Here’s a look at what you can watch on Mustard TV - News - Eastern Daily Press

To send a link to this page to a friend, you must be logged in. One show airing next week is Splinter Bike, following the endeavours of two Norfolk friends seeking to build a 100pc wooden bike in order to set a new world speed record. Meanwhile, a prominent part of the schedule in the first six weeks will be devoted to a new history series, Archive Half Hour, commissioned for the new channel by Mustards managing director, Fiona Ryder. - edp24.co.uk

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POP goes to Freeview DTT - Rapid TV News

Featuring a diverse mix of shows, the channel is now accessible to an additional 12.4 million householders from 0600 to 2200 offering cartoons, fun 'how-to' facts and stimulating science shows. In addition it will also feature www.popfun.co.uk, an interactive website which lets children play with their favourite show characters and take part in a range of activities including games and avatar creations in an entertaining and safe environment. - rapidtvnews.com

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BBC News - Mustard TV: Norwich local TV service launches on Freeview

The city centre-based channel begins its five-hours-a-day service on Freeview channel 8 from 1730 GMT. Led by publisher Archant, it is one of 19 initial local TV stations awarded licences by the government. Broadcasting up to 162,000 homes across Norwich and parts of Norfolk, the station promises news and sport, business, current affairs, local entertainment, technology and leisure. - bbc.co.uk

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Mustard TV launch spices up Freeview in Norfolk - Recombu

We hope to engage the community in ways that other stations covering wider patches just cant. We will put Norfolk and Norwich at the heart of everything we do, celebrating the best of our county and concentrating on the issues that really matter to our communities. - recombu.com

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Pop targets original series - News - Broadcast

27 March, 2014 By Peter White Kids channel Pop wants to move into original commissioning for the first time after launching on free-to-air platform Freeview this week. It takes just 2 minutes and offers full, instant access to the Broadcast website along with a copy of the magazine delivered every week. - broadcastnow.co.uk

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Ground-floor opportunities for NW investors offered by Bay TV - Bdaily Business News

Now BTVL says it is inviting businesses and individuals to back its fortunes and get in on the ground floor of a burgeoning broadcasting empire. Bay TV is headquartered in a purpose-built office and studios complex in Windsor Street,part of thewider creative quarter to the south of Liverpool city centre. - bdaily.co.uk

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www.bucksherald.co.uk/what-s-on/new-high-definition-channels-heading-to-aylesbury-1-5963182

High-definition Freeview boxes in Aylesbury Vale will be able to receive a number of new HD channels from April 1. Ilse Howling, managing director at Freeview, said We are delighted to make even more HD channels available to Freeview viewers. - bucksherald.co.uk/what-s-on/new-high-definition-channels-heading-to-aylesbury-1-5963182

Hitchhiker s cast reunite in theatre where it all began - Television radio - The Guardian

Simon Jones, who played Arthur Dent in both the radio and TV versions of the space travel adventure, even slipped on the dressing gown worn by his character during his adventures. The show, which started on Radio 4 in 1978, inspired a hit TV programme, a series of books, a computer game and a film with Martin Freeman as Dent. Thousands of fans applied for tickets for the reunion and subsequent live performance, which is part of Radio 4's Character Invasion season. - theguardian.com

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The BBC arts coverage goes back to the future - Catherine Bennett - Comment is free - The Observer

The Clangers are coming back to the BBC. Within the last week, the question must have been asked more often than at any time in human history, or certainly by people still unborn 45 years ago, when the great arts programme went out. As so often, YouTube, undreamt of in 1969 when Kenneth Clark's last and strikingly pessimistic programme was broadcast, provides some clues to the world view that Hall finds so compelling. - theguardian.com

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Media Talk podcast: BBC Arts boost, London Live launch

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Discovery in talks over Premier League rights and eyeing Channel 5 buy - Media - theguardian.com

Discovery has held talks with potential partners about launching joint bids for Premier League TV rights. David Zaslav, chief executive of the US cable giant, kept his cards close to his chest on the Channel 5 sale process, where Discovery is considered to be a frontrunner among buyers offering much less than Desmond's lofty 700m-plus target. Zaslav was more open about the potential for Discovery to enter the next three-year Premier League TV rights deal, which is expected to start later this year, as part of a strategy to boost Eurosport in the 55 markets it broadcasts. - theguardian.com

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Ariel - BBC has to pay up for TV Licensing visits to property

