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Heart ends More Music Variety slogan and logo – RadioToday
Heart has dropped the More Music Variety slogan the station has had for over 21 years. The More Music Variety was challenged by a listener in 2012, who said it was misleading because the network wasn't offering variety in its music. - radiotoday.co.uk
radiotoday.co.ukBBC plans box sets to 'reinvent' iPlayer
The BBC is due to publish a run of box-sets on its iPlayer service, as part of director general Tony Hall's plan to reinvent the service. Tom Hardy drama Taboo and psychological thriller Apple Tree Yard will be the first boxsets to be made available, with all episodes of each show to remain on iPlayer until the last episode is broadcast - and the full series box-set to be available for a further 30 days. - www.tvbeurope.com
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Cross-party call for 'fit and proper' test of James Murdoch
Mr Murdoch is chief executive of 21st Century Fox, which has made a 11.7bn bid to seize full control of Sky, the UK broadcaster, which he chairs. In a letter sent to Ofcom on Thursday, Mr Miliband, an outspoken critic of the Murdoch family, writes that the regulator should investigate whether Mr Murdoch would pass the watchdog's test. - www.ft.com
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RAJAR Q4 2016: Digital listening almost 50% – RadioToday
The figure was boosted by record levels of DAB digital listening, as hours grew by 12 or 51.3 million hours compared to Q4 2015, driven by record growth in DAB hours which increased by 23 and online hours which increased by 14. DAB digital radio now accounts for a third of all radio listening and 73 of all digital listening, with 31 million adults or 57 of the population owning a DAB radio - a year-on-year growth of 6. Digital listening via online/apps now accounts for 7.4 of all radio listening and 16 of digital listening, while digital television accounts for 4.9 of radio listening and for 11 of digital listening. Q4 2016 saw the highest-ever recorded proportion of in-car radio listening, accounting for 23.3 of all radio listening, growth supported by the increase of in-car digital radio with 87 of new cars now fitted with DAB as standard. - radiotoday.co.ukradiotoday.co.ukWednesday 08 February 2017, PM
David Beckham and reputation management, Curbing abuse on Twitter, The Guardian
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Five arrests in 'fully loaded' Kodi streaming box raids
Five people have been arrested, accused of selling set-top boxes modified to stream subscription football matches, television channels and films for free. Some shops sell legal set-top boxes and TV sticks, often called Kodi boxes, preloaded with the software. - www.bbc.co.ukwww.bbc.co.ukMonday 06 February 2017, AM
Rupert Murdoch accused of enjoying 'astounding access' to Downing Street
The bulk of the meetings with Murdoch and his senior executives were with Cameron, Osborne or other minsters under the previous government. Since becoming prime minister, May has met Thomson twice and Murdoch once, the latter at the Wall Street Journal in New York. - www.theguardian.comwww.theguardian.comFriday 03 February 2017, PM
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Sarah Sands, new Editor of Today; the PM's press pack; editors and politicians
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Discovery, Sky trade barbs as channel deadline looms - TBI Vision TBI Vision
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27/01/2017 Radio 4 Feedback
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Not guilty plea in landmark Kodi box trial
The trial will begin in May. Mr Thompson denied two charges of selling equipment that facilitated the circumvention of copyright protection measures. Users can add the software themselves but may require a degree of technical knowledge, said Mr van der Sar.Kodi is free, legal software that allows users to collect videos, music games and photos in one easy-to-use application. - www.bbc.co.ukwww.bbc.co.ukThursday 26 January 2017, AM
Discovery threatens to pull channels from Sky in carriage dispute
Sky viewers could soon see Discovery's portfolio of 12 channels - including Discovery, Animal Planet, Eurosport, Investigation Discovery, DMAX, Home and Health and Discovery Turbo - vanish from their EPGs after the two broadcasters failed to reach agreement on a new carriage deal. Channels owners have long privately complained that Sky squeezes them on price and this is said to have worsened since its last premier league bid, with the need to finance the 4.1bn deal seeing Sky seek to cut content and other costs in order to protect margins while avoiding the need to pass the full price of the football deal on to consumers. - www.seenit.co.ukwww.seenit.co.ukWednesday 25 January 2017, PM
