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Wednesday 16 November 2016, AM

BBC World Service to broadcast news programmes in North Korea

The BBC World Service is to launch regular news programmes in North Korea as part of the biggest expansion of its journalism since the 1940s. Korean is one of 11 new language services included in proposals designed to double the number of people who can access BBC services around the world to 500 million by 2022, when the World Service will be 100 years old. - www.theguardian.com

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Tuesday 15 November 2016, AM

BT to introduce 'next generation' YouView service » Digital TV Europe

BT is due to introduce a 'next generation' YouView service in the coming months, while a refreshed BT TV App is due out next year. BT also plans to be the first UK broadcaster to launch Dolby Atmos sound, adding it to its BT Sport 4K UHD TV packages in January, and will start showing boxing on Saturday nights from early 2017 in a new partnership with BoxNation. - www.digitaltveurope.net

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Friday 11 November 2016, PM

#63 - Media Planning in an Uncertain World - The Media Podcast with Olly Mann

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Broadcast TV Technical Codes

New legislation relating to the resilience of communications networks, has also been adopted since the broadcast TV technical codes were last revised. We therefore carried out a consultation, which closed in June 2016, on proposals to update and rationalise the TV technical codes. - www.ofcom.org.uk

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Thursday 10 November 2016, PM

Freeview mulls ‘deeper integration' with Netflix, Amazon, Now TV » Digital TV Europe

Freeview Play, which is available on set-top boxes and connected TVs, already offers on-demand services like BBC iPlayer, the ITV Hub and All 4, alongside apps like YouTube, Netflix and Amazon Prime. - www.digitaltveurope.net

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Dead TV signals offer broadband hope in rural Scotland

The technology has been used at London Zoo to broadcast footage of meerkats and has also been considered as a way of providing broadband at sea. BT now believes it can get fibre broadband solutions to almost 99 of UK homes by the end of 2020, so has moved its attention to technologies such as long-reach very-high-bit-rate digital subscriber line and fibre to the home. - www.bbc.co.uk

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