World Service will not wither - Comment - Broadcast

22 September, 2011 Change will strengthen the BBCs global lifeline, says Lord Patten. 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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YouView still on for 2012 launch, snaps up Sky Go exec - News - TechRadar UK

YouView has revealed that it is still on track for its delayed 2012 launch and that it has finally found a successor to Anthony Rose. Right expertise YouView highlighted in the blog that bringing in Bramley who worked on Sky Go and the rest of Sky's on-demand services will ensure the venture is technically astute. Sky has been cautious of YouView in the past, believing the service will be a niche one, so it is interesting the venture has managed to snap up one of the company's leading tech heads. - techradar.com

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How Quickly We Forget: Google's Competitors Falsely Claim Google Dominates Because It Was 'First' - Techdirt

from the history-lesson dept Well, the second part of the Senate's anti-Google hearings have wrapped up, and like the first part, they seemed pretty misguided. It was a lot of repeating things about how Google is big. There were some reasonable points that do bear more scrutiny, concerning some of Google's business dealings with partners, but, on the whole, people seemed to be making a big deal out of nothing. - techdirt.com

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DAB not for local stations say operators : Radio Today

A number of commercial radio groups who own small-scale local radio licences have told Ofcom they do not want to be forced to move from FM to DAB. The companies who represent more than 50 local stations between them have responded to the regulators consultation on coverage planning for DAB. Things are tough enough as it is without the Government heaping more costs, uncertainty and damage on the local commercial radio sector. - radiotoday.co.uk

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NHK World goes HD-only - What Satellite Digital TV

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Ariel - S4C bosses urged to wake up to dangers of BBC funding

The protestors are members of the Welsh Language Society which has been vociferous in its opposition to the change in funding arrangements, due to be implemented in 2013. The decision to hand over part of the funding to the corporation was made last autumn during the six year licence fee settlement that was suddenly agreed by the Government as part of its Comprehensive Spending Review. Yesterday's protest follows a range of activity by Welsh language campaigners, including, earlier this year, a sit-in that blocked the entrance to BBC Wales's headquarters in Cardiff. - bbc.co.uk

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West Dunbartonshire MP takes TV fight further - Lennox Herald

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YouView Picks Sky s Architect As CTO Ahead Of February Launch

The system is now in testing and we understand YouView is shooting to launch around Valentines Day a date delayed from summer 2011. - paidcontent.co.uk

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Axe hangs over ‘soft’ current affairs at BBC - News - Broadcast

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New book lays down law for radio presenters : Radio Today

A new book aimed at radio presenters has been published to help them not get into trouble with the law. Smooth Radio breakfast presenter Simon Bates has written the foreword for the guide and says Even if youve been in the business for years, you still need to be reminded of the horrors that could await you and of the quicksand that could open and swallow you after an unguarded word or five. - radiotoday.co.uk

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Government set to drop kids TV reform - News - Broadcast

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Television: what does the next decade hold? - Telegraph

Targeted advertising will be a huge part of TVs getting smarter. We are working on it now so that people will be served adverts based on their needs and interests and no two people will be served the same selection of adverts. That will be a huge advantage to people and brands as TVs get savvier to consumers needs. - telegraph.co.uk

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On The Hour s 20th marked on Radio 4 Extra : Radio Today

On The Hour featured the first ever appearance of Steve Coogans character Alan Partridge, who was the sports news presenter on the spoof show. Tags bbc, eddie mair, on the hour, radio 4 extra Category Digital Radio, Radio - radiotoday.co.uk

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Patten pledges to protect World Service - News - Broadcast

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Video: View from Emley Moor as Ian McMillan talks up D (for digital) Day - Local stories - Yorkshire Post

THE enormous concrete and steel structure that is the Emley Moor transmitter may look the same but its all change for the Yorkshire landmark. The mast, at 1,084ft 330m the tallest free-standing structure in the UK, is waving goodbye to old analogue technology that has been beaming out TV and radio signals for decades. Bard of Barnsley Ian McMillan, official switchover poet for Yorkshire, went up the mast yesterday to mark the occasion. - yorkshirepost.co.uk

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Comic Relief co-creator urges BBC to split news and entertainment - Media - guardian.co.uk

Peter Bennett-Jones railed against the BBC managements 'twisted tyranny of data'. 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 at and Facebook. - guardian.co.uk

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Ariel - Listeners praise BBC radio programming for the nations

The review also finds that people think the stations offer good value for money. Action plans However, the Trust believes there is still room for improvement in terms of efficiency and performance and has set out various action plans. The Trust began its review of the radio stations in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland in October 2010 and included a 12 week consultation with licence fee payers. - bbc.co.uk

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DTG :: News :: Denmark to trial digital radio with DVB-T2

When our 1.7 MHz trials start, we will use parameters from the common subset of the T2 Base and T2 Lite profiles. Digital handheld devices using DVB-T2 have even been discussed, added Kenneth Wenzel. DTG Staff 19.09.2011 Links open in a new window. - dtg.org.uk