The BBC had previously offered the complainant 100 on the grounds that TVL officers had committed trespassing when they visited the property. The head of revenue management added an additional 30 to the sum as a 'gesture of goodwill' after another 'possible' instance of trespassing - an amount that was judged to be 'inadequate' by the complainant. She called for the sum to be raised to 350 because of the 'added time and effort' in pursuing the compensation, which had been ongoing. - bbc.co.uk

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You never asked ME about BBC Three! - Podium

What do you think about the fact the BBC Three is moving online - podium.me

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Labour will support Commons vote to decriminalise TV licence fee evaders - Media - theguardian.com

A TV Licensing department official peers out from behind a curtain in a detector van in Glasgow. After the coalition said it backed the idea of a consultation on scrapping the crime, Labour will also make clear that it is a strong supporter of the BBC but thinks it is difficult to justify sending people who do not pay their television licence fee to prison. The idea of decriminalisation has been pushed by more than 150 MPs from all parties, led by Tory backbencher Andrew Bridgen. - theguardian.com

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The future of the BBC World Service - News from Parliament - UK Parliament

The main areas for discussion are expected to be the degree of protection for the interests of the World Service within the BBCs decision-making structures, and future levels of funding. - parliament.uk

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The BBC will, in effect, be privatised with vast consequences Telegraph Blogs

Budgets come and go, but something more far-reaching will take place in the House of Commons today something that might change our political discourse significantly, benignly and permanently. Instead of being dragged through the courts, defaulters will simply have their access to the BBC switched off in the same way that Sky withdraws its services from those who dont pay their subscriptions. The practical case for the measure is unarguable. - blogs.telegraph.co.uk

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LBC London Talk station taking over Jazz FM

Dont ask me to explain what digital radio multiplexes are. You might as well ask me to explain Mornington Crescent, or gravity. I thought Id provide a handy guide to non-London readers who may be a little baffled by what LBC is. - radiotimes.com

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Noel Edmonds Actually Wants to Buy the BBC - VICE United States

Already tired from an evening of beating up political heavyweights and chewing over the fundamental origins of the universe, despite the direct threat to his existence, he must have sensed this was also his chance for a smoke break, the evenings comic interlude. We believe it will be lost to Britain. And Mr. Blobbys the man to save it Practically immune to these tactics after a lifetime of jokes about his weird pink slug, Noel decided he was going to play the bigger man. - vice.com

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The Remote Control Needs To Die So The Television Can Live ReadWrite

The remote control, back when we only had four channels to choose from, was the perfect way to interact with television. No directional pad, settings buttons, RGBY buttons, or guide controls. Television sets were used to watch television programs, and the remote control was used to change from channel to channel. - readwrite.com

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BBC licence fee: decriminalising evasion review delayed - Media - theguardian.com

Andrew Bridgen has called for ministers to spend up to a year reviewing the issue of decriminalising BBC licence fee evasion. The BBC is claiming victory in its bid to delay a review into decriminalising licence fee evasion, which it claims would lead to reduced revenue and force it to axe services such as BBC4. Tory MP Andrew Bridgen, who has been pushing for legislation to make non-payment a civil rather than criminal offence via an amendment to the forthcoming deregulation bill, has made additional amendments in which he calls for ministers to spend up to a year reviewing the issue. - gu.com

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Nick Clegg cautious on plan to drop licence fee prosecutions - Media - theguardian.com

David Cameron has expressed interest in the idea proposed by the Tory backbencher Andrew Bridgen to decriminalise non-payment and instead make it a civil offence. Bridgen has won the support of more than 140 MPs for an amendment to the deregulation bill. The BBC says decriminalising non-payment could cost it 200m in annual revenues, forcing it to close local radio stations. - gu.com

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Media: Lenny Henry; licence fee evasion; L'Wren Scott

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Media Talk podcast: Lenny Henry calls for more diversity in creative industries

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Chromecast launches in UK: long-term review

This is a significantly more user-friendly way of sifting through mounds of content. Except for the Chromecast setup app, which helps set your Chromecast's wifi details and other things, there are no special apps for the Chromecast. Instead, app-makers enable Chromecast functionality properly called Google Cast in their apps. - mediauk.com

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BBC satire W1A too true to life? - Media Monkey - Media - theguardian.com

The same can't be said for sure about their latest venture, W1A, which pokes fun at the BBC. The Sun reports that Sarah Parish, who plays an inept head of output at the Beeb, reckons the spoof drama may be so realistic viewers won't know that the whole thing is meant to be a joke. - theguardian.com

