Can Google TV succeed in the UK? - - Independent Editor's choice Blogs

The service will be made available either through a set-top box or via integration into TV sets from the likes of Sony and other manufacturers. Google TV has already been available in the US for some time, but despite a lengthy and aggressive marketing campaign backed up by positive early reviews, the service has received a lacklustre reception from the public. Sales of Google TV hardware have been disappointing to say the least. - blogs.independent.co.uk

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MediaTel: Newsline: YouView for under £100

The YouView partners are hoping to see the box for as little as possible as part of plans to bundle the service into broadband deals for new and current customers. Without the bundle offer, it is likely that the box is going to retail for nearer 200. - mediatel.co.uk

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NMA EXPLAINS: SDKs (Software Development Kits) - News - New Media Age

new media age gives you practical, expert knowledge on how to demystify the latest digital trends and make them work for your business. Sign in below if you are a full subscriber. Sorry, were not currently accepting new online subscriptions to nma.co.uk. - nma.co.uk

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Freeview HD will deliver new IPTV channels this month • The Register

Come the end of September those applications will allow viewers to select from dozens of specialist channels accessed over the internet connection mandated by the Freeview HD standard. The idea is to bring streaming video to every Freeview HD box in the country, and charge for it too. The system already being deployed allows for subscription channels, and there's the potential and intention to provide video-on-demand services in the future. - theregister.co.uk

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BBC - Research and Development: Prototyping Weeknotes #75 (2nd September 2011)

With a bank holiday on Monday, one would expect fairly short notes this week. A couple of new faces made their appearance in the office. Barbara seemed very happy to meet the project partners and get a grip on the dependencies between each part of the work. - bbc.co.uk

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BBC cues up launch of 'Delivery Quality First' cuts - Media - guardian.co.uk

However, it is understood that the timetable to announce some of the biggest changes to the corporation's output in recent years has slipped and although staff have been told they will hear the results of DQF on 22 September, it could be put back to early October. It is understood that the briefings are being spearheaded by the BBC's director of business operations, Lucy Adams. 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. - guardian.co.uk

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UK's largest ever spectrum auction delayed - Business - guardian.co.uk

The airwaves being sold as fourth generation 4G licences will be reserved for mobile phone carriers. Photograph Robert Galbraith/Reuters The government's largest ever spectrum auction has been delayed, with the multibillion pound sell-off now expected in the second quarter of next year at the earliest. The airwaves being sold as fourth generation 4G licences will be reserved for mobile phone carriers, to help cater for the explosion in mobile broadband use. - guardian.co.uk

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Guardian planning DAB radio station - News - Broadcast

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DTG :: News :: Ofcom progress White Space technology plans

Ofcom has progressed plans for the introduction of White Space technology in the UK. 'White Spaces' are unused capicity that exist in bands that have been reserved for TV broadcasts and can be used to transmit and receive wireless signals. According to Ofcom, the technology could enable a range of devices that can wirelessly transmit information to each other, enhance existing WiFi and bring broadband services to rural areas via a network of transmitters linking remote houses to larger towns that are connected to the internet. - dtg.org.uk

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The death of commercial local radio? - Comment - 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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informitv - Google TV will disrupt television, ready or not

Google TV is set to launch in Europe early in 2012, following a reboot in the United States that will help developers to create applications for the platform. Yet many in the traditionally territorial television industry may still be wary of geeks bearing gifts, suspiciously viewing Google TV as a Trojan horse at the living room door. It was the first time the prestigious annual MacTaggart lecture has been given by someone not employed in television broadcasting or production. - informitv.com

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The decline and fall of TiVo and Media Center - ZDNet

TiVo defined the DVR category around the turn of the century, and today the product name has been turned into a verb. Based on Microsofts telemetry data, roughly 6 of Windows 7 users in July launched Media Center. However, he added, most people are just looking around only one quarter 25 of 6 of these people used it for more than 10 minutes per session By my back-of-the-envelope calculations, that 25 of 6 adds up to about 6 million people. - zdnet.com

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Grant Boxall: Dishes for all seasons - What Satellite Digital TV

TechRadaris part of Future plc, an international media group and leading digital publisher. - wotsat.techradar.com

