Tuesday 09 September 2014, AM
ITV goes into battle with BSkyB and Virgin over ?100m fees for main channel - Telegraph
In todays highly competitive media marketplace that is simply wrong. It is in the interests of all broadcasters that we encourage the regulator and government to look again at this issue for the benefit of the industry and viewers. ITVs campaign is supported by Channel 4, which also stands to add tens of millions to its bottom line if a US-style system of retransmission fees is introduced. The attack is focused on BSkyB and Virgin Media. - telegraph.co.uk
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TV AND MEDIA 2014 Changing consumer needs are creating a new media landscape
The TV landscape is changing from one where traditional TV providers and physical media dominate and the consumer experience is inflexible. Nowadays, new aggregators enable consumers to decide what they want to watch and pick-and-mix their own services, something that 5 out of 10 consumers prefer over the traditional TV bundles.www.ericsson.com
BBC4 goes weird and wonderful with abstract idents and new shows | John Plunkett | Media | theguardian.com
New writers, quite bold and exciting, is all he will say. On Monday night he will do the unthinkable, dismantling his channels branding and handing the precious between-programme idents to a bunch of artists including Turner prize winner Laure Prouvost. The results, to coincide with a new season of programmes about abstract art, will be weird and wonderful, and even laugh-out-loud funny. - theguardian.comwww.theguardian.comUKTV seeks to exploit scale as field narrows
UKTV has predicted a decline in the number of channels on British television, as the broadcaster heralded an increase in its own market share. The company - which owns Dave, the channel famous for its repeats of popular programmes - increased revenues 6 per cent last year to £278m
www.ft.comITV chief: Force BSkyB and Virgin Media to pay retransmission fees | Media | theguardian.com
The impact of this wholly outdated regime is that UK public service broadcasters are forced to subsidise major pay-TV platforms. ITV points out that last year US free-to-air broadcasters received about 3.3bn 2bn in retransmission payments from cable operators. Last year culture minister Ed Vaizey called on BSkyB to scrap its charges, or possibly face regulation. - theguardian.comwww.theguardian.comMonday 08 September 2014, AM
UKTV profits fall 7% in 2013 | Media | theguardian.com
Revenues were up 6 to a record 278m, with reported Ebitda down 6 to 67.4m, according to the broadcasters annual results published on Monday. UKTV chief executive Darren Childs said Investment is key to our future growth. This is a really significant phase in UKTVs story, when we move from challenger to contender. The company said its total share of the audience grew 5 in 2013 to 4.7 across all its channels. - theguardian.comwww.theguardian.comSunday 07 September 2014, PM
Cliff Richard raid: The BBC’s breaking news dilemma | Media | The Guardian
The BBCs case against the accusations was very strong but the corporation was also uncharacteristically lucky. For once the knives were out for its accuser well before the letters BBC were ever even uttered he was after all the man responsible for a police force standing accused of ignoring as many as 1,400 child victims of organised grooming and sexual abuse over more than a decade in Rotherham. The BBC robustly defended its deal with the police and the coverage it subsequently gave to what became its exclusive story. - theguardian.comwww.theguardian.com
Broadcasters slam London Live bid to slash local content | News | Broadcast
Channel 4, Channel 5, UKTV and rival bidders have lined up to slam London Live’s proposals to radically reduce its commitment to local programming. The Evening Standard-operated television station wrote to Ofcom in July to request a number of changes to its licence, including slashing its primetime local content by two thirds - from three hours, to one hour a day. Cutting local repeats and diluting its service commitments were also priorities. - broadcastnow.co.uk
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Freeview: "95% of the most watched programmes are on Freeview" | IP
What kind of affect do you expect the growth of more targeted advertising models to have on free broadcasting, and what innovations are Freeview involved in here Are there any new free TV models from around the world you think are innovative and inspiring If you had to pick a winner, is the future of TV free or the opposite - iptv-news.com
www.iptv-news.comRona Fairhead: grill the nominators, not the nominee or the BBC | Media | The Observer
She's a smart operator, and she can reasonably ask to be cut a little slack over her BBC vision thing after a sudden arrival from left or perhaps right field. The essential BBC governance argument, raging until charter renewal in 2017, is whether the trust/executive board split is good, bad or indifferent. - theguardian.comwww.theguardian.comYouGov and the Digital Television Group September 2014 [pdf]
How are consumers changing the way they are accessing content? - cdn.yougov.comcdn.yougov.com
