Friday 08 April 2016, PM
#9 - Scotland debate update, Company magazine closes, Edinburgh preview
feedproxy.google.com#8 RAJARs, Sky Europe NYT app confusion
feedproxy.google.com#7 BBC News Cuts, Murdoch bids for Time Warner
feedproxy.google.comThe Media Podcast #6 - BBC levels the playing field, George Clooney apology
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The Media Podcast #5 - Radio 5 Live reshuffle and kids' TV tax breaks
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The Media Podcast #4 - hacking trial verdicts, Rising Star US
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The Media Podcast #3 - John Oliver and World Cup take over the US
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The Media Podcast #2 - Robert Peston Michael Woolf go off-message
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The Media Podcast #1: BBC News Cuts, Freeview Connect
feedproxy.google.comWednesday 06 April 2016, PM
BBC Trust chair Rona Fairhead, 'Tips' when interviewing will.i.am, Press freedom v privacy
open.live.bbc.co.ukJudge us by our quality, says BBC's Tony Hall
It was an upbeat performance by Tony Hall, BBC director general, at an event held by the Future for Public Service Television inquiry. He said the BBC's reputation was based on quality and having the funding to be able to put on such series as Happy Valley, BBC 2's Inside Obama's White House and the work of the Natural History Unit. - www.nuj.org.uk
www.nuj.org.ukWednesday 06 April 2016, AM
REVEALED: Mystery cause of East Devon TV signal fault
The cause of a mystery signal problem, which saw thousands of residents in East Devon miss their favourite TV shows, has been revealed. The mystery depended when at800, a company set up by mobile phone operators to tackle issues related to TV signal interference, said that a mast was unlikely to be the cause of the fault. - www.exeterexpressandecho.co.uk
www.exeterexpressandecho.co.ukTuesday 05 April 2016, AM
Residents angry they're unable to receive Freeview television channels
Hundreds of people around Exmouth are able to watch Freeview channels again tonight after being without television for four days. Most people should now be back to normal, But many people who tried re-tuning their TVs now have to set them up all over again. - www.itv.comwww.itv.comMonday 04 April 2016, PM
Saturday 02 April 2016, AM
BBC Wales: Ofcom Welsh Govt push for radio coverage boost
Acknowledging that the availability of BBC Radio Cymru and BBC Radio Wales is primarily a matter for the BBC, it noted that while FM coverage of BBC Radio Cymru was high, BBC Radio Wales could only reach 81 of households on FM. With the BBC currently exploring options for improving BBC Radio Wales FM coverage, Ofcom confirmed that it saw no reasons why the existing BBC National DAB multiplex, which carries all of the BBC's UK-wide stations, can't be re-configured to add BBC Radio Cymru and BBC Radio Wales via 14 unnamed transmitter sites in mid-Wales. Due to the way the BBC National DAB multiplex is broadcast as a single frequency network across the country, a solution that is being portrayed by Ofcom for mountainous mid-Wales is unlikely to be viable in other parts of the UK. BBC Local Radio in England and BBC radio stations for Scotland and Northern Ireland are carried on a network of local DAB multiplexes, operated by commercial organisations. - www.a516digital.comwww.a516digital.comFriday 01 April 2016, PM
Thursday 31 March 2016, PM
28% of Piracy Takedown Requests Are \"Questionable\"
This week, researchers from Columbia University's American Assembly and Berkeley published an in-depth review of the current takedown regime, with one study zooming in on the millions of takedown requests Google receives every week. The company currently acts in response to 97.5 of the takedown requests, which means that the vast majority of the questionable notices are honored. - torrentfreak.com
torrentfreak.comKermode and Mayo's Apple gag does not take the pith, rules BBC Trust
The complaint was initially rejected by the BBC's audience services department before being shunted upstairs to the trust's editorial standards committee. It also said that BBC presenters were allowed to refer to commercial products, whether directly or indirectly, and the complaint proceeded no further. - www.theguardian.com
www.theguardian.comhttp://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/sites/default/files/Public%20Service%20News%20and%20Digital%20Media.pdf
Public service news based on Q5a/b 'Which, if any, of the following have you used to access news in the last week' Social media use for news is based on Q3 'Which, if any, of the following have you used in the last week as a source of news' Calculations include for Finland, Yle tv-uutiset, Yle uutiset, Yle tv-uutiset and Yle radiouutiset for France, news in the following channels of France Tlvisions, francetvinfo. Bbc News has long worked with social media both as a means of news reporting and news distribution and many channels and news programmes have built their own social media profiles. - reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk
reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.ukWednesday 30 March 2016, PM
Wednesday 30 March 2016, AM
Watch Freeview shows anywhere with EE TV: Service lets users stream and download programs to their mobiles to keep for a
From today, EE TV customers will be able to download any programmes they record on their TV to their phones and keep them, for as long as they wish, to watch while offline. From today, EE TV customers will be able to download any programmes they record on their TV to their phones and keep them for as long as they wish, to watch while offline. - www.dailymail.co.uk
