Polish channels come to Vision TV Network

Vision247 is launching up to 18 Polish channels on its Polska service on the Vision TV Network. Polska is available on Freeview Channel 225, Roku streaming players and on the Polska online portal. TVN24 is Polands first 24-hour news and current affairs television channel covering both Polish and global news. - broadbandtvnews.com

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informitv - BBC offers solution for fragmented market

The BBC has developed an abstraction layer to decouple its own applications from these underlying device complexities. The corporation is planning to make its TV Application Layer available to third parties to help stimulate the market for connected television applications. The BBC iPlayer, News and Sport apps are available on around 650 different connected television devices, from smart televisions and set-top boxes to media players and games consoles. - informitv.com

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informitv - 4K TV demand

Consumer demand for 4K ultra-high-definition televisions, with a resolution four times that of high-definition screens, will exceed 2 million units by 2017, forecasts research company IHS iSuppli. That still represents less than 1 of the global market for LCD screens. However, the trend towards ever-higher resolutions seems clear. - informitv.com

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BBC - BBC Internet Blog: Connected Studio: the first pilots

As we enter the autumn and Connected Studio starts its next wave of Studio events, I'd like to bring you up to date with the first 10 concepts that have been selected to be developed into functional pilots. The concepts are not necessarily going to become future products and their pilots will be testing certain key unknowns - some of which will be going through user testing. - Red Badger 'BBC Now' offers a dynamic updating element to the homepage to encourage the audience to discover new and latest content in real time. - bbc.co.uk

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The Space (and John Peels record collection) to remain online for another six months - News - TV Radio - The

A free digital art service set up to give everyone access to the Cultural Olympiad from their living rooms is to be extended for another six months. The Space thespace.org is a 2m website and integration with digital television channels providing on demand and livestream access to theatre, dance, music and poetry performances, visual art exhibitions, film and literature. The portal has also given the nation access to John Peels record collection. - independent.co.uk

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BBC News - 5G research centre gets major funding grant

The money would be used to create a 5G Innovation Centre, said the university. Prof Rahim Tafozolli said work had already begun. - bbc.co.uk

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Ariel - Biggest move ever gathers pace

9 October 2012 Last updated at 0900 Moving is up there with divorce, debt and Saturdays in Ikea as the most stressful things life can throw at us. The shift of another 2800 staff around the W12 campus - 500 of them moving within the same building - is now also gathering pace. Red Bee has moved many of its people from the Broadcast Centre to its own base, freeing up space. - bbc.co.uk

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Dixons website closing: what you need to know - October - 2012 - Which? News

08 October 2012 The owner of Currys and PC World is closing Dixons.co.uk tomorrow, but existing orders will be honoured. Dixons high street stores were closed six years ago and now its owner is closing down the website in a bid to harmonise its high street stores and websites. The Dixons group said that as Dixons uses the same network as its other companies, it will be able to service returns, repairs, and other agreements through its existing channels. - which.co.uk

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Review: BBC iPlayer Radio websites and smartphone apps

In a context-setting introduction, Mark said that more than half 52 of people who listen to radio are listening on a digital platform. These are good, healthy statistics for radio, and it's nice to see them stated. Mark then pointed out the differences of radio vs TV. - mediauk.com

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BBC iPlayer - Help - Using BBC iPlayer Radio on mobiles

You can listen live to any BBC radio station, view programme and track information, access the schedule, see photos and download podcasts. Why is the app only available on iPhone and iPod Touch The Android version of the app was developed alongside the iPhone version. - iplayerhelp.external.bbc.co.uk

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BBC - BBC Internet Blog: What's On BBC Red Button 6th October - 13th October

Consider each of the objects featured in the programme, select an option before our experts give their valuation and see how many you get right. Play along with the BBC One programme by pressing red and using the colour buttons on your remote control to select a value. Here on the Red Button we get to peek behind the scenes and get the inside story on the investments made in the Den each week. - bbc.co.uk

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BT Vision YouView review – hands on - Expert Reviews

