BBC - Blogs - Internet blog - What's on BBC Red Button - May 11-17

Doctor Who Clara and the Doctor discover how little they really know about each other As we hurtle towards the end of the series, watch an exclusive prequel to the final episode on the Red Button. Catch it straight after Saturdays episode finishes at 7.40pm or watch it again during the week. Enjoy the build-up to the gig throughout the day as Rod joins a host of Radio 2 programmes to sound check, answer your questions and preview the performance. - bbc.co.uk

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BT Sport: what you will pay - Money - guardian.co.uk

BT has the rights to show 38 Premier League football matches for the 2013/14 season and exclusive rights to show live games from rugbys Aviva Premiership. The broadcaster has the rights to show 38 Premier League football matches and exclusive rights to show live games from rugby's Aviva Premiership. There will also be some FA Cup games and Scottish Premier League games. - guardian.co.uk

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BBC - Blogs - Internet blog - Links: iPlayer iOS app update

Hi everyone time for another roundup of news about BBC Online. The biggest story of the last fortnight has been an update to the iPlayer app for iPhones, iPod touchs and iPads. Here, in 2013, only 41 still is, and it's only going in one direction. - bbc.co.uk

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Ariel - Television comes top in Ofcom media tracker survey

10 May 2013 Last updated at 1434 Despite the rise of the internet as a dominant player in the media landscape, a large majority of people in the UK still get their news from old-fashioned television. According to Ofcom's annual media tracker survey, published this week, 72 of respondents said TV was their main source of news. The internet trailed far behind at 10, with newspapers lagging even further behind at 7. - bbc.co.uk

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Amazing Radio returns to DAB in London : Radio Today

The new music station is also taking space on DAB in Dublin as part of its international expansion plans which includes time-shifted streams for US time zones. We were sad to come off DAB, but we kept going online and on mobile Apps, increasing ouraudience and improving our output every month. Now were back, bigger and hopefully better, broadcasting in London and the south-east initially on the D2 DAB multiplex. - radiotoday.co.uk

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BT Sport free for 5m BT homes - News - Broadcast

BT Sport is to be offered free of charge to BT’s 5m broadband homes as the fledgling broadcaster attempts to topple Sky’s dominance and win customers from rival ISPs. - broadcastnow.co.uk

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Online TV is growing up fast - Comment - Broadcast

Even MPs can see the industry has changed forever, says Kate Bulkley. When you’re discussing the new kinds of TV emerging from the digital space, it’s comforting that at least one man in a traditional seat of power has a handle on what’s coming up. - broadcastnow.co.uk

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BT Sport aims to tackle Sky head on - Media - The Guardian

The broadcaster is expected finally to unveil details of its pricing plan and consumer proposition at an event at its Olympic Park studios , but it is understood that existing BT Broadband customers will be offered a substantial discount as it attempts to use its two new sport channels to woo new customers. People need to be able to get it as good as free. A war has already erupted between BT and Sky over the latter's refusal to take advertising for the new BT channels. - guardian.co.uk

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DCMS delays Communications Act white paper - News - Broadcast

The Department for Culture Media & Sport has delayed the publication of a white paper on the long-awaited Communications Act until the summer - broadcastnow.co.uk

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Ariel - Hadlow takes temporary charge of BBC Four

A former head of specialist factual at Channel 4, Hadlow started her career as a BBC production trainee in 1986. - bbc.co.uk

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The stakes are high in the 'TV everywhere' land grab - Media Network - Guardian Professional

There are now more internet-connected TVs in UK homes than ever before and the numbers continue to rise. Indeed, internet-connected TVs are expected to become mainstream, expanding from 10 in 2012 to 50 of all households in 2020, according to Enders Analysis. Enders also forecasts that internet-connected viewing on smart TVs, PCs, smartphones and tablets will rise from 1.5 of total viewing today to 5 by 2020. - guardian.co.uk

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Kiss removed from local DAB multiplexes : Radio Today

Bauer has removed the stereo hi-quality version of Kiss from 25 more local multiplexes, leaving a single national mono version in its place. The station had been available on DAB twice in a number of locations since December. Now listeners in the areas below have been advised to re-tune to a mono signal available everywhere rather than a stereo signal available locally. - radiotoday.co.uk

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BBC warned of 'summer of strikes' as union rejects pay offer - Media - guardian.co.uk

The BBC could face strikes this summer over a pay dispute. BBC employees earning less than 60,000 will receive a flat-rate increase of 600 under the proposals outlined on Tuesday meaning more than a third of staff get a below-inflation rise of 2. The offer would see all BBC staff receive a minimum pay increase of 1 in the year from 1 August, including its best-paid employees earning more than 60,000. - guardian.co.uk

