BBC can use cuts to pull up its anchors - Media - The Guardian

The BBC, under severe budget pressures, is seeking to prove that less is better. The advance of the anchors dates back some 30 years, to the time when newsreaders were replaced by proper journalists. Even John Simpson was a newsreader for a while in 1982, until sent into temporary exile in Montevideo. - guardian.co.uk

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Channel 5 Owner Triples Profit Amid Near-Recession Conditions - The Hollywood Reporter

Despite a tough consumer market throughout the year, the privately owned media group combining OK Magazine, Express Newspapers and U.K. terrestrial network Channel 5 will unveil an increase in revenue across the business of 167 million to 852 million when it publishes its trading statement later this week. Desmond, who acquired the channel from pan-European media group RTL in July 2010 for 161 million, according to the filing, restructured the business comprehensively, taking out significant overheads, including virtually an entire layer of senior management. - hollywoodreporter.com

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Chris Patten promises to protect BBC World Service in face of cuts - Media - The Guardian

On Friday it was announced that up to 1,000 BBC journalist jobs were at risk. News is not the only core BBC service likely to be downsized by the cuts. He did express support for publishing the numbers of people on the BBC payroll within still-to-be-determined pay bands. - guardian.co.uk

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BBC to cut back on sport coverage - TV Radio, Media - The Independent

The BBC could axe parts of its sports coverage and a digital channel, it has been reported. In an interview with the Daily Telegraph, the network's new chairman, Lord Patten, signalled the cuts could materialise but said he would fight to save the World Service from spending cuts. Lord Patten ruled out publishing individual stars' salaries. - independent.co.uk

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BBC - Research and Development: Prototyping Weeknotes #63 (10th June 2011)

This week has us in a transition phase. A number of projects are wrapping up now or will soon, and others are in the scoping, thinking and understanding phase. Joanne, meanwhile, has been building a paper and cardboard prototype for the TAG interactions, - from what happens out of the box when you buy an IP radio to the sign up and pairing of the device with an online Bookmarking application. - bbc.co.uk

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Hundreds of BBC News jobs at risk in attempt to cut costs by £89m - Media - The Guardian

BBC's News and World Service merger will affect local and national reporters as well as foreign correspondents. Senior members were informed of the plans put forward by Helen Boaden, the director of BBC News, to make the savings by 2016-7 - with the bulk from cutting reporting jobs. The cuts amount to a 20 saving from a total budget of close to 450m. - guardian.co.uk

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BBC - Press Office - Speech

That's a broad theme and at one level it's a statement of the obvious it's what journalists do. When you set out to inform, educate and entertain the BBC's original and continuing mission how much does the audience trust you when you question those in power Does it think that you are approaching your subject matter without an agenda - bbc.co.uk

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BBC News outlines DQF cuts - News - Broadcast

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Sky Anywhere renamed Sky Go - News - Broadcast

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Ofcom - Competition issues in the UK TV advertising trading mechanism

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Being the BBC in the information age: towards a new broadcasting system

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Prescott: 'Delay BSkyB decision' - Press, Media - The Independent

He added that it was now vital that a public inquiry was held to get to the bottom of the extent of phone hacking by News Corporation employees before any decision was made on BSkyBs future. If they get hold BSkyB is he going to do the same thing on the television We need a proper inquiry to establish whether Murdoch is a fit and proper person to run the company. Lord Prescott used a debate on media ownership regulations in the House of Lords to suggest that diversity and plurality were not the only tests which the Government needed to apply when deciding whether to allow the takeover to go ahead. - independent.co.uk

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Scrapping BBC3 is off the agenda, says channel chief - Media - guardian.co.uk

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. To get the latest media news to your desktop or mobile, follow MediaGuardian on Twitter and Facebook - guardian.co.uk

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'File sharing' solicitors guilty of professional misconduct - June - 2011 - Which? News

09 June 2011 A former and existing partner with law firm Davenport Lyons have been found guilty of professional misconduct. These included acting in a way that was likely to diminish the trust the public place in them or in the legal profession. If you'd like to know more about file sharing, take a look at our Which guide - find out what file sharing is and the types of files you can share legally. - which.co.uk