RadioToday | DAB radio outage in some parts of the UK
There are no reports of problems with commercial stations. Posted on Thursday, September 4th, 2014 at 921 am by Radio Today UK. - radiotoday.co.uk
radiotoday.co.ukSunday 07 September 2014, AM
Ofcom | Request to change frequency of Somerset local DAB multiplex: Statement
As MuxCo's proposal to change the frequency of the local radio multiplex service would have no impact on the range of local digital sound programme services proposed to be available in the Somerset area, Ofcom was satisfied that this statutory criterion had been met. The sole respondent to the consultation suggested that if the Somerset multiplex were permitted to change frequency from 10D to 10B, this might cause interference with the Oxfordshire local radio multiplex service which is also broadcast on the 10B frequency. - stakeholders.ofcom.org.ukstakeholders.ofcom.org.ukFriday 05 September 2014, PM
Wednesday 03 September 2014, PM
Tessa Jowell: Fairhead must be a 'firewall' | News | Broadcast
We have recently launched our new Broadcast subscription packages, which means theres an option to suit everyone. Learn more about the new packages here and choose the one that best suits you. Subscribing takes just 2 minutes and offers instant access to the website. - broadcastnow.co.ukwww.broadcastnow.co.uk
BBC News - Apple iCloud security exploit is a concern, experts say
It has emerged that a security measure called two-step verification, which is recommended by Apple, can be bypassed using easily available software that allows access to iCloud back-ups. Usually, people who have forgotten their login details can regain access to their accounts by entering the answers to some personal questions - and this process cannot be exploited when two-step verification is enabled. 'Chinks in armour' Other security experts said Apple's advice about two-step verification was possibly misleading. - bbc.co.ukwww.bbc.co.ukMedia: Who is Rona Fairhead?; the BBC on Sir Cliff coverage; the Press Gazette joins IPSO.
downloads.bbc.co.ukWednesday 03 September 2014, AM
Liberty Global plc - Class A Ordinary Shares (NASDAQ:LBTYA); ITV PLC (OTCMKTS:ITVPF) News Analysis: Liberty Global Rumor
The 10 billion acquisition rumor is turning out to be a blessing for ITV as its stock price boosted incredibly, reaching an all-time high since January 2011. Liberty Global is a US-based multinational corporation with operations spanning two prime segments, namely telecommunications and television. The company is said to be one of the largest providers of broadband internet service outside the US, and is managed by an American billionaire John Malone. - bidnessetc.com
www.bidnessetc.comTuesday 02 September 2014, PM
Report on the results of the work of the High Level Group on the future use of the UHF band
Pascal Lamy, Chairman of the High Level Group on the future of the UHF spectrum, proposes to repurpose the 700 MHz band for wireless broadband and asks for regulatory stability for broadcasting to continue in the 470-694 MHz band until 2030. - ec.europa.euec.europa.euTuesday 02 September 2014, AM
DTG :: News :: Takeover hopes boost ITV share prices
As more speculation of a takeover of ITV comes around, the broadcasters shares rose to a record high this week. We're certainly going to keep an eye on the progression of any ITV takeover. DTG Staff 02.09.2014 Links open in a new window. - dtg.org.ukdtg.org.ukWe can’t let tech giants, like Facebook and Twitter, control our news values | Media | The Guardian
He showed us mini-robots and talked about building the internet in space. We smiled indulgently, inwardly questioning the robustness of his faculties, and talk turned inevitably to the future of newspapers. Well, said Cerf, rotating his robot, the problem is theres news and theres paper, and those are two separate things. It seemed so preposterously obvious as to be not worth further scrutiny. - theguardian.comwww.theguardian.comBBC News staff vote to strike | Media | theguardian.com
BBC News programmes could be hit by industrial action later this month over plans to cut more than 400 posts, after union members voted to strike over the proposed cuts. The unions argue that given the high level of interest in applying for voluntary redundancy 470 volunteers, according to Bectu which they put down to low morale within BBC News, the corporation should be able to avoid compulsory departures. A further 415 posts will be cut, but 195 new positions created, meaning a net reduction of 220 full-time posts. - theguardian.comwww.theguardian.com
DAB+ starts in the UK: what you need to know - media.info
FunKids will be broadcast as a test until 31st December 2014. Ofcom have given specific permission for DAB signals to be broadcast. DAB differs from the original DAB by having improved error correction and a more efficient audio codec. - media.infomedia.infoMonday 01 September 2014, PM
Will This WebTuner Do Away With Your Set Top Box? - CMO Today - WSJ
WebTuner, a secretive startup, has been quietly approaching big media industry players with a plan to bring TV-viewing into the broadband age. The centerpiece of its plan is a device meant to replace pay-TV providers outmoded set-top boxes. WebTuners gadget, which looks like a slightly longer version of an iPhone charger, plugs into a wall or power strip and streams TV channels and on-demand programming over the web to TV sets. - blogs.wsj.comblogs.wsj.com
