Tuesday 19 October 2010, AM
September BBC iPlayer monthly performance pack
This corresponded with the new autumn schedules, and the re-launch of BBC iPlayer. On radio, Radio 5Live's coverage of Switzerland v England football match was the most-requested programme of the month. - bbc.co.uk
www.bbc.co.ukBBC Radio Blog: Launching HD Sound
Listeners are currently very satisfied with radio services but digital technology does bring opportunities to keep improving what we offer. This summer, BBC Radio 3 completed a trial of a higher quality online audio stream at the Proms. We will quickly assess the performance of this before making the higher quality stream available on iPlayer and the proposed radio industry player called Radioplayer. - bbc.co.ukwww.bbc.co.uk
BBC to launch HD Sound | 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 reforms end years of hyperactivity | Media | The Guardian
The cutbacks to Ofcom's duties, including a formal end to automatic reviews of public service television every five years, bring to an end an era of hyperactivity. Yet for all this work, few of its recommendations have been implemented. The first of its reviews, in 2005, predicted that commercially funded public service broadcasting, from regional programmes to children's, would not survive the transition to a fully digital world. - guardian.co.uk
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Greg Dyke: Ive got a lot of time for Jeremy Hunt | Media | The Guardian
So why is Greg Dyke sitting in a damp cellar talking about the highlight of his business career, 1991 Yet as the 63-year-old pokes his head around an ancient vault below a Mayfair hotel, it's hard to feel disappointed. Dyke blames a man who took legal action last year over comments he made in another newspaper. - guardian.co.ukwww.guardian.co.ukSaturday 16 October 2010, AM
Chile miners rescue puts BBC ahead of Sky | Latest technology and web news | Web User
It attracted over 16 per cent of all traffic from searches for the rescue, way ahead of the Guardian.co.uk in second place which received just over six per cent, according to web analytics firm Hitwise. Wikipedia, Facebook and YouTube all received more traffic than Sky News which sat in 11th place and had just 1.2 per cent of traffic. News channels were dominated by coverage of the Chile miners rescue on Wednesday as the 33 miners who had been trapped in the mine for 69 days were hoisted to safety. 'BBC chile miners' was the tenth most-popular search term with 'sky news chile miners' in 20th, according to Hitwise. - webuser.co.uk
www.webuser.co.ukJames Murdochs call to Vince Cable on day of BSkyB bid | Media | The Guardian
James Murdoch called Vince Cable on day of the BSkyB bid. The conversation took place on the day News Corp made a bid for BSkyB. Cable will decide within weeks whether to approve News Corp's offer to buy the 61 of the pay-TV company it does not already own. - guardian.co.ukwww.guardian.co.ukChilly outlook forecast for the BBCs weathermen | UK news | The Guardian
Within hours of the news that three BBC weather presenters had been moved to backroom jobs in cost-cutting measures still unconfirmed yesterday by the Met Office internet boards were fizzing with outrage. Philip Avery and Tomasz Schafernaker were also said to be moving behind thescenes. John Teather, who oversaw the BBC's weather output for 30 years, says good broadcasters are hard to find. - guardian.co.ukwww.guardian.co.uk
Loach launches attack on TV executives -TV Radio, Media - The Independent
It takes 1m to get them out of the door ... but nevertheless they're on their way, great, good riddance. We nowhere near realise its potential and we really have to cherish the medium, work together, just build it better and we can, we can, but not if we're in the grip of this machine. - independent.co.uk
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The man behind Skins hops channels as new BBC1 controller -TV Radio, Media - The Independent
Danny Cohen, 36, leaves as head of BBC3 to take over the nation's most watched channel where he will oversee a 1.1bn budget, more than 10 times the 100m he had to spend at the digital channel. Even his delight in Dickens, whose novels were the 19th-century equivalent of documentaries lifting the lid on social scandals, is suggestive of a taste for the suffering end of human drama. The Blood Sweat and Takeaways documentary, in which six young people travelled to Indonesia to join the tuna trade won the coveted Rose d'Or award for best reality and factual entertainment. - independent.co.ukwww.independent.co.ukBBC slashes senior managers pay -TV Radio, Media - The Independent
The BBC has cut the amount it pays senior managers by more than 10, the corporation said today. Figures show the number of senior managers has dropped from 639 to 592 and the paybill has fallen by 12.2. They also show top BBC executives claim an average of 445 a month in expenses - around 100 less than a year ago. - independent.co.ukwww.independent.co.ukWill YouView be a hit? | News | TechRadar UK
YouView is hoping to do for television through your broadband connection what Freeview did for digital television, and bring video on demand to the masses. - techradar.com
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Frontrunners for BBC3 controller emerge | Media | guardian.co.uk
