BBC1's Danny Cohen tipped to be new director of television - Media - guardian.co.uk

BBC1 controller Danny Cohen is expected to become the corporation's new director of television. Cohen oversaw a triumphant 2012 for BBC1, capped by its coverage of the London Olympic Games. He previously worked at Channel 4, where he was head of factual entertainment and in charge of E4, commissioning Skins, The Inbetweeners and Supernanny. - guardian.co.uk

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Animal rights group defeated in move that would have opened up paid UK political advertising

The blanket ban in the UK is designed to prevent a political advertising free-for-all in which the richest have most access to promote their views - US-style aggressive political advertising. Today's verdict rejected a complaint by the animal rights non-government organisation that denying it the possibility to advertise on TV or radio breached the European Human Rights Convention, which guarantees free speech. That ban has wide support and has helped sustain the balance of views which is at the heart of British broadcasting - and ensures the political views broadcast into our homes are not determined by those with the deepest pockets. - independent.co.uk

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DTG :: News :: David Scott to leave Digital UK

Digital UK has begun the recruitment process for a new CEO and is expecting to appoint a replacement in summer 2013. DTG Staff 22.04.2013 Links open in a new window. - dtg.org.uk

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BT wants a broadband bounce from sport, but may have scored an own goal - Media - The Guardian

Spurred on BT wants to score more broadband customers through its premier league football rights deal. What lies behind it, however, really couldn't be more serious and the key questions are all for BT. BT has spent upwards of 1bn on sports rights mainly 38 Premier League games a year, top-flight rugby and WTA tennis. - guardian.co.uk

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BBC - Blogs - Internet blog - What's on BBC Red Button 20-27 April

Please note there's no Antiques Roadshow play along this week, but you can still join in via the free mobile app. That's not all formotorsport lovers - we've also got MotoGP on the Red Button. Moto2 and Moto3 is live from Austin, Texas for the first time as two Spaniards, Espargaro and Salom, look to defend their leads from the opening races. - bbc.co.uk

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Press regulation: minor bloggers excluded from exemplary damages - Media - guardian.co.uk

Bloggers with fewer than 10 employees will have some exemption. Photograph Magdalena Rehova/Alamy Bloggers with a turnover of less than 2m annually and fewer than 10 employees will be excluded from certain punitive elements of the proposed new press regulation regime, under a legislative amendment agreeed by the three main political parties. Under the amendment to the crime and courts bill, which will be debated in the Commons on Monday, bloggers and small web businesses that cover news and choose to join the regulator will also gain significant cost-protection benefits. - guardian.co.uk

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BBC News - Digital radio: More stations for north east Wales listeners

19 April 2013 Last updated at 0823 ET Digital radio listeners in north east Wales will be able to pick up local stations for the first time as new transmitters are switched on. The industry marketing group says 36 of homes in Wales have a DAB radio. Listeners will need a digital radio - sometimes called a DAB radio - to receive the signal. - bbc.co.uk

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BBC iPlayer watched on tablets more than smartphones for first time - Media - guardian.co.uk

BBC iPlayer was watched on tablet devices more than smartphones for the first time in March. Figures released by the corporation on Friday show that BBC iPlayer viewing on tablet devices surpassed smartphones by 200,000 viewers last month. Daily views of the TV catch-up service remained high with an average of 8.1m. - guardian.co.uk

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BBC News - BBC World Service budget uncertainty unacceptable

Foreign Office funding for the service will stop in April 2014 when it will be paid for out of the licence fee. The BBC Trust said it had shared a draft licence with the service. In October, the World Service announced it was to lose a further 73 jobs as part of the latest round of cutbacks to save 42m, with 25 jobs going in the English-language service. - bbc.co.uk

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News - SES.com

The signal was broadcast in DVB-S2 using a data rate of 20 Mbit/s. The company provides satellite communications services to broadcasters, content and internet service providers, mobile and fixed network operators and business and governmental organisations worldwide. The culturally diverse regional teams of SES are located around the globe and work closely with customers to meet their specific satellite bandwidth and service requirements. - ses.com

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New DAB transmitters turned on in Wales : Radio Today

Research has shown how much people value their local radio stations, so we hope this will make a big difference to the digital radio listening experience in the area. Weve also got exciting plans for further new radio stations over the coming months. Tags dab, dee 106.2, featured, juice Category Industry News - radiotoday.co.uk

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BBC media player Torin Douglas throws in his cards - Media Monkey - Media - guardian.co.uk

Thank you and goodnight the BBC's media correspondent Torin Douglas. BBC media correspondent Torin Douglas is hanging up his mic and cans after nearly 24 count 'em years in the job. Douglas told Monkey there's no prospect of him going over to the dark side. - guardian.co.uk

