Monday 12 September 2016, PM
C4 relocation back on the agenda
Reports have emerged that Channel 4 is to be moved to Birmingham as it prepares for its first official meeting with the government’s culture secretary. Karen Bradley, who took over from John Whittingdale in July, is expected to meet with C4 chief executive David Abraham this week and, according to The Telegraph, will set out her support for relocating the broadcaster. Bradley and culture minister Matt Hancock are not expected to pursue privatisation but believe moving the broadcaster’s headquarters north would boost the creative economy outside London. - www.broadcastnow.co.uk
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Capital goes national on DAB Digital Radio
Global's Capital has appeared on the Digital One multiplex as Capital UK, taking the London based hit music station truly national for the first time. Capital joins other Global brands Capital XTRA, Smooth Extra, Heart extra, LBC, Classic and Radio X on D1. The only Global station not on national DAB now is Gold. - radiotoday.co.uk
radiotoday.co.ukFriday 09 September 2016, PM
Wednesday 07 September 2016, PM
John Hardie, CEO of ITN, Keith Vaz and public interest journalism, The Archers as a brand, Reporting on Taylor Swift
open.live.bbc.co.ukMonday 05 September 2016, AM
Sunday 04 September 2016, PM
BBC Studios boss: 'We're not looking for another Chris Evans on Top Gear'
Until the white paper's publication, BBC bosses were working on the assumption that, in return for freeing Studios to make programmes for other broadcasters, a minimum of 40 of BBC shows would be opened up to tender from independent producers, as had been negotiated with industry association Pact. Career 2016 director, BBC Studios 2015 acting director of television 2013 deputy director of television 2011 head of editorial standards, BBC Television 2010 member of BBC Television board 2009 controller of entertainment commissioning 2007 executive editor for entertainment commissioning 2004 director of entertainment, Talent Television 2001 managing director, Zeal Television 1997 head of entertainment, Tiger Aspect 1994 freelance series producer. - www.theguardian.com
www.theguardian.comSunday 04 September 2016, AM
The BBC's fixation on 'balance' skews the truth
It was never clear, at least to this listener, why Steve Hilton, a US resident who once fell out with the last prime minister, became one of the anti-EU stars of the BBC's Brexit coverage, to the point of assisting with analysis on referendum night. To be fair to Mr Hilton, he could hardly be blamed for embracing a dazzling career in EU punditry when the BBC pressed it upon him, nor was his inexplicable prominence the most bizarre or regrettable aspect of the coverage which, according to polling by the Electoral Reform Society, played the biggest part in the referendum in keeping the British public informed. - www.theguardian.comwww.theguardian.comThursday 01 September 2016, PM
BBC iPlayer: Viewers now need TV licence to watch catch-up
Viewers are now prompted to declare if they have a TV licence when they try to watch any content on iPlayer. The new rules apply to all devices used to access iPlayer - including laptops, smartphones, tablets, TV streaming devices and games consoles, as well as through third-party services such as Sky, Virgin or BT. A licence is not needed to watch S4C on iPlayer or to listen to BBC radio programmes. - www.bbc.co.ukwww.bbc.co.ukDAB digital radio reception gets a boost in Hull
A special radio event took place in Hull on Thursday morning urging listeners in Northern Lincolnshire and East Yorkshire to retune their digital radios sets. The retune is part of a programme of essential work which will immediately switch-on four new digital transmitters at High Hunsley, Hull Clough Road, Patrington and Garrowby Hill, and one further transmitter in Scunthorpe in October, improving and expanding DAB coverage for over 220,000 listeners in Scunthorpe, Goole, Bubwith, Market Weighton and Stamford Bridge. - radiotoday.co.ukradiotoday.co.ukWednesday 31 August 2016, PM
Friday 26 August 2016, PM
#58 - Edinburgh International TV Festival 2016 - The Media Podcast with Olly Mann
feedproxy.google.comThursday 25 August 2016, PM
Olympics v Brexit coverage, Diversity monitoring, Gawker closes, New series Gangland
open.live.bbc.co.ukThursday 18 August 2016, PM
#57 - What Lad Bible’s rise means for online video - The Media Podcast with Olly Mann
feedproxy.google.comWednesday 17 August 2016, PM
Friday 12 August 2016, PM
BBC launches subtitles for live channels on BBC iPlayer in world-first
BBC - BBC launches subtitles for live channels on BBC iPlayer in world-first - Media Centre. - www.bbc.co.ukwww.bbc.co.ukWednesday 10 August 2016, PM
Monday 08 August 2016, PM
Help Receiving TV and Radio
On Red Button, viewers on cable, satellite and Freeview/YouView can access upto 8 scheduled streams showing all the key sports and highlights throughout the Olympic period - cable and satellite viewers will also have the choice of watching those streams in high definition. For Freeview/Youview, additional information on how to access our Red Button Services and help with any issues can be found at our Freeview/Youview Rio 2016 page. - www.bbc.co.ukwww.bbc.co.ukVideo on demand viewing
