BBC executive: broadcasters thought viewers didn’t want older women on TV | Media | theguardian.com

Broadcasters have been guilty of wrongly thinking that British viewers did not want to see older women on television, a senior BBC news executive has admitted. Unsworth said that broadcasters including the BBC were now taking steps to address the lack of older women on air, but added that it would take time for the current generation of female journalists to come through as they continued in their careers. She was responding to an assertion made by Lady Deech that television suffered from a culture of lookism and that there was a difference between the output of BBC radio and television. - theguardian.com

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One week later, Google algorithm change hits streaming, torrent sites hard | Ars Technica

One of Project Free TV's domains has dropped in traffic since Google's algorithm change. Video streaming and torrent sites have dropped precipitously in Google rankings after the company altered its algorithm last Monday, according to reports from Searchmetrics. One of Project Free TV's main operating domains, free-tv-video-online.me, fell 96 percent in Searchmetric's rankings, one of the biggest drops alongside torrentz.eu and thepiratebay.se. - arstechnica.com

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The Great British TV Sell Off - interactive | Media | theguardian.com

Channel 4s chief executive recently warned that the UK TV production sector was being snapped up almost wholesale by foreign media companies. Roll over the evening schedules for the five main terrestrial channels below, from Monday 22 September, to see where ownership of programmes ultimately rests - theguardian.com

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American television: Switching channels | The Economist

Most cable subscribers will find the title an appropriate description of their viewing experience. Couch potatoes are forced to spend around 90 a month for their subscription. They receive over 160 channels, most of which they skip straight past. - economist.com

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The BBC ageist? Not with this roster of prime-time septuagenarians | Television radio | The Observer

Now, what new charges can we bring against the BBC What new ism goes with on-screen racism and sexism David Attenborough 88 is just off and running with his new Life Story. - theguardian.com

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Connected Red Button comes to YouView | SEENIT

Connected Red Button offers a range of internet-delivered programming, news and sport content and is used by the broadcaster to boost coverage of live events such as Glastonbury and Wimbledon. It also integrates access to the iPlayer, allowing viewers to catch up on missed shows from within the Red Button experience. YouView boxes were originally expected to get the service in time the summers run of sporting events but delivery was delayed and pushed back to before the end of the year. - seenit.co.uk

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AMC Networks to Buy 49.9 Percent Stake in BBC America for $200 Million

The cable networks company and the commercial arm of U.K. public broadcaster BBC announced the deal Thursday after reports of their talks first emerged over the summer. BBC America is currently available in approximately 80 million U.S. households. The U.S. is an important market for the BBCs commercial activities. - hollywoodreporter.com

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AMC Networks buys 49.9% share of BBC America | Media | The Guardian

Tony Hall, the director general of the licence-fee funded arm of the corporation, said that the deal brings together the whole BBC. AMC will also jointly invest in a range of future BBC productions. - theguardian.com

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U.S. broadcasters win preliminary injunction against Aereo | Reuters

Aereo shuttered its service three days after the high court's decision and has since been pushing the courts and regulators to see it as analogous to cable, eligible for a license under the Copyright Act. Aereo's future became imperiled when the Supreme Court ruled on June 25 that the company had infringed broadcasters' copyrights by capturing live and recorded programs through antennas and transmitting them to subscribers who paid 8 to 12 a month. - reuters.com

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Exclusive Interview: EE CMO Pippa Dunn on EE TV | Mobile News Online

We looked at the overall market and really identified where the consumer pain points were and also what was available now from a technology point of view in terms of what was the best device and technology to go for. So we did that first and then selected NetGem as a partner and worked with them closely in putting mobile at the centre of the whole experience and making sure we were creating a user experience which felt more akin to a mobile than to TV. My principles going into this were to keep it simple and to keep it intuitive. - mobilenewscwp.co.uk

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My new book is out today. Here is the introduction. Hooray!

