong. Which are you? - Comment is free - The Gua

Sometimes it's more a bizarre optical illusion than a film. Photograph Rich Legg/Getty Images/Vetta Imagine, if you will, that instead of reading this garbage, you're enjoying an exciting night out at the theatre. You take your seat and, after a few minutes, the curtain rises but something's wrong. - guardian.co.uk

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BBC - About the BBC: Updating the BBC Complaints website

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Ariel - Switchover help scheme passes 1m mark

In the run-up to switchover in each region, the help scheme offers practical help to convert one tv set to digital. Most people are asked to contribute 40 towards the switch. The work has involved more than 500 help scheme installers driving around 6m miles to date, but chief executive of the White City-based help scheme Peter White said the 1m milestone had been reached through partnerships. - bbc.co.uk

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News - SES.com

The service currently reaches 1.9 million German TV households. As of today, an additional 1.56 million households are currently using HD in the free trial period and will have the opportunity to extend their use of the service on a paying basis in the next twelve months. Based on the very positive development of HD, SES expects to surpass the mark of one million paying customers by the end of next year. - ses.com

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James Murdoch quits boards of UK papers - as fresh scandal hits empire - Press - Media - The Independent

He remains on the editorial board of The Times, which would approve the appointment of any new editor. Mr Murdoch became executive chairman of News International in 2007 and has been called to Parliament twice to give evidence about the extent of his knowledge of phone hacking at the News of the World. Bill O'Chee, a former senator with the rural-based National Party, claims the offer was made in 1998 over lunch at an upmarket Brisbane restaurant, Pier 9. - independent.co.uk

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BBC - BBC Internet Blog: BBC Online Industry Briefing: Panel on Simplicity and Connected TV

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What is the licence fee for? - Comment - Broadcast

If you wanted a reminder of your uni debating society days, you needed to be at Bafta on Monday night, where boffins presented radical ideas for a BBC 10 years from now. It kicked off with former R4 boss and St Peters College master Mark Damazer arguing that it is a subjective matter of value and politics, leading to a brain-tingling debate on the definition of ideology. Peter Bazalgette addressed this in his presentation, with Channel 4 boss David Abraham subsequently asking what could you do if you could unbundle services, given that we are moving towards a world of hyper-individualisation of choice driven by the internet - broadcastnow.co.uk

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BBC cuts 'threaten existence of public service broadcasting in north-east' - Media - guardian.co.uk

She said there would also be a two-thirds cut in the BBC's local weather presenters, with many bulletins now due to be prerecorded. 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. - guardian.co.uk

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Picture Of ZTE V55 Tablet Appears Online - ITProPortal.com

The tablet has rounded corners, and other than saying that it is a CDMA tablet with Bluetooth wireless technology and will run on Sprint, there's not much else that the listing provides. The Light 10 also caught our attention, because it also includes a Freeview HD tuner, the first tablet we know of that could achieve that. It will be interesting to see whether any of the ZTE tablets actually go on sale before the end of the year, and whether they are going to be sold via retailers or through operators only. - itproportal.com

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BBC bosses: local radio DQF cuts not set in stone - News - Broadcast

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Ariel - A fond farewell to BBC Manchester

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The Media UK radio pocketbook available now - James Cridland

The Media UK radio pocketbook available now Posted on Sunday, November 20th, 2011 at 949 pm. Heres where to buy the Media UK Radio Pocketbook. Part of the learning continues, with some very real logistical questions of how to send these pocketbooks sensibly through the post, when I dont really have an office, much less office staff to help send them. - james.cridland.net

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Will Hunt s dream of local TV pay off? - Markets Analysis

Hunt's Department of Culture has already had at least 140 expressions of interest. He has announced a longlist of 65 cities and regions and is set to publish a shortlist of 20 in the next few weeks. Hunt says local broadcasters can be largely funded through advertising and commercial sponsorship but the decline of regional newspapers hardly suggests there is much money in the provinces. - thisislondon.co.uk

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Buyer's Guide: The Best Media Centres - DigitalVersus

