BSkyB profits rise despite slowdown in subscriber growth - Media - guardian.co.uk

BSkyB has succeeded in cross-selling its services to existing customers. BSkyB, which was on the brink of being taken over by its largest shareholder, News Corporation, until the phone-hacking scandal at News of the World scuppered the deal, exceeded most analyst targets. The company said that operating profit of 327m, a 32 year-on-year increase, was boosted by a 39m payout by News Corporation for breaking off the sale and 7m in costs for advisory fees. - guardian.co.uk

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http://thedrum.co.uk/opinion/2011/10/18/bouquets-and-barb-wires

A casual read of the article might give the impression these figures are official stats, particularly since it draws comparison with channels such as Sky Living, Sky Sports News and Yesterday. These figures are for viewers in Scotland, and Although the figures are calculated differently. It marks an industry standard, a benchmark for which all legitimate television channels are measured. - thedrum.co.uk

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Freeview HD - Android Market

This brand new app is brimming with features the full Freeview TV listings, personalised recommendations, pre-set alerts, easy share functions and more. There's no better way to plan on the move and make the most of your Freeview viewing time. Top Picks Explore the top shows for the day - whether new series or returning favourites. - market.android.com

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Ariel - Route to switchover is clear – Davie

18 October 2011 Last updated at 1521 After a long, bumpy journey, the 'roadmap' to digital radio switchover is clearer than ever, believes Tim Davie. 'Suddenly the game is changing and the route to a switchover is now clearer than it has ever been,' he said. There was a new UK industry consensus that a 'DAB broadcast backbone' was needed as part of a mixed digital radio future. - bbc.co.uk

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BBC - Research and Development: Dual Screen Experiences: the Secret Fortune Pilot and the Sync API

In that earlier blog post, I mention that technologies exist that are already being used to synchronise media on mobile devices to television programmes, such as audio fingerprinting and watermarking, video fingerprinting and watermarking and delivering synchronisation information via the Internet. Our most significant contribution to the work has been an API to permit the developers of dual-screen applications to ignore the details of specific synchronisation technologies. It provides a standard interface, behind which any number of information sources may be working individually or together to provide the application with information about what programme the user is watching if any, and what events are occurring in it that might trigger synchronised behaviour. - bbc.co.uk

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BBC News - New chief executive for S4C is confirmed as Ian Jones

S4C hopes to have him in post by 22 April 2012 at the latest but is hoping for an earlier start date. Mr Jones' present employer runs the History Channel and a number of other digital channels. 'Impressive career' He started his career at S4C in 1981 before moving on to London Weekend Television. - bbc.co.uk

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Absolute to launch 60s and 70s stations - News - Broadcast

18 October, 2011 By Alex Farber Absolute Radio is extending its digital radio portfolio with the launch of two stations dedicated to the 60s and 70s. 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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One in five cars now have DAB as standard : Radio Today

Almost a fifth of new vehicles now have a DAB radio as standard, compared with just one in twenty a year ago. Senior executives from across the industry also heard about the BBCs plans to extend coverage of DAB to 97 of the population, with a focus in improving reception of their national multiplex on motorways and major roads. Were told the third quarter of 2011 JulySept has seen a record high of new vehicle registrations with digital radio as standard. - radiotoday.co.uk

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ITV acquires Channel Television - 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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Timeshift TV accounts for 10% of UK viewing - Media - guardian.co.uk

BBC1's Hidden drama is the genre most likely to be watched using timeshifted viewing. New figures from Barb, the broadcasting industry's audience measurement body, also show that the most enthusiastic group of viewers using time personal video recorders such as Sky and other devices to record shows and watch them later are ABC1s and 16- to 34-year-olds, for whom 16 of viewing is timeshifted. The 10 timeshift viewing figure is for the week ending 25 September, according to Barb. - guardian.co.uk

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Science and history to remain on BBC4 - News - Broadcast

The link you clicked, or the URL you typed into your browser, didnt work for some reason. Here are some possible reasons why We have a bad link out there to a page that has been moved or removed You may have typed the page address incorrectly We have a problem with the server. - broadcastnow.co.uk

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BBC - BBC Internet Blog: What's On BBC Red Button 15th - 23rd October

Also on Red Button, we have a special seasonal selection of photos. 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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BT vs Sky: A New Brand Image for Vision -