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An Analysis of the Audience Impact of Page One EPG Prominence A Report for Ofcom - stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk

An Analysis of the Audience Impact of Page One EPG Prominence A Report for Ofcom - stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk

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UK Audience attitudes to the Broadcast Media 2012 [May 2013] - stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk

UK Audience attitudes to the Broadcast Media 2012 [May 2013] - stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk

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BT Sport channel gears up late-summer launch - City Business - Finance - Daily Express

This Thursday BT is expected to reveal more details on the price of the service as well as the platforms it will use such as YouView. BT Sport will show 38 exclusively live Barclays Premier League games. BT Sport will also show exclusive live coverage of all 69 rugby union games from the Aviva Premiership. - express.co.uk

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DG to consider halting DQF job cuts - News - Broadcast

BBC director general Tony Hall is expected to make a decision on whether to halt Delivering Quality First job cuts as the corporation bids to ward off further strike action. - broadcastnow.co.uk

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YouView - radio's great opportunity

He looked surprised he didn't know this happened. The interface tells me the date, but not the year. So, I thought I'd do a few more searches on YouView to see what happens. If you think people don't listen to radio over the TV - they do. - mediauk.com

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80,000 homes in Brighton and Hove face 4G TV misery From The Argus)

Some 80,000 homes in the city are being warned that tests of 4G the new generation of mobile phone technology could disrupt Freeview, leading to no sound, blocky images or even the loss of some or all channels. at800, the organisation tasked with ensuring viewers continue to receive Freeview when 4G mobile services are launched, said the masts would be turned on from mid May, but refused to give the exact date. The new technology is expected to bring innovations in business, entertainment, education and public services. - theargus.co.uk

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BBC - Blogs - Internet blog - What's On BBC Red Button - May 4 - 11

Weve got a jam-packed week full of drama, music, comedy and sport to suit all tastes on BBC Red Button. This months show features Rudimental, Ben Howard and The 1975. The 1975 are a Manchester alternative rock band who recently made the charts with their single Chocolate. - bbc.co.uk

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Declare DRM freedom!

Oct. 10, 2007 is the day I threw off the chains locking my music. I purged the last DRM-protected file from my personal catalog -- and not by stealing. The problem Songs purchased from iTunes, starting in April 2003. - betanews.com

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BBC News - Planning changes to boost mobile broadband

3 May 2013 Last updated at 1300 ET Mobile firms could find it easier to put up masts and antennas under suggested changes to planning rules. Operators would also be encouraged to share masts to limit the need for new base station sites. The UK government has proposed the changes to help accelerate the roll-out of high-speed mobile networks. - bbc.co.uk

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4oD coming to Free Time from Freesat this month - Recombu

4oD should be live and kicking on Free Time from Freesat this month. The next-gen subscription free digital satellite service from Freesat impressed us greatly on launch. Despite being told that theyd arrive soon after launch, they havent and its only now weve got our first glimpse of 4oD seeing the light of day. - recombu.com

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Ariel - BBC wins a Focal international award for restoration

The project, for BBC Worldwide, entailed meticulously cleaning 22 hours of footage, across 25 episodes and working with 104 original rolls of film. 'The footage is spectacular,' he adds, 'and when working on it you really get a feel for the scientific importance of what was being documented.' The digital media services team also remade the credit sequences for one of the films using new, high-resolution captions. Life on Earth, from 1979, was the first of David Attenborough's great surveys of life on the planet. - bbc.co.uk

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BBC's faulty £133m digital video archive leads to delays to programmes - Media - guardian.co.uk

New Broadcasting House blues the BBC's digital video archive doesn't work properly. It has a budget equivalent to around 914,000 BBC licence fees. However, the BBC declined to reveal how much of the 133m which is supposed to last to run the service until 2017 has actually been spent or how much of the 95m of benefits DMI was supposed to deliver back to the corporation have been achieved. - guardian.co.uk

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BBC News - 180 degree television for the home?