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ITV Player goes Downton - News - Broadcast

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BBC - BBC Internet Blog: What's On BBC Red Button 19th - 25th September

The BBC Two series will focus on a different aspect of British life, highlighting the hardships and simple pleasures, as well as the enormous social changes that took place from the 1900s onwards. Press the Red Button to get more from Reel History. This film takes us back to the 1930s - a time of slum housing and great hardship for many of Britain's working classes. - bbc.co.uk

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Patten's beloved BBC could get caught in the cross-media ownership crossfire - Media - The Guardian

He may be right too, but anyone who casts their mind back three years will know that it only takes two middle-aged comedians and a weak producer in thrall to their fame to change all that. In truth, the BBC hasn't had it this good for years. Which is not, of course, how the staff will see it as they wait for the cost-cutting results of Delivering Quality First. - guardian.co.uk

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Ariel - Halfway to digital switchover

19 September 2011 Last updated at 1255 The vast project to switch every TV viewer in the UK to digital services reaches a milestone this week as it hits the halfway mark. On September 21 the 10 million people of Yorkshire and the West Midlands will be switched making half the country digital only. On schedule Announced more than a decade ago digital switchover has required a vast amount of work, from engineering to advice lines. - bbc.co.uk

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Media Monkey's Diary - Media - The Guardian

The former Newsnight editor's handset was finally tracked down but not before he had cancelled the account lest all those voicemails about DQF what else are they going to be about Right at the end of the final session, the Cambridge audience was asked whether a new Communications Act is necessary, and a show of hands revealed that not one person in Britain's broadcasting elite believes one is. She could hardly do otherwise, as the paper promoted the movie and the novel's tie-in edition by running almost 4,000 words of two hefty appetiser pieces by its columnist Allison Pearson, the book's author, the second just three pages away from Crompton's puff on Friday. - guardian.co.uk

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Michael Crick: Cuts are hurting Newsnight. The BBC lacks can-do spirit - TV Radio, Media - The

Earlier this year, Crick's then employers at the BBC joined those who preferred to keep their distance from him. Under pressure to quit his role as Newsnight's political editor, Crick jumped ship to the rival Channel 4 News, and is just starting his new job. He spent 21 years at the BBC but clearly he is not sorry to go. - independent.co.uk

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BBC scores highest audience appreciation figures ever - Media - guardian.co.uk

The royal wedding in April helped BBC One score its highest audence appreciation index figure. Figures released on Monday by the BBC show that, for the April to June quarter, audiences gave three of the corporation's four television channels their highest appreciation figures since new methodology was introduced five years ago. The BBC collects appreciation index AI figures from an online panel of 19,000 adults, who are asked to score programmes they have watched or listened to out of 10. - guardian.co.uk

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Chris Patten: 'The BBC is a moral force' - Media - The Observer

For licence fee-payers, the people whose interests he would be safeguarding for the next four years, watching this encounter was not a particularly pleasing sight. To me, his appointment began to seem like yet another instance of jobs for the boys. It was as if he had been appointed to run Asda without ever having visited a supermarket. - guardian.co.uk

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Sorrell: TV industry as “vulnerable” as newspapers - News - Broadcast

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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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Ariel - Dont jump the gun on Four, says Patten

A petition to save BBC Four has gathered more than 66,000 signatures. He hoped that at least half of the savings could be achieved through greater efficiency and productivity. 'We've been asked to respond to Leveson inquiry into phone hacking and media ethics and I know that Ofcom will be looking at plurality and the size of the BBC. - bbc.co.uk

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Warning over World Service - News - Broadcast

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Beyond the couch: TV goes social, goes everywhere

Your TV operator's app thinks you might enjoy The Big Lebowski. Once there you flop on the sofa and switch on the TV, where the film is waiting for you to pick up where you left off. According to the industry experts attending IBC, the annual broadcasting industry gathering in Amsterdam, this could be the future of television. - bbc.co.uk

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Patten: BBC entertainment will suffer cuts - News - Broadcast

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ITV s Mobile Rugby Strategy Falls Over On Opening Day

Apple can be notoriously difficult at app approval stage though no publisher likes to be seen saying as much for the record, ITV hasnt suggested anything of the sort. An alternative for mobile users was to try ITVs live stream through its mobile website but geo-fencing problems scuppered this. The system could not correctly allow viewing by UK users and many were left reading Access Denied. - paidcontent.co.uk

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ITV boss lambasts advertisers for failing to connect with audiences - Media - guardian.co.uk

Fru Hazlitt 'It is appalling the advertising industry has not moved on with what they do with the 30-second spot.' ITV's managing director of commercial and online has lambasted advertisers for not being more creative with the 30-second ad spot. ITV's Argos promotion, which offered the opportunity to win 10,000 of vouchers attracted 40,000 entries in the following 24-hour period, Hazlitt said. For all other inquiries please call the main Guardian switchboard on 020 3353 2000. - guardian.co.uk

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Ariel - BBC Agreement amendments