Theres nothing complicated about science, and people can understand anything, if theyre sufficiently motivated. Thats why Ive spent the last ten years lashing science to mockery its the cleanest way I know to help people see the joy of statistics, and the fascinating ways that evidence can be distorted or ignored. All too often, people hoping to make science accessible fall into the trap of triumphalism, presenting science as a canon, and a collection of true facts. - badscience.net

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Media: David Liddiment and Alison Hastings leave the Trust; Women in the media; Mirror complaint

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What's Behind Big Media's Big TV Push Into Europe

Its economies, in contrast to the boom territories of China and India, are seen as sluggish, its population aging and growth slim to nonexistent. When it comes to the global TV business, studios are looking to Europe for the next gold rush. The past year has seen a flood of billion-dollar deals as U.S. congloms snatch up European TV assets. - hollywoodreporter.com

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Ariel - 6 Music leads summer's digital rush

23 October 2014 Last updated at 0917 The BBC's digital radio networks have been gaining listeners over the summer as some of its bigger hitters have lost them. Around 600,000 fewer people tuned in to hear Chris Evans on Radio 2 in the third quarter of 2014 and around 150,000 opted out of Nick Grimshaw's Radio 1 flagship. Over on 6 Music, mid-morning presenter Lauren Laverne is being hailed as the season's success story. - bbc.co.uk

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Which? puts the new Tesco Hudl2 to the test - October - 2014 - Which? News

22 October 2014 We've just published our full review of the brand new Tesco Hudl2. If you're tempted by this cheap tablet - read our review of the original Tesco Hudl before parting with your cash. - which.co.uk

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BBC open to charging subscriptions for premium content, head of Corporation's trust reveals - Telegraph

How the BBC is funded will form a key part of these negotiations with the possibility of a subscription model replacing the traditional licence fee. If such changes were introduced it would be the biggest shake-up since the BBC was founded in 1922. Some members of the Cabinet are understood to believe that the compulsory 145.50 annual charge for television ownership is outdated and does not represent the changes in how people watch television in the modern world. - telegraph.co.uk

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Media: David Liddiment and Alison Hastings leave the Trust; Women in the media; Mirror complaint

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RadioToday with RCS | UK stations get ready for RAJAR results

Its that time of the year when radio stations receive quarterly listening figures direct to their web browser. Come back at midnight for all the news, and keep an eye on RadioToday.co.uk/rajar for really nice and easy to use graphs. Posted on Wednesday, October 22nd, 2014 at 237 pm by Radio Today UK. - radiotoday.co.uk

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BBC News - New BBC Radio 3 controller 'will not dumb down'

Listening figures released in July had Radio 3's weekly reach averaging 1.884 million listeners, to 6 Music's 1.89m. - bbc.co.uk

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Ariel - Radio 4 debates some big ideas

22 October 2014 Last updated at 1331 Big questions that have preoccupied thinkers down the ages will be debated for a major new series on Radio 4. A History of Ideas will pose one question every week to a group of four contributors - from lawyers and theologians to mathematicians - with Melvyn Bragg presiding over the exchange of views for the 60-part series. They will together discuss philosophical topics such as 'what does it mean to be me' and 'how do I live a good life' In subsequent programmes, each of the four contributors will further develop their arguments in an authored programme, using the tenets of philosophers and historical thinkers to back them up. - bbc.co.uk

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DTG :: News :: DTG's Keith Hayler awarded IET Achievement Medal for advancing digital radio and TV

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https://www.cable.co.uk/guides/cheapest-tv-package-bt/

It includes 70 channels, a smattering of HD options, a YouView box for recording content, and 17Mbps of fixed-line broadband. Its the survival box of TV packages all the essentials but no luxuries. The majority of free extras are part of the broadband service. - cable.co.uk

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?24.99 Xbox One Digital TV Tuner now on sale in the UK | Expert Reviews

Unfortunately this wasn't possible for the millions of UK residents that use the integrated Freeview tuner built into their TV, rather than a set-top box. That changed today when the Digital TV Tuner accessory went on sale. The dongle receives free-to-air HD broadcasts, supports the OneGuide onscreen programme guide, and lets you set favourite channels for quick access. - expertreviews.co.uk

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Fairhead indicates support for BBC3 online move | News | Broadcast

BBC Trust chairman Rona Fairhead has indicated that she supports the proposal to move BBC3 online to help the channel keep pace with the viewing habits of its audience. Speaking in front of a Culture, Media and Sport Committee on Tuesday, Fairhead said the strategy was “in and of itself” a “good idea”, but the BBC’s proposals will need to be examined in detail. She explained that the channel’s target audience of 16-34 year olds was now “watching less and very differently” than ever before. “Although sometimes this audience views by appointment, typically they eat or watch on the go through different devices,” she said. - broadcastnow.co.uk

