Tuesday 03 September 2013, PM
Geoff Hill appointed editor of ITV News - Media - theguardian.com
Hill returns to the network news bulletin he left in 2007 and takes to the editor's chair in place of Deborah Turness, the former boss who took over NBC News last month. He went on to launch and run the 24-hour sports news channel Setanta Sports News as editor-in-chief. He is an inspiring, creative leader who news teams love working for. - theguardian.comwww.theguardian.comThe Deal That Makes No Sense - stratēchery by Ben Thompson
Early this morning Microsoft acquired Nokia for 3.79 billion plus 1.65 billion for patents. It is far better to form an alliance or partnership most of the benefits, none of the costs. A partnership similar, in fact, to the one formed just two years ago between Microsoft and Nokia. - stratechery.comstratechery.comTuesday 03 September 2013, AM
Microsoft to buy Nokias devices, services unit for $7.2B - ZDNet
The deal is set to go ahead for about 5 billion 3.79bn, with an additional 2.17 billion 1.65bn to be spent on licensing Nokia's patents. The boards of both companies agreed to the transaction, which will see the Redmond, Washington-based software giant purchase the Espoo, Finland-based company's phone making unit and patents, and license and use its mapping services. The news comes a few weeks after a Wall Street Journal report claimed that Microsoft was looking to buy Nokia, but discussions broke down. - zdnet.comwww.zdnet.com
CBS and Time Warner Cable reach deal, finally end month-long blackout - The Verge
- www.theverge.comBBC Newsnight should brace for change as Ian Katz takes over - Media - theguardian.com
Ian Katz, the new editor of Newsnight, takes over a show still recovering from the Jimmy Savile scandal. Which probably tells you more about the Guardian and the BBC than it does about Katz. He edited the Guardian's G2 features supplement with its uniquely angled approach to big issues and stories during what many colleagues regard as a golden period. - theguardian.comwww.theguardian.comMonday 02 September 2013, PM
DTG :: News :: Sky conducts ultra-HD test broadcast
The broadcast also demonstrated the capability of our satellite platform, which is ideally placed to continue supporting high-bandwidth video. That said, we've still much more to learn, particularly about how to make full use of UHD from a live production perspective. - dtg.org.ukdtg.org.ukSaturday 31 August 2013, PM
Radio Today - Feature: Radio news comparison 1998-2013
In 1998, as part of his A-level English coursework, then-budding broadcast journalist Stuart Clarkson recorded and analysed news bulletins from 8 different radio stations. As the 15th anniversary of his recordings approached, he dug them out for Radio Today and has recorded the same stations again, 15 years to the minute later. Its approaching 5pm on Friday 28th August 1998 and in every room of the house where I grew up theres a radio-cassette machine on record-pause, ready to spring into life. - radiotoday.co.ukradiotoday.co.uk
Ariel - Britton to be Somerset breakfast host
The current mid-morning presenter, who joined the station in 2003, will move to the earlier slot from September 9. Her appointment comes a week after Tony Hall's announcement that he wants 50 of local stations to have female breakfast show presenters - either solo or as part of a team - by the end of next year. Seven other women are part of double-headed teams. - bbc.co.ukwww.bbc.co.uk
BBC - Blogs - Internet blog - What’s on BBC Red Button 31 August – 7 September
Get your dancing shoes on for a busy week on Red Button Theres something for everyone as we take you behind the scenes at the launch of Strictly Come Dancing 2013 as Lisa Riley interviews this years participating celebrities. Well have the latest news on an exciting football transfer deadline day and relive a summer of live music with BBC Asian Network. - bbc.co.ukwww.bbc.co.ukThursday 29 August 2013, PM
Ariel - Trust suggests rethink on Twitter
Later, it became apparent that the statement - which Davies said was based on information from Gaza health officials - was not true, prompting a complaint first to the BBC and then to the trust. Better to attribute source The trustees judged that while the health officials were an 'appropriate' source for journalists, the tweet had gone beyond their assessment that 'more than half' of the Palestinians who had been killed were civilians. They also believed it would have been 'good practice' to attribute the claim, although they accepted that this could be difficult within Twitter's 140 character constraint. - bbc.co.ukwww.bbc.co.ukDTG :: News :: VuTV pay streaming service coming to Freeview HD
VuTV, a new subscription service, will launch this autumn giving internet-connected Freeview HD viewers access to a range of premium channels. Unlike traditional pay-TV providers, VuTV aims to offer premium channels for a low, monthly subscription, with no long-term contract. - dtg.org.ukdtg.org.uk
Radio Today - Double-blow for Kerrang! Radio listeners
Listeners in parts of the West Midlands are expressing their anger at Kerrang Radio being removed from their radios for a second time. However, with the removal of the regional MXR, Kerrang moved to the local Birmingham multiplex, which doesnt cover the entire region. - radiotoday.co.ukradiotoday.co.uk
Sky+ HD Boxes With WiFi and 2TB of Storage Now Available
Existing customers that havent previously used the On Demand service can get a free connector sent out allowing them to set it up for the first time. Sky says that customers with an HD subscription package or an Entertainment Extra package can get a new box for free. A Sky spokeswoman told The Next Web that all new Sky customers will receive the new boxes and that existing customers could get the new boxes from 49. - thenextweb.comthenextweb.comhttp://stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/binaries/research/radio-research/Software-DAB-Research.pdf
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Media Talk podcast: can Lord Hall nudge the BBC to gender equality?
