Channel 5 to embrace product placement - TV Radio, Media - The Independent

Richard Desmond's Northern Shell media empire has unveiled plans for greater use of product placement on Channel 5 and closer ties between the broadcaster and the company's stable of newspapers and magazines. Nick Bampton, NS's commercial sales director, said he expected product placement to play a key role in a strategy of helping commercial clients promote themselves across all of NS's media platforms. NS told media agencies yesterday that the combined audience of its various outlets was 39 million people a month and that it was the third largest media owner by revenue in the UK. - independent.co.uk

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Ofcom - Digital Television Update - 2011 Q1

Q1 2011 Overview 1.1 Consumer survey results for the first quarter of 2011 show that take-up of digital television in UK households stood at 93.1, up by 1 percentage point year on year. 1.2 Consumers are continuing to convert additional sets in the home. 75.7 of all secondary TV sets had been converted to digital by the end of March 2011, up by 5.2 percentage points in a year. - stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk

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Food Network UK joins Freeview channel 49

The channel features an irresistible combination of credible cooking, new ideas and high-energy lifestyle entertainment to inspire both foodies and non-foodies alike. With its exciting mix of programming, Freeview viewers will now have access to primetime culinary favourites such as Barefoot Contessa, Ace of Cakes, and Chopped. - freeview.co.uk

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What's On BBC Red Button 4th - 18th July

Primal Scream's 20th anniversary homecoming performance of Screamadelica should set the party alight on Saturday. Red Button viewers will be treated to coverage across the weekend with performances from the Main, Radio 1, King Tut's and Introducing stages. Also on Red Button, the very best from T in the Park in the form of daily highlights from Monday 11th July. - bbc.co.uk

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Union officials say don't be too sure BBC Look East Cambs service is safe - News - Cambs Times

To send a link to this page to a friend, you must be logged in. If this idea comes to fruition then a significant portion of BBC Cambridge TVs audience would be disenfranchised overnight. The viewing figures would be drastically reduced overnight. Mr Murray said the BBC judges service on a cost per listener/viewer basis and if the viewing figures are drastically reduced because the service is no longer available on digital, then the cost per viewer would go through the roof. - cambstimes.co.uk

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BBC's 3D Wimbledon sparks mixed reviews - 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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This is Scunthorpe - Twenty-five Scunthorpe households still have a black white TV licence

Figures show that 25 households in Scunthorpe still have a black and white TV licence, despite massive advances in modern technology. Most of the owners are likely to be elderly residents, some of whom may be keeping their boxes for a whiff of nostalgia. If people use Freeview boxes equipped with an RF modulator, they will be able to watch digital television on their black and white TV. - thisisscunthorpe.co.uk

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Olympic dilemma for BBC 3D - Broadband TV News

In 2D we get feeds from absolutely everything going on around the Olympics and we can configure that into whatever the UK audience is interested in. Were lucky that we can accommodate these broadcasters, because BBC One is showing it in HD, so were not taking it away from the audience. The risk for 2012 is that we will have 28 streams in HD available to the UK audience, so thats quite a lot of HD. - broadbandtvnews.com

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BBC - Roger Mosey: 3D or not 3D

You can read an account of how it was done by my colleague Andy Quested here and an overview by our head of 3D Danielle Nagler here. So the current resurgence of 3D, with its spread to television, poses the question of whether this time it's here to stay Some of the major industry players believe it is, and Panasonic - one of the IOC sponsors - made a play last week for 3D coverage of the 2012 Games. - bbc.co.uk

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BBC - Press Office - The Hour: introduction

Romola Garai plays Bel Rowley, spirited and ambitious, and facing the most exciting and daunting challenge of her life running The Hour. Dominic West plays Hector Madden, charming, charismatic a man whose upbringing and education have instilled in him a sense of entitlement, and whose glamorous young wife has the family connections to get him the job as front man on The Hour. The Hour further demonstrates BBC Two's commitment to re-establish its reputation as the home of intelligent and ambitious drama reflecting the new strategy and investment for drama on the channel. - bbc.co.uk