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Don't buy a Freeview Play box until you've read these five facts
Since then its growth has stalled, but Freeview Play aims to modernise TV once again by bringing streaming services directly to your TV. But what can Freeview Play offer you over your standard TV recorder, smart TV and streaming devices such as Google's Chromecast and the Amazon Fire TV Stick Is it really worth investing in a Freeview Play box just yet If a separate set-top box doesn't appeal, Panasonic is offering up a line of Freeview Play compatible Viera TVs. Including a tuner into the TV as standard makes much more sense - it's how Freeview managed to reach a wide audience initially. - www.alphr.com
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Friday 25 March 2016, AM
UTV unveils new look as part of ITV family
The fresh look was designed by ITV Creative and the UTV Creative team and will be on air in the coming months. Rufus Radcliffe, Group Director of Marketing and Research at ITV, said the makeover firmly positions UTV as part of the ITV family. - www.u.tvwww.u.tvWednesday 23 March 2016, PM
Twitter's impact on journalism, Mail on Sunday editor Geordie Greig, Ashley Highfield of Johnston Press
open.live.bbc.co.ukPartial Channel 4 sell-off 'would leave it with Two Weddings and Half a Funeral'
- www.theguardian.comwww.theguardian.comWednesday 23 March 2016, AM
Eight-second videos are long enough to infringe on copyright, says UK judge
Two factors help to determine whether fair dealing applies for a particular case. It's not yet clear whether the defendants will appeal or whether damages will be awarded against them. - arstechnica.co.uk
arstechnica.co.ukTuesday 22 March 2016, PM
BBC Names Mark Linsey as Director of Production Division BBC Studios
Linsey has been acting director of BBC Television since October 2015, and spent more than 20 years working in TV production before joining the BBC, including roles at Central, LWT, Hat Trick Prods. Charlotte Moore will be responsible for BBC television pending the announcement in the next few weeks of a new structure to simplify the BBC. Linsey will spend the next month working with the Studios teams before the new division launches on April 29. - variety.com
variety.comNetflix races ahead of Amazon and Sky with 5m UK households
Netflix is far ahead of competitors such as Amazon's Prime Instant Video or Sky's Now TV, and is continuing to grow faster than the other services. According to the data, there are about 1.6 million households subscribing to Amazon's service in the UK, up about 300,000 over 2015, and fewer than 1 million signed up to Sky's Now TV. In total, more than 6.5 million households are signed up to some sort of video-streaming service. - www.theguardian.comwww.theguardian.comTuesday 22 March 2016, AM
Saturday 19 March 2016, AM
DTG :: News :: New players help to boost broadband connections, John Whittingdale supports Channel 4 privatisation and O
This would align the UK with European Commission proposals that more spectrum should be available for mobile services. Ofcom has now launched a consultation process to accelerate the clearance of the 700MHz band, currently used by digital terrestrial TV services. - dtg.org.ukdtg.org.ukThirty years of the TV sofa: from political strategy to sexism
The breakfast show presenters went back to desks for a bit, before returning to sofas. It's the same with famous fictionalised sofas - on the Royle Family, it's the dad who gets his own armchair while the rest of the family cram onto the sofa. - www.theguardian.comwww.theguardian.comFriday 18 March 2016, PM
#46 - Channel 4 fights to keep Black Mirror - The Media Podcast with Olly Mann
feedproxy.google.comDesert Island discussion, Radio 2 country
open.live.bbc.co.ukThursday 17 March 2016, PM
UKTV executive sacked after stealing huge cache of confidential TV data from media regulator
The disclosure of the data breach, which was immediately reported to Ofcom by UKTV, led to panic amongst rival broadcasters. Ofcom has now written to television companies, insisting that their data has been recovered, and adding that the 27-year-old employee, who worked for the regulator on a short term contract, has been sacked by UKTV. - www.telegraph.co.uk
www.telegraph.co.ukJohn Whittingdale must allow the BBC board to be truly independent
When David Clementi's report recommended the creation of the unitary board, which I am on record as supporting, he appeared to accept that the government would have the right to appoint the chair, deputy chair and four non-executive directors for the nations. If the BBC is to be seen as free from government control, then the board must be seen to be entirely independent from it. - www.theguardian.comwww.theguardian.comWednesday 16 March 2016, PM
Tuesday 15 March 2016, PM
BBC News channel to merge its two paper reviews into one extended show
The BBC News channel's two late night paper reviews will be merged into one extended show as part of a raft of changes to the 24-hour service starting on Monday. Its 15-minute review of newspaper headlines, The Papers, currently airs twice a night, at 10.30pm and 11.30pm, but the latter slot has been dropped to allow a repeat of BBC2's Newsnight at 11.15pm. The new paper roundup will run for 20 minutes at 10.40pm after the 10pm bulletin and Sportsday. - www.theguardian.comwww.theguardian.comMonday 14 March 2016, PM
BBC Radio 5Live keeps the nation company. It would be wrong to take it off-air
The latest service to be threatened with digital exile is Radio 5Live. The station best equipped to dog your footsteps is Radio 5Live. - www.theguardian.comwww.theguardian.comBBC and ITV in online video talks