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BBCWW, Cohen form funding initiative - TBI Vision TBI Vision
- tbivision.comtbivision.comWhy the BBC will struggle to make iPlayer as good as Netflix | Media | The Guardian
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Wednesday 11 January 2017, PM
Director-General Tony Hall's New Year message to BBC staff
This is what has to motivate us constantly in all our traditionally delivered services but now we also need to look again to the online space, where competition is highest, new audiences are most present, and where I believe we can serve them in brilliant new ways. How can we push boundaries, do new things, in the way that we have done so well with new developments in the past. - www.bbc.co.ukwww.bbc.co.uk
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BBC iPlayer will aim to be 'number one' online TV service
The BBC iPlayer will be reinvented in a bid to be the top online TV service in the UK by 2020, the broadcaster's director general Lord Hall is to say. He hopes to reach this goal by 2020 and in order to do so, the BBC will need to double the number of people it reaches through the online service. - www.bbc.co.ukwww.bbc.co.ukBBC iPlayer faces complete overhaul in Tony Hall's future-proofing plans
The BBC iPlayer must be completely re-invented with new technology such as artificial intelligence, voice recognition and personalisation if it is to keep its lead in online video, director general Tony Hall is to tell staff. BBC Worldwide, which sells BBC content and intellectual property overseas, would be crucial in exporting BBC Studios content and providing more money for programming. - www.theguardian.comwww.theguardian.comSaturday 07 January 2017, AM
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CES 2017: Sony chief pledges to detangle confusing TV tech
Sony's chief executive says his firm must do more to help consumers get to grips with a mass of TV tech acronyms. Kazuo Hirai made the pledge the day after announcing the firm's first 4K OLED screen, which he said supported two kinds of HDR. Rory Cellan-Jones has more from the CES tech show in Las Vegas. - www.bbc.co.ukwww.bbc.co.ukThursday 05 January 2017, PM
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Dish combines over-the-air and internet video
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Norway to start FM switchover on January 11th
The countdown is on to the official start of digital radio switchover in Norway, beginning on January 11th at 1111.11am. The formal ceremony in Norway will be watched by many countries around the world who themselves are heading towards a digital radio future, including the UK. Norway is the first country in the world to move the majority of its radio stations off FM. Norway has 25 national radio channels via DAB and currently has five national radio channels via FM. The DAB network now covers the same as FM. 54 of digital listeners listen to radio on DAB 19 per cent of digital listeners are on the net. - radiotoday.co.ukradiotoday.co.ukWednesday 04 January 2017, AM
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- tbivision.comtbivision.comEurosport becomes the new European home of the Olympics
Eurosport has officially become the new home of the Olympic Games in Europe. During the unveiling, Eurosport premiered its new Olympic Games film Millions of Journeys, One Destination, following the journeys of two athletes from childhood to competition. - www.tvbeurope.comwww.tvbeurope.comFriday 30 December 2016, PM
Court told TalkTalk ‘only has 125,000 paying TV subscribers'
The number of TalkTalk customers paying a regular monthly subscription for TV channels could be as low as 125,000 according to evidence recently heard by the Competition Appeals Tribunal. TalkTalk has been asked for a response to the claims. - www.seenit.co.ukwww.seenit.co.ukThursday 29 December 2016, PM
Scoops, scandals and sackings: Piers Morgan's life story - A Media Show Special
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The bid for Sky; Christmas TV; BBC Monitoring
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Entering the brave new world of IP