We use two separate tests the DigitalVersus test and the DivX test. We make sure that HD videos play as well as high-res photos. We also check the interface, the options available and the remote control, as well as extra features like network connectivity, Wi-Fi and the screen to make sure they're all useful and well managed. - digitalversus.com

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Replace your TV with an iPad or Android tablet and Hauppauge Broadway

I'm talking about the Hauppauge Broadway, which I spent this week testing. It's a network-attached video receiver, that encodes all incoming video feeds into H.264 and pipes them out onto your network, making them accessible through most Web browsers both for desktop and mobile OSes. So with this device, any content that isn't already available in a digital format is encoded live for you. - betanews.com

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BBC - BBC Internet Blog: What's On BBC Red Button 19th - 27th November

Thanks to 40 years of research by the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust, a great deal is known about the returning swans. Some of the families are long established dynasties and have been coming back to the lake in the Rushy Pen for an amazing 50 years. What's more, it's possible to identify each individual swan by the pattern of yellow and black on its bill. - bbc.co.uk

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BBC - About the BBC: The BBC - it's a bit like an apple

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Freesat launches new ad as free-to-air market hots up - Advertising news - Campaign

After the cost of installation, Freesat is totally free. It is unclear what form internet-connected TV joint venture YouView's marketing will take after its marketing director Tim Hunt departed last month. Adam Eve won the YouView account in November last year. - campaignlive.co.uk

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The Press Association: Thai floods hit set-top box maker

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Why the BBC needs to listen to its own local radio stations - Telegraph

The BBC has responded by commissioning three reviews of local radio. The capacity of BBC bosses to expensively not take a decision, and then expensively not stick to it, is staggering. Of course, BBC executives in London might not be too pleased to see some of their budgets funnelled out to the provinces. - telegraph.co.uk

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BBC needs to deliver clarity - Comment - Broadcast

For all the talk about transparency, one thing DQF hasnt given us is a clear sense of where our money is being spent or not being spent. Weve seen the headline cuts of 20 across the board, but we have no idea how that breaks down when it comes to spend across or within genre. As Broadcast reported last month, BBC4 is to be stripped of its history budget. - broadcastnow.co.uk

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Brands are fast becoming the new broadcasters - Comment - Broadcast

17 November, 2011 Television is losing the battle for peoples hearts and minds, says James Kirkham. 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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What Now For ITV? - 17/11/2011

I have for some time been a firm believer that Sky's pay-television model will produce copious profits in forthcoming years. It was a leviathan of the 80s and 90s, but now it is being squeezed on the one side by pay-TV and on the other by the internet. Well, the ups and downs that the business has gone through in recent years have given the naysayers plenty of ammunition. - fool.co.uk

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BBC accused over 2,000 managers - TV Radio - Media - The Independent

The corporation employs 191 staff whose job titles include the word adviser and 44 with the word strategy included. They show that as of October 7 this year there were 4,420 different job titles with 1,894 staff having the word manager in their job title. Among jobs currently advertised by the corporation are a choral manager for its choir, a client solutions executive, a commercial manager, a customer complaints manager and a research manager. - independent.co.uk

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BSkyB dismisses fears over saturation point - Business News - Yorkshire Post

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Red Bee research reveals discontent among viewers - News - Broadcast

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Switchover looms for Island’s TVs

TIME is ticking away toward digital TV switchover on the Island. Three months before analogue signals are switched off and digital broadcasting is powered up on new frequencies, Digital UK organised a tour of the new Rowridge transmitter, which is situated between Newport and Calbourne. It is the newest and most powerful television transmitter in the UK and has been re-built ahead of next years digital switchover, which is the biggest change in UK broadcasting for a generation. - iwcp.co.uk

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STV expects to miss profit targets - Media - guardian.co.uk

Taggart screened in Scotland on the STV network. STV said in the third quarter to the end of September national TV ad revenues were down by 4 year on year. Regional TV ad revenues sales made in the Scottish market fell by 18 year on year in the third quarter. - guardian.co.uk

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