Cohen had been hotly tipped to step into the role vacated by Jay Hunt, who left to take the new role of chief creative officer at Channel 4 and it is understood that a shortlist of candidates is already in circulation. 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.ukwww.guardian.co.ukBBC3 chief to take over at BBC1 -TV Radio, Media - The Independent
-www.independent.co.ukKen Loach: TV is the enemy of creativity | Television radio | The Guardian
The director, who first joined the BBC 47 years ago and made plays such as Cathy Come Home, launched an excoriating attack on the culture of television today. Loach said he had been around a long time. Loach said filmgoers today, whether watching at the cinema or on TV, had a raw deal and got what they were given by a Hollywood-dominated industry. - guardian.co.ukwww.guardian.co.ukDanny Cohen named BBC1 controller | Media | guardian.co.uk
Cohen, currently controller of BBC3, had been widely touted for the role following incumbent Jay Hunt moving to take the newly created role of chief creative officer at Channel 4. He has been in charge of BBC3 and its 100m budget since May 2007, and will now be in charge of the country's most popular TV channel with a budget of 1.13bn. Cohen will be paid slightly less than his predecessor Jay Hunt. - guardian.co.ukwww.guardian.co.ukGovernment pulls plug on Teachers TV | Media | guardian.co.uk
The Department for Education has pulled the plug on Teachers TV, the online training site for British schoolteachers. Ten Alps, which co-owns the site with ITN, said in a stock exchange announcement this morning that the government is cancelling the 10m annual contract from April 2011. Connock said he hoped the website would survive. - guardian.co.ukwww.guardian.co.ukFriday 15 October 2010, AM
Media Talk: Bye bye, Mark Byford
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Clouds in Skys deal - mirror.co.uk
For an individual who doesn't live or pay taxes here to have such a hold over our media and public life, with the ability to crush rival voices, is bad for democracy and commercially uncompetitive. We believe Mr Murdoch has the right in a free world to say and think what he likes. He correctly points out his American outfits are rare beacons of Right wing views in the left-of-centre US media. - mirror.co.uk
www.mirror.co.ukJob losses at Five to continue with Kaplinsky departure -TV Radio, Media - The Independent
The newsreader Natasha Kaplinsky is to leave Five in December, the channel announced yesterday, bringing to an end the multimillion-pound deal which made her Britain's highest-paid current-affairs presenter. The 38-year-old, who recently returned to her on-screen role after maternity leave, had been due to renegotiate her contract at the end of the year, but the television channel, which was bought by the newspaper owner Richard Desmond this summer, said that both parties had agreed not to renew the deal by mutual agreement. Her time with the channel was punctuated by two periods of maternity leave following the births of her children, and in February 2009, she took a 300,000 pay cut in return for dropping the 7pm bulletin from her duties. - independent.co.ukwww.independent.co.ukAnthony Rose Talks YouView in London - StreamingMedia.com
In the 45-minute speech, Rosewho played an instrumental role in the BBC iPlayer's launch and significant growthsaid viewing models are rapidly converging. He spoke of changes to the market in both desktop and living room consumption of video. Still, these devices have grown in popularity, and there will be several million Internet-enabled TV in UK homes by year's end. - streamingmedia.comwww.streamingmedia.comThursday 14 October 2010, PM
BT Vision app for connected TVs on the way? - Pocket-lint
And, indeed, that it is improving the service all the time. Recently, it has adopted the standard definition versions of Sky Sports 1 and 2, a move that has helped rise the number of households with the service's set-top-box to over 450,000. I think anything that means that we can get Vision to customers at high quality is on the table as an option. - pocket-lint.comwww.pocket-lint.comS4C claims 40% budget cut would call into question future of channel | Media | guardian.co.uk
S4C has today published a bleak 28-page response to the Department of Media, Culture and Sport in which it outlines the impact of cuts of either 25 or 40 to its 100m-a-year funding with potential ramifications including having to switch the service off for several hours a day. The knock-on effects of such cuts would be the loss of 500 to 800 jobs in the production sector in Wales and beyond, it added. The programming budget would fall from 83m to 62m in 2014. - guardian.co.ukwww.guardian.co.uk
BSkyB in last-ditch attempt to scramble YouView video-on-demand player - Telegraph
BSkyB is reported to have questioned the need to inject public money into the project when, it believes, there is currently sufficient competition in the internet-enabled television IPTV market. Concerns are thought to have been raised about the difficulty the consortium poses to new, smaller players in the video-on-demand market. YouView will provide IPTV, giving seven million Freeview households who have broadband access to download thousands of hours of programming to their televisions. - telegraph.co.uk
www.telegraph.co.ukBBC denies Alan Yentobs departure imminent | Media | guardian.co.uk
