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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Youview marketing/PR team made redundant - 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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You re fired! Sir Alan utters dreaded catchphrase to YouView staff - Business Analysis Features,

YouView, the project to bring internet-connected TV to the living room which is chaired by Lord Sugar, has removed its entire internal public relations and marketing team, but said its target to launch next spring would not be affected. It has emerged that Sir Alan has uttered his dreaded Apprentice catchphrase to YouView's marketing, communications and research team, who leave at the end of the month. According to sources, the first version of YouView will launch in the middle of next year. - independent.co.uk

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Demand up for TiVo and superfast broadband - Business

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China Central TV comes to Freeview • The Register

China Central Television is coming to Freeview HD, but not as a broadcast television channel. It will have its own channel number, but it won't be broadcast in the UK or subject to UK broadcast rules. Sports Tonight, currently available on channel 112, gets a number to itself. - theregister.co.uk

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Digital radio tops 300m hours; analogue slides - 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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Freeview HD moves past 3 million landmark - News - TechRadar UK

Freeview has announced that sales of Freeview HD devices has surpassed the 3 million mark, with integrated televisions accounting for 90 per cent of that total. Freeview has proven to be a massive success in the UK, with 18 million homes in possession of Freeview devices. With many mainstream televisions boasting Freeview tuners, it is difficult to be specific about how many people are actually using the service as their primary viewing experience, with many using paid services such as Sky or Virgin Media. - techradar.com

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BBC4 to lose history and science programming - 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 LOCALS: Audience up 288k in a year : Radio Today

BBC Local radio currently facing major cuts to programmes and staffing levels under DQF has posted an increase of more than a quarter of a million listeners over the last quarter. According to the Q3/2011 RAJAR results, the network of 40 stations now has 7.25m listeners a week 17.3 reach, compared with 6.962m 16.7 twelve months ago. Quarter on quarter, the rise was slight up by 26,000 from 7.224m to 7.25m. - radiotoday.co.uk

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BBC: Best network radio hours in 3 years : Radio Today

In addition, Radio 1 has its biggest reach since the research methodology changing in 1999 and Radio 2 hit 14 million listeners again as Chris Evans added nearly half a million listeners to his breakfast show over the last year. Digital station 5 live Sports Extra hit a record audience high of 1.15m helped by cricket coverage on Test Match Special over the summer. The 5 live spin-off service increased its reach by 77.5 from 12 months ago. - radiotoday.co.uk

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BBC extends Wimbledon contract to 2017 - 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 - Democracy Live - BBC local radio debate

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Ariel - MPs anxious over local radio cuts

The move comes after up to 50 MPs gathered in London's Westminster Hall today to champion their own local stations. The debate was also attended by Culture minister Ed Vaizey pictured. She also wanted MPs to write to Trust chairman Lord Patten with their views. - bbc.co.uk

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Why I believe it s all over for James Murdoch - Markets Analysis

It's now a case of heir today and gone tomorrow. Around 35 of the shareholders - and a much more telling 55 of the independent shareholders - voted against his remaining a director of News Corp. Indeed, leaving aside abstentions, the anti-James figure among independents rises close to 80. - thisislondon.co.uk

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BBC Local cuts debate goes to Parliament : Radio Today

It follows plans under the corporations DQF programme to introduce regional programmes during off-peak hours on the 40 services around England. Local Radio is being asked to make savings of 12. Thats actually lower than the average savings across the rest of the BBC. - radiotoday.co.uk

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The World in 2011 ICT FaCTs and FIgures

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BBC - About the BBC: Proposed Changes to Local Radio

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Ariel - S4C and Trust finally strike a deal

Chaired by Huw Jones, that authority will continue to oversee the service and its existing statutory remit to provide high quality programmes in Welsh, a joint statement confirms today. The key assurance on accountability between the Trust and the broadcaster will be a new operating agreement, setting out the scope of S4C's licence fee-funded output. The agreement on governance comes after protracted negotiations and tough political debate. - bbc.co.uk

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BBC - Roger Mosey: How to find the BBC's Olympic content

I often get asked - most recently at a meeting with students last week - what we think the toughest challenges are for the London Olympics and the BBC. If you want to watch table tennis live all day, you'll be able to. Darius Knight is expected to be one of Britain's table tennis stars at London 2012. - bbc.co.uk

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BBC - The BBC Radio Blog: Digital radio: Signs of a tipping point?