Video on demand accounts for 12 of viewing time on average, but it is much higher among those aged 16-24, who claim to spend less than half of their viewing time watching live or recorded television. The video on demand adoption figure is based on Kantar Media TGI research as reported by the communications regulator Ofcom in its Communications Market Report 2016. - informitv.com
informitv.comMonday 08 August 2016, AM
Will Self: Our digital lives and the chaos beneath
The last century has seen two related processes occur the creation of higher and higher reproductive fidelity, both of sound and image and the wider and deeper dissemination of these sounds and images. Our willingness to upload our social existence to the web, to rely on it for our orientation, and to depend on it for our memory, means that when the silvery interface between us and it becomes perturbed, we seem to be witnessing the very lineaments of the thing in itself, stripped of its fleshly and humanising coat. - www.theguardian.comwww.theguardian.comFriday 05 August 2016, PM
#56 - Olympics Coverage A French Ban On Naming Mass Killers - The Media Podcast with Olly Mann
feedproxy.google.comWednesday 03 August 2016, PM
Monday 01 August 2016, PM
Changes to some of our HD channels on Freeview HD/YouView for the Olympics
BBC - Changes to some of our HD channels on Freeview HD/YouView for the Olympics - Help Receiving TV and Radio. - www.bbc.co.ukwww.bbc.co.ukMonday 01 August 2016, AM
TV Licence laws are changing from September 2016
Currently households only need a licence to watch broadcast TV - including through Sky and Freeview - however, new laws mean you'll need to hold a 145.50 a year licence to watch live BBC channels, stream or download programmes on demand. According to TV Licensing, if you don't require a licence, you'll need to fill out a 'no licence needed' declaration form - however this may include a household inspection by the TV licence authority. - www.mirror.co.uk
www.mirror.co.ukFriday 29 July 2016, AM
Making switching easier and more reliable for consumers
This document sets out our provisional view on the difficulties consumers currently experience when they switch, or consider switching, one or more triple play services between the Openreach, KCOM, Virgin cable and Sky satellite platforms. It also sets out our provisional assessment of options for reform to reduce these difficulties and deterrents, making switching easier and more reliable for consumers. - stakeholders.ofcom.org.ukstakeholders.ofcom.org.ukBBC told to do more for colour blind people after election complaints
The BBC has been told to do more to help the 2 million people who are colour blind in the UK after the BBC Trust upheld a series of complaints about confusing general election graphics. Colour Blind Awareness commended presenter Jeremy Vine, the figurehead of the BBC's election graphics, but said a number of difficulties were caused by the on-screen colour palette. - www.theguardian.comwww.theguardian.comWednesday 27 July 2016, PM
CEO of Liberty Global Mike Fries, Guardian losses, Fox News CEO Roger Ailes departs
open.live.bbc.co.ukFireman Sam Qur'an row gets alarm bells ringing at BBC
Spare a thought, if you would, for the good people of the BBC complaints department. Only to be expected, you might think, after the production company apologised for the incident and cut all its ties with the animation studio, which it blamed for the mistake. - www.theguardian.comwww.theguardian.comFriday 22 July 2016, PM
#55 - Brexit Boosts Fleet St... But For How Long? - The Media Podcast with Olly Mann
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open.live.bbc.co.ukThursday 21 July 2016, AM
Channel 4 privatisation review was Whittingdale's agenda, says Ed Vaizey
The Guardian reported in May that the government was backing away from proposals for full privatisation of Channel 4, but was still considering other measures such as part-privatisation or forcing it to sell off its 100m London HQ and move to Manchester or Birmingham. Channel 4 chairman, Charles Gurassa, has previously criticised the destabilising impact of uncertainty over the broadcaster's future that has been felt since plans for a potential sell-off emerged last autumn. - www.theguardian.comwww.theguardian.comWednesday 20 July 2016, PM
Wednesday 20 July 2016, AM
DTG :: News :: DTG HOSTS PMSE DEBATE
The DTG was recently delighted to host an informative debate on Programme Making Special Events as part of its DTG Spectrum Access Forum activity. One solution proposed by Ofcom to the reduction in spectrum available to PMSE, is for PMSE audio applications to share spectrum used by the Civil Aviation Authority between 960MHz and 1164MHz. - dtg.org.ukdtg.org.ukTuesday 19 July 2016, PM
BBC+ The BBC, just for you – Android Apps on Google Play
BBC is the new app from the BBC that lets you mould all the content the BBC has to offer to suit your own tastes. The new BBC app lets you customise the categories so we only send you the bits of the vast store of content and contributors available through the BBC that you've shown an interest in. - play.google.com
play.google.comTuesday 19 July 2016, AM