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Hall promises end of BBC finger pointing - News - Broadcast
Tony Hall is bidding to end the BBC’s internal blame game and boost the confidence of programme- makers to give it back its “creative bounceâ€. The director general used his surprise appearance at the Edinburgh International Television Festival to preface his plans for improving the BBC’s culture following a series of scandals. - broadcastnow.co.ukwww.broadcastnow.co.uk
I was, uh, wrong: Chromecast does what Google claims
Now that I have my own Chromecast and have been playing with it for a few days I have to admit I was wrong. Chromecast appears to be every bit as good as Google claims. Thats not to say its perfect more below but pretty darned good. - betanews.combetanews.comWednesday 28 August 2013, PM
Media: Women on Breakfast
downloads.bbc.co.ukDavid Blunkett accuses broadcasters of failing deaf and blind people - Politics - The Guardian
Labour's former home secretary David Blunkett, who has criticised broadcasters. Photograph Ian West/PA David Blunkett believes broadcasters are failing deaf and blind people by using garbled subtitles and by being reluctant to dub foreign programmes. He also complained that blind people were left frustrated when foreign dramas and documentaries were not dubbed. - theguardian.comwww.theguardian.comBBC expenses fall, but key members of top brass still get plenty of free rides - Media - theguardian.com
No free lunches external hospitality at the BBC was down 47 quarter on quarter. There was bad news for those looking for a free lunch from the Beeb, with external hospitality down 47 quarter on quarter to 13,396. However, staff looking for a free beer from their boss did a little better, with internal hospitality spend up 10 to 7,764. - theguardian.comwww.theguardian.com
BBC News - BBC director general Tony Hall to cut bureaucracy
Lord Hall also said he wanted to see more women on screen and in senior roles. He also pledged to recruit more people from black and ethnic minority backgrounds. - bbc.co.ukwww.bbc.co.uk
Radio Today - Regional DAB turned off in West Midlands
The MXR regional digital radio multiplex for the West Midlands is being turned off today, after 12 years on-air. The Bromsgrove transmitter frequency block will transfer over to MuxCo Herefordshire and Worcestershire from September 2013. Listener choice will be significantly reduced once again, following recent switch-offs in South Wales and the North East. - radiotoday.co.ukradiotoday.co.ukMonday 26 August 2013, PM
How the Time Warner Cable, CBS Standoff Could Set the TV Standard - The Hollywood Reporter
As the fall season approaches, CBS leverage grows. When cable and satellite distributors start losing customers, they have a history of caving in. In its view, CBS already has a financial buffer because it can use the free government-provided spectrum to reach audiences who dont subscribe to cable. - hollywoodreporter.comwww.hollywoodreporter.com
Broadcasters Up Their Attack on Aereo-Like FilmOnX - TheWrap TV
In the D.C. suit, set for a hearing Sept. 20, both FilmOnX and the broadcasters have cited favorable court rulings. FilmOnX engages in copyright infringement, said the filing. Neither system pays the retransmission fees that cable systems pay to offer broadcast channels on their systems. - thewrap.comwww.thewrap.comKevin Spacey Delivers the Definitive Wake Up Call to Anti-Tech TV Execs
The House of Cards star had plenty of ammunition to demonstrate definitively that the anti-tech approach will eventually result in the old guard's demise, unless viewers are allowed to determine the means of consumption. - gawker.comgawker.comKevin Spacey's MacTaggart lecture prompts defence of traditional TV - Media - theguardian.com
Those millions of soap fans could be forgiven for thinking the technological revolution espoused by the Hollywood star had passed them by when in fact, it is just beginning. There was no shortage of warmth in Edinburgh for Spacey's sentiments. Figures released the following day revealed that mobile viewing on iPads, smartphones and laptops still has only niche appeal, accounting for an average of three minutes and 30 seconds a day, compared with the four hours we still spend in front of a TV set. - theguardian.comwww.theguardian.comMonday 26 August 2013, AM
Media Monkey's Edinburgh diary: Tony Hall, Peter Fincham and Club X - Media - The Guardian
