Digital One applys for Northern Ireland TX : Radio Today with RCS

The mux, which has been on-air for over a decade, has never been available in Northern Ireland but since the Digital Economy Act 2010, it has been entitled to extend the coverage of its licensed area, subject to consultation. According to Digital One, these transmitters would provide indoor coverage to 74 of households, and 70 of the road network, in Northern Ireland. The addition of this coverage would result in the national radio multiplex service providing coverage of 89.5 of the households in the United Kingdom, and 75 of the UKs road network. - radiotoday.co.uk

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

Dear all, I wanted to tell you about my first senior executive appointments to the top team of the BBC. It is my first task to build the team that will deliver a new strategy and creative vision for the BBC and define public service broadcasting for the next decade. I want to bring in great people from outside the BBC and combine them with the best people from within. - guardian.co.uk

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Ofcom - Extending DAB Services in Northern Ireland - Request to extend coverage area of national radio multiplex service

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James Purnell to rejoin BBC - Media - guardian.co.uk

James Purnell the former culture secretary is to rejoin the BBC. MediaGuardian revealed on Friday that Hall had offered Boaden the job. Purnell will earn 295,000 in his new role and will start at the BBC on 20 March. - guardian.co.uk

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New Herts Beds Bucks multiplex launched : Radio Today with RCS

The National Radio Centre in Milton Keynes was the centre of local radio attention this morning as a new Mux was turned on. 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 county. - radiotoday.co.uk

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Viewer trust in BBC recovers after Jimmy Savile scandal - 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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BBC - Blogs - Internet blog - What's On BBC Red Button 9th - 16th February

In the first episode, Wrecking Ball, a host of renowned composers explore the foundations of contemporary music and discuss why 20th century composers deliberately chose to discard the traditional structures of form, melody and rhythm in favour of consonance and dissonance. The three episodes also feature specially filmed performances from a number of ensembles including the London Sinfonietta, which can been seen in full on the Red Button after each programme. This week features music by Arnold Schoenberg, Anton Webern and Charles Ives. - bbc.co.uk

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BBC News - 4G to affect TV reception in two million homes

11 February 2013 Last updated at 0708 ET Filters will be provided for Freeview televisions which experience reception problems following the roll out of 4G later this year. Ofcom estimates that the TV viewing in up to 2.3 million British households could be affected by 4G but only 40 of them have Freeview. Satellite receivers will not be affected, the watchdog claims. - bbc.co.uk

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Ian Burrell: Local TV with no place for Alan Partridge

The cathedral city of Norwich was, during the Middle Ages, the second largest population centre in England but it has never had a broadcast media to reflect its prestigious past. Run by Archant, a regional newspaper group with historical ties to the Colman mustard family, the TV station will rely on an existing 140-strong editorial team. A flagship nightly 45-minute magazine programme The Mustard Show will allow viewers to question local politicians. - independent.co.uk

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BBC - Blogs - Internet blog - Building Connected Red Button

Connected Red Button on TiVo This has been a fairly long journey for us in terms of the use of agile techniques in a technology project so I'll attempt to give you the what, why and how of the project from a technical point of view. Techies like requirements The project team responsible for this first iteration or version of the Connected Red button is a dozen strong multi-disciplinary software engineering team but due to the nature of the project many other areas of the BBC have been involved in a design or engineering capacity. Put it on the telly From the beginning the requirement for multiple TV platforms dictated some of our architectural choices. - bbc.co.uk

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Date set for Herts Beds Bucks DAB launch : Radio Today with RCS

At the time, NOW said it would launch the service by July 2008 using a network of seven transmitters. Over 1.8 million people living in the three counties area will receive local DAB services for the first time, adding to the current national offerings. Itll be the first time Capital is available in the area. - radiotoday.co.uk

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235 people in Bath try to live without FM : Radio Today with RCS

The trial, called GO Digital, is being held ahead of a ministerial decision later this year on when or if a switchover to digital radio should take place. Its being run by Ipsos MORI and involves 235 people, including older people, assisted living people, disabled people and those who are registered blind or partially sighted. Minister for culture, communications and creative industries Ed Vaizey said We have been clear that any radio switchover must be consumer-led. - radiotoday.co.uk

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BBC - Blogs - About the BBC - Happy Birthday BBC Three