Posted on 3 Oct 2012 at 1651 One of the benefits of YouView is that it was designed for companies to take the base platform and add custom apps to give people new TV services. BT is one of the first customers to launch with its own products and we were there to find out how YouView fits into its Vision platform. The first thing to note is that switching to YouView alters how much involvement the company has in the development of the box and its software. - expertreviews.co.uk

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informitv - DTG Connected TV specification openly available

The DTG will also propose such requirements for inclusion in the next version of the HbbTV standard. The specification builds on the specification for Freeview HD, extending this into the connected television world. It uses the latest version of the HbbTV specification as the minimum requirement, with additional features to meet the requirements of service providers in the United Kingdom. - informitv.com

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informitv - YouView has lots of catching up to do

More than three quarters of YouView boxes sold so far in the United Kingdom have been used to view on-demand programming for more than three minutes per session. Sky is responding with a box with a two terrabyte hard drive that can store over 350 hours of high-definition programming and its own On Demand offering. Sef Tuma form Accenture, who is the technical delivery lead for YouView, said that more than 75 of an unstated number of boxes sold so far have been used to view on-demand content for at least three minutes a session, a figure that the industry magazine Broadcast originally incorrectly quoted as three minutes a week. - informitv.com

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Ariel - James Stephenson to be newsrooms deputy head

Stephenson joined the BBC in 1988 as a researcher on Panorama. He went on to be duputy editor of Newsnight, editor of 2005's general election night programming, executive editor of Question Time and Middle East Bureau editor. He became editor of the Six and Ten in 2009. - bbc.co.uk

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http://www.mediauk.com/article/34319/review-the-new-uk-radioplayer-mobile-app

As previewed at last week's http//nextrad.io conference, the UK Radioplayer's iPhone app has just gone live in the Apple iTunes store. They've launched a number of apps based on this a Chrome app, a downloadable desktop player, and a Facebook service, but this is the first time Radioplayer has moved away from desktop to mobile. So, at first glance, this is a mobile app which is not too dissimilar from TuneIn. - mediauk.com

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RadioPlayer Launches Native iOS App for UK Radio Fans

Shortly after, RadioPlayer announced it was drawing in almost 6m unique listeners a month, a figure now sitting at around the 7m mark. Then back in January this year, RadioPlayer teamed up with Stephen Frys favorite social sound platform Audioboo to roll out a new instant listen-again service. When you first launch the app, youre presented with a perennially shifting and scrolling screen with all the stations listed seemingly in a random order, which I cant say Im particularly keen on. - thenextweb.com

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BBC News - Ceatec: Home environment 'not right' for 3D TV

The Ceatec electronics show in Japan is underway, featuring new technology like an entire home controlled by a smart phone, robots and all the innovations of the industry. Click editor Richard Taylor talks to presenter Gareth Mitchell about the lowering of interest in 3D technology in the home. - news.bbc.co.uk

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Ariel - Red Button streams to be cut this month

3 October 2012 Last updated at 1254 The BBC is to cut its red button service on satellite and cable. From October 15 it will reduce the number of video streams on red button from five to one. This will bring it in line with the Freeview offering. - bbc.co.uk

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Ofcom - Television Broadcast Licensing Update September 2012

Television services that have ceased to be licensed handed back or revoked in this period The following services are no longer licensed. The relevant licence is either no longer required by the licensee so has been handed back, or the service has been removed from a licence covering multiple services, or revoked as a matter of routine usually for non-payment of the annual licence fee. Licence transfers The following licence has been transferred to a new company who is now the legal licensee. - licensing.ofcom.org.uk

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MW switch-off remains at BBC Local Radio : Radio Today

A trial to turn-off medium-wave transmitters at some BBC local radio stations is to continue after hardly any listeners complained. As Radio Today revealed in August, the BBC is testing the switch-off of medium wave transmission for certain stations. The BBC is also committed to a full roll out of local radio stations across the DAB network. - radiotoday.co.uk

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BBC - Blogs - About the BBC - Satellite Shuffling: reducing BBC Red Button and expanding BBC One HD

This will mean we close our DSat7 transponder Astra 2A tp 13. They will each be available on terrestrial, satellite and cable platforms. In order to carry these services on satellite well be opening a new transponder Astra 1N tp 61 which we will be referring to as DSat8. - bbc.co.uk