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Directors UK calls on BBC to relax high-definition guidelines - News - Broadcast

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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Ariel - BBC to train broadcast engineers to meet critical shortfall

It's a stark assessment by John Linwood, chief technology officer, who this week announces an apprenticeship scheme that will train up a new generation of engineers for the UK media industry's future. Some of the apprentices will be offered BBC jobs after they graduate. Ageing workforce Linwood tells Ariel that the BBC has a long tradition of training up broadcast engineers - but it has recently identified a gap that could affect programme making and outside broadcasts in the years to come. - bbc.co.uk

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The Only Thing the Broadcasting Treaty Is Good For Is Crushing Innovation - Electronic Frontier Foundation

For those of us following the continuing saga of the unnecessary and harmful WIPO Broadcasting Treaty, its latest manifestation is starting to have the feel of a tired movie franchise. Every few years, as soon as Hollywood thinks it can squeeze a few more dollars out of a new installment, the same bad idea gets rehashed with the same cast of characters, and still no substance. In short, the idea is to create a new bundle of copyright-like veto points for broadcasters. - eff.org

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Broadcasters file Aereo appeal, warn of havoc and massive disruption to TV industry

Fox and other broadcasters are asking a New York appeals court to reconsider its decision to give a green light to Aereo, a controversial start-up that uses tiny antennas to retransmit over-the-air TV to mobile devices for 8 a month. In a new court filing embedded below, the broadcasters claim the decision threatens to cause massive disruption to the television industry and will wreak commercial havoc, and request a full panel of the US Second Circuit Court of Appeals to revisit the ruling. Aereo is backed by a 58 million investment from media mogul Barry Diller and others, and lets customers watch and record TV without a subscription for 1 a day or 8 a month. - paidcontent.org

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5G UK: Ofcom plans 2018 auction for 700MHz - Recombu

The 4G auction has barely begun but Ofcom is already laying out its plans for 5G. The next-next-generation of mobile services is expected to arrive in the UK in 2018 and will occupy some of the 700MHz slice of the broadcast spectrum - yet another patch thats currently occupied by Freeview. Ofcom says that theres a coming capacity crunch - currently 20 million Gigabytes GB are consumed a month by gadget-hungry Brits and this only looks set to increase. - recombu.com

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Big trend: Watching TV when you please - Media Life Magazine

Right now the broadcast networks are carefully preparing their fall schedules, mulling over which show will perform best in what timeslot. An increasing number are setting their own TV schedules, according to a new study from the Harris Poll, conducted by Harris Interactive. Young viewers are most likely to watch shows on their own schedule, including 89 percent of adults 18-29 and 90 percent of 30-39s. - medialifemagazine.com

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Honoured' to join the BBC: James Harding - the man who tore it to bits

The Times, during Hardings five years of editorship, was among the most strident. What the BBC is not, and has never been, is an organisation devoted to investigative journalism. This is neither its forte, nor its primary mtier, opined a leading article in Hardings paper last November, as the news division which he will lead found itself reeling over the Savile and McAlpine scandals. - independent.co.uk

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Is Lord Sugar promoting an illegal streaming site? - Recombu

Lord Sugar, the former chairman of YouView, appears to be promoting use of a TV streaming service that could be illegal. The European Court of Justice ECJ recently ruled that streaming sites and services require explicit permission from content owners to re-broadcast programmes. If your box is experiencing freezing, then there is a 0.05 per cent chance that it is a problem with our system. - recombu.com

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TalkSport owner UTV Media looks to recovery after riding out ad slump - Media - The Guardian

Last week, TalkSport retained the rights to broadcast 64 live top-flight games for another three years. The BBC, which has seen its sports rights budgets cut, held onto the lion's share 128, with Absolute Radio bagging a further 32. A decade ago, 84 of its operating profit came from TV. - guardian.co.uk

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Once again, TV executives are eager to stifle tech innovations like Aereo - Dan Gillmor - Comment is free - guardian.co.