Immersive video is a concept that technology companies have experimented with, finding varying levels of success. Philips pushed the idea in 2004 with its Ambilight television sets, which projected light around the television, to suit the mood of the content being played. Microsoft has confirmed it is working on a form of immersive video for gaming, which it calls IllumiRoom - it uses the Kinect camera and a projector to extend graphics beyond the television screen - but there yet is no clear indication of when it might go on sale. - bbc.co.uk

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Howling: 10 more HD channels next year, Freeview must not be pushed out of spectrum Digital TV Eur

Speaking on a panel at the event, Howling said Freeview could launch up to 10 additional HD channels next year and was in discussion with Ofcom over how this could be achieved. Howling said that for Freeview, innovation is about taking a product and making it mass market, mainstream and free for everyone. She said that free TV was part of the countrys DNA. - digitaltveurope.net

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BBC bullying exposes broader cultural ills and poor management - Media - guardian.co.uk

The BBC report into bullying reflects management and HR failings as well as broader human frailties. Further, the majority of toilers, 60,000, who are on short-term or casual contracts, and therefore vulnerable, are excluded from the BBC's bullying, harassment and grievance policy, despite the fact it was last updated recently, in 2011, and the use of freelancers has been endemic for two decades. Running through the research interviews reveals constant criticism of the corporation's HR department that seems to have been asleep on the job and could have acted sooner. - guardian.co.uk

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Ed Vaizey spells out plans for Freeview's 5G future - Recombu

As with the 4G Freeview Fail, it's likely the mobile operators will have to pay the bill, not the taxpayer or TV Licence. A third option would be that Freeview would continue to exist in its current form with minimal change in other words, a standard definition service would be retained to deliver a 'minimal PSB service' retained for those with old SD equipment. Vaizey is not in support of the first option, which he believes will harm competition. - recombu.com

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BBC bullying is systemic and institutionalised, claim unions - Media - guardian.co.uk

BBC fails to screen for trouble The NUJ claims bullying has been going on under the noses of management. On Thursday the BBC published a report resulting from an internal inquiry into bullying and harrassment commissioned in the wake of the Jimmy Savile sex abuse scandal, which uncovered widespread allegations of bullying and an inadequate complaints procedure which meant whistleblowers' concerns often went unheeded. The NUJ's evidence to the inquiry is understood to have contained multiple accusations of bullying against a single senior executive, who was named in a collective complaint by more than 20 people. - guardian.co.uk

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YouTube Says The Battle With TV Is Already Over - Business Insider

YouTube says the battle if there ever was one is over. A year ago, YouTube seemed to have its sights set on reinventing television by funding the launch of more than 100 channels from well-known media brands and Hollywood personalities. Though the model for the evening was TV, YouTube used it to distinguish itself as something entirely different. - businessinsider.com

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BBC Respect at Work Review Report 02/05/2013

People expect more from the BBC. Our audiences and licence fee payers expect high standards of creativity, impartiality and distinctiveness. They expect us to behave with the utmost integrity and decency. They expect us to live up to our stated Values. They are right to do so. - downloads.bbc.co.uk

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Ofcom begins investigation into BT's superfast broadband - Reuters

Ofcom said it was in the early stages of an investigation into BT. BT, the biggest fixed-line operator in the country, allows rival operators to take its superfast fiber product on a wholesale basis at the same fee at which it sells it to its own retail arm, BT Retail. TalkTalk has complained that there is not a large enough gap between the wholesale price and the rate at which BT sells the product to retail customers, squeezing margins for competitors. - reuters.com

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Halls red flag system for BBC - News - Broadcast

Tony Hall has overhauled the BBC’s top-level conversations about high-risk programmes in a bid to prevent a repeat of the Jimmy Savile scandal - broadcastnow.co.uk

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No, The UK Did Not Just Abolish Copyright, Despite What Photographers Seem To Think - Techdirt

Under its provisions it will be legal to exploit a copyright work - photograph, film, text, song, whatever -- without the knowledge, permission, or payment to its owner. As with the 2010 Digital Economy Act, the bone of contention for photographers is how orphan works will be treated under UK law. The searches would have to be verified as diligent by independent authorising bodies. - techdirt.com

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Bauer gives Kisstory its own radio station : Radio Today

The Kiss brand is expanding with the imminent launch of new radio stations Kisstory and KissFresh, whilst Q Radio is closed down. Kisstory has been a feature on Kiss playing old skool and anthems and Bauer says it gets its own 24 hour channel in response to positive audience feedback from research into Kisstory listeners. Meanwhile, Q Radio, which has been operational for a decade, will be closed and replaced on Freeview with Kisstory. - radiotoday.co.uk

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BSkyB's Now TV helps offset sluggish Sky satellite growth - Media - guardian.co.uk

A growing number of analysts have predicted that BSkyB is close to recording its first decline in traditional TV subscriber numbers in more than a decade. BSkyB chose to report combined satellite and internet TV growth for the first quarter, although it is understood that traditional TV sign-ups continued to grow. Now TV, which until recently has only offered Sky Movies content, added 25,000 customers in its debut reporting period of the quarter to the end of December. - guardian.co.uk

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Analysing the evolving connected TV landscape - Media Network - guardian.co.uk