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Ariel - Rona Fairhead has not 'gone native'

Fairhead also believed the business was being run more efficiently and was 'more convinced' of the BBC's economic benefit to the UK than she was before taking up her new job. Outgoing trustee David Liddiment said more detail was needed from the BBC before the trust could move forward with a public value test. In another exchange, Liddiment admitted that many licence-fee payers weren't aware of the BBC Trust, despite it safeguarding their interests. - bbc.co.uk

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BBC Trust chair appears to back BBC3 TV closure | Media | theguardian.com

Her fellow trustee David Liddiment, who also gave evidence to MPs on Tuesday, said there was a widespread view that the trust was not fit for purpose and admitted there was a faultline in the way that the trust was set up. Fairhead, making her first public appearance since succeeding Lord Patten last month, said The idea of moving BBC3 and making it online in and of itself is good. We havent done our final review of BBC3. - theguardian.com

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Ariel - Fran Unsworth to lead World Service

She will also continue to be deputy director of news and current affairs, a position she was given in late 2012 to help steer the division through the Jimmy Savile/Newsnight crisis. 'I have known Fran since she joined the BBC and watched in admiration as her career has developed,' said director general Tony Hall. 'Proudest day' Unsworth, who will take up her new role in December, described getting her new job as 'the proudest day of my professional life'. - bbc.co.uk

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The postponement concluded, temporarily at least, a long period of impassioned debate from stakeholders throughout the sport industry. The panels remit was to review the principle of listing generally the criteria against which events were currently, or might in the future, be listed and the events which make up the current list and which events should be on the list for the future. The findings and recommendations of the Davies Report were strongly resisted by sports rights holders. - whoswholegal.com

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BBC - DAB Phase 4 - Help Receiving TV and Radio

This phase of national DAB expansion is expected to be completed by the end of 2015. We are not able to provide specific details on when improvements in coverage will reach particular areas for a number of reasons weather and other variables can impact on the build of particular transmitters. The postcode checker for DAB at www.getdigitalradio.com will also be updated as the roll-out progresses. - bbc.co.uk

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Why Cameron can’t be allowed to scupper televised election debates | Media | The Guardian

The broadcasters showed every sign of being jolly pleased with their announcement last week that they had agreed a format for TV party leader debates for next years general election. Which, remember, was subject to an unsuccessful legal challenge from the SNP. BBC bosses will also hope that, assuming the debates happen in more or less this form, theirs might be last in the sequence and therefore closest to the poll. - theguardian.com

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Media Monkey’s Diary: Jason Seiken, naked ski jumping and Fi Glover | Media | The Guardian

The clues were there, in Telegraph editor-in-chief Jason Seikens Twitter feed, to the news on Friday that he will henceforth be redirecting his energies away from editorial and towards future strategy and direction. Whether through genuine charitable impulses, self-interest or sadism, indie producers were quick to respond, and by the end of the week more than 17,000 had been donated. Monkeys quote of the week Who are you and what do you do - Radio 4 presenter Fi Glover to someone with their hand up at a Radio Festival event she was hosting. - theguardian.com

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BBC News - BBC to publish 'right to be forgotten' removals list

Following the ruling, Google set up a form on its site allowing people to request which links should be taken down. Google decided to notify affected websites each time a link had been removed. Mr Jordan said the BBC had so far been notified of 46 links to articles that had been removed. - bbc.co.uk

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Prices Add Up With a la Carte TV - WSJ - WSJ

s ESPN is also developing online-only platforms that would be offered separate from traditional channels. This is a watershed moment for the industry. But cord-cutters should be careful what they wish for. A future where television viewers subscribe to each channel individually could be cheaper for young people who only watch two or three channels, industry executives said. - online.wsj.com

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Newsrooms must reflect modern Britain | Comment | Broadcast

The Open Newsrooms Day scheme is a step in the right direction, says Michael Jermey Yesterday was a memorable day in many newsrooms across the country. Not because of a big breaking news story but because hundreds of people, most of them young and from Black, Asian or Minority Ethnic backgrounds, took the opportunity to spend an enjoyable day experiencing life first hand in a busy newsroom, talking to people who produce, present and report the news. The energetic enthusiasm of all involved, both the newsroom visitors and the news professionals talking about their work, was palpable. - broadcastnow.co.uk

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Freeview HD - Which BBC regions will go HD in the future? - BBC - FAQs - Home