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Ofcom 'could not stop ITV and Channel 5 cutting PSB programming' - Media - guardian.co.uk

Ofcom said that the first option, that of renewing the existing licences with the same broadcasters for another decade, is probably the best bet if viewers want to continue to see PSB content on TV. Ofcom's commercial PSB licences give holders benefits which have historically been financially very valuable, primarily reserved access to broadcast on strictly limited terrestrial spectrum and more recently on digital terrestrial TV, or Freeview. The second option is to cancel the existing PSB licences and retender to the market for the next period from 2014. - guardian.co.uk

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Ofcom - Licensing of Channel 3 and Channel 5 - A report from Ofcom to the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Med

1.2 We are not required to submit that report to the Secretary of State until June 2012. 1.5 This paper, which replaces our planned document, is our response to the Secretary of State's request. - stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk

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Kelvin Mackenzie unveils new sports channel - News - Broadcast

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Broadcasters won't back Google TV until YouView is off the ground - Opinion - New Media Age

new media age gives you practical, expert knowledge on how to demystify the latest digital trends and make them work for your business. - nma.co.uk

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BBC3 v BBC4: no contest ... keep both - Media - guardian.co.uk

What's more, it is a strategy now deployed with demonstrable effectiveness across all the public service broadcasters, giving them a spring in their step, a renewed sense of purpose, as digital switchover accelerates to completion next year. Ofcom's annual UK Communications Market report, published in August, noted for the first time since the survey began in 2003, the overall audience share of the heritage broadcasters held steady at 71. It has taken more than a decade for the PSBs to work out successful strategies to counter audience fragmentation, but they have arrived, though admittedly at vastly different speeds and routes. - guardian.co.uk

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BBC - Research and Development: RadioTAG

RadioTAG is a new protocol that enables you to share information with a broadcaster about what you're listening to by pushing a button on your radio. We touch on use cases for RadioTAG, summarise how it works, look at the considerations we took into account and describe how we went about designing it. For detailed technical information you can read a draft of the RadioTAG specification and download our reference implementations from github. - bbc.co.uk

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Paying Sky for free public service television channels - ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice

Try this pop out to Tesco and when you get to the checkout, demand that they pay you to take the goods away. No subscription or other ongoing payment is required to watch these channels. However, the next set of channels do cost if you have Sky. - ukfree.tv

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End of the road for Traffic Radio : Radio Today

The station which has been run by GTN for the last three years provided region-specific traffic and travel news, designed for journey planning and live reports. The Traffic Radio name could yet reappear under a different guise in the future. If a proposal is considered to be satisfactory the service could be broadcasting later in the year. - radiotoday.co.uk

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SeeSaw loses Channel 4 shows in funding hitch - Media - guardian.co.uk

Channel 4 shows such as The Inbetweeners have been dropped from SeeSaw as the online TV service renegotiates its content deals. As part of the deal Criterion was required to raise a multimillion-pound round of funding to drive the rejuvenation of SeeSaw and set up its 28 staff in new headquarters. Private equity firm Criterion is best known for its acquisition of social networking site Bebo from AOL in June 2010. - guardian.co.uk

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ISPs to sell YouView boxes for under £100 - 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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The Radioplayer gets connected on Facebook

Radioplayer, the online listening platform for radio, has launched a Facebook app which enables millions of Facebook users to share their radio listening and engage in social chat around radio content. The app makes it easy to listen to UK Radio from within Facebook, share your favourite stations and programmes with your friends via your wall, and see what other people in your area have been listening to. There are now more than 250 stations in Radioplayer, many with a considerable presence on Facebook via fan pages and group pages, and they will be invited to promote and embrace the new Facebook Radioplayer app. - mediauk.com

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DTG :: News :: FetchTV content portal to launch on Panasonic Connected TVs

DTG Staff 31.08.2011 Links open in a new window. - dtg.org.uk

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DTG :: News :: Pace launches cloud-based software platform

Pace is to launch a new software platform with cloud-based capabilities. Pace's 'Elements' platform supports the design, delivery and management of digital content and services into and around the home and across any device. Elements includes a cloud-based interface so that viewers can personalise their video experiences and search for and access content across a broad range of connected devices. - dtg.org.uk