IP brings multiple advantagesOnce you get beyond the intangible nature of IP connectivity, there's really a lot to recommend no more expensive, heavy and bulky double-shielded coax and shielded twisted-pair audio cables with labor-intensive connectorisation no more multicore control cables and no need for separate control, video, programme audio or intercom cables, since all these signals can share the same CAT-type cable if you really want them to. Transitioning to an IP-based environmentPerhaps the best way to gain a comfort level with a new technology, like IP, is through a gradual transition - the same way we moved from tubes to transistors, monochrome to colour, analogue to digital, and more recently from SDTV to HD and beyond. - www.tvbeurope.comwww.tvbeurope.comTuesday 20 December 2016, PM
The Guardian view on the BBC chair: selfless public servant wanted
Yet it is the delicate mechanism of BBC governance - the manner in which its director general is supported and made accountable, and the BBC's independence is upheld - on which depends the bounty that the public, in Britain and beyond, enjoys. What has sustained the BBC since 1922 is the fact that it is a public, not a state, broadcaster. - www.theguardian.comwww.theguardian.comMonday 19 December 2016, PM
Satisfying the audiences of tomorrow
In 2011, 28 per cent of our respondents said that they watched content on YouTube at least daily, out of which three per cent claimed that they watch more than three hours a day. In contrast, US consumers spend 45 per cent more time choosing what to watch on VoD services than linear TV. Paradoxically, 63 per cent of consumers claim that they are very satisfied with content discovery when it comes to their VoD service, while only 51 per cent say the same for linear TV. This, of course, could be indicative of two things - the richness of the content available or the effectiveness of the content discovery experience. - www.tvbeurope.comwww.tvbeurope.comSaturday 17 December 2016, AM
DTG :: News :: DTG Statement on today's Ofcom Report 'Connected Nations 2016'
The DTG welcomes today's Connected Nations 2016 report from Ofcom which confirms that more people are, or can be, connected to the communications they need. Ultra High Definition services are beginning to emerge and Ofcom notes three key themes Linear TV consumption still remains dominant There has been a significant increase in both the number and sophistication of hybrid platforms Ultra High Definition television has arrived. - dtg.org.ukdtg.org.ukUK public backs BBC licence fee - TBI Vision TBI Vision
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Murdoch's dominance is insidious. He must not be allowed to buy Sky
If Rupert Murdoch was not a suitable person in 2011 to run a television company, nothing since has made him more so, as he renews his failed bid to take over the other 61 of Sky. Murdoch's bid seizes Sky on the cheap, after the plunge in the pound due to the Brexit vote. - www.theguardian.comwww.theguardian.comThursday 15 December 2016, AM
Tony Hall: The Brains Behind the BBC
For Hall, what matters is the content that has made the BBC a byword for distinction and distinctiveness the world over. Hall knew the BBC well, having worked there for 28 years, starting as a trainee and climbing up to head of news before he decamped to the opera house in 2001. - variety.com
variety.comWednesday 14 December 2016, PM
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Gordon Brown: delay Murdoch Sky takeover till after Leveson part 2
Gordon Brown has demanded that Rupert Murdoch's takeover of the Sky satellite business be delayed until the government carries out the second part of the Leveson inquiry into press malpractice. Bradley launched a consultation exercise on whether to launch part two of the Leveson inquiry in November, citing the costs involved and the fact that the first part had brought about changes in the industry as reasons for the review. - www.theguardian.comwww.theguardian.com
UK government 'must take action' on 5G
The communications regulator's targets are based on the percentage of properties that have access to a mobile phone signal rather than coverage to all parts of the country. The idea is that these would have less range than the current mobile phone masts, but there would be more of them and they would be better positioned to ensure blanket coverage. - www.bbc.co.ukwww.bbc.co.ukTuesday 13 December 2016, PM
Sony Movie Channel to go live on UK platforms - TBI Vision TBI Vision
- tbivision.comtbivision.comDTG :: News :: DTG TESTING OFFERS FREEVIEW PLAY CONFORMANCE TESTING
DTG Testing, the industry's not-for-profit test centre, is now a one-stop-shop for Freeview Play Conformance. Includes conformance for ITV Hub, All4, Demand5, STV and UKTV, with BBC iPlayer pre-conformance. - dtg.org.ukdtg.org.ukpick a page