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Hundreds reply to Devon DAB consultation - Radio Today

However, the consultation seems to focus on the lack of local FM radio, rather than addressing the main purpose of the consultation the expansion of a DAB multiplex. A typical response mentions how there is no or little content relevant to North Devon now that Lantern FM has merged with other stations in the region and rebranded as Heart. Many also seem to believe that FM services will be switched off when the DAB multiplex goes live. - radiotoday.co.uk

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Patten asks Ofcom to assess BBC proposals - FT.com

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Lord Patten targets 'toxic' executive pay to restore public sympathy for BBC - Media - The Guardian

Lord Patten is keen to put some of Will Huttons ideas on public sector pay into practice as the corporation pulls in its belt. He said he would be taking up some of the proposals in the recent report by the Work Foundation's Will Hutton into pay in the public sector. Patten spoke as it emerged that the BBC pays 19 presenters, actors and journalists more than 500,000 a year. - guardian.co.uk

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News Corp must now put a value on Sky - Media - The Guardian

The following year, James Murdoch had been installed as chief executive. What remains to be decided is just how valuable they are. News Corporation, where James is now deputy chief operating officer and runs the international business, offered 700p a share in June 2010 for the 61 of Sky it does not already own. - guardian.co.uk

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BBC pay: Who wants to be a millionaire? - Media - The Guardian

Which of Auntie's high-profile journalists scoops an extra 20,000 on top of their six-figure pay packet for every documentary they front for the BBC None of these questions will be answered by the BBC. Mark Thompson, the director general, has steadfastly refused to reveal star salaries, citing fears that publication will lead to inflation. - guardian.co.uk

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ASTRA 1N satellite to launch on 1 July

The satellite offers 52 Ku-band transponders and will first provide interim capacity at 28.2 East. Subsequently it will be moved to 19.2 East, from where it will mainly serve the German, French and Spanish markets. DTG Staff 01.07.2011 Links open in a new window. - dtg.org.uk

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Backlash for Jeremy Hunt over BskyB deal - TV Radio, Media - The Independent

A consultation has been extended to July 8, after which Mr Hunt will decide whether to wave through the merger once and for all or refer it to the Competition Commission. BSkyB's performance has improved in the year since News Corp made its approach and its share price is currently at nearly 850p, having increased by more than 50. Some analysts estimate that it may have to offer at least 950p per share, valuing the company at 16.7 billion - 4.4 billion more than its previous proposal. - independent.co.uk

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Get ready for wrangling and regulation - In-depth - Broadcast

30 June, 2011 As the deadline for initial submissions to inform the next Communications Act passed this week, Broadcast takes a look at who wants what from Jeremy Hunt. 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 - BBC Internet Blog: Open Post, Thursday 30 June 2011

I'm Ian McDonald, and I shall be your host on this blog for a while. The BBC has let me work on some very interesting things since 2003. So it is a privilege to sit in the middle of BBC online and talk to you about the fantastic things everyone else is doing - and hear what you think of it all. - bbc.co.uk

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Hunt attacked in Commons over BSkyB deal - 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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News Corp. s BSkyB Bid May Become Pricier as Review Drags on - Businessweek

The U.K. government today asked rivals for the second time since March to respond to News Corp.s proposed undertakings. The starting point for Skys independent directors should be the pre-bid stock indexed up by the 15 percent rise in the value of the FTSE 100, Baker said. BSkyB should open talks at about 920 pence and may settle for 870 pence, he said. - businessweek.com

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News Corp's BSkyB bid: OFT report to Jeremy Hunt

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Barb ratings move online

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 takeover: what will happen to the profits? Visualised - News - guardian.co.uk