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Broadband TV project YouView welcomes Google TV challenge

As a result of this delay, the product will become available around the same time as Google TV, which the search giant's executive chairman Eric Schmidt confirmed will be released in Europe towards the start of next year. However, a spokesperson for YouView told TechRadar the organisation had been expecting Google's announcement and hailed the development as being positive for consumer choice. Google TV is already available in the US but has so far failed to take off. - cable.co.uk

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Jazz FM leaves regional DAB multiplexes : Radio Today

Tags gmg radio, jazz fm, real xs, rock radio Category Digital Radio, Radio - radiotoday.co.uk

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NDS lifts veil on next gen DRM - Broadband TV News

According to NDS, it enables the secure ingestion, delivery and consumption of premium content over both managed and over-the-top networks. Smith said that consumers were looking to other operators such as Netflix to provide content where it had been absent, but ultimately it was pay-TV operators that held all the cards, and that market would ultimately be the most successful providing they launched the services. Its a higher level of security over the existing DRMs that are out there. - broadbandtvnews.com

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Virgin: YouView “missed the boat” - 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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Save BBC Four from cut backs - PetitionBuzz

Whilst it is accepted that the BBC has a duty to all licence payers, within that responsibility should be a commitment to provide innovative niche programming that could not be provided by a commercial operator. The arguments for protecting BBC Four from cuts are very similar to the successful argument to save 6Music. BBC Four, like 6Music represents the sort of niche programming that it is impossible to create under an advertisement/sponsorship model and it is greatly loved, rather than taken for granted by its audience. - petitionbuzz.com

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BBC - BBC Internet Blog: What's On BBC Red Button 30th August - 12th September 2011

A special family history guide for new computer users offering advice, tips and encouragement to get online is available at www.bbc.co.uk/firstclick and at venues running the popular First Click beginners courses. On the night of Saturday 10th September - Sky, Virgin Freesat viewers can watch all four concerts live in full. All four concerts will be available to watch on iPlayer from Sunday 11 September, for 7 days. - bbc.co.uk

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talkSPORT kicks off DAB giveaway : Radio Today

- radiotoday.co.uk

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Google TV: the verdict - Comment - 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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Online TV still playing catch-up - Opinion - Marketing Week

Broadcasters online TV services have taken a long time to mature, and only now are they beginning to realise the marketing potential that has been obvious since the very beginning. Channel 4 has announced that its on-demand TV portal, 4oD, will include ads targeted according to demographic data when it relaunches this week 31 August. Users themselves will also be encouraged to sign up for accounts enabling them to set their own personalised preferences - a feature that will be known as My 4oD. - marketingweek.co.uk

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REAL Digital launch delayed - What Satellite Digital TV

TechRadaris part of Future plc, an international media group and leading digital publisher. - wotsat.techradar.com

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Google TV hopes US failure won't put us off - City A.M.

The list is only slightly sullied by the appearance of Janet Street-Porters name, which I assumed was a mistake until I Googled it. Nothing is perfect. It is interesting, then, that this years speaker was Google chairman Eric Schmidt. His speech, which had a whiff of the sales pitch to it, encouraged the amassed industry figures to Think beyond the TV box... - cityam.com

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Not Long Until Digital TV Switchover Isle of Wight News: Island Pulse:

It may seem a long way off, but from 7th March 2012, the Isle of Wights terrestrial TV signal will be turned off. He said There are reports from trading standards elsewhere in the country of companies targeting vulnerable people and charging well over the odds for set top boxes ahead of the digital switchover. They also sell them equipment that is totally unnecessary. A typical digital box can be found for less than 20 and many TVs also have Freeview built in these days and these can by bought for less than 150. - islandpulse.co.uk

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YouView: We welcome Google TV competition - News - TechRadar UK

Google TV has hardly been a massive success in the US since it launched there this year, but it could feasibly be a key challenger for YouView. - techradar.com

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BBC - About the BBC: The 3D Wimbledon experiment - your reactions