One of the things BT has done to make its Vision service more marketable is create a new logo and colour scheme that will aim to forge the service a distinct identity, separate from associations between BT and outdated terrestrial television services. The new logo features an ambiguous triangular shape that falls somewhere between the V in Vision and the play button on a TV remote control. BT hopes that this new logo will add personality to its Vision service. - press-release-service.co.uk

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BBC - Radio 4 and 4 Extra Blog: Radio 4's longwave transmitter and cuts to BBC radio

The Chancellor makes his statement in the Commons, the Government's PR machine goes into overtime spreading the good news, and then gradually, as detailed scrutiny begins, rather less positive headlines emerge. To begin with it seemed as if Radio 4 had got off unscathed since it was to suffer no reduction in its 'content spend', whereas Radio 5 live for example, was being cut by 7.5 per cent. The Corporation accepts that the overall number of BBC producers will drop, but says the assistant producer total will go up, resulting in an overall net reduction in staff in the Radio production department of five per cent. - bbc.co.uk

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UTV News - Date set for NI digital switchover

Analogue television will close on 24 October 2012 and be replaced by a stronger Freeview signal that will reach an extra 500,000 viewers in the region. The region will be one of the biggest winners from the switchover process, with free-to-air digital TV and radio coverage boosted from 66 to 98 of households. On 10 October 2012, two weeks before switchover completes, analogue BBC Two will be turned off as a final reminder to viewers who have yet to switch. - u.tv

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Are you ready for the analogue switch-off in 2012? - Television radio - guardian.co.uk

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Clover’s Week: MHEG lives - Broadband TV News

The majority of the two million or so Freeview HD boxes in the market are compliant to the D Book 6.2.1. However, some do not support MHEG streaming as they were finished before the standards were completed. These services are essential for growth, and one would assume that sooner or later catch-up services from ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5 will appear. - broadbandtvnews.com

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20% of drama viewing now time-shifted - News - Broadcast

14 October, 2011 By Chris Curtis A fifth of all drama viewing is now taking place on a time-shifted basis, Barb has revealed. 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 local radio executive challenges Mark Thompson over cuts - Media - guardian.co.uk

Causey said her station, which has an annual budget of 1.6m, is facing cuts of 14 as part of the director general's Delivering Quality First initiative DQF. Causey's email, sent to Thompson, echoed concerns being privately expressed by several BBC executives that Radio 4 was being safeguarded at the expense of the corporation's local radio output. BBC insiders said it was dominated by concerns about the impact of the cuts on local radio. - guardian.co.uk

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BBC - About the BBC: The new BBC Archive Centre at Perivale

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C21Media:

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

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BSkyB axes Sky Magazine - Media news - Media Week

BSkyB has axed the print version of Sky Magazine, the largest UK magazine by circulation, after deciding not to go ahead with a quarterly version of the title. As part of the changes Sky has launched a weekly email, called My Sky Week, which informes customers about programme highlights and provides links to content previously found in the print magazine. Sky has also created a new TV guide on Sky.com and a customer service mobile app. - mediaweek.co.uk

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Ariel - Global iPlayer App goes Nordic

13 October 2011 Last updated at 1313 People living in parts of the Nordic can now catch up with the best of BBC output wherever and whenever they want. For 6.99 Euros a month, or 64.99 Euros a year, subscribers can stream or download selected English language programmes from the BBC's 70 year archive. Recent episodes of EastEnders, Top Gear and Doctor Who will also be available on demand. - bbc.co.uk

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Radio cuts a disaster for 'localism' and community work - UK news - guardian.co.uk

The Government's new 'community organiser' scheme has just announced its first 47 recruits in a 15 million programme yet at the same time, the biggest community organisation in the country is facing walloping cuts. Good luck to the pioneers organised by Locality, the latest in a line of arms length attempts to galvanise social action, but they will be hard put to it to match BBC local radio. It is ironic that promotion of the community organisers kicks off by saying that they are starting work 'from Cockermouth in Cumbria to Penzance in Cornwall.' Cockermouth in recent years has seen some of local radio's finest hours. - guardian.co.uk

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Dyke takes aim at Hunt's local TV plans - 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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88% of marketers don't have IPTV strategy - News - Marketing Week

Marketers face missing out on the advertising opportunities that internet connected TV IPTV offers by not developing a strategy to exploit the technology, according to a report. The launch of set top boxes such as YouView and Virgin Medias TiVo are also set to fuel the consumer demand for connected television services. The majority of marketers 85 are interested in the advertising opportunities afforded by the platform, but one fifth 22 of those surveyed say they have no plans to implement a strategy at all, the report claims. - marketingweek.co.uk