The BBC was forced to issue a statement today denying that Alan Yentob, one of its longest-serving executives, is about to leave the corporation. His post would then be abolished, saving the BBC about 183,000 a year, although Yentob is likely to remain at the corporation in some capacity. Announcements about departures have trickled out throughout the week, taking some of the BBC's most senior figures including channel controllers by surprise. - guardian.co.ukwww.guardian.co.ukGovernment curbs Ofcoms powers | Media | guardian.co.uk
Jeremy Hunt 'increasing the efficiency, transparency and accountability of public bodies'. The culture secretary, Jeremy Hunt, made the announcements today as part of sweeping changes that will see 19 of the 55 public bodies for which the Department for Culture, Media and Sport is responsible either abolished or significantly reformed. The DCMS also confirmed rumours that Postcomm, the postal services regulator, will be merged into Ofcom. - guardian.co.ukwww.guardian.co.ukDCMS: Ofcom reforms : | OfcomWatch |
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Daybreak lagging a million viewers behind rival -TV Radio, Media - The Independent
ITV's relaunched Daybreak show has slipped a million viewers behind its BBC rival for the first time, figures showed today. The programme has seen audiences slip after an impressive start of one million viewers, to settle at around 700,000 - lower than audiences for its predecessor GMTV. ITV bosses spent more than 1 million in rebranding and revamping the morning show with new sets and a big marketing push. - independent.co.ukwww.independent.co.uk
Government reveals Ofcom shake up | News | Broadcast
14 October, 2010 By Chris Curtis Ofcom is to undergo a major overhaul as part of the governments bonfire of the quangos that will return the policy-setting role to the secretary of state, reduce unnecessary expense and avoid duplication. 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.ukwww.broadcastnow.co.ukSun attacks duds opposing News Corps BSkyB takeover | Media | guardian.co.uk
Trinity Mirror and Channel 4 also put their names to the letter. News Corp is expected to seek regulatory approval for the deal from the European Commission in the next 10 days. Cable will then have 25 days in which to seek an intervention notice and would then ask media regulator Ofcom to investigate whether the deal could compromise media plurality. - guardian.co.ukwww.guardian.co.uk
Met office forecasters off screens -TV Radio, Media - The Independent
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World. News Corp. slows BSkyB bid
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www.ottawacitizen.comThe Times hits out at BBC over BSkyB takeover letter | Media | guardian.co.uk
Trinity Mirror and Channel 4 also put their names to the letter. The Times editorial begins by listing more than 70 BBC services, including its major TV and radio stations, website and local radio services. It argues that it is the BBC rather than News Corporation, which wields too much power. - guardian.co.ukwww.guardian.co.ukCanvas should be blocked, says Sky -Business News, Business - The Independent
Sky's late move means that decision is likely to be delayed. - independent.co.ukwww.independent.co.uk
Changing channels: YouView is highly controversial, despite its cosy image
Richard Halton, who heads the plan to transform British living rooms by enabling households to watch their favourite shows over the internet but on their TV sets, seems aware of this. We will be able to use social media features such as Twitter and Flickr, and channels from new broadcasters, such as arts and charities. All this will be available from the sofa, using neither a mouse nor a Merlin-style wand but an old-fashioned TV zapper. - independent.co.ukwww.independent.co.ukWednesday 13 October 2010, PM
News Corps self-service broadcasting | Media Monkey | Media | guardian.co.uk
We include only News Corp assets which are based or have influence in the UK. - guardian.co.ukwww.guardian.co.ukBSkyB submits 11th-hour complaint to Ofcom and OFT in bid to halt YouView | Media | guardian.co.uk
YouView privately a number of partners in the service believe an investigation is likely. News of Sky's move prompted an angry reaction from the YouView chief executive, Richard Halton. YouView will enable the 7m Freeview households who have broadband access to download thousands of hours of programming over the internet direct to their TV. - guardian.co.ukwww.guardian.co.ukFilm fans to get incredible new range of titles thanks to YouView - Broadband Genie
One of the leading UK websites dedicated to giving film fans what they want at the click of a mouse button has confirmed that it plans to use YouView as a vital tool for reaching out to new users. Formerly known as Project Canvas, YouView is a new service that utilises a TV box to allow viewers to tap into a mountain of televisual treats in the comfort of their own homes. The YouView concept aims to offer the simplicity of Freeview, but with the added benefit of catch-up and on-demand services without the need for any kind of contract. - broadbandgenie.co.uk
www.broadbandgenie.co.ukBBC marketing supremo is axed -TV Radio, Media - The Independent