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BBC - BBC Internet Blog: Changes to BBC Red Button

Over the next few weeks, there will be some changes made to the BBC's red button service. I also want to share our exciting plans for how we are reinventing the red button for the future, bringing audiences with internet connected TVs the best BBC content, multiple video streams and interactive services by still pressing red. We are doing this because these services rely entirely on linear broadcast technologies, which are not cost-effective for an interactive service like the red button. - bbc.co.uk

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4G auction to be brought forward - October - 2012 - Which? News

The 4G auction is when Ofcom will sell access to radio spectrum previously used by analogue television and air traffic control. This spectrum will then be used by the networks to provide the latest mobile phone technology, 4G. 4G allows users to access the internet up to five times faster than current 3G handsets. - which.co.uk

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C4 raises "serious concerns" over Barb ratings gaffe - News - Broadcast

2 October, 2012 By Jake Kanter Channel 4 has written to Barb raising serious concerns after the audience measurement body misreported its ratings last month. 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 - 4G: UKs mobile phone networks in crunch meeting

Mobile operators, Culture Secretary Maria Miller and communications regulator Ofcom will discuss bringing forward the allocation of spectrum to allow faster mobile download speeds. Ofcom has told the government that the process could be accelerated to launch 4G networks in many places by May or June. It had been thought that it would take until the end of the year. - bbc.co.uk

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Ariel - Sam Taylor is appointed controller of BBC News Channel

Taylor said 'The BBC News Channel has been part of my life since its launch 15 years ago. Over an average month, 33 of UK adults will tune in. BBC News director Helen Boaden said that Taylor's 'creative flair, digital savvy and editorial experience make him the ideal controller at a time of great change'. - bbc.co.uk

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Young Americans switch from television to online news - Media - guardian.co.uk

The transformation of America's news landscape from old media to new is advancing at a steady pace, as the latest Pew research centre study illustrates. We have long known that print was giving way to screen, but it appears that people across the United States are gradually turning away from the TV screen to computer and mobile screens. The stand-out finding of Pew's biennial study of news consumption habits is that fewer and fewer young Americans are watching TV news. - guardian.co.uk

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SES SUCCESSFULLY LAUNCHES ASTRA 2F SATELLITE

This is SES' 36th successful launch on Ariane. The new satellites in this neighbourhood will, as of October 2013, also use additional frequency spectrum for which the right of use was granted to SES by Media Broadcast pursuant to an agreement entered into in 2005. This orbital neighbourhood today serves close to 13 million DTH homes in the UK and Ireland. - ses.com

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Ian Burrell: How public lost its appetite for breakfast tellys bland fare - Opinion - Media - The Independent

Breakfast television, once a morning requisite as rich and piquant as a smoked haddock kedgeree, has turned into its modern day equivalent a few mouthfuls of froth, taken on the move. Last month, ITV launched its hapless early morning show Daybreak for effectively the third time, bursting on to the schedule with all the crackle and pop of a soggy rusk. Over on early morning Channel 4, they are showing double helpings of Everybody Loves Raymond, an American family sitcom which, as it finally wrapped in 2005, will be of limited use as a daily briefing on current affairs. - independent.co.uk

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DTG :: News :: STV launches on YouView

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Shortlist drawn up for BBC News channel job - Media - guardian.co.uk

Sam Taylor, the BBC's head of editorial development, is also believed to be in the running for the role. The job became vacant with Kevin Bakhurst's departure earlier this month to become managing director of news and current affairs at Ireland public service broadcaster RTE. To contact the MediaGuardian news desk email editormediaguardian.co.uk or phone 020 3353 3857. - guardian.co.uk

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BBC - BBC Internet Blog: What's On BBC Red Button 29th September - 6th October

You will be able to join in all the fun by watching the sessions live on the 6 Music homepage and see highlights on the BBC Red Button from 7pm each evening. Plus, you can discuss the exclusive sessions in our live conversation on the 6 Music homepage. Here on the Red Button we get to peek behind the scenes and get the inside story on the investments made in the Den each week. - bbc.co.uk