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Liverpool vs 'big four' in battle for TV fortune - Premier League, Football - The Independent

He is a commodities trader who has mastered the intricacies of the futures market to build a vast personal fortune, so it would not be wise to bet against the intentions of Liverpool's principal owner John W Henry. Liverpool who need 14 of the league's 20 clubs to back them if the case is put to a vote stand to be overwhelmed by the same 19-1 majority that Peter Kenyon encountered when he made the same case, when Chelsea chief executive eight years ago. Ayre has possibly not pursued the case simply to establish an individual club's rights to sell rights, but rather to lay down a marker down about making some of the international TV earnings performance related, as 25 per cent of the 1.6bn domestic TV earnings are. - independent.co.uk

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BBC to slash local news programmes to save Panorama - TV Radio, Media - The Independent

The BBC's current affairs show Inside Out has been made the victim of brutal cuts to the organisation's regional newsrooms, while the flagship show Panorama is allocated an increase in budget. The popular show will be hardest hit as local newsrooms lose 40 per cent of their budget. The programme has achieved an exceptionally high viewer appreciation index of 83 per cent and average audiences of 3.3 m are often greater than those for Panorama. - independent.co.uk

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BBC - About the BBC: Retransmission fees - to pay or not to pay?

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Sky could soften cuts to BBC 'by waiving transmission fees' - Media - guardian.co.uk

Commercial broadcasters are interested in charging Sky for the right to show their channels. Ironically, in the United States, News Corp, the 39 owner of Sky, has successfully persuaded local pay television operators to fork out retransmission fees for its Fox free-to-air network. Historically, the four network broadcasters received no money from cable and satellite operators for their channels, but the situation has changed in recent years. - guardian.co.uk

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Ariel - Executives questioned on DQF

Audiences will 'switch off' Helen Shawcross of Inside Out, Bristol was one caller who challenged plans to cut 40 from the strand's budget, claiming audiences would simple 'switch off' if there were fewer, and critically, less local programmes. 'Its sends a clear message that the BBC doesn't care about working class audiences,' she said. Thompson said that, having been exempted from Creative Future cuts, local radio was taking a much lower hit than, for instance tv, this time round 'Within that we're protecting the parts of the day when 86 of listening takes place,' he said. - bbc.co.uk

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BBC - About the BBC: BBC Genome update: Search, discovery access

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BBC local teams attack corporation's cost-cutting - Media - guardian.co.uk

The BBC is to axe almost 2,000 jobs as it looks to save 670m a year in cost-cutting plans announced last week. The BBC is axing almost 2,000 jobs as it looks to save 670m a year. Your weather presenters will be cut from three to just one. - guardian.co.uk

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YouView rethinks its marketing structure - Marketing news - Marketing magazine

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BBC iPlayer - The Media Show: BBC savings strategy

No BBC channels will be scrapped but there are concerns that the savings could overstretch resources and erode the quality of BBC programmes. Steve Hewlett hears about the decisions from the BBC's director of policy and strategy, John Tate. The BBC's proposals include big cuts to local radio and reductions in budgets for network radio although Radio 4 will be protected more than others. - bbc.co.uk

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DQF: Martin Kelner on local radio s future : Radio Today

Radio presenter and writer Martin Kelner says BBC local radio should be radically overhauled to make it more local. That is how the BBC sees it anyway, responding to swingeing cuts or the economic facts of life, as they might be called in the commercial sector. The cuts outlined last week are due to be implemented in 2013 after the customary attenuated round of public consultation, letters to the Daily Telegraph, marches on Broadcasting House, and so on. - radiotoday.co.uk

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BBC - Research and Development: BBC R

The BBC has about a million hours of video and audio content, plus a wealth of documents, including the original scripts. Most of this content is still on magnetic tape, film, records or paper and so needs to be digitised and made searchable before it can be contributed to the Digital Public Space which was the subject of a recent technology podcast from the Guardian. Research is continuing to extend the digitisation process to other types of video tape and to develop automated methods to detect picture and sound faults to ensure good quality digitisation and to assist restoration. - bbc.co.uk

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BBC - Research and Development: The Carbon Footprint of Watching Television

In this video, my colleague Richard Salmon and I discuss some of the results of the investigation, how energy consumption of televisions sets is changing and what choices viewers have. In order to see this content you need to have both Javascript enabled and Flash Installed. If you're reading via RSS, you'll need to visit the blog to access this content. - bbc.co.uk