The BBC offers programming online through BBC iPlayer for up to 30 days after transmission. In 2007, the BBC, ITV and Channel 4 launched a joint venture online video service, known as Project Kangaroo. - informitv.com
informitv.comBBC radio chief: government plans threaten our independence
The government-commissioned Clementi report recommended that the BBC's day-to-day operations be run by a unitary board, headed by a majority of non-executive directors, while full responsibility for regulation be handed over to the media regulator Ofcom, replacing the BBC Trust. The BBC's director general, Tony Hall, has already flagged his concerns about the proposals, pointing out that unlike any previous governing body, the unitary board would set the editorial direction of the whole BBC. Neither the trust nor its predecessor - the BBC governors who oversaw the corporation from its founding until 2005 - had such powers. - www.theguardian.comwww.theguardian.comMonday 14 March 2016, AM
Government will choose most members of BBC board, says Whittingdale
John Whittingdale said only two or three members of a 13-strong unitary board, which would replace the discredited BBC Trust model, would be BBC executives while the rest would be government appointees. In a speech last week, Lord Hall pointed out that unlike any previous governing body, the unitary board would set the editorial direction of the whole BBC. Neither the trust nor its predecessor - the BBC governors who oversaw the corporation from its founding until 2005 - had such powers. - www.theguardian.comwww.theguardian.comSaturday 12 March 2016, AM
UK viewers doubled amount of time spent streaming TV in 2015
Traditional TV viewing accounted for 76, or three hours and 51 minutes per day, close to 28 hours per week. While traditional TV still dominates viewing, there has also been growth - albeit only from 24.5 minutes a week to 28 minutes a week on average - in consumption on other devices such as tablets, smartphones and laptops. - www.theguardian.comwww.theguardian.comFriday 11 March 2016, PM
Thursday 10 March 2016, PM
BBC News most trusted source for more than half of people in the UK
The results of the poll, published on Thursday, also suggested more than half of people did not trust the government with the future of the BBC. The corporation's future size and scope remains uncertain following last year's funding settlement, in which it took on the 700m cost of free TV licences for the over-75s, with the government's BBC white paper likely to be delayed until after the EU referendum. The online YouGov survey commissioned by 38 Degrees, which was behind a petition signed by nearly 400,000 people in support of the BBC, said 53 of people did not trust the government to protect BBC services during charter renewal. - www.theguardian.comwww.theguardian.comWednesday 09 March 2016, PM
Charlotte Moore, Turkish press crackdown, Concern about BBC independence
open.live.bbc.co.ukBBC warned against making further cuts to local radio services
One option is said to be a merger with Radio 5 Live, with local radio stations retaining their own breakfast and drivetime stations. The last time BBC local radio faced big cuts, four years ago, proposed savings of 15m were halved to 8m following protests from listeners and MPs, and opposition from the then-BBC Trust chairman, Lord Patten. - www.theguardian.comwww.theguardian.comWednesday 09 March 2016, AM
Channel 4 chief hits out at critics calling for privatisation
Speaking at a conference held by Enders Analysis, he chose to make the 1bn fight over privatisation highly personal, publicly attacking the two former Channel 4 senior executives. Abraham accused Johnson of flip-flopping on his view of Channel 4 given his long history of defending the broadcaster's model, most recently last September in front of the House of Lords communications committee. - www.theguardian.comwww.theguardian.comTuesday 08 March 2016, PM
BBC increases savings target to £800m a year to pay for drama and sport
The BBC has increased its savings target by 100m to 800m a year over the next five years, blaming rapid inflation in the cost of drama and sport. While there are still doubts over the BBC News channel, BBC sources said on Tuesday that Radio 5 Live would not be axed completely, although it is looking at ways to save money, possibly using its services for local radio. - www.theguardian.comwww.theguardian.com
Tony Hall to sound warning over governance proposals
Tony Hall will today sound a strong warning that Sir David Clementi’s BBC governance review could open the door to further erosion of the corporation’s independence. The director general is expected to raise concerns about Sir David’s recommendation that a new unitary board, tasked with governing the BBC, should consist of six government-appointed posts, including the chairman and vice chairman. If adopted, the BBC believes that this will be the first time in history that the government will have the power to appoint members of the BBC’s operational board. The recommendation has caused concern at New Broadcasting House and, in a speech at an Enders Analysis and Deloitte media conference on Tuesday, Hall will strongly reject the idea. He will make clear that, unlike the BBC Trust, the board will have the power to set the editorial direction of the BBC. This includes contributing to key decisions on programmes, services and journalism. “It doesn’t feel to me that these tasks should be undertaken by government-appointed board members,” Hall will warn. “The BBC is one of the world’s great public service broadcasters - not a state broadcaster.” He will add: “A strong, sustainable BBC needs new safeguards for independence, not yet more erosion. The secretary of state reminded us last week that the public want the BBC to remain independent.”
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