Photograph Alamy I can use an antenna to watch local TV shows via their broadcast towers. I can save some of those programs to a hard disk or a dedicated external device for later viewing at home. Or, as would often be preferable, I can connect remotely to my home machine when I'm traveling in order watch live programming or pre-recorded shows from a distant hotel room. - guardian.co.uk

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Fitch Upgrades ITV to 'BBB-'; Outlook Stable - Reuters

The Outlook on the Long-term IDR is Stable. A full list of rating actions is at the end of this release. The upgrade is based on Fitch's opinion that ITV is now more able to weather the structural changes facing the media industry. - reuters.com

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BBC - Blogs - Internet blog - What's on BBC Red Button 14 - 21 April

Sit back and enjoy the dulcet tones of jazz singer Caro Emerald who was live in concert for Radio 2 and test your antiques expertise with our popular Antiques Roadshow play along. Shes visiting Radio 2 ahead of a UK tour later this year so we are lucky to have this early look. Featured family treasures include a valuable silver fruit bowl damaged when thrownduring a domestic tiff,artefacts fromCaptain Scott's last expedition to the South Pole and a humble house brick with an important story. - bbc.co.uk

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Photography discs, importing televisions and all-in-one PC TVs - Technology - guardian.co.uk

I have a box of vintage round discs, each in its own jacket. They are labelled and are photos of family subjects. I would love to have the pictures put on a DVD, but I don't know what these discs are called, and I don't know what type of camera they came from. - guardian.co.uk

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Freeview and 4G at 800 MHz coexistence test in south east London - at800

Approximately 170,000 household and business addresses in parts of Greenwich, Lewisham, Southwark and Tower Hamlets are being contacted directly to alert them to the test. This larger-scale testing follows an initial small-scale test in the West Midlands. at800 has a team of professional aerial installers and testing units in the area that will respond to calls from viewers, visit addresses reporting problems and restore Freeview. - at800.tv

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BBC - Blogs - Internet blog - New Research and Development Website

That includes making sure we use the web efficiently to communicate our department's research and so, this week, we are releasing a beta version of the new BBC RD website. For many decades BBC RD has been driving innovation in the capture of audio and video, the production tools and processes and the delivery of content through cables and airwaves, from the early designs of radio microphones to digital and high definition television. We also look at new and better ways to help our audiences discover and experience our programmes. - bbc.co.uk

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Digital One to extend to Northern Ireland : Radio Today

It comes after a consultation on the matter which 18 people replied, all of which apart from one were supportive of Digital Ones request. The one respondent who was opposed to the proposal was not content because Digital Ones proposed coverage in certain parts of Northern Ireland outside of the Belfast area would not be as extensive as that in Belfast itself. The network will provide robust indoor coverage to 74 of households, and 70 of the main road network, in Northern Ireland. - radiotoday.co.uk

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Pure and simple – this is a DAB radio IT fault - Money - The Guardian

I own a Pure Evoke-3 DAB radio, costing nearly 200, that now fails to work. I contacted Pure, which informed me it must be a hardware fault. It said this would cost a minimum 60 plus VAT as well as my carriage costs. - guardian.co.uk

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informitv - Aereo ruling enables national expansion

Disruptive start-up company Aereo has won a significant reprieve in its attempts to deliver broadcast television transmissions over the internet. A majority decision by an appeals court has upheld an earlier ruling, denying a motion from broadcasters for an injunction against the company. Although the case continues, Aereo is now planning to roll out the service nationwide across the United States. - informitv.com

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EU regulators to approve $15.8 billion Liberty, Virgin deal - sources - Reuters

The European Union competition authority is set to announce its decision by April 15. Antoine Colombani, Commission spokesman for competition policy, and Virgin Media declined to comment. The 15.8 billion value of the deal was the implied price on February 6, the day it was announced. - uk.reuters.com

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Holy Cow: Two of the Big Four TV Networks Are Considering Going Off the Air - Forbes

Worried enough that at least two of them are actively entertaining the possibility of pulling their free over-the-air signals altogether. Surprised to see news that portentous buried in the 13th paragraph, I reached out Ancier to make sure there wasnt some sort of miscommunication. Rather, its a contingency plan the networks in question are keeping in their back pockets in case they cant prevail over Aereo and Dish in court or find some other way to stave off the threat they represent. - forbes.com

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News Corp. Threatens to Pull Fox off the Airwaves if Aereo Wins - Peter Kafka - Media - AllThingsD

COO Chase Carey says his conglomerate is considering moving programming from its Fox broadcast network, which viewers can receive over the air, for free, to its pay cable networks. Heres the money quote, via Variety If we cant have our rights properly protected through legal and governmental solutions, we will pursue a business solution. One solution would be to take the network and make it a subscription service. - allthingsd.com

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TFM: who could be next?