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BBC - Blogs - Internet blog - BBC iPlayer apps on Chromecast

I've been working with the team that has added support for this platform to BBC iPlayer and I wanted to tell you a little a bit about it and what we have planned. From this point on, the Chromecast dongle does all the heavy lifting of decoding and playing the video stream. Your mobile device works more like a remote control and just sends and receives messages from the Chromecast about what is playing. - bbc.co.uk

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BBC - Blogs - About the BBC - Why the BBC disagrees with Andrew Bridgen MP about the Licence Fee

By going down this route, we think that any comparison of the existing system against others can be properly examined to judge the full effects. In the absence of a rigorous testing of this proposal, it could have some perverse effects for example, a civil fixed penalty would need to be set at a sufficiently high level to deter evasion, and that could well end up hitting the less well off harder. As the BBC cannot turn off services for those who do not pay the licence fee, it needs an effective payment enforcement system. - bbc.co.uk

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Links of interest for week ending 16 March 2014

With multiple new ways of listening to sound, whether via your phone, an iPod or your laptop, we ask what is the future of... Spotify will kill off radio, Pandora streaming will kill off radio, Nick Grimshaw will kill off radio. Shame there isn't a radio tuner though, or that S Voice couldn't launch my UK Radio Player... - mediauk.com

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It's the BBC's rightwing bias that is the threat to democracy and journalism - Owen Jones - Comment is free - The Guardi

Trade unions may be Britain's biggest democratic movement, but they are generally shunned or demonised by the media and political elites alike. His second crime is like many journalists to have a political background in his case, he once advised Harriet Harman. Ironically, I recently discussed the issue with him when he interviewed me for a BBC Radio 4 documentary he was presenting. - theguardian.com

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DTG :: News :: Panasonic announces smart TV partnership with Freesat

Panasonic has today announced a smart TV partnership with Freesat, the UK's free-to-air satellite platform currently in 1.8 million homes. In addition, consumers will receive daily programme recommendations. Launched in September 2012, Freetime boxes now account for over 40 of all Freesat set-top-box sales. - dtg.org.uk

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BBC - Blogs - Internet blog - Making the new iPlayer accessible for all

We provide tools, training, and support to teams within the BBC so that they can deliver web content and applications that are accessible to disabled audiences. Earlier this week a public preview of the new BBC iPlayer on the web was released. In streamlining the user experience for all users we wanted to also exceed existing levels of accessibility with the current BBC iPlayer and, more importantly, make the site more usable for disabled users. - bbc.co.uk

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Home broadband speeds double in two years as UK overtakes EU competitors - Technology - theguardian.com

A BT engineer connects customers in London to high-speed fibre-optic broadband. Photograph Rex Features The average home broadband speed has doubled in less than two years, reaching nearly 18 megabits per second Mbps and helping to propel Britain's digital infrastructure ahead of Europe's other leading economies. With internet gradually gaining the status of a household utility alongside water, gas and electricity, more Britons now shop online than in any other European state. - theguardian.com

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Media: Sophie Turner-Laing; live debates; licence fee

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Media Talk podcast: can the BBC regain the initiative?

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BBC - Blogs - Internet blog - Welcome to the new BBC iPlayer on TV

We are currently offering users a preview of the new version of BBC iPlayer for big-screen devices. If the preview is available for your TV device see the list below and the BBC iPlayer help pages, you will see a new link at the bottom of the screen inviting you to try out a new version. We launched the current TV version in 2011 and since then we have seen a dramatic change in how people use BBC iPlayer. - bbc.co.uk

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RadioToday - Westminster debates DAB future of radio

The Westminster Forum on the future of the UK radio industry is taking place today, with a number of radio execs having their say. He said the radio industry should stop planning for switchover any time soon, get on with running their businesses in the most sensible way for them, and the Government should end regulatory uncertainty by agreeing to keep the FM frequency for the foreseeable future, and issue new longer term FM licences as a result. When consumers simply expect content to be delivered whenever, wherever, in the most convenient manner possible, why have we in radio come to the conclusion that we can simply impose a diminution of platform availability on people, simply because its currently costing us more money. - radiotoday.co.uk

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Ariel - Jo Kent saves cult hg2g game from scrapheap

