Wednesday 02 November 2011, PM
Tuesday 01 November 2011, PM
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.ukwww.guardian.co.ukBBC - 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.ukwww.bbc.co.uk
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.comwww.broadbandtvnews.com
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.ukwww.broadcastnow.co.uk
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.ukwww.guardian.co.uk
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.ukwww.digitalspy.co.ukMonday 31 October 2011, PM
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.ukwww.guardian.co.uk
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.ukwww.broadcastnow.co.uk
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.ukwww.bbc.co.ukMonday 31 October 2011, AM
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.ukwww.bbc.co.ukBBC 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.ukwww.guardian.co.uk
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.comwww.bloomberg.comThe 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.ukwww.guardian.co.ukThe 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.ukwww.guardian.co.ukSaturday 29 October 2011, AM
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.comwww.androidguys.comBBC - 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.ukwww.bbc.co.ukFriday 28 October 2011, PM
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.comwww.reghardware.com
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.ukwww.bbc.co.ukReal 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.ukwww.broadcastnow.co.ukFriday 28 October 2011, AM
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.ukwww.independent.co.ukThursday 27 October 2011, PM
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.ukwww.theregister.co.uk
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.ukwww.broadcastnow.co.uk
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.comwww.techradar.com
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.ukwww.broadcastnow.co.ukThursday 27 October 2011, AM
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.ukradiotoday.co.uk
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.ukradiotoday.co.uk
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.ukwww.broadcastnow.co.ukWednesday 26 October 2011, PM
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.ukwww.bbc.co.ukWhy 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.ukwww.thisislondon.co.uk
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.ukradiotoday.co.ukTuesday 25 October 2011, PM
The World in 2011 ICT FaCTs and FIgures
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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.ukwww.bbc.co.ukBBC - 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.ukwww.bbc.co.ukTuesday 25 October 2011, AM
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.ukwww.bbc.co.ukMonday 24 October 2011, PM
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.ukwww.bbc.co.ukSunday 23 October 2011, PM
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.cominformitv.comSaturday 22 October 2011, PM
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.ukwww.bbc.co.ukFriday 21 October 2011, PM
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.comwww.broadbandtvnews.com
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.netwww.c21media.netAbsolute 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.netjames.cridland.netFriday 21 October 2011, AM
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.comtorrentfreak.comThursday 20 October 2011, PM
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.ukwww.guardian.co.ukDVB 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.ukwww.dtg.org.ukpick a page