Five challenges facing Rona Fairhead | News | Broadcast
We have recently launched our new Broadcast subscription packages, which means theres an option to suit everyone. Subscribing takes just 2 minutes and offers instant access to the website. - broadcastnow.co.ukwww.broadcastnow.co.uk
Ariel - Cleaners, porters and engineers walk out
1 September 2014 Last updated at 1219 Mail deliveries, cleaning and porter services in BBC buildings may be affected on Monday by strike action. More than 44 of those who are Bectu members took part in a ballot, which closed last week, in which more than 80 voted in favour of strikes. They are joined by engineers - who look after things like heating, lighting, plumbing and power systems in BBC buildings - in the walkout, which will last from 9am on Monday until 9am on Tuesday. - bbc.co.ukwww.bbc.co.ukEdinburgh Festival confronts future of television | informitv
It is less than a decade since the first YouTube video of elephants at San Diego Zoo, which has now been watched by nearly 16 million people worldwide. The view from the festival is that the future of television is neither doomed, nor is it safe, as Brent MacGregor reports. YouTube also featured heavily in the later session How do you do digital Perhaps this attraction arises because of the apparent similarity to broadcast television. - informitv.cominformitv.com
Ariel - Peter Horrocks to leave the BBC
1 September 2014 Last updated at 1054 Peter Horrocks is to leave the BBC in the new year after a 33 year career. World Service director since 2009, he has led it through some significant changes - not least, this year's move from Foreign Office to licence fee funding. He has also guided the international services through savage budget cuts, service closures and a modernisation programme, but leaves with the global audience at record levels. - bbc.co.ukwww.bbc.co.ukMonday 01 September 2014, AM
Who is Rona Fairhead? | News | Broadcast
A largely unknown quantity to the broadcasting industry, Broadcast runs the rule over the governments preferred candidate. We have recently launched our new Broadcast subscription packages, which means theres an option to suit everyone. Learn more about the new packages here and choose the one that best suits you. - broadcastnow.co.ukwww.broadcastnow.co.uk
RadioToday | Folder Media puts Fun Kids radio on DAB+
The multiplex operator believes that only 3m of the 20m digital radio sets sold are capable of receiving DAB transmissions. This test, at 64kbit/s on the Wrexham, Chester and Liverpool multiplex is seen as a real world test of the format till the end of the year. One of the questions weve been getting from potential new service providers is the viability of launching stations in DAB. - radiotoday.co.ukradiotoday.co.ukDTG :: News :: Viacom positioned to finalise C5 deal
The acquisition was started in May of this year and will be complete by 20 September according to reports. Channel 5 will be bought by Viacom for an estimated 450m after the company has agreed to honour the channel's commitment to 600 hour of original British children's programming each year which was a condition of the broadcaster's licence renewal last year. A source within the Department for Culture Media and Sport suggested that Viacom had raised 'one or to issues' surrounding the production of this content, all of which have been ironed out. - dtg.org.ukdtg.org.ukThe BBC Trust may have found its saviour - TV Radio - Media - The Independent
The former Sun editor and Brunswick PR David Yelland has described her as an excellent choice. Ms Fairhead would be the first woman in the job and her candidacy has been a well-kept secret after many potential applicants ruled themselves out of a part-time role that proved difficult for the previous incumbents, Lord Patten and Sir Michael Lyons. Its said Ms Fairhead left the Financial Times Group, where she was chairman and chief executive, because she didnt get the top job in 2012. - independent.co.ukwww.independent.co.ukSunday 31 August 2014, PM
Rona Fairhead offers relief but no respite for BBC | Media | The Guardian
These are testing times for the BBC, as they will no doubt be for the new trust chair. Relief mainly that she was not one of the other mooted candidates for example, the former BBC chairman Michael Grade. There are several things about Fairhead that are ideally suited to the circumstances. - theguardian.comwww.theguardian.comDaily Mail on the wrong trail over BBC’s Sherlock success | Media Monkey | Media | theguardian.com
But thats ancient history, and this week the Emmy awards in Los Angeles delivered fresh humiliation. This level of success at the Primetime Emmys is pretty much unprecedented for UK shows in the events 65-year history. American television shows swept the board. Er ... theyve always swept the board year in, year out until Downton and Sherlock. - theguardian.comwww.theguardian.comNew Statesman | Gee up, Newsnight: is it time to stop flogging the dying horse?