We may have a laugh with our comedy, but we take our documentaries and journalism rather seriously on BBC Three. Dont start to think we just do a bit of this because were the BBC and we think we should, the truth is we love empowering our audience and fighting for them, its an essential part of why we exist and its something no other channel in the UK does for people aged 16-34. We love it when our stars get properly famous and go and play with the big boys and girls at BBC One and Two because it means we can go and find some more newbies. - bbc.co.uk

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Ariel - News to come under BBC Trust scrutiny

The division will be the subject of a service review, beginning in the summer and led by trustee Richard Ayre. Occasional or weekly current affairs programmes, such as Panorama, will not be included. Pollard triggered the resignation of the long-serving deputy director of News Stephen Mitchell and the move of Newsnight's editor and deputy editor into new roles. - bbc.co.uk

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DTG :: News :: BBC Trust to conduct channel review

The reviews are being conducted as part of the Trust's rolling programme of service reviews. Under the Charter the Trust is required to review each BBC service at least once every five years. Public consultations will be held for both reviews as well as specific audience research and interviews with elevant BBC controllers and staff. - dtg.org.uk

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$23 billion acquisition of Virgin Media may pose biggest threat yet to BSkyB - The Verge

The price refelects a 24 percent premium over Virgin Medias closing share price on February 4th. The deal is still subject to things like approval from the companies shareholders and regulators, but assuming it goes ahead, the new ownership could potentially shake up the British pay TV landscape. Virgin Media's subscriber count of 4.9 million is less than half of BSkyB's 10.7 million, but financial backing from the larger Liberty could help it fund investment in new technology and be more competitive in crucial content deal negotiations. - theverge.com

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YouView estimated to have added up to 230,000 subscribers since launch - Media - guardian.co.uk

YouView launched in July 2012 and is reported to have added 230,000 subscribers to its internet TV service. TalkTalk, which also revealed on Tuesday that its broadband subscriber base grew for the first time in three years in the quarter, is estimated to have added more than 40,000 more customers since 31 December. BT Vision, which began offering YouView boxes to its customers for free from 26 October, said last week that it had signed up a total of just over 60,000 customers to its service up to 31 December. - guardian.co.uk

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YouView sales hit 140,000 - News - Broadcast

Total sales of YouView boxes have risen to 140,000 after TalkTalk reported it had distributed 80,000 units in the three months to 31 December.

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Lebedevs win London local TV licence - Media - guardian.co.uk

Evgeny and Alexander Lebedev will be hoping the new London Live TV service will help their newspapers into profit. London Live was one of five bids for the licence, and the Lebedevs will be banking on their entry into the UK TV market helping to move their newspaper assets to profitability. An initial five-year plan for London Live will include annual marketing support of 5m, and it has been indicated that it could launch as soon as September. - guardian.co.uk

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Three UK promises to provide LTE without increasing prices - The Verge

Three is already consistently cheaper than the other major networks, and if it can indeed step up to LTE without adding anything to its subscribers' bills, today's decision should provide the catalyst for a long-overdue price war among UK carriers. - theverge.com

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Billionaire Lebedev Wins License to Start New London TV Station - Bloomberg

London Live TV beat four other applicants for the right to a 12-year license to broadcast to an estimated 4 million homes, U.K. communications regulator Ofcom said in a statement today. Lebedevs free-to-air channel won against bids by former mayoral candidate Steven Norris and former Channel 4 Chairman Luke Johnson. London is one of 21 U.K. markets where Ofcom is adding local TV stations. - bloomberg.com

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London gets first dedicated digital terrestrial TV channel as ESTV launches London Live

London is to have a dedicated television channel offering a service to 4 million homes, the broadcasting watchdog Ofcom announced today. London Live will utilise the journalistic resources of both the Evening Standard and The Independent. Our excellent team of journalists in the capital have the best contacts, knowledge and understanding of the London scene, he said. - independent.co.uk

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Ian Burrell: Hall's task is to build bridges inside and outside the BBC

During Hall's time running the Royal Opera House he built bridges and made alliances. His management style will be far more inclusive than the lone wolf leadership of Mark Thompson, whose BBC he essentially inherits. Thompson was one of the BBC's warrior kings. - independent.co.uk

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BBC - Blogs - Internet blog - What's On BBC Red Button 2nd - 8th February

For regular updates follow BBC Red Button on Twitter. Every Saturday press the Red Button during the show to pit your wits against our studio contestants. This has enabled the Red Button team to offer the best games tailored to each system. - bbc.co.uk