BT must 'put its house in order'
For its part, BT is keen to prove that it is getting its house in order and has just announced improvements in the time it takes customers to get an appointment for an Openreach engineer to repair or install broadband. Companies such as Sky, Vodafone and TalkTalk, who pay to use the network, have claimed in the past that BT underinvested in Openreach, leading to a poor service with interruptions and slow speeds. - www.bbc.co.ukwww.bbc.co.ukBBC 'personalisation' app ties together iPlayer and other digital services
The BBC has launched a new personalised app tying together access to all its digital services that it says will help the public get the most out of their licence fee. BBCPlus, which soft launches on Tuesday, collates BBC content and tailors recommendations, bringing together different services such as iPlayer and the BBC News website. - www.theguardian.comwww.theguardian.comMonday 18 July 2016, AM
http://www.digitaluk.co.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0009/88911/Digital_UK_Update_July_2016_web.pdf
- www.digitaluk.co.ukwww.digitaluk.co.ukRadio Yorkshire returns to DAB in Leeds
Some of the services transferred to Bauer's Leeds multiplex but Radio Yorkshire didn't make the move. In programming news, Radio Yorkshire has also hired former Leeds and Rotherham boss Neil Redfearn as lead summariser for Leeds United Live coverage for the 2016/17 season. - radiotoday.co.ukradiotoday.co.ukSaturday 16 July 2016, AM
Ed Vaizey ends role as Communications Minister
Minister of State for Culture, Communications and Creative Industries Ed Vaizey has left the Government. He previously served as jointly Minister of State for Business and Enterprise and Minister of State for Energy in the Conservative-Liberal Democrat Coalition Government. - radiotoday.co.ukradiotoday.co.ukFriday 15 July 2016, PM
Thursday 14 July 2016, PM
John Whittingdale leaves role as Culture Secretary
John has only been in the role for 14 months, having been appointed by David Cameron in May 2015 following Sajid Javid's move to become Business Secretary. Since then he's attended many radio industry events, including the Radiocentre conference and the launch of DAB multiplexes. - radiotoday.co.ukradiotoday.co.ukBBC News channel and World News face 10% cuts after merger is ruled out
The BBC News channel and the World News service face 10 cost cuts after the corporation decided against merging the two operations. The Guardian reported in December that the corporation had shelved plans to shut the BBC News channel and replace it with digital services after coming to the conclusion that it would only save in the region of 16m. Though the costs of running the channel exceed 110m, much of that budget in areas such as newsgathering would have to be assigned to other parts of the corporation if it were to close. - www.theguardian.comwww.theguardian.comWednesday 13 July 2016, PM
BBC deputy director-general Anne Bulford, Should BBC have filmed the raid on Cliff Richard's home, Risks of true crime
open.live.bbc.co.ukFriday 08 July 2016, PM
Wednesday 06 July 2016, PM
THE MEDIA SHOW - 06.07.17
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About 100 BBC Monitoring jobs to be axed amid £4m cuts
At least 98 jobs at the BBC Monitoring department are to be cut ahead of a 4m reduction in funding. BBC Monitoring was set up in 1939 to tap into foreign broadcasts and propaganda during the Second World War The service was independent from the BBC, and paid for by the Ministry of Defence, the Foreign Office and the BBC World Service Since its inception, it has provided coverage of the Cold War, the Yugoslav War and most recently, the Arab Spring The service translates communications from 100 languages from 150 countries, with offices across the globe In 2013 the service began being paid for by the licence fee. - www.bbc.co.ukwww.bbc.co.ukFriday 01 July 2016, PM
Wednesday 29 June 2016, PM
Top EU referendum journalists, Brexit's impact on media industry, Lord Puttnam inquiry
open.live.bbc.co.ukMonday 27 June 2016, PM
Brexit: CBS, Liberty Global, ITV Stocks Among Buying Opportunities After Sell-Off, Analysts Say
Malone's international cable operator Liberty Global, which owns British cable firm Virgin Media among others, saw its Class A stock drop 13.1 percent on Friday, which also led some to argue that the stock was oversold. Peel Hunt analyst Alex DeGroote also says that more defensive stocks like pay TV firms, including Liberty Global, which aren't driven by advertising revenue and the like, should end up getting more attention and love from investors amid the current Brexit jitters. - www.hollywoodreporter.com
www.hollywoodreporter.comBBC moves to support HbbTV
The BBC is finally dropping its insistence on the legacy MHEG standard and will support the adoption of HbbTV for interactive television services. The BBC will remove its requirement for MHEG support and will work with industry groups such as the Digital TV Group to align specifications around HbbTV. The first version of the hybrid broadcast broadband television specification published as a standard in 2010. - informitv.cominformitv.comFriday 24 June 2016, PM
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