Hall had not officially been due to attend the festival at all, but waited backstage before making his Surprise Surprise entrance about 20 minutes before the session's end. He added that Club X producer Charlie Parsons revelled in the bedlam and later tweaked the concept for another live late-night show The Word. Do I protect my life or my modesty - theguardian.comwww.theguardian.comTony Hall should look back 40 years if he wants to restore the BBC's ethos - Media - The Guardian
As scandal after scandal about pay and rations rocks the BBC, and the grandest of its mandarins are humbled before the public accounts committee, it is hard to recognise the institution as it was 40 years ago. Then though far from perfect, especially if you were female its faults were not those of luxury and excess in pay and perks. Staff knew we'd earn more if we took the commercial broadcasting shilling, but there were other rewards. - theguardian.comwww.theguardian.comUK TV beware: As Spacey's House of Cards shows, too much power corrupts - Media - The Guardian
That show was Hill Street Blues a global hit that Spacey identified as the forbear of many great TV dramas of more recent times. There will not be a producer in the land without stories to tell of all the above. Had television here remained the producer-driven medium it once was and not embraced the kind of professionalised, audience-focused commissioning now so prevalent, there is every chance that irrelevance and the slow death that inevitably follows might already have taken hold. - theguardian.comwww.theguardian.comSunday 25 August 2013, AM
BBC - Blogs - Internet blog - What's on BBC Red Button 24 - 31 August
For a full list and times of sport coverage on Red Button see the BBC Sport website. - bbc.co.ukwww.bbc.co.ukSaturday 24 August 2013, PM
NewsHour at a crossroads : Columbia Journalism Review
On September 7, the program will expand to seven days a week, debuting a weekend edition of the NewsHour and ending years of frequent questions from viewers, along with the services own ombudsman, about the lack of scheduled weekend news programming. This set of changes might be the shake-up the NewsHour desperately needs, especially since 2013 hasnt been the best year for news at PBS. The staff and funding used to produce the weekend NewsHour were mostly transferred from the cancelled Friday night newsmagazine Need to Know, a program which, despite winning several awards, failed to build a significant audience in its three-year run. - cjr.orgwww.cjr.orgGuardian Edinburgh International TV Festival 2013 - Media - The Guardian
- theguardian.comwww.theguardian.comSky Living director: 'I am de-pinking the channel' - Media - theguardian.com
Sky Living director, Antonia Hurford-Jones, says she is rebranding the channel so that it will appeal to men as well as women. Antonia Hurford-Jones, the director of Sky Living, said the channel is undergoing a makeover that will involve swapping the pink branding for a blue and silver logo. They don't want to sit alone in their pink fluffy bedroom, wearing their pink fluffy negligee, watching shows on their own. - theguardian.comwww.theguardian.com
Yentob: BBC to drop in-house quotas - News - Broadcast
BBC creative director Alan Yentob has suggested that the corporation may scrap its in-house commissioning quota in the next five years. The Imagine host said it was right that the BBC’s programming supply was a “mixed ecologyâ€, but said the current system of quotas will change as the corporation evolves. - broadcastnow.co.ukwww.broadcastnow.co.ukAlan Yentob: BBC must tackle 'toxic' issue of pay - Media - theguardian.com
BBC creative director Alan Yentob has said he is a programme maker and not one of the officer class at the corporation. Yentob said he could understand staff anger about the controversial issue of payoffs, with 60m paid to outgoing BBC executives over an eight-year period. The question of how creatives are looked after is not total abandon. - theguardian.comwww.theguardian.com
Ariel - DG out to close appalling divide at BBC
23 August 2013 Last updated at 1100 Tony Hall wants to close the rift between management and staff created by severance pay revelations. The director general, speaking at the Edinburgh International Television Festival on Thursday, said staff fury over the 60m spent over eight years by the corporation on senior manager pay-offs - some of which went beyond any contractual entitlement - was justified. 'I really do want to heal this appalling divide between the people who are running the BBC and the people who are doing really hard work day in, day out, doing amazing things,' he told delegates. - bbc.co.ukwww.bbc.co.uk
BBC - Blogs - About the BBC - Edinburgh TV Festival 2013: Looking forward to even more from BBC Three
