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BBC to 'reinvent the iPlayer' in a bid to remain relevant to 16-34 year-olds – Digital TV Europe
The BBC will focus on reinventing the iPlayer this year and making it more of a destination for young people, according to BBC chairman David Clementi. Outlining how the BBC will face challenges like changing viewing habits and competition from global giants like Netflix and Amazon, Clementi said that the BBC's focus on modernising its services will allow it to alter how it delivers content to audiences and how they respond. - www.digitaltveurope.com
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Ofcom seeks to scrap local TV roll-out
Since the first service launched in 2013.several stations - including the capital's service London Live - have asked Ofcom to reduce their local news obligations. Ofcom had identified 13 further locations as local TV candidates, but said it was now minded to end the roll-out. - www.bbc.co.uk
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20/04/2018 Radio 4 Feedback
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#93 - Daily Mail’s Accidental Profanity, Radio 4’s Rivers Of Blood, Test Match Special’s Early Tea -The Media Podcast wi
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BT set to ditch traditional phone lines, go VoIP-only by 2025
BT will be left with one less network to maintain, allowing it to concentrate its spending on improving broadband rather than needing to spend thousands on a legacy technology that's being used by less and less people annually. The BBC's iPlayer has even started to outpace traditional TV as next generation technologies like HDR are tested over the streaming service while being more or less absent from traditional TV. But other transmission technologies are proving much more resilient. - www.trustedreviews.comwww.trustedreviews.comThursday 19 April 2018, AM
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Mysterious Google-branded 4K Android TV dongle shows up at the FCC
With the existing device lineup, there is no way to buy an Android TV device that will get Android P in a timely manner. Google's TV strategy had long been split between bigger, more functional Android TV set-top boxes and smaller, easier-to-use Chromecast devices. - arstechnica.comarstechnica.comMonday 09 April 2018, PM
BBC Radio 4 broke impartiality rules in Nigel Lawson climate change interview
BBC Radio 4 broke impartiality rules by failing to sufficiently challenge climate change denier Nigel Lawson's controversial claims in an interview, the broadcasting watchdog has ruled. Co/HtqJf9sBFW. The Today programme featured five interviews on climate change prompted by the release of former US vice-president Al Gore's film An Inconvenient Sequel, the follow-up to 2006's An Inconvenient Truth, each conducted by presenter Justin Webb. - www.theguardian.com
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06/04/2018 Radio 4 Feedback
www.bbc.co.uk#92 - The Gender Pay Gap, Interns and a lifeline for Sky - The Media Podcast with Olly Mann
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Do you really need a 4K TV? – Which? News
4K TVs can display HD content better than HD TVs. It's fair to say the vast majority of what people watch on 4K TVs will be HD channels from Freeview or a pay TV services, which is why we continue to see how good these TVs are at displaying HD and SD video. While the results are close, so too are the cost of many 4K and HD TVs. By choosing a 4K TV, you'll get better HD picture quality and you're ready when the 4K channels do launch. - www.which.co.uk
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How porno conquered podcasts
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Local DAB radio coverage expansion complete – RadioToday
The launch of the two new transmitters completes the transformative initiative to expand the UK's local DAB transmission network towards FM equivalence, which was announced by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport in 2015 and jointly funded by the DCMS, BBC and local DAB multiplex operators. The programme of work, which was delivered by Arqiva, has doubled the local DAB network, with new transmitters or modifications to 221 local DAB sites, boosting local DAB coverage from 72 to more than 90 of UK households. - radiotoday.co.uk
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Is the BBC abdicating its responsibilities over Brexit?