What would a News Corporation-owned BSkyB actually look like With Rupert Murdoch moving closer to a go-ahead to take over the remaining 61 of the broadcast corporation, we wanted to look at what kind of company BSkyB could become. In March this year we looked at Murdoch's operations around the world. - guardian.co.uk

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BBC - Research and Development: White Space Broadcasting Networks

The BBC's position on white space is probably best articulated in our recent reply to an Ofcom consultation. Issues relating to adjacent channel interference were also expressed requiring location-dependent power limits for the white space devices to prevent interference to TV reception. Details of how to compute the database from the broadcast coverage have been the subject of studies by CEPT in study group SE43 which reported its preliminary findings earlier this year. - bbc.co.uk

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BBC - Research and Development: Digital Media Mass Storage Testing

In copious quantities an hour of professional footage of a quality drama production easily eats a terabyte. We easily need some 10 hours, split over a 1000s shots or so, to just produce one episode. Now seemingly storage has become a commodity item, available from OEMs, from interchangeable, generic suppliers and specialist suppliers. - bbc.co.uk

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BBC - BBC Internet Blog: May 2011 BBC iPlayer Performance Pack

The week of 9th May delivered a new record of 7.2 million online users in one week excludes Virgin Media cable. The Apprentice and Doctor Who dominated the top ten most-requested TV episodes this month. New dramas The Shadow Line and Exile were also in the top 20. - bbc.co.uk

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BBC outlines its vision of TV in the future - Pocket-lint

It sounds like Virgin Media's existing TiVo service, but with a few changes... Like with the TiVo box, the EPG will be able to go backwards as well as forwards to watch programmes on-demand. Pryde told Pocket-lint that her Connected TV Heaven would be available in the very near future and certainly over the next couple of years. - pocket-lint.com

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Holyrood calls for control of broadcasting - Scotsman.com News

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MediaTel: Newsline: Jeremy Hunt may be a classy lambada dancer but unless he listens he won't shimmy his way out of this

It is the only one that will work... Culture secretary Jeremy Hunt may not realise it, but yesterday morning he was offered a way out of a potentially embarrassing jam. For reasons that still remain something of a mystery, Hunt has invested a great deal of political capital in trying to breathe life - like some sort of modern day alchemist turning base metal to gold - into local television. - mediatel.co.uk

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Mirics in Freeview win - 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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Ofcom - Public Interest Test

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Jeremy Hunt urged to reverse local TV shift - Broadcasting News - Digital Spy

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BBC - BBC Internet Blog: 6 Technical Principles behind BBC News on Connected TV

BBC News on a connected TV I've written here before about publishing content to multiple platforms. I thought I'd write a little about how we implemented this lots of the concepts here are standard computer science ones, but I thought it's worth reiterating as it shows the similarities between publishing to devices with different form factors and technical capabilities. So here are our six TV software design best practices Our internal data sources need to be platform-neutral - meaning we can target multiple platforms with different front-end technologies. - bbc.co.uk

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Is ITV playing poker with Ofcom over its PSB licence? - Media - guardian.co.uk

It is not the first time the prospect of ITV exiting the confines of a public service broadcasting licence has been raised. Former ITV chairman Michael Grade suggested the idea three years ago. With the switchover to digital, some at the conference wondered about the continuing value of the Ofcom licences in a world where hundreds of channels are available on satellite and cable TV. - guardian.co.uk

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Radio 4 opens up Reith Lecture archives - Radio Today

BBC Radio 4has made 240 archive recordings of Reith Lectures from years gone by available online, along with transcripts of the recordings. The archive covers the last 60 years, with the audio files available to download as podcasts or stream on-demand from the Radio 4 website. Radio 4s website currently offers transcripts of the Reith Lectures from 1948-75 and 1990-2010 and the BBC says ones for the years in the middle will be made available online soon. - radiotoday.co.uk

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ITV to cut drama repeats to test in-house formats - 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 deputy had £950,000 payoff - TV Radio, Media - The Independent