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The original Media UK

What did the first version of Media UK look like Starting in 1994, Media UK was hosted on a CompuServe forum. It's available from him via e-mail, via anonymous ftp at ftp.std.com as /customers/periodicals/Middlesex-News/medialist, or via the WWW at http//cwis.usc.edu/dept/etc/media/. - mediauk.com

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How Google plans to change the way you watch TV Online Video News

Reading the transcript or watching a video of the lecture Schmidts speech starts about 36 minutes in, you get the feeling that this is no less than a manifesto, not just on the way things will be but also on the way they should be. The message to broadcasters, in light of this, seems to be that they can either get on board with technological change or risk being left behind. And, given the on-demand way that viewers are increasingly viewing content through prerecorded shows on their DVRs, video-on-demand selections through their cable provider or streaming on the Internet there needs to be a way to sort through those content choices. - gigaom.com

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TV advertisers tighten their belts again - Media - The Guardian

However, the bad news for commercial broadcasters is that after a slow summer for TV advertising, there are signs of further belt-tightening by advertisers against a backdrop of turmoil in financial markets, faltering economic recovery in Europe and the US, and even the negative sentiment resulting from the recent riots across England. Nevertheless, ad space during The X Factor is selling for at least 5 less than last year at about 150,000 for a 30-second spot which could cost the show as much as 12m in ad spend. Last weekend's launch show was 15 minutes shorter than last year meaning it ran with one less ad break of 3.5 minutes which cost ITV at least an additional 500,000 in ad spend. - guardian.co.uk

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Labour seeks law change to stop News Corp renewing BSkyB bid - Media - The Guardian

Labour's proposals would prevent Rupert Murdoch renewing his BSkyB bid until the outcome of the Leveson inquiry. In a move designed to capitalise on the embarrassment the phone-hacking scandal has heaped on the government, Labour said there was still a possibility that Rupert Murdoch could reopen his bid and the law should be changed to allow ministers to block it. He has written to the culture secretary, Jeremy Hunt, and the Lib Dem culture spokesman, Don Foster, with his proposals. - guardian.co.uk

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Media Monkey's Edinburgh diary - Media - The Guardian

Alas Google's in-house airliner was unavailable to bring chairman Eric Schmidt to Edinburgh. He had to resort to a British Airways flight to bring him to London before catching the train to Edinburgh presumably not in standard class. The Channel 4 chief executive, David Abraham, was rather more settled in his role with the broadcaster at this year's Edinburgh than he was last year, when he had been in the job for just a matter of months. - guardian.co.uk

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Google crashes TV's Edinburgh party - Media - The Guardian

There are three things the TV executive audience have come to expect from the annual MacTaggart lecture the pantomime of an inter-industry dispute, an intellectual appreciation of the past year's achievements and a warm glow of self-congratulation derived from being an industry that still matters, despite everything. Even before Google's executive chairman had taken to the stage, there were mutteringsfrom festival veterans that his would be the most anodyne MacTaggart ever, that he was miscast as keynote speaker, that this was tech tokenism taken a step too far. What Schmidt did deliver was a carefully crafted lecture designed to boost Google's intellectual credibility, and give much-needed depth to the debate around the role of technology firms in the media industry's future. - guardian.co.uk

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Half of BBC cuts will come from programme and content budgets - Media - guardian.co.uk

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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Talk Talk chief executive Dido Harding says group is ready to listen to its customers - Telegraph

The award citation claimed that Talk Talk operatives were rude and aggressive, charged for services that hadn't been supplied and didn't return customers' calls. No wonder Harding, 42, is making her presence known, taking over customer calls in Talk Talk's Nottingham contact centre last week. That's fine too because then I will do a better job of fixing such problems for other customers. - telegraph.co.uk

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Schmidt hints at reboot for Google TV - FT.com

Google TV, the search companys troubled internet-television service, will soon be getting a reboot, its executive chairman, Eric Schmidt, hinted on Saturday. Mr Schmidt admitted that the first version of Google TV, which was released last autumn, has not been a huge success, something he blamed on long TV product replacement cycles and the fact that it was a beta or test version. Google typically brings out beta versions, and theyre not for the faint of heart, and I think thats what you saw. - ft.com

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