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BBC iPlayer - Help - Where can I find the Windows Media and Real streams for Nations and Local BBC radio stations and BB

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World IPv6 Day: 8th June 2011

The internet won't stop working on the day that the last IPv4 address is allocated, but a solution is required to allow the internet to continue to expand. IPv6 provides a mind-boggling number of addresses 3.4 x 1038. It's hard to find a meaningful analogy for a number this large, but if every man, woman and child on Earth had a billion devices each with an IPv6 address, you haven't even come close to scratching the surface of the number of addresses available. - bbc.co.uk

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So what is 3DTV?

To give it it's proper name it's plano-stereoscopic often known as Stereo 3D or S3D, an idea that's a lot older than television and even older than cinema sound Stereoscopy experiments began in the 19th century starting with still images but it rapidly followed the movies into the early cinemas. Over the past 90 years 3D has come and gone. - bbc.co.uk

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BBC iPlayer returns to Boxee - Broadband TV News

The BBC iPlayer has returned to Boxee having been absent from the platform since March. It had previously been dropped by the open source over-the-top platform in a dispute over its usage. The iPlayer is back and we now have a great partnership with the BBC, said Kippen. - broadbandtvnews.com

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BBC Alba to be broadcast on Freeview for first time

The channel will appear on Freeview channel 8 after being available for more than two years on satellite television and the internet. The move to Freeview comes as the channel announced it will provide live coverage and highlights from the Rock Ness festival near Inverness. - bbc.co.uk

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Government presses ITV and C4 to help local TV

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Voting for the Arqiva Channel of the Year Awards 2011 is now open!

Please try the following Click the Refresh button, or try again later. Click the Back button to try another link Open the home page, and then look for links to the information you want. - surveys.com

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European Broadcast Union urges standards convergence

The European Broadcast Union has weighed into the debate over hybrid services by calling for convergence around common standards for Internet-based services. Not noted for controversy, this is a stinging rebuke from the EBU for European broadcasters and pay TV operators, who have been accused of burying their heads in the sand by following divergent paths over standards for hybrid delivery and display. The DVB itself has joined in the chorus of criticism about lack of standards convergence. - broadcastengineering.com

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Everything Everywhere Disputes 4G Auction Plans - eWEEK Europe UK

The 4G auction next year is facing fresh operator concerns after the UKs largest mobile operator, Everything Everywhere, admitted it had fundamental disagreements with Ofcom. Ofcom announced back in March its plans to auction 800MHz spectrum for 4G mobile services in 2012. It will also auction off some 2.6GHz spectrum, an event expected to take place in the first quarter of next year. - eweekeurope.co.uk

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Black Hill transmitter to start switching off analogue

The public is being advised to retune Freeview equipment so there will be no loss of services. Scotland is scheduled to become fully digital on 22 June. The Black Hill transmitter and its 42 relays - which are known as a transmitter group - switch to digital in two stages. - bbc.co.uk

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Pay per minute doesn t work for radio - James Cridland

Ill lay a bet that youd listen to the radio much less. Youd listen to your music collections a lot more. Yet, thats what the radio industry appears to be sleepwalking towards, with their fascination about streaming apps on mobile phones. - james.cridland.net

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BBC - BBC Internet Blog: What's On BBC Red Button 7th - 20th June 2011

From Monday morning 13th June - for one fabulous week, press red to watch Great Film Scores Live. The red button show will contain performance from two 5 Live and Radio 3 film music events, both recorded in front of a live studio audience. This is part of a season of BBC Philharmonic events, celebrating the move to their new Salford studio. - bbc.co.uk

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TV Everywhere is Coming Everywhere, Parks Associates Says - Home Media Magazine