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DTG :: News :: EE 4G arrives in 9 more towns

EE has rolled out 4G to nine new areas across the UK, bringing the total number of towns and cities covered to 27. EE is currently the only UK operator providing 4G services in Britain, with 45 of the country's population living in a connected area. To be ahead of schedule and covering approximately 45 of the population within just 90 days of the launch is a great achievement for our network team. - dtg.org.uk

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BBC News - Ofcom to open up airwaves for 4G mobile services

Currently EE is the the only UK operator that can run 4G services over those parts of the radio spectrum. Telecoms regulator Ofcom has started a public consultation exercise on the proposal that runs until 29 March. Ofcom is currently running an auction to sell off unused airwaves that can support 4G services. - bbc.co.uk

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Online radio listening tops 50m hours - News - Broadcast

31 January, 2013 By Balihar Khalsa Rajar Online digital radio listening hit 51m hours for the first time in the last quarter of 2012, a year-on-year increase of 43. 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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6 Music hits almost 1.9m digital listeners : Radio Today with RCS

Digital radio listening is now one third of all listening, with over 25 million people now tuning in to a digital signal, up 2.1 million year on year. 42 of the population now has a DAB digital radio set, up from 40.3 in Q4 2011. This equates to 22 million adults now having a DAB digital radio, up 6 year on year. - radiotoday.co.uk

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Greg Dyke and top broadcasters urge press to back statutory regulation - Media - guardian.co.uk

Greg Dyke joined leading documentary makers in signing letter backing statutory press regulation. The letter comes on the day the Tories are expected to unveil their final proposal for a royal charter to underpin a new press regulator to replace the Press Complaints Commission, accompanied by a statute which would bar a future government from removing or amending the charter for political reasons. Delays in implementing the Leveson recommendations have been justified in some quarters by warnings that new press regulation would inevitably threaten free speech. - guardian.co.uk

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S4C and BBC Trust reach agreement on change to annual funding - Media - guardian.co.uk

The deal marks the end to three years of turmoil at S4C. BBC licence-fee funding for S4C will be 76.3m a year from 2013/14, falling to 74.5m by 2016/17. The agreement also states that any significant changes to the S4C service must be subject to consultation. - guardian.co.uk

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Amazon Elastic Transcoder means anyone can rival the BBC iPlayer

Amazon Web Services offers things like hosting of static images, virtual machines which many people use as web hosts, email services and other more complex services. Yesterday, AWS launched a new service - Amazon Elastic Transcoder. In a nutshell, this service takes your video and makes it available in a variety of different formats. - mediauk.com

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BBC News - S4C independence safeguard as BBC partnership agreed

The new partnership was agreed following public consultation over plans to fund most of S4C's activities from the BBC licence fee from April. S4C will remain independent, also receiving UK government funding and generating its own revenue. The BBC will contribute 76.3m from the licence fee in 2013-14 falling to 74.5m by 2016/17. - bbc.co.uk

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informitv - DIAL offers open alternative to Apple AirPlay

Netflix and YouTube have led the development of a simple protocol known as DIAL to allow second screen apps to talk to server applications on network-connected devices and displays. It offers a simple open alternative to Apple AirPlay or other solutions such as Miracast and could change the way apps work with network connected televisions. For instance, it means that users can simply launch a compatible mobile app and tap the Play on TV button in the app to view the output on a network-connected television device or display on the same home network. - informitv.com

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informitv - H.265 enables next phase of video revolution

A new video coding standard that promises to require only half the bit rate of current approaches for the same quality has reached the first stage of approval. It is anticipated that it will enable a new phase of innovation in video, from mobile devices through to Ultra-High-Definition Television. Members of the ITU, the United Nations agency for information and communication technology, have agreed the standard. - informitv.com

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Local television on Freeview - ukfree.tv - 10 years of independent, free digital TV advice

The map below shows the locations chosen for local television services on Freeview in the United Kingdom map is loading, please wait... - ukfree.tv

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Racism on TV: please do not adjust your sets - Editorial - Comment is free - The Guardian

It is not for nothing that its brand of humour endures with generations yet to be born when it was produced. Its cross-generational appeal is what makes it a comedy classic. The BBC's duty to not cause offence, even in its intended pre-watershed slot, is surely diminished in practical terms by the familiarity and availability of this episode at any time of the day. - guardian.co.uk

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BBC - Blogs - Internet blog - What's On BBC Red Button 26th January - 2nd February