The agreement also sets out the new arrangements for the National Audit Office to examine BBC spending. The wording of the agreement makes no specific reference to those concerns and no such information has been revealed in previous NAO reports on the BBC. In addition it will now enable the NAO to decide which areas to look at, but in an arrangement where it will continue to submit reports to the Trust. - bbc.co.uk

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RTS CAMBRIDGE: YouView boxes are in testing, says chief - Media news - Media Week

The set-top boxes had been initially been scheduled to come on the market in July 2011 but the consortium has been hit by delays. When the panel moved on to the hot topic of data, Halton said broadcasters need to have access to the data around their programming and the successful platforms will be those which give content producers more data. ' else if google_ads.length gt 1 / For text ads, append each ad to the string. - mediaweek.co.uk

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RTL boss casts doubt on IPTV - News - Marketing Week

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Jeremy Hunt: we may need to look at BBC share of news provision - Media - guardian.co.uk

The minister also chose his words carefully when asked if he would approve a News Corp/Sky merger in the light of the phone-hacking disclosures. To contact the MediaGuardian news desk email editormediaguardian.co.uk or phone 020 3353 3857. For all other inquiries please call the main Guardian switchboard on 020 3353 2000. - guardian.co.uk

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ITV1 and C5 cut regional spend - News - Broadcast

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News Corp. May Be Assessed Along With BBC in U.K. Media Competition Study - Bloomberg

Ofcom regulators will examine options for measuring media plurality and will look at whether or not it is practical or advisable to set absolute limits on news market share whether they believe a framework for measuring levels of plurality could or should include websites and if so which ones and whether or how it should include the BBC, Hunt said. The BBC, the worlds oldest public-service broadcaster, offers news and entertainment via its website and runs TV and radio services. In October, the government said that the fee would be frozen for six years. - bloomberg.com

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West Dunbartonshire MP raises digital TV problems in parliament - Lennox Herald

Gemma Doyle MP has taken the battle to parliament to ensure viewers connecting to the Millburn Muir transmitter dont lose out on services. Since switching to a digital reception in May, those with Freeview TVs in this area have only been getting a handful of channels. Ms Doyle said Following the digital switchover, my constituents who receive their television signal from the Millburn Muir transmitter get an inferior TV service. - lennoxherald.co.uk

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SeeSaw Crunch Time: Execs Leave Amid Restructure As Channel 5 Disappears

Some of 15 remaining staff are in discussion with new owner Criterion, which wants to restructure and refocus the company. The company has moved out of Arqiva in to a new office. SeeSaw now has only old archive shows from BBC Worldwide and some independent producers. - paidcontent.co.uk

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Politicians could be barred from ruling on media mergers, says Jeremy Hunt - Media - The Guardian

Jeremy Hunt suggested measures on media mergers and plurality investigations could be included in a new communications bill. This ensures justice is seen to be done as well as actually being done. He said newspapers would not fall under the jurisdiction of broadcasting regulator Ofcom even as they produce more video content on their websites, a move that will be welcomed by the press. - guardian.co.uk

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Jeremy Hunt's RTS Cambridge speech - full text - Media - guardian.co.uk

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REAL Digital launch delayed until October - What Satellite Digital TV

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BBC4 may be saved from budget cuts - Media - guardian.co.uk

As of Wednesday, 67,343 people have signed an online petition in protest, compared with the 62,784 or so who signed the successful save 6Music from closure petition last year. BBC management has completed a lengthy staff consultation process and there has been intense speculation about how the corporation is going to make a 16 cut in operating costs as a result of last year's licence fee settlement with the government. It is understood that the trust has still not given assurances that BBC4 and BBC3 should not be closed. - guardian.co.uk

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BBC - Radio 4 and 4 Extra Blog: In Our Time: To download, keep and listen whenever you want

It turned out to mean a very great deal. So far it has been only new editions of the programme that have been podcast. To date we have produced 517 editions of In Our Time. - bbc.co.uk

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Jeremy Hunt leaks shows a minister determined to get back on track - Media - guardian.co.uk

Jeremy Hunt cloning himself to project greater image of power He has to, you could argue - after a bright start as culture secretary he looked rather helpless as the phone hacking scandal unfolded. We shall see what he has to say later today but here's what he's said already. - guardian.co.uk

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Ford is right we need a better user interface for radio - James Cridland

The letter from Ford starts If you havent purchased a new car in the past few years or arent involved with the auto industry, you might not have noticed how quickly yesterdays car radio has been transformed into todays mobile digital infotainment platform. In short, Ford are asking the radio industry for a better user experience. At conferences recently, Ive been talking about the need for a better user experience for radio. - james.cridland.net

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BBC 'super regions' proposal rejected - Media - guardian.co.uk

BBC regional news show Inside Out's investigative reporter Glenn Campbell. However, it is thought that another proposal to share more BBC local radio non-peak programmes between neighbouring stations is still on the agenda. For all other inquiries please call the main Guardian switchboard on 020 3353 2000. - guardian.co.uk

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