Whats remarkable is the pace of the growth, said Brett Sappington, senior analyst with Parks Associates. Traditionally operators are not quick to invest in this type of thing. The explosion of tablet devices and the increased ability of smartphones to handle streaming video have helped drive the change, and the proliferation of connected devices in the home have also helped, Sappington said. Consumers are increasing their consumption of video on all these platforms, he said, noting that by July 81 of pay-TV subscribers in the United States will have access to their content on other devices. - homemediamagazine.com

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BBC reassesses sale of Television Centre as cuts bite - Media - guardian.co.uk

Under the proposal the BBC would sell Television Centre to developers but rent back some of the studios to continue making programmes at the site, and perhaps lease some space to house an orchestra. The rest of the centre parts of which are crumbling and likely to be demolished to make way for new buildings could become home to independent production companies, other media organisations and performing arts companies. However, last autumn's licence fee freeze and the BBC's new areas of funding responsibility, including the World Service, mean its funding is being cut by 16 in real teams. - guardian.co.uk

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ITV rapped for 'pushing' videogames

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Sky/News Corp deal is a fudge that is only sweet for the politicians - Media - The Guardian

If the timing was unsurprising, what has happened since has been an entertaining adventure in which the principal casualties have been Vince Cable and the Daily Telegraph rather than any Murdochs. It does not address the concerns about Murdoch power nor indeed does it deal with any of the phone-hacking issues that have in part dominated the media agenda in the first half of this year. The point behind objections to News Corp's takeover of Sky was a simple one, that Murdoch's power and influence in British society and public life are too great. - guardian.co.uk

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BBC Workplan reveals connected strategy - Broadband TV News

The BBC is to explore how the delivery of content over IP can further enrich and add value to its television services. One such service will be the 2012 London Olympics that will see the availability of 24 different streams and offer viewers the ability to personalise the content. Red Button will serve as the link between BBC linear, interactive and on demand programming. - broadbandtvnews.com

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informitv - Online video traffic to increase sevenfold by 2015

There will be nearly three billion internet users and twice as many network-connected devices as people on the planet by 2015. Internet traffic will quadruple by then, driven mainly by online video, which will increase by seven times. Average global internet traffic will approach 250 terabytes a second, with a million minutes of video crossing the network every second. - informitv.com

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informitv - Wi-Fi Direct connects television to other devices

Digital televisions are among the first devices to adopt Wi-Fi Direct, a set of peer wireless networking protocols that enable compatible products to communicate directly, with or without a wireless access point or internet connection. A report forecasts that there will be 80 million digital televisions with Wi-Fi Direct enabled by 2015. Furthermore, it predicts that by 2014 every personal computer, consumer electronics device or mobile phone that ships with Wi-Fi will support the new standard. - informitv.com

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BBC4 to ditch drama and comedy to focus on arts - Media - The Guardian

The channel looks to be ditching drama and comedy to focus on the arts. However, for all the critical and media acclaim, BBC4 has less than a 1 share of the television audience, while spending 55m a year. BBC management is keen to beef up BBC2, which suffered the biggest drop in audience share of the five main channels in 2010. - guardian.co.uk

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The BBC make a switch to 1080p HD TV broadcasts

Having for some time received a fair amount of criticism for the quality of its High Definition broadcasts the BBC has made the switch to the higher quality 1080p format. The mixed 1080i/1080p broadcasts take into consideration the fact that a number of programmes shot in HD use the two formats in conjunction - 1080p for location and 1080i for the studio. The BBC are simply broadcasting what has been produced rather than encoding in the 1080i format. - hdtvorg.co.uk

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Which? reveals new Smart TV test results - June - 2011 - Which? News

The good news is that the picture quality on the Best Buys is some of the best we've ever seen - whether watching standard-definition, high-definition or even 3D TV. Only one of the TVs on test managed to sound even remotely impressive - the rest deliver synthetic, harsh and bass-lite audio which will leave you scrabbling for a decent set of Hi-Fi speakers. Six of eight new TVs let you connect to the internet too. - which.co.uk

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BBC News - Plea put out for lost TV shows