The BBC is committed to developing a plan for the rest of the regions as soon as practically possible. - bbc.co.uk

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Freeview HD - Why are there no Red Button Interactive Services on Freeview HD? - BBC - FAQs - Home

Technical constraints mean that it is not possible to run the full existing Red Button service, in the broadcast capacity we have available. We have run some limited data services on the Freeview HD multiplex to support major broadcast events. However we are working on an alternative solution, which will allow us to provide the usual Red Button functionality within the capacity we do have available. - bbc.co.uk

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John Simpson signs BBC deal allowing him to stay as long as he likes | Media | theguardian.com

Veteran foreign correspondent John Simpson, a 45-year BBC lifer, has signed a new contract that effectively allows him to work for the corporation for as long as he wants. It is understood that the 70-year-old BBC world affairs editor has been given a deal that will see him stay on indefinitely. Previously Simpson who hit the headlines this summer when he reportedly said the BBC was grotesquely managed was on an annual contract. - theguardian.com

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BBC - Blogs - The Radio 4 Blog - Saturday Drama: Under Milk Wood in Surround Sound

The 2003 production was streamed online in 5.1 surround sound and now that 5.1 mix will also be available on-line in an experimental player on the Radio 4 website. This version of Under Milk Wood was recorded in surround sound and when first broadcast in 2003 it was available in this format to listeners at home who had the right equipment and software. When the play is repeated on Saturday 18 October at 2.30pm the surround sound version will be available as a live stream the play will also be available on demand from about 5pm that day for the next 30 days. - bbc.co.uk

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Ariel - When Tony Hall met Terry Walsh...

Rather than send a standard congratulatory reply, Tony Hall decided to visit the radio veteran, who's 'just about presented every programme going', according to his biography. He spent six years travelling the world, producing and directing television coverage of sports such as rally driving, hang gliding, windsurfing, golf and sailing. Tech apprentice of the year went to Salford native David Hewitt, who has completed a work placement with 'diligence, drive and leadership'. - bbc.co.uk

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BBC weather presenter Helen Willetts in double trouble | Media Monkey | Media | theguardian.com

Viewers saw double during a BBC weather bulletin when two moving images of presenter Helen Willetts appeared on screen at once. A technical gaffe meant the forecast on Thursday became a two-cast as the BBC News channel presenter and her twin guided viewers through the outlook for the next few hours. - theguardian.com

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DTG :: News :: DTG appoints new Head of Communications

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About this project - BBC Genome

You can search the site for BBC programmes, people, dates and Radio Times editions. We hope it helps you find that long forgotten BBC programme, research a particular person or browse your own involvement with the BBC. This is a historical record of both the planned output and the BBC services of any given time. - genome.ch.bbc.co.uk

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About the BBC Blog

Our aim on this project is to curate a comprehensive history of every radio and TV programme ever broadcast by the corporation, and make that available to the public. Were really pleased to get the site live, not least because so many of you have been asking when, how soon and telling us how useful it would be. The challenges in making available the 4.42 million programme records so far have been significant - you can read about some of the recent ones on the Internet blog. - bbc.co.uk

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BBC News - BBC's Genome Project offers radio and TV archive listings

The Genome Project is based on scans of Radio Times magazine listings published between 1923 and 2009. It is designed to help the BBC identify programmes missing from its recorded archive and try to find copies of them. A total of 4,423,654 programmes are included, from 4,469 issues. - bbc.co.uk

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BBC News - Railways 'dead zones' for mobiles, report reveals

The research, by Global Wireless Solutions GWS, found one in three mobile internet tasks failed, as did one in seven voice calls. Engineers tested the 10 most popular routes in and out of London. Voice calls were more likely to fail on open track than in a station, and the most failures occurred when a train was travelling above 50mph 80km/h. - bbc.co.uk

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DTG :: News :: Google reveals Nexus Player STB for Lollipop-powered Android TV

Made by Asus, Nexus Player is being presented as a platform for streaming music and video and games, controlled via remote control, smartphone and a wireless gamepad. The compact device will be launched in the US this autumn with pre-orders from October 17, but there are no details yet on price or international launch dates. Lollipop will be launched across Google's recent Nexus phones and tablets in the next few weeks, and includes a universal search across all devices, with the ability to pick up media playback from one device on another. - dtg.org.uk

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