It's music, comedy and a trip down memory lane on the Red Button this week. Every Saturday press the Red Button during the show to pit your wits against our studio contestants. This has enabled the Red Button team to offer the best games tailored to each system. - bbc.co.uk

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The BBC is filming its next blockbuster wildlife series in ultra-high definition 4K video producing images with four times the number of pixels as traditional high definition. If you have a living room large enough, Sony has an 84-inch version retailing at 25,000 and only available in Britain from Harrods. Those preferring something more discreet might wish to wait for the 65-inch version or even the dinky 55-inch, which will be in the shops this summer. - independent.co.uk

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Sky, whose shows include The Following, starring Kevin Bacon, will report a jump in revenue for the first full quarter since an annual price rise came into effect, following a freeze for customers in 2011. Numis forecasts a 16 per cent rise in earnings, with half-year profit at 600m. - independent.co.uk

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Ariel - Tony Hall to take charge of BBC in April

Hall began his BBC career in 1973, leaving the corporation in 2001. In 2001, Hall joined the Royal Opera House and he also chaired the Cultural Olympiad board. He was created a life peer with the title Baron Hall of Birkenhead in 2010. - bbc.co.uk

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Ariel - W1 move is game changer for World News

Especially for a news channel that is looking to bring down walls and build its reputation. BBC World News - the commercially funded international news channel - moved into the building last week and is already reaping the benefits. New, technologically advanced HD studios allow more dynamic and ambitious storytelling, while sharing a newsroom with the BBC's international and domestic journalists offers a wealth of ready content and expertise. - bbc.co.uk

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Sky in PSB carriage fees stand-off - 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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Freeview users able to watch Sky shows for free - News - TV News - UK Drama - What's on TV

Sky is screening some of its biggest shows like Game of Thrones on Freeview to show non-pay TV viewers just what they're missing. - whatsontv.co.uk

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How we test sound bars - Sound bar reviews - TV DVD - Which? Technology

Just want to get a TV with the best audio possible Check our extensive reviews for the TVs with the best sound quality. Real-world sound testing We asked three independent expert listeners to rate every piece of equipment in exactly the same way, using the same set of audio clips that we use to test TVs, plus an extra track to measure any extra bass oomph. - which.co.uk

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World News: where it should be - Comment - Broadcast

24 January, 2013 By Lisa Campbell Relaunch puts channel in a great position to compete with rivals 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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BBC News - Operators 4G bidding war begins as Ofcom launches UK auction

The bidding will process take place online and last a number of weeks. Ofcom has been criticised about how long the process has taken, with the UK lagging behind other countries that have already rolled out 4G. 4G offers much faster download speeds than 3G connections making it possible to stream high quality audio and visual content while on the move. - bbc.co.uk

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Ariel - End retransmission fees, says Ed Vaizey

Vaizey was speaking at the Oxford Media Convention on Wednesday morning. In an excerpt of his speech, the minister from the Department for Culture, Media and Sport said he would like to see 'a solution on so-called retransmission fees'. These fees are paid by PSBs to satellite providers so that their free-to-air content is carried on subscription channels. - bbc.co.uk

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DTG :: News :: Culture Minister Ed Vaizey announces DTG-led Dynamic Spectrum Access Group

The DTG has established an industry group to ensure that improvements in spectrum efficiency get brought into use quickly and effectively. To ensure the efficient use of spectrum, intensive spectrum sharing needs to take place, using advanced technologies such as Dynamic Spectrum Access to avoid disruption of existing services. The Group will also offer assistance to Ofcom and Government in their task of providing an appropriate regulatory framework. - dtg.org.uk

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U.K. 4G/LTE Spectrum Bidding Gets Underway, Networks Expected To Launch By Late Spring/Summer - TechCrunch

Bidding is taking place online, using specially developed software anda combinatorial clock auction format. Once the winners are determined, and fees are paid, licences will be granted with carriers then able to start rolling out new 4G networks. Ofcom is expecting that services will be launched by a range of providers from late spring/summer 2013. - techcrunch.com

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Speech to the Oxford Media Convention

What I would like to do this morning is set out some of the issues the Government intends to address in our forthcoming White Paper, to give you some insight into the issues that we think are important. Some of these issues, you will be glad to hear, overlap with your discussions later today, so we should be on the same wavelength. I want to talk about the success of the British media. - culture.gov.uk

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