3 June 2011 Last updated at 1130 ET A group devoted to the appreciation of vintage television is calling on TV watchers to search their attics for recordings of programmes feared lost. Four missing episodes of 1950s sci-fi drama The Quatermass Experiment are among the most sought-after shows. Four Dennis Potter dramas from the '60s are also missing believed to be wiped by broadcaster, as is most of the first series of The Avengers. - bbc.co.uk

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BBC unveils 2011/12 budget

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Summary of responses to the Local Media Action Plan Consultation

This document summarises the 140 responses we received to the Local Media Action Plan consultation. These responses included expressions of interest in providing a network channel expressions of interest in providing local services expressions of interest in providing nations-based specific services comments on the local TV policy proposition A-Z responses The non-confidential responses to this consultation was published on 14 October 2011 and are shown below. Unless stated otherwise, allfiles are less than 1mb in size and are inRich Text format RTF. - culture.gov.uk

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Ofcom - Coexistence of new services in the 800 MHz band with digital terrestrial television

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Mobile signals to interfere with digital TV

The telecoms watchdog is starting a research programme to find out how to help people affected when future mobile technology is switched on. About 3 of TV-watching Britons could suffer interference from fourth-generation 4G mobile, said Ofcom. Filters will solve the problem for some, said Ofcom, but others may have to use other ways to get TV signals. - bbc.co.uk

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Changes to BBC HD channels on satellite on 6th June

I wanted to let you know about an upcoming change to the way we broadcast our HD channels on satellite, and how this might, or might not, affect you. One of the BBC's principles is to ensure that we use the spectrum we have available to us in the most efficient way possible. This means that from time to time, as technology develops, we make changes to the way our services are broadcast to ensure we are making best use of this scarce resource. - bbc.co.uk

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Jeremy Hunt signals overhaul of local TV plans - News - Broadcast

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Here's what's new

See all James Cridland's articles And here it is - Media UK v5. The layout is neater, flows better on wider screens try resizing your screen wider and then smaller and see what happens, and allows us much more opportunity to control our look and feel in the future. You'll use this to control any email alerts you get from Media UK shortly - we've temporarily disabled new signups while we continue to work on the backend. - mediauk.com

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Jeremy Hunt confirms major shift in local TV policy - Media - guardian.co.uk

Jeremy Hunt previously championed the idea of launching a network of local TV services. The Department for Culture, Media and Sport has published a summary of the 140 responses to its consultation on local TV. A number of the submissions are understood to have opposed the national network and played a part in Hunt's rethink, as MediaGuardian.co.uk revealed last month. - guardian.co.uk

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Now Digital requests to extend multiplex - Radio Today

Ofcom has published a consultation on Now Digitals request to extend the coverage area of one of its local radio multiplex licence. Now Digital wants to extend the Exeter Torbay multiplex further to include North Devon. It says that it will launch the first of these within six months of Ofcom granting consent to its request, and the latter two six months after a positive decision in 2013 by Government regarding digital switchover. - radiotoday.co.uk

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Bubbling mud, DAB, and DAB+ - James Cridland

Apologies, but I suspect thisll be even more technical but its hopefully interesting. This is supposed to be like, so Ive been told, the experience on DAB though my experience in Australia was that the squeaks and burbles were just as audible. Well, heres how it works, according to a correspondent to this blog. - james.cridland.net

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Proposal to axe some BBC2 daytime shows to save money 'gaining traction' - Media - guardian.co.uk

Mark Thompson made the suggestion on BBC2 daytime shows in March. A fortnight ago senior managers met in Caversham to begin the process of whittling down the large number of suggestions put forward, including the one about BBC2 daytime. He plans to cut 20 from budgets across the BBC. - guardian.co.uk

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Digital switchover begins in Edinburgh - Edinburgh News - STV Local

The change began when the analogue BBC Two signal from the Craigkelly transmitter was turned off early this morning. The switchover will be completed on June 15, when all the remaining analogue channels will cease to transmit. The Switchover Help Scheme is still welcoming applications from eligible older and disabled people to get help to convert one television, including a choice of equipment, installation and aftercare. - local.stv.tv

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