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BSkyB investor urges Murdoch to go - FT.com

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4G spectrum auction: time for the networks to grow up - Technology - guardian.co.uk

Photograph Popperfoto/Getty Images The horse trading has escalated and the name-calling has begun. On Friday the proposed rules were torn up and the auction date was postponed for a further six months to the end of 2012, although even this is not set in stone. As the networks jostle for advantage, Ofcom is tying itself in knots trying to find a solution that will not lead to legal action by one or other of the participants. - guardian.co.uk

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Ten... Freeview HD recorders • reghardware

One of the best ways to upgrade is with a new recorder equipped with DVB-T2 tuners. If all goes to plan, Freeview recorders will continue to evolve with the launch of YouView, which aims to set a common standard for connected TV. The most dependable get the basics right like tackling the problematic surround sound used on some HD broadcasts. - reghardware.com

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BBC - BBC Internet Blog: What's On BBC Red Button 10th - 17th October

As long as they have done something truly out of the ordinary or selfless, are aged between 12 - 17 years and live in the UK they could be nominated. All of the entries were reviewed by our team at Radio 1 and a shortlist has been created. The winners will be announced and presented with their awards on Sunday 9th October at the Teen Awards. - bbc.co.uk

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Check your box or TV for On Demand - freesat

Freesat product range Browse through our product range of freesat set top boxes and HD TVs, find your local independent retailer or buy online. If you need a dish, installations can be arranged at any point of purchase. - freesat.co.uk

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C4 News studio begins revamp - News - Broadcast

10 October, 2011 By Balihar Khalsa Channel 4 News has moved to a virtual studio temporarily as its regular studio is refurbished as the long-running overhaul comes to an end. 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 - Steve Hewlett wins Nick Clarke honour

10 October 2011 Last updated at 1314 Steve Hewlett's expertise and style have earned him The Nick Clarke award for the year's best broadcast interview. The Nick Clarke award was launched in 2008 in memory of former World at One presenter Clarke, who died in 2006. - bbc.co.uk

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4G auction faces further delay as Ofcom postpones date of sale - Media - The Guardian

Culture secretary Jeremy Hunt has called the four UK network bosses to a meeting on 21 November, where he will attempt to thrash out a consensus. Photograph Christopher Thomond/Guardian Regulators have again postponed the date of the multibillion pound 4G mobile phone spectrum auction, with the sell-off now due at the end of 2012, in a move which could delay the creation of the high-quality mobile internet services needed to keep up with the explosion in smartphone use. The UK was originally meant to hold the auction for part of the spectrum in 2009. - guardian.co.uk

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It's the end of the road for BBC cuts - until next time - Media - The Observer

Take out 20 of BBC costs, lose 2,000 jobs before 2017, and there won't be any more fat or much sinew left to cut. Another 1.6 never mind 16 off the top and the corporation will be shrinking pitifully before our eyes, ditching channels and not worth the money we're being asked to pay. It is long on repeats and gives short shrift to off-peak and off-form programming late night, through the wastes of the BBC2 afternoon, local radio stations outside drive time. - guardian.co.uk

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BBC - Radio 4 and 4 Extra Blog: Feedback: Lord Patten on DQF and the cuts

After over half a century's service it is to be sold, along with the BBC's other buildings there a few hundred yards up Wood Lane. Those cuts will be implemented immediately, but the proposals for cuts in programme content will be the subject of public consultation. In addition to the proposed cuts to Radio 3 an inquiry is taking place into the BBC orchestras, which must fear that at least one of them will be chopped. - bbc.co.uk

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Stephen Glover: The BBC is wrong to cut back local radio - Stephen Glover, Opinion - The Independen

Incompetent councillors and dodgy businessmen must have drawn comfort from last week's announcement by Mark Thompson, director general of the BBC, about cutbacks to local radio and television. Although most local stations are run on a shoestring, the axe is falling harder on them than on better funded parts of the Corporation. During the afternoon the output of your local station will amalgamate with that of one or more of its neighbours. - independent.co.uk

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US public broadcaster bids for slice of BBC s market - TV Radio, Media - The Independent

Supported by Federal government funding and private donations, the not-for-profit PBS network is watched by more than 124 million US viewers. Inspired by the BBC, PBS was created in 1970 to ensure diversity in an environment dominated by commercial television networks. The channel is hoping to capitalise on budget cuts, announced last week that will mean less current affairs on BBC2 and reduced funding for BBC4. - independent.co.uk

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