Tuesday 19 April 2016, PM
a way to make television more real?
High Definition TVs are now being replaced by 4K TVs in our homes - offering four times the definition of HD. Manufacturers have now started adding High Dynamic Range on their latest models giving a greater range of brightness, luminosity, depth and detail to the picture. Will it bring a real improvement in picture quality - www.bbc.co.uk
www.bbc.co.ukMonday 18 April 2016, PM
America now has nearly 5 PR people for every reporter, double the rate from a decade ago
For every one job result for a reporter, photojournalist or TV producer, you'll get 10 results for jobs available to people with journalism backgrounds or degrees to switch careers toward marketing, advertising and - most of all - public relations. That means over a career of 20 years, the average PR person will make about 300,000 more than the typical reporter, and as anyone in either industry knows, the benefits will be much more lucrative at a public relations firm. - muckrack.com
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Strained Streaming: Why is streaming catch up video in Australia so painful?
The site is easy to navigate, the content is uploaded quickly, and the quality is at a high bitrate, although the end result wavers somewhere between high-end SD and low-end 720p. It doesn't require a login either. In 2016, when the likes of Netflix and Stan, stream content in both 1080P and 4K, there is really no excuse for not being able to supply it. - www.pcauthority.com.au
www.pcauthority.com.auMonday 18 April 2016, AM
BBC facing cash raid from DCMS
The BBC faces an anxious wait for the white paper on charter renewal amid conflicting reports over the weekend about government plans to raid the corporation’s finances. The Sunday Times reported that culture secretary John Whittingdale will force BBC Worldwide to relinquish its £500m stake in UKTV, with half the proceeds going to the Treasury, under proposals to be outlined next month. The newspaper also claimed that Whittingdale wants to hand £100m of licence fee funding to third parties to create children’s and news content that the BBC will be required to carry across its airwaves. But The Sunday Times report was contradicted by Sam Coates, the deputy political editor at The Times, who said on Sunday that 10 Downing would apply a handbrake to Whittingdale’s ambitions. - www.broadcastnow.co.uk
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Date set for Planet Rock and Absolute 80s move
Digital One has requested to remove Absolute 80s and Planet Rock from its multiplex from April 30th. At the moment, the two Bauer services are available on two national DAB services, following the launch of Sound Digital Limited. Bauer's heat and Kisstory services will be removed from local multiplexes by the 30th April 2016 now they are also available on SDL. Digital One, owned by one of the three SDL investors, Arqiva, says it will continue to seek additional customers for vacant capacity on the multiplex following the removal of Absolute 80s and Planet Rock. - radiotoday.co.uk
radiotoday.co.ukSunday 17 April 2016, PM
Reuters Institute for the study of Journalism
Traditional television viewing is falling, and the rapid rise of online video viewing continues. If television news providers fail to respond to these profound shifts in how people use media, they risk eventually becoming irrelevant, a new report from the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, University of Oxford warns. - reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk
reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.ukSaturday 16 April 2016, AM
Obama Presses for Open Market for Cable Set-Top Boxes
Photo WASHINGTON - President Obama on Friday announced his support for opening the market for cable set-top boxes, singling out the devices in millions of homes as a clunky and outdated symbol of corporate power over consumers, as he introduced a broad federal effort to increase competition. In an unusual step, Mr. Obama weighed in personally on a pending proposal at the Federal Communications Commission, having his administration file comments that applauded the effort to loosen cable companies' grip on the boxes. - www.nytimes.com
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Digital Radio Retune for Merseyside: what you need to know
Listeners to DAB digital radio in the Merseyside area will need to retune on Wednesday 20th April following a frequency change that will affect local radio stations. The new frequency will go live from 6am on Wednesday 20th April, after which listeners will need to rescan their DAB radios in order to continue listening. - www.a516digital.com
www.a516digital.comFriday 15 April 2016, PM
#49 - Allegations, injunctions and innuendo
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BBC white paper to be published in May
The government’s white paper on BBC charter renewal will be published in May, culture minister Ed Vaizey has confirmed for the first time. The Department for Culture Media & Sport (DCMS) has previously only gone as far as to say that the document will be released in “spring” – a target it will just about meet if published next month. In a debate about diversity at the BBC in parliament on Thursday, Vaizey said he had seen an early draft of the report. “We are going to publish it in May,” he said. Vaizey added that boosting diversity will be a prominent part of the government’s plans for the BBC. The DCMS was swamped by 190,000 responses to its consultation on the BBC’s future and this is said to have contributed to the release date being pushed back. Another factor in the delay has been the EU referendum, in which culture secretary John Whittingdale is playing a prominent role as part of the Vote Leave campaign. - www.broadcastnow.co.ukwww.broadcastnow.co.ukFriday 15 April 2016, AM
Copyright fight club – POLITICO
Coming into office in 2014, the European Commission laid out an ambitious agenda to overhaul the entire digital copyright system in the EU. It's moving on various fronts, investigating contracts between Hollywood studios and TV stations while preparing new legislation that could change everything from watching movies and sports to publishing videos on YouTube. The Commission's review of copyright laws is wide-ranging, affecting a broad range of businesses in industries including tech, retail, telecoms and media. - www.politico.eu
www.politico.euThursday 14 April 2016, AM
Wednesday 13 April 2016, AM
Cabinet minister John Whittingdale had relationship with sex worker
The culture secretary, John Whittingdale, has faced calls to withdraw from the regulation of the press following the disclosure that he had a relationship with a prostitute. Whittingdale, who is divorced, was forced to explain on Tuesday night how he had a six-month relationship with a woman whom he did not realise worked in a brothel. - www.theguardian.com
www.theguardian.comTuesday 12 April 2016, PM
What is Alternative Audio Commentary?