When the BBC is accused of bias, its reaction is always the same - executives and journalists protest that if all sides attack the BBC with equal force all the time then they must be doing something right. Last weekend, thousands of EU supporters marched in towns and cities across the country, but little appeared on the BBC. Yet Nigel Farage has only to tip a crate of fish into the Thames and the BBC dutifully turns up to film the stunt. - www.theguardian.comwww.theguardian.comSunday 01 April 2018, AM
Isle of Man
Jason Moorhouse wanted to know what plans there were to bring the digital TV and radio coverage in the Isle of Man up to an equivalent level with the UK. Currently, fewer Freeview television services are available from Manx relay transmitters than from the main masts in the UK. The island's three radio stations - EnergyFM, 3FM and government-subsidised Manx Radio - all broadcast on analogue frequencies and online. With regard to the BBC, he said he could raise the issue of allowing other stations to use the DAB transmitter as part of wider negotiations over the TV licence fee and the corporation's Isle of Man coverage. - www.iomtoday.co.im
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91A: RadioDays Europe - Paul Robinson interviews Midge Ure (Ultravox), Daniela Linzer (Kronehit), Bob Shennan (BBC) and
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23/03/2018 Radio 4 Feedback
www.bbc.co.ukEpisode 91: Talent Trouble, Cambridge Analytica RadioDays Europe
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Media Masters - Andrew Tuck
www.buzzsprout.comThe BBC is driving its presenters to despair
The BBC is now recouping tax and national insurance from his fee - on which, of course, tax and national insurance contributions have been paid as company income - to the extent that he fears being made homeless. The overwhelming majority of people in our group are not lavishly paid, and all of us accept our tax responsibilities but forming PSCs was forced upon us by the BBC, which must take responsibility for that. - www.theguardian.comwww.theguardian.comWednesday 21 March 2018, PM
How Carole Cadwalladr exposed Facebook
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COBA claims EPG changes may derail kids content investment – TBI Vision
UK multichannel broadcasters' association COBA has issued a warning that changes to regulations governing the prominence of channels on electronic programme guides could threaten its members' willingness to invest in kids programming. COBA said that 74 of the money invested by its members in kids programming came from non-domestic channels related to UK-based broadcasters. - tbivision.comtbivision.comTuesday 20 March 2018, AM
BBC presenters reveal 'constant anxiety' caused by pay arrangements
A BBC presenter has told MPs she tried to kill herself because of stress over the controversial arrangements under which she was employed. The announcement came a day before DJ Liz Kershaw, radio presenter Kirsty Lang and financial journalist Paul Lewis were due to give evidence to an inquiry by the House of Commons culture committee into the use of PSCs. Before Tuesday's hearing, the committee released a dossier of evidence from presenters who claim the BBC put pressure on them to be employed via a PSC, rather than as a member of staff, only for them to find themselves targeted by an HMRC clampdown on the arrangement. - www.theguardian.comwww.theguardian.comSunday 18 March 2018, PM
Russian voices in western media leave regulators with new type of headache
Although RT is a very minor part of the diplomatic crisis between Russia and the UK, it serves as a metaphor for the ingrained and fraught nature of the relationship between western governments and the globalised systems of free media they have perpetuated. The ability of the Russian authorities to infiltrate and amplify within the European and US news environment leaves regulators with a new type of headache. - www.theguardian.comwww.theguardian.comFriday 16 March 2018, PM
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DTG :: News :: Award of 2.3 and 3.4 GHz spectrum by auction
Ofcom is auctioning a total of 40 MHz of spectrum in the 2.3 GHz frequency band, which will allow mobile operators to improve their current services. The regulator is also auctioning 150 MHz of spectrum in the 3.4 GHz band to prepare for the roll out of future 5G services. - dtg.org.ukdtg.org.uk
Virgin Media expands fibre network to rural areas
Virgin Media said a broadband advocate community group representing the 12 villages contacted it in 2016, asking that the company bring its fibre network to their area. He does not think that Virgin Media will start providing a fibre network in all rural areas. - www.bbc.co.ukwww.bbc.co.ukFriday 09 March 2018, PM
09/03/2018 Radio 4 Feedback
www.bbc.co.uk#90 - Guardian Changing Media Summit 2018 - The Media Podcast with Olly Mann
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My TV's audio isn't great
Of course, everybody calls everything a soundbar nowadays, but you'd probably have been happier with a soundbar instead of a soundbase. At the time of writing, the Best Seller in Amazon's soundbar category was Majority's Snowdon Soundbar with Built-In Subwoofer, apparently reduced from 119.95 to 45.95. - www.theguardian.comwww.theguardian.comThursday 08 March 2018, AM
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DTG :: News :: Switzerland votes to retain licence fee
The Swiss public voted overwhelmingly in favour of retaining the country's TV and radio licence fee at the weekend. The No Billag initiative, referring to the name of the private company responsible for collecting the 451 Swiss francs licence fee, called for its abolition in 2015 and raised over 100,000 signatories which resulted in the public vote. - dtg.org.ukdtg.org.ukWednesday 07 March 2018, AM
The British Library's race to save old audio recordings
The British Library is in the process of digitising its 6.5 million sound recordings. The audio is in more than 40 different formats from wax cylinders to MiniDiscs so staff are having to hunt down old machines to play back the audio. - www.bbc.co.ukwww.bbc.co.ukTuesday 06 March 2018, PM
Media Masters - Bob Leaf, former International CEO of Burson-Marsteller
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The right to be forgotten, TV's stubborn popularity, and the end of lads' mags?
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Newsnight's future, data journalism, and town hall Pravdas
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New BBC Trust Chair, crowdfunding the news, Kate s bottom
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