Jo Kent, who works for radio and music interactive, saved the Bafta-winning Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy game from a server that is due to be decommissioned and volunteered to give it a new lease of life. The revamped game was launched at the weekend on Radio 4 Extra - 30 years after Douglas Adams created the original text-based interactive quest for devotees of his science fiction comedy radio series. Adams admirer Kent came across the files for a 20th anniversary edition of the game - enhanced by Rod Lord graphics and dressed up in Flash - when she was working through the websites on a server that was to be shut down. - bbc.co.uk

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Most smart-TV owners do not connect their TVs to the Internet: manufacturers must respond - Insight - News - Analysys Ma

Consumer electronics CE manufacturers must address this and help consumers to understand the functionality and benefits of smart TVs if they are to significantly increase usage of these devices. We believe that actual ownership levels for smart-TV sets may be higher than that reported in our survey, because some people may own a smart TV without even realising it, having purchased the TV for other features such as picture quality or the attractive form factor. Encouragingly for CE manufacturers, more than a third 36 of respondents who do not yet own a smart TV were interested in buying one, with interest peaking at 42 within the key 3554 age group these respondents typically have a higher income than their younger peers 1834 year olds, but are more interested in new technology than older respondents aged 55 or over. - analysysmason.com

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Decriminalising TV licence fee evasion is 'huge risk', warns BBC strategy chief - Media - The Guardian

We don't know what the system would be but what we're saying at this stage is doing it like this, very quickly, would be a huge risk. BBC3 is going to carry on, we're just doing it in a different way. 25 of iPlayer views now come through connected TVs ... - theguardian.com

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MPs bid to reverse BBC3 decision - News - Broadcast

Labour MP John McDonnell has tabled an Early Day Motion in parliament calling on the BBC to reverse its decision to close BBC3 as a television channel. The EDM, which is also sponsored by Culture, Media and Sport Committee member Austin Mitchell, said it was “concerned” by the proposal to move BBC3 online. The motion stated that BBC3 has pioneered programmes including Gavin and Stacey and raised fears that changes could lead to compulsory redundancies. It added that the BBC should receive a licence fee increase that tracks inflation when the corporation’s charter is renewed next year. The EDM said this would “ensure that quality diverse public service broadcasting that plays an enormous role in the broader creative industry can continue to flourish”. As well as McDonnell and Mitchell, Labour’s Jeremy Corbyn has also sponsored the motion.

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Purnell warns against licence fee evasion plans - News - Broadcast

James Purnell has argued that decriminalising licence fee evasion would present a “huge risk” to the future of certain BBC services. The BBC’s director of strategy and digital estimated that if the rate of non-payments were to double from its current level of 5%, it would add up to around £200m of the corporation’s funding. Purnell equated this to the combined budgets of BBC4, CBeebies and CBBC. Purnell voiced his comments at a BBC iPlayer event on Tuesday after justice secretary Chris Grayling mooted the idea of making failure to the pay the licence fee a civil matter, to ease the pressure on courts.

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BBC News - New-look iPlayer unveiled by BBC

Almost 200,000 people have signed a petition calling for the BBC Three plans to be scrapped. Recommendations The new iPlayer features responsive design - meaning the look of the page, and some functionality, adapts depending on what kind of device is being used. The service will recommend more programmes to visitors, due to a growing number - currently 42 - of people who visit iPlayer without any particular programme in mind. - bbc.co.uk

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BBC - Blogs - Internet blog - Introducing the new BBC iPlayer

Fast forward to now and BBC iPlayer is available on over 1,000 different devices and serves 10 million programme requests a day. It now offers more than just catch-up, with live streaming, archive collections, exclusives and premieres. Weve also introduced innovative new features such as mobile downloads, enabling you to watch offline and on the go, and Live Restart, enabling you to jump back to the start of a programme while its being broadcast. - bbc.co.uk

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BBC - Media Centre - BBC unveils new BBC iPlayer

The apps have been downloaded over 28m times and in January 2014 there were 315 million requests - averaging over 10 million requests a day. Over 10 billion programmes have been requested in the six years since launch, with over 3 billion of these coming in 2013 alone. BBC iPlayer is really popular, and new iPlayer will be even better. - bbc.co.uk

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Ofcom - Ofcom confirms terms for new Channel 4 licence

Ofcom today announced that Channel 4s licence will be renewed for a 10-year period. Ofcom has also confirmed Channel 4s licence obligations, which are designed to provide benefits for TV viewers across the UK, while being sustainable for the broadcaster over the new licence period from 1 January 2015. Channel 4s current licence expires at the end of 2014. - media.ofcom.org.uk

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BBC ready to contemplate alternative to the compulsory licence fee - Media - The Guardian

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