The alternative audio is selected using the Red Button, and you will usually be prompted by a presenter when an alternative audio stream is available. If this button is selected, when there is no current alternative audio commentary available, you may hear an odd sound effect. - www.bbc.co.ukwww.bbc.co.ukBBC's iPlayer Kids app puts children's TV at 'front and centre' of plans
His comments come after speculation last year that cBeebies and CBBC could face an online-only future as part of cost-cutting ahead of charter renewal at the end of this year. The new iPlayer Kids app will only show age-appropriate content free from adverts, but the BBC faced questioning over its decision not to cut off content after a notional bedtime. - www.theguardian.comwww.theguardian.com
UKTV profits hit 80m
A 20% boost in its programming budget helped UKTV deliver record profits in 2015 as well as cement its ratings lead over Channel 5 and Sky. The company spent £148m on programming in 2015, a 20.3% boost on the £123m spent in 2014, with original commissions including Storage Hunters UK and Dave Gorman Modern Life Is Goodish and acquisitions including Grimm and Rizzoli & Isles topping its ratings table. Its annual financial report shows that this investment in content helped it deliver a 13% increase in revenues from £282.6m last year to £319.2m in 2015 with operating profits growing 10.1% to £79.6m up from £72.3m. Meanwhile, earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation (EBITDA) grew from £74.2m to £82m. . - www.broadcastnow.co.ukwww.broadcastnow.co.uk
Freeview selects Anomaly to lead ad account
Freeview has appointed Anomaly to lead its advertising account following a review of its agency roster. Freeview drafted in Leo Burnett in 2011 following a three-way pitch against The Red brick Road and WiedenKennedy. - www.thedrum.comwww.thedrum.comMonday 11 April 2016, AM
Top-level change at BBC and ITV means uncertain future for UK television
Following a changing of the guard that saw his heads of entertainment, factual and drama depart, his new top team includes Polly Hill, the BBC controller of drama commissioning he poached to become his head of drama - a coup for Lygo and a blow for the BBC. It means that seven experienced executives have left the corporation over the last seven months director of television Danny Cohen, controller of seasons and special projects Janice Hadlow, creative director Alan Yentob, BBC2 controller Kim Shillinglaw, BBC Studios director Peter Salmon, natural history unit head Wendy Darke and Hill. Driving the low morale at the BBC is the question mark over the timing and implementation of director general Tony Hall's two big master plans the commercialisation of most BBC production through the creation of BBC Studios and a restructure of commissioning and programme-making based around genres and audiences that blurs the boundaries between radio, TV and online, details of which are unlikely to be unveiled until after the government produces its white paper on the corporation's future. - www.theguardian.comwww.theguardian.comSunday 10 April 2016, PM
The Real Whittingdale Scandal: Cover up by the Press
By the time The Independent began investigating the reasons why the Whittingdale-King story had never been published, despite being known to at least three national newspaper groups, the relationship had ended and Whittingdale was now inside the cabinet. By stalling indeterminately a critical element of the law passed by parliament in 2013, related to the imposition of costs penalties on newspapers who fail to join a charter-approved regulator, Whittingdale effectively gave himself an unfettered executive power over the press. - www.byline.comwww.byline.comFriday 08 April 2016, PM
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