Its possibly because of the grimness of the news agenda that I find myself ending the day with BBC2s Newsnight less often than I used to. Twenty-four-hour news channels and all the commentary online make it ever harder to offer a definitive take on the day, and over on Radio 4 the Today programme mops up the key interviews. I would move the programme to a new slot start it at 11pm and give it up to an hour, with a brief to be more discursive. - newstatesman.comwww.newstatesman.comDTG :: News :: DTG Testing releases D-Book 7 v4 MHEG test suites
The test suites are available as an free update to existing licensees. For new customers, pricing information is available from customerservicesdtg.org.uk DTG Staff 28.08.2014 - dtg.org.ukdtg.org.uk
Ariel - Imagine never needing the remote
27 August 2014 Last updated at 1544 From Ceefax to gesture-controlled devices, London's Barbican is currently hosting an exhibition celebrating digital creativity. In a single room, the Digital Revolution exhibition charts the rapid progression of mass consumer technology over the last 40 years. For those seeking a dose of digital nostalgia, there was the chance to play classic arcade games like Pong 1972 and Pac Man 1980 or boot up early home computers such as the ZX Spectrum 1982. - bbc.co.ukwww.bbc.co.uk
BBC News - White space between TV signals could save lives at sea
The leftover white space between TV signals is raising the hope of saving lives at sea and proving broadband for remote communities. He is using VHF radio, a technology virtually unchanged for a century. It was from the cliffs above Freshwater Bay on the Isle of Wight that Guglielmo Marconi first proved that radio could be used for two-way wireless communication with ships at sea. - bbc.co.ukwww.bbc.co.ukSaturday 30 August 2014, PM
BBC News - Rona Fairhead to be BBC Trust chairwoman
She was chairwoman and chief executive of the Financial Times Group between 2006 and 2013 as part of a 12-year career with its owner, Pearson. - bbc.co.ukwww.bbc.co.ukWednesday 27 August 2014, PM
Media: Exploitation in South Yorkshire - TV election debates - Jihadis and social media
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RadioToday | RadioDNS launches new information website
RadioDNS the open standards code which connects broadcast radio and internet data together has a new website. It has a cleaner, more modern design, is fully responsive and contains lots of information on hybrid radio along with documents to help broadcasters, developers and manufacturers launch RadioDNS Hybrid Radio services. The project has 26 members from the United States, Europe and Australia, and over 60 supporters, withover 1900 stations currently using the technology. - radiotoday.co.ukradiotoday.co.uk
BBC News - LG to put 'the first 4K OLED TVs' on sale in September
The firm said a curved 65in 165cm set would go on sale in Europe, South Korea and North America in September. The two companies offer 4K sets based on synthetic LED tech instead. The difference is that OLED makes use of a carbon-based compound that emits light when struck by an electric current. - bbc.co.ukwww.bbc.co.ukMonday 25 August 2014, PM
It seems to be Groundhog Day for public service broadcasters | Media | The Guardian
His speech, which came just after the general election that put a seemingly hostile coalition government in power, fought for public service broadcasting in a world in which no one seemed to balk at the idea that profit is all, the chilling conclusion to James Murdochs MacTaggart lecture of the year before. For Thompson, the main target was the Murdochs and their attack on the licence fee, which was renewed in October 2010. For Abraham, who after all broadcasts some Murdoch-made material including Homeland and The Simpsons, the target was broader. - theguardian.comwww.theguardian.comMonkey at Edinburgh: Keith Lemon naked, Peter Fincham’s man cave | Media | The Guardian
Monkey has a new contender for most embarrassing session at Edinburgh previously held by Jana Bennetts singing in an execs version of Britains Got Talent in 2009. You feel really vulnerable when someone comes in and wipes their anus on your kitchen counter. A mystified Lemon also found a cupboard in the sitting room containing some old pants and socks. Finchams house included works of arts and a giant man cave in the garden where Lemon kept finding planted wads of 50 notes. - theguardian.comwww.theguardian.com
#10 - SPECIAL: Guardian Edinburgh International TV Festival 2014
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Friday 22 August 2014, AM
Digital Communications Infrastructure Strategy consultation - Consultations - GOV.UK
This consultation is collecting evidence and views to develop a new Digital Communications Infrastructure Strategy. This Strategy will look at what digital communications infrastructure is needed in the UK over the next 10-15 years to maintain our position as a world class digital nation. The Strategy will also consider what needs to be done by Government, industry and others to put this digital communications infrastructure in place. - gov.ukwww.gov.ukDavid Abraham’s MacTaggart lecture - full text | Media | theguardian.com
Thank you Elaine, Melanie and the festival committee for inviting me to give the MacTaggart lecture this year. Its a tremendous honour to be speaking, both personally and on behalf of Channel 4. Its going to be one of my creative highlights of the year. - theguardian.comwww.theguardian.com
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Media: BBC's coverage of raid on Sir Cliff; covering the Missouri riots; Sky's diversity targets
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