The BBC's marketing supremo Sharon Baylay is being axed in the latest shake-up of senior figures, it was announced today. The closure of the post of director of BBC marketing, communications and audiences comes a day after it was announced that deputy director general Mark Byford is to leave. Ms Baylay, who is paid 310,000, will leave the corporation when her role ends. - independent.co.ukwww.independent.co.ukMark Thompson announces reduced BBC Executive Board
The purpose of the restructuring is to further streamline management and management boards at the BBC and to make further progress towards the BBC's target of reducing its senior manager pay bill by 25 per cent by the end of next year. At a time when other broadcasters are struggling to maintain their origination budgets, it's critical that the BBC spends as much of the licence fee as possible on high quality content. As a proportion of spend, overheads are around half what they were in the 1990s. - bbc.co.ukwww.bbc.co.uk
Spring debut for MHEG-IC catch-up | Broadband TV News
Speaking at a Mashup event on the future of multiscreen, Cutts said the Freeview implementation would be similar to that already seen on Freesat. Cutts expects that a significant proportion of Freeview HD products sold from 2011 onwards will reach this specification, which includes facilities to deliver encrypted streams to TVs and to allow flexible playlist presentation of content and advertising. - broadbandtvnews.com
www.broadbandtvnews.comWednesday 13 October 2010, AM
Murdochs whingeing rivals actually have a case for once | Simon Jenkins | Comment is free | The Guardian
Murdoch is the best thing that ever happened to the British media, and they hate it. Without him and his Fleet Street revolution it is most unlikely that today there would be any Guardian or Independent, any third news channel and any Sky Arts 2. When Murdoch came along the pundits predicted at most three newspapers in Britain by 1980, as in most unionised countries. - guardian.co.ukwww.guardian.co.ukTuesday 12 October 2010, PM
Rupert Murdochs will is likely to prevail over BSkyB buyout | Michael White | Comment is free | The Guardian
Combative, tenacious, charming, irritable, Murdoch was already recognisably the character who dominates a global media empire in his 80th year. So he cut a mutually useful deal with a Menzies coalition ally, the first of many politicians - and editors - to be discarded when the moment came to switch horses. That would square with his track record around the world since he inherited his father Sir Keith's newspapers in 1953. - guardian.co.ukwww.guardian.co.uk
BBC News - Google and Apple heat up battle for TV screens
The view comes as Sony unveiled the first Google-powered TVs. Connecting the TV to the web has become a focus among manufacturers and set top box makers vying for market share. Google's emergence has energised things said commentators as has Apple's renewed bid for domination with its TV converter. - bbc.co.ukwww.bbc.co.ukMark Byfords exit exposes BBCs leadership gap | Media | guardian.co.uk
It is widely assumed that director general Mark Thompson is planning to exit about 2012 once the London Olympics have taken place, ideally after he has also negotiated the next licence fee settlement. So who is qualified to be in the frame as the next director general of the BBC It would seem that recruiting an executive who has risen through news and current affairs, the path to the top which Thompson trod, is now out of favour. - guardian.co.ukwww.guardian.co.ukBBC Trust - Chairmans Statement On Deputy Director General
Please visit the BBC Trust homepage to find the information you want. you may have typed the web address incorrectly - please check the spelling, or that there are no spaces or capital letters. Alternatively, please try the other links and search box on this page. - bbc.co.ukwww.bbc.co.ukNew Edition of BBC Editorial Guidelines launched today
-www.bbc.co.ukPeter Salmon to step down from BBC executive board
More details about further changes to the executive board are due to be revealed shortly as part of the director general Mark Thompson's plan to slim down his top team. Salmon hit the headlines after it emerged in July that he would not be moving to live in Salford the home of the BBC's new northern headquarters. It is understood that when Salmon became BBC North director the corporation did not include a clause in his contract stipulating he had to move to Salford. - guardian.co.ukwww.guardian.co.ukRupert Murdoch BSkyB decision: the Fox in Vince Cables backyard | Michael White | Politics | guardian.co.uk
What a rotten week, thrust into the heart of painful rows, first over student finance and now Rupert Murdoch's tightening grip over the British media industry. Did he come into elective politics and become a senior minister at 67 to be battered from all quarters What mischief to give the job to Dr Vince ... - guardian.co.ukwww.guardian.co.uk
Sorry Rupert, money is power and your BSkyB deal could threaten rivals | Media | guardian.co.uk
I found myself way out on a limb this morning in the face of an unprecedented alliance of media companies lined up in opposition to Rupert Murdoch's proposal to acquire complete ownership of BSkyB. Not then, and not since, has Sky News - BSkyB's only public service channel - been found to have breached broadcasting impartiality rules. Indeed, despite its small audiences, it has performed well. - guardian.co.ukwww.guardian.co.ukpick a page