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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BBC iPlayer - Help - Android Tablet devices - Why does the BBC iPlayer App launch the service via my browser?

Well, there are a few issues which we are currently addressing which we hope to resolve shortly. In the meantime, you can still use the App to access BBC iPlayer. Your BBC iPlayer App will be prompted to update when the issue has been resolved. - iplayerhelp.external.bbc.co.uk

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Murdoch: News Corp 'not big enough'

C21Media.net is Everything about content in the 21st Century, from television to web, mobile, tablet and beyond. - c21media.net

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Broadcast and technology industries form White Spaces consortium

The consortium will test technologies under a variety of scenarios to assess how TV white spaces could be used to facilitate communications and information services. The TV white spaces hotspots will include local pubs, other leisure venues, and commercial and residential premises. DTG Staff 27.06.2011 Links open in a new window. - dtg.org.uk

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BBC World Service 'to receive additional funding'

The fundings boost will increase the World Service's funding as a proportion of the FCO's budget to just over 14.5, acoording to Hague. A number of projects have been set up to support the development of the media and wider society in the Middle East and North Africa region which may total an additional investment of up to 1.65m over the next two years, according to Hague. DTG Staff 22.06.2011 Links open in a new window. - dtg.org.uk

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Ariel - The iPlayer goes global

The BBC's international version of the iPlayer will launch in different territories at staggered times, with Western Europeans likely to get it first. It will initially only be available on Apple's iPad and there will be a modest subscription charge. The plans will be unveiled at the Banff World Media Festival in Canada. - bbc.co.uk

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Ariel - Cometh the Hour

There is little to distinguish this as a film set unless you look closely - a sign outside the dilapidated 1930s building says 'Lime Grove Studios' and, in a parking lot behind its imposing facade, there are television vans and a snaking of thick wires. His feisty producer Bel, with whom there is obvious chemistry, is determined to do something serious and investigative - and the unfolding Suez Crisis presents her with the opportunity. In 1953 items included why nylons laddered and how to kick a football. - bbc.co.uk

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Ariel - Lords say let Ofcom regulate BBC

Principally they found that the complaints process is 'convoluted and overly complicated' and say it must be improved. - bbc.co.uk

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Murdoch faces sky high price for BSkyB - Media - guardian.co.uk

Crispin Odey, founder of Odey Asset Management, believes the satellite broadcaster is worth 19bn. If that's the case, Rupert Murdoch's company would need to pay 11.6bn for the 61 of shares it does not already own. Another fund manager, Fidelity, has valued BSkyB at just a little less. - guardian.co.uk

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Cable Forum: Fraudster ordered to pay back £23,000

Blackburn Magistrates ordered Imran Khansia, 30, of Livingstone Road, Blackburn, to forfeit 23,390 at a proceeds of crime hearing. The cash is already in the hands of the authorities it was seized in April 2008 when Khansia, along with three other men, was arrested in a police raid that netted around 200 modified, or chipped set-top boxes, along with cash, computers and documents. Khansia began a six-year jail term for his part in the operation following has conviction in May 2010. - cableforum.co.uk

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BBC - The BBC Radio Blog: John Myers' review of the BBC's popular music stations

Today we are making public a report which looks at potential synergies and savings within Radio 1, Radio 2, 6 Music and 1Xtra. The key challenge was to identify possible ways of sensibly reducing costs while protecting the quality of our programmes. The findings of the report will help us with our current planning as we look to save costs. - bbc.co.uk

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BBC iPlayer global launch to begin in western Europe - Media - guardian.co.uk

Doctor Who will be one of the programmes available on the BBC iPlayer in western Europe. Diehard BBC fans living in western Europe will have to pay somewhere under 10 6 a month the fee is still to be decided in return for a mix of contemporary and archive content on the Apple tablet, all of which will be in English. As a result some familiar programmes which do not fit into this theme, such as EastEnders, are unlikely to be available. - guardian.co.uk

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I Ditched Scheduled TV for On-Demand - SlashGear

Sometimes the big changes creep up on you, and its only much later that you realize youve had your own little digital lifestyle epiphany. Having read about the death of scheduled television and the migration to on-demand content for years now, it still all seemed like a distant unfeasible dream. Yet somehow, without really intending to, Ive been weened off broadcast TV and liberated from the schedules, without really trying. - slashgear.com

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Motorola Televation Streams Live TV to Connected Devices AndroidGuys

Motorola Mobility just announced a new broadband device designed to share live TV across other connected IP devices. Theres no word on pricing or availability yet, but Motorola will be at the2011 Cable Show inChicago, IL. this week. Hopefully this becomes available for consumers to buy outright and not as part of a package deal with specific cable providers. - androidguys.com

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Ariel - Reports of 1500 job cuts are speculation

13 June 2011 Last updated at 1640 Helen Boaden has dismissed weekend press reports that 1500 jobs are under threat in News as 'muddled' and 'inaccurate'. In reality however, all ideas are provisional, they need to be tested - and to be signed off by the Trust. Until then they are literally work in progress.' The figure of 1500, out of 8000 journalists, was also speculation, Boaden insisted, although given that 70 of the division's cost base is in people, there would definitely be post closures as part of DQF. - bbc.co.uk

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BBC Television centre sell-off Q A - Media - guardian.co.uk

BBC Television Centre it is estimated that vacating it will save 20m a year. This cash will come in handy as the BBC makes cost savings required by a six-year licence-fee freeze, which will see its income cut by 16 in real terms. The BBC owns a number of large premises around the UK and aims to find some of these savings by reducing the size of its property portfolio by 30. - guardian.co.uk

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Ariel - Who wants to buy TVC?

Bidders are being sought to either buy the place as a whole and re-develop it, or to enter into a joint-venture partnership which would retain some of the most well-known features of the site. 'We spent six months really agonizing over this choice, and that's why as part of this exercise we're looking to see if there's someone out there who won't follow the traditional route of trying to dilute the English Heritage restraints, mazimise land value and put x thousand apartments on it. There may be someone who can recognise the iconic legacy of TVC. - bbc.co.uk

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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

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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Sky Anywhere renamed Sky Go - 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 - 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

This format allows users to download documents and to view and print them for their own use. For more information and to download the Adobe AcrobatR Reader software please visit the Click Adobe website. - bbc.co.uk

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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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