The former second-in-command at the BBC got a redundancy payment of around 950,000 when he left the corporation last month, according to reports. Mark Byford, who was made redundant when his deputy director general role was eliminated as part of a cost-cutting exercise, joined the corporation in 1979 as a television researcher at BBC Leeds. The Daily Telegraph reported that Mr Byford will also be eligible for pension payments by 2013 on top of the 950,000. - independent.co.uk

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World Service gets 7m more over three years - TV Radio, Media - The Independent

The announcement of a 2.2m grant for each of the next three years followed a government cut of 16 per cent in the World Service's 270m a year budget, decided at a spending review last year. - independent.co.uk

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BBC radio stations could share - TV Radio, Media - The Independent

The corporation asked commercial radio executive John Myers to look at potential savings at Radio 1, Radio 2, 6 Music and 1Xtra. - independent.co.uk

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Hunt ready to clear News-BSkyB merger - FT.com

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BBC News - News Corp moves closer to a takeover of BSkyB

The conditions include having an independent editorial director at Sky News board meetings and for Sky News to continue to be promoted on other Sky channels. It's over a year since News Corp announced it wanted to buy the 61 of shares in BSkyB it didn't already own. Some time after 8 July, News Corp will be given clearance to proceed with its bid. - bbc.co.uk

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News Corp's BSkyB bid: Jeremy Hunt gives green light for takeover - Media - guardian.co.uk

The culture secretary said on Thursday that News Corp's proposal for Sky News to be spun-off from Sky into an independent listed company should go ahead to allay plurality fears. These extra undertakings will now be put out to further consultation, with a deadline of midday on Friday 8 July for interested parties to make submissions to Hunt. The extra measures include having an independent director with senior journalism expertise present at Sky News board meetings where decisions on editorial matters are taken and a requirement for Sky to continue to cross-promote the 24 hour news service on its channels. - guardian.co.uk

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BBC News Channel may cut costs by switching to solo anchor on weekdays - Media - guardian.co.uk

Currently the rolling television news network is fronted by two presenters on weekdays but may switch to a single anchor after it emerged it was the most popular suggestion put forward by news staff. In addition in 2009 the channel began using Julia Somerville, Fiona Armstrong and Zeinab Badawi in a bid to counteract ageism claims. It is not known how much money the plan will save, although BBC News channel presenter Carrie Grace revealed two years ago she earned 92,000 a year. - guardian.co.uk

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S4C loses nearly £7m - News - Broadcast

29 June, 2011 By Catherine Neilan Welsh broadcaster S4C recorded a loss of nearly 7m in 2010, according to its annual report and accounts published today. 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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RPT-UPDATE 1-ITV shares rise on talk of bid interest -traders - Reuters

Two traders said there was talk of a bid of 110-120 penceper share being mentioned, though gave no further details. A spokesman for ITV said it does not comment on bidspeculation. - reuters.com

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BBC - The Editors: BBC News for connected TV launches

I wrote here a few months ago about some of the things we were working on to develop BBC News online. Amongst these, I mentioned our ambition to combine the on-demand flexibility of online news with the viewing experience of TV, as the number of internet-enabled TV sets grows. After several months of editorial thinking, design and technical development, today we are launching a BBC News product for connected TVs. - bbc.co.uk

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Ofcom - An approach to DAB coverage planning

It calculates current Digital One national DAB coverage using our new planning parameters, and describes the current plans to expand it. This report also includes an examination of the DAB link budget and some example receiver testing. - stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk

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Ofcom - Statement - Television Channels Required to Provide Television Access Services in 2012

1.1 The Communications Act 2003 required Ofcom to publish a code setting out the obligations of television channels licensed in the UK to provide television access services. Following consultation, Ofcom published the Code in July 2004, together with an explanatory statement setting out the channels that would be required to provide such services in the following year. 1.2 The Code also provides for a mid-year review of the audience share and revenues of UK-licensed television channels, based on data for the previous year. - stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk

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