In comedy, new sitcoms like Bluestone 42 pictured proved a big hit with our audiences Weve had a great year on BBC Three. Weve also commissioned Siblings, a brand new scripted comedy series from the producers of The Inbetweeners. Next year we will continue to tackle emotive issues with our Justice Season, reflecting on crime and punishment in the UK and the US and asking whether young adults are treated fairly. - bbc.co.ukwww.bbc.co.ukFile:TV Licence 1946-2012 at NPV.png - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Media Talk podcast: Edinburgh TV Festival 2013
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ITV named Channel of the Year as hit drama series Broadchurch wins award
These formats all date to a narrow period at the beginning of the last decade and nobody could have predicted they would have the life they have had but I think they have still got a lot of life in them. The corollary of that is that it has become a difficult period to launch big new entertainment programmes. - independent.co.ukwww.independent.co.ukITV boss Peter Fincham calls for "new Big Brother" to safeguard British television
These formats all date to a narrow period at the beginning of the last decade and nobody could have predicted they would have the life they have had but I think they have still got a lot of life in them. The corollary of that is that it has become a difficult period to launch big new entertainment programmes. - independent.co.ukwww.independent.co.ukFriday 23 August 2013, PM
Media Talk podcast: Edinburgh TV Festival 2013
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Tony Hall admits to BBC 'officer class' - News - Broadcast
Director general Tony Hall has acknowledged an “appalling divide†between the people running the BBC and programme-makers on the ground and a perceived “cosiness†with the likes of consultants KPMG. Hall was the surprise guest on the panel Tony Hall’s Big Decisions’ after flying straight into the Edinburgh International Television Festival from San Francisco.. - broadcastnow.co.ukwww.broadcastnow.co.uk
BBC - Blogs - About the BBC - Edinburgh TV Festival 2013: Looking ahead to BBC One in the next twelve months
Ive inherited the channel in a great place, 2012 was a record-breaking year for BBC One and it remains Britains most-watched channel so far this year, with by far the biggest reach of any other. My focus is to build on that success and ensure BBC One remains the nations favourite. My vision for BBC One is all about storytelling. - bbc.co.ukwww.bbc.co.ukBBC payoffs caused divide between managers and staff, admits Tony Hall - Media - The Guardian
Hall made the comments during a surprise appearance towards the end of a panel session on the issues facing the director general. Liz MacKean, one of the two Newsnight reporters responsible for its aborted Jimmy Savile investigation who has since left the corporation was one of the panel's members and had earlier criticised the payoffs. Hall announced a new BBC initiative to put more female voices on air, with a quota that will require at least 50 of presenters on BBC local radio breakfast shows to be women by the end of 2014. - theguardian.comwww.theguardian.com
Ariel - Hall wants more female breakfast hosts
The director-general told the Edinburgh Television Festival on Thursday that he wanted 50 of local stations to have a woman presenting their most important show - either alone or as part of a team. 'We have got to be more reflective of the audiences who are listening to our programmes,' insisted Hall during a panel session at the festival.' The move could have wider implications for the industry, for which BBC local radio has traditionally been an important training ground. David Holdsworth, English Regions controller, said that finding new and diverse voices was key to local radio's role. - bbc.co.ukwww.bbc.co.uk
Kevin Spacey Mactaggart lecture – full text - Media - theguardian.com
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Spacey dismisses line between TV, film News C21Media
The labels are useless except perhaps to agents, managers and lawyers who use these labels to conduct business deals. The obligation of a pilot from the writing perspective is that you have to spend about 45 minutes establishing all the characters, create arbitrary cliffhangers and generally prove that what you are setting out to do will work, Spacey said. When the story is good enough, people will watch something three times the length of an opera. Spacey told the audience that the king of television is the creatives, but said he was disappointed the industry did not do more to support new talent. - c21media.netwww.c21media.netTwitter / Search - #geitf
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