With the completion of a full switchover to digital television now imminent, focus is likely to increase on radio and its progress in the digital world. The story of digital radio in the UK is one of slow, steady progress, and lively debate, rather then breakthrough. We have reached a point where over a quarter of all listening is via digital but there is a lot to do before the majority of listening moves off analogue, and a switchover would be accepted, and welcomed, by listeners. - bbc.co.uk

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Ariel - Trust unveils S4C funding levels

It plans to contribute 75.25m from the licence fee for the financial year 2015/16 and 74.5m in 2016/17. Previously, it stated that it would contribute 76.3m for the financial year 2013/14, when it takes over the majority of funding for the channel, and 76m in 2014/15. Public support 'It has become clear to me that there remains one significant stumbling block to wider public support, which is certainty on the long term funding arrangements for S4C beyond 2014/15,' he writes. - bbc.co.uk

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informitv - Google TV reboot expected imminently

It was supposed to be available in the United States before the end of the summer. Developers were told in May that existing devices would be updated to the version of Android known as Honeycomb, which has already been overtaken by a new release. Google has now released Android 4.0, known as Ice Cream Sandwich, which aims to unify the application environment across mobiles, tablets and presumably televisions. - informitv.com

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BBC - BBC Internet Blog: What's On BBC Red Button 22nd - 30th October

Press the Red Button to hear exclusive commentary from ex Strictly Champion Karen Hardy and a special celebrity guest. Fearne Cotton will be taking her show to a different student union every morning, broadcasting live from 10am to 1pm, including music and special guests from the Live Lounge. Press red from 9pm on Thursday 27th October to watch them perform live from Manchester Cathedral. - bbc.co.uk

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Local TV calls for Muxco rethink - Broadband TV News

Over 40 companies looking to launch local TV services in the UK have written to culture secretary Jeremy Hunt asking him to reconsider plans to force them to use a single multiplex operator. The operator of Muxco is yet to be determined, though as the UKs principal transmission provider, Arqiva would be the obvious choice. Muxco would own the equipment and retain the revenues from selling any spare capacity on a local multiplex beyond a single local TV service. - broadbandtvnews.com

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Retransmission rows escalate in US, UK

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

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Absolute Radio s new radioplayer a quick review - James Cridland

Absolute Radio have tweaked their radioplayer as of this morning, adding a new feature they call RadioSync, which, they say, is all about enhancing the visual aspect of radio. Punch up Absolute Radios player from Absolute Radios website or from the Radioplayer and you now get some quite impressive visuals, properly synched to the audio. But, there are forward and back buttons within the player too allowing you to discover more about the stuff thats just happened and the song thats coming up next, say the station. - james.cridland.net

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BitTorrent Throttling Internet Providers Exposed

It reveals that Comcast was slowing down nearly half of all BitTorrent traffic in the U.S. early 2008, but only 3 last year. In Canada, Rogers has the worst track record as it systematically throttles more than three-quarters of all BitTorrent traffic. Hundreds of ISPs all over the world limit and restrict BitTorrent traffic on their networks. - torrentfreak.com

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Jeremy Hunt's local TV plan smacks of top-down thinking - Media - guardian.co.uk

Jeremy Hunt, secretary of state for culture, media and sport. They are asking for a rethink of a critical element of Hunt's local TV plan, the method of organising the transmission, via licences for small pockets of digital terrestrial spectrum. Under the plans now advanced by Ofcom, the public subsidy of 25m, to be taken from the BBC licence fee, will be handed over to a single supplier, Muxco, without the new operators getting their hands on it. - guardian.co.uk

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DVB approves second 3DTV delivery system

Termed Service Compatible, the second system enables the 2D and 3D versions of a programme to be broadcast within the same video signal. Since 2009, the DVB leads the world in working on 3DTV delivery formats. DTG Staff 20.10.2011 Links open in a new window. - dtg.org.uk

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EXCLUSIVE: Real Digital planning integrated TVs and more PVRs - What Satellite Digital TV

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EXCLUSIVE: Real Digital to offer premium HD TV and ITV Player by Christmas - What Satellite Digital TV

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Pace slowed by Thailand floods Express Star

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BSkyB and BBC clash on fees - 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 - Print edition of Ariel to close

Four posts will be lost from the existing bi-media Ariel team along with comms jobs across the division, as it seeks to make 25 savings. 'And how will certain tabloids fill their diary columns now 'It is true that the current Ariel online site has no comment facility on stories, but that is something we are working to address. - bbc.co.uk

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Channel 4 and ITV join fight to end Sky carriage fees - What Satellite Digital TV

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Why should Sky give the BBC a free ride? - Media - guardian.co.uk

Sky is just another platform for distribution of BBC content such as The One Show. Photograph Des Willie/BBC What do the following have in common Yes, that's right they are all annual costs that the BBC has incurred and published on its website. - guardian.co.uk

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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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