On 15th April 2010, Ofcom published a Statement on commercial radio localness regulation. UTV's cluster already shares the same building, but has different programming at breakfast/drive which isn't, strictly, required. Some of the potentials here make little sense a station called Lincs FM wouldn't go down particularly well in Hull, and many - but not all - of these stations broadcast to specific communities who don't naturally fit together. - mediauk.com

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BBC - Blogs - Internet blog - What’s on BBC Red Button – 6-13 April

Both Caro and her band are great, charismatic performers previously seen on Red Button at Radio 2 in Hyde Park 2011 - so we are delighted to welcome her back. Shes visiting Radio 2 ahead of a UK tour later this year so we are lucky to have this early look. You can join in with the programme by pressing red to guess the valuations in real time. - bbc.co.uk

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BBC News - Film studios request removal of takedown notices

5 April 2013 Last updated at 0722 ET Two film studios have asked Google to take down links to messages sent by them requesting the removal of links connected to film piracy. Recent submissions by Fox and Universal Studios include requests for the removal of previous takedown notices. The notices are requests for individual web addresses to be removed from Google's search engine results because they contain material uploaded without the permission of the copyright holders. - bbc.co.uk

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How to buy the best set-top box - Freeview and Freesat set-top boxe reviews - TV DVD - Which? Technology

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DTG :: News :: VIVA to join Freesat's line up

Freesat has added Viacom channel Viva to its entertainment line-up. Viva launched in 2009 and is Viacom's free-to-air offering in the UK TV market. - dtg.org.uk

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Intel to Offer Multichannel TV Service, Takes on Pay-TV Cable Business - Variety

Employees at Intel Corp. are free to roam almost anywhere across the vast Santa Clara, Calif., campus they call home. Certain laboratories are off-limits of course thats understandable when the assembly of microprocessors could be contaminated by a human eyelash. Only 300 of the more than 100,000 people who work for Intel have clearance. - variety.com

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Online music licensing revenues pass radio for first time - Technology - The Guardian

Ed Sheeran and other UK artists enjoyed a bumper 2012 as digital licensing revenues passed radio for the first time. New licensing agreements with Google Play, Microsoft Xbox and other online players helped UK digital revenues soar 32.2 in 2012, from 39.1m in 2011. The advent of downloads and streaming services, such as Apple iTunes and Spotify, has more than doubled UK online licensing revenues, from 23.3m in 2008. - guardian.co.uk

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BBC - Blogs - Internet blog - Loudness Measurement: Improving sound for the BBC and other broadcasters

In my last blog on audio and music technology at the BBC I mentioned loudness measurement. I wanted to cover this in more detail and also to tell you more about how we are working with other broadcasters on a common loudness standard that can be applied to all types of broadcast content. Mixing console level meters So what does loudness measurement entail and why has it taken so long to be adopted by broadcasters - bbc.co.uk

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Only 10% of UK homes use VCR, but two thirds still own one Digital TV Europe

However, 64 of UK homes still own a VCR, according to the research. Freeview found that just over half of homes still with VCRs had put the devices into storage and no longer used them, while only 11 of homes had used their VCRs to record programmes in the past year. Twenty-three per cent of households had given up using their VCRs within the past three years. - digitaltveurope.net

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DTG :: News :: Freesat adds Travel Channel

It is a hugely popular service with a strong following that strengthens and complements Freesat's existing line-up. DTG Staff 02.04.2013 Links open in a new window. The DTG is not responsible for the content of other web sites. - dtg.org.uk

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Tony Hall's email to BBC staff - Media - guardian.co.uk

Tony Hall has said in an email to BBC staff that the corporation has experienced difficult times, but is now winning back trust. The BBC has a unique history, a special place in the country's heart and a vital part to play in its future. Recent times have been difficult for the BBC, but obviously far more so for those directly affected by these events. - guardian.co.uk

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Aereo wins battle with big networks over right to stream TV online - Media - guardian.co.uk

Aereo, which is backed by Barry Diller above, was launched in March 2012 in the New York area at a cost to subscribers of 12 a month. Aereo subscribers pay 12 month to stream live broadcasts of TV channels on mobile devices. The company, owned by Diller's IAC, does not pay fees to the media companies whose programmes it redistributes. - guardian.co.uk

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Aereo Held Talks With TV-Service Providers - WSJ.com

Aereo, which streams local TV broadcast signals over the Web for a fee, is now available only in the New York City region. Talks between Aereo and telecom operators haven't yet yielded any agreements. Aereo is battling a suit by broadcasters, which say it is violating copyright law, in part because it reformats and retransmits their signals without permissionand then charges a fee to its subscribers. - online.wsj.com

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Moggys and Froggies unite for Animal DAB : Radio Today

A new national radio station is to launch later today on Digital One, featuring specialist music and animals as presenters. The station will be operated by an yet un-named company but a RadioToday source simply known as Pug confirms the station was inspired by Kerrang Radio hiring a Rock Dog to host a weekly show. - radiotoday.co.uk

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