Connected TV's on display at the IBC exhibition. Photograph travelstock44/Alamy While online video consumption via personal computers and portable 'smart' devices has become an increasingly mainstream activity, the use of connected TV sets for accessing web-delivered TV services and other applications is taking longer to catch on. However it is clear that the internet is rapidly becoming a viable means of delivering video content to the large screen. - guardian.co.uk

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How should Welsh broadcasting reflect its diverse audience? - Media - guardian.co.uk

Davies pointed out in a keynote speech at the Celtic Media Festival in Swansea last week that the most recent census, published four months ago, showed that 19 of the population, or 450,000 people, spoke Welsh down from 19 a decade ago. Davies noted that 10 years ago 40 of school age children could speak Welsh, but now only 24 of that age group can do so. Satellite television was most eagerly embraced in Wales in the 90s, as an escape. - guardian.co.uk

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In the air: Kiss uses apps and Freeview, not DAB - Media - Business - London Evening Standard

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BBC - Blogs - About the BBC - W1 Project comes to a close

The mammoth task of reinventing Broadcasting House for 21st century broadcasting has come to a successful end after ten years. You can book a tour of the new BBC Broadcasting House building here. Share this page More Posts Previous Not so grim up north Tuesday 30 April 2013, 1236 - bbc.co.uk

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BBC - Blogs - Internet blog - DNA Refactor Project

This blog post explains how DNA became what it is today and the plans for refactoring the code base into a modern architecture making the platform easier to maintain, faster to extend and portable to other platforms. Evolution of the DNA Code Base Coding began with the creation of the h2g2.com website back in 1999. Shortly after its inception the platform was acquired by the BBC and developed over the years using many technologies by approximately 24 different developers. - bbc.co.uk

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Nielsen to Track Online TV Viewers - WSJ.com

The TV networks will use the program primarily to track viewership of programs on their own websites. NBC, for example, will allow Nielsen to gather usage data for some shows that it streams on NBC.com. The networks can then compare their internal viewership data with Nielsen's to gain comfort with the new ratings system before it is established more broadly. - online.wsj.com

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DTG :: News :: BT to support O2in delivering 4G services

BT has signed a ten year deal with O2 to support the introduction of 4G services for O2 customers. The deal states that BT will build a new high capacity transmission network to help O2 deal with the increase in mobile data traffic, a result of the increasing number of consumers accessing mobile internet applications via their smart phone or tablet according to BT. - dtg.org.uk

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Savile to cost BBC insurers millions

The FTSE 100 insurers have emerged as underwriters of policies taken out by the broadcaster to protect itagainst legal claims between 1971 and 2006, when Savile carried out a series of sex attacks. Information obtained by insurance trade magazine Post reveals that the group of insurers could face sexual abuse claims of up to 30m. The police Operation Yewtree, which is looking into allegations of sex crimes against the former DJ and a host of other celebrities, has so far recorded 450 complaints against the late Savile. - independent.co.uk

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BBC - Blogs - Internet blog - What's on BBC Red Button 27 April - 4 May

This means we cannot show more than one match at a time on the Red Button. You can read why these changes were made in this blog post. Antiques Roadshow play along The popular Antiques Roadshow play along is on a break until next week - but you can still join inon Sunday 28 Apriland guess the valuations using the freemobile phone app. - bbc.co.uk

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BT’s TV offering in line for massive transformation Digital TV Europe

In terms of BTs sports channels, which are due to launch this summer, BT has already taken rights to a host of sports content including 38 Premier League football games, 18 of which will be first-pick matches. Throwing his support behind YouView, he commented this would be our strategic platform for the future, adding that it makes our customers stickier, it makes them more engaged with us and our content services and our sales people love to sell it as well. BTs been in TV for about six or seven years. On-demand only is a difficult thing for a lot of consumers to understand, but I think that is changing more quickly now, with Netflix, LoveFilm and other services. - digitaltveurope.net

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DTG :: News :: Report: DVB-T2 set-tops predicted to reach 18m homes

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BBC - Blogs - Internet blog - BBC iPlayer Radio app on Android devices

This app has all the features of the iOS app as well as some improvements that, as an Android user myself, I think make it even better. For the very first time this app is now also available on tablets including the very popular Amazon Kindle Fire HD. You can download the app from the Google Play store now and it will be available shortly in the Amazon app store. - bbc.co.uk

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BBC appoints Danny Cohen as new director of television - Media - guardian.co.uk

The BBC has confirmed the appointment of Danny Cohen as its new director of television. He will receive a total pay package of 327,800. He will be paid 57,800 more than the last full-time person in the job, George Entwistle when it was still called director of vision who received 270,000. - guardian.co.uk

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