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BBC - BBC Internet Blog: Building Connected TV Apps

It has actually been a tremendous challenge to build multiple applications, in different presentation technologies, with little or no standardisation, and across such a wide range of devices. Every device seems to have its own way of playing back video, and many devices have memory constraints we haven't seen on a PC or mobile phone for years, with some having to cope with as little as 1MB We're delighted when our audience doesn't even notice the hoops we've jumped through to deliver a graceful experience across so many devices, but the engineers among us know what a mammoth task this has been. - bbc.co.uk

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BBC - Radio 4 and 4 Extra Blog: Feedback: Operation Dropout

Of course in these daydreams you save the day and leave the studio to the acclaim of your colleagues, who look at you in a new light, and with the admiration of listeners. In radio at least the blushes go unseen, but the voice tells all. I remember in my early days on the Sunday programme losing my way in the script, having to tell the audience that I had done so, and waiting for an understandably irate producer to rush into the studio and sort me out. - bbc.co.uk

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DTG :: News :: DTG Connected TV specification now openly available to industry

DTG Staff 28.09.2012 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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http://www.campaignlive.co.uk/news/1152212/bt-plans-overhaul-pay-tv-brand/

However, sources close to BT insisted that no firm decision has been made on scrapping the brand itself. However, in June, BT captured a chunk of the Premier League football rights from the 2013/14 season in a move to boost subscriber numbers. BT will offer YouView to customers as part of broadband packages from next month, but the current generation of boxes do not allow the platform's partners or third parties to retail pay-TV. - campaignlive.co.uk

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YouView: Look out Sky Plus! New set-top box mimics Murdochs TV service – and it costs just £50 - TV Radio

The future of television has arrived, and its great advantage is going backwards. A new set-top box that allows viewers to watch popular programmes like Strictly and Sherlock days after they have been screened has gone on sale to millions of homes for 50. As well as showing Freeview's 70-plus channels, YouView can pause and rewind TV. - independent.co.uk

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TalkTalk readies second YouView push - News - Marketing Week

TalkTalk is reading the second wave of its multi million pound YouView marketing activity with a call to action campaign encouraging its customers to request a set top box. It will be created by Chi and Partners, the agency behind its current Model Britain activity. The company is currently offering all its Plus customers, who pay 14.50 a month for unlimited phone and broadband, a free YouView set top box. - marketingweek.co.uk

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Wi-Fi: are there any health risks? - Technology - guardian.co.uk

If it is possible for a microwave oven to interfere with Wi-Fi signals I just read something like that on your blog because they operate at the same frequency, is Wi-Fi then not dangerous to your health Would having Wi-Fi in your home not be like leaving your microwave door open Is having a baby alarm in your home not like leaving your microwave door open - guardian.co.uk

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BBC - Media Centre - BBC iPlayer Performance Pack June to August 2012

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Jenkins: TV Will Be Apple's Undoing - WSJ.com

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YouView ready for major content push in phase two - 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 - FAQs - Information on changes to BBC HD services on satellite from Thursday 27 September 2012.

This page is best viewed in an up-to-date web browser with style sheets CSS enabled. Please consider upgrading your browser software or enabling style sheets CSS if you are able to do so. - faq.external.bbc.co.uk

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ITV plans regional news job cuts - 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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Ofcom - Television Access Services: Report for the first six months of 2012

The first bi-annual report for 2012 on the provision of access services subtitling, signing and audio description by broadcasters under the Code on Television Access Services shows the cumulative position from January to June 2012. An explanation of the obligations applying to broadcasters is given in the Code of Television Access Services and is available on the Ofcom website. http//stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/broadcasting/broadcast-codes/code-tv-access-services/ This report shows that most broadcasters are exceeding their obligations for subtitling, audio description and for signing of programmes. In the final report for 2011 -1-, Ofcom noted that Nickelodeon had missed its subtitling and audio description targets, and Sky Livingit and Challenge had missed their subtitling targets. - stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk

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Analogue telly snuffs it TONIGHT on UK mainland • The Register

Tyne Tees will switch off its analogue TV transmission at midnight tonight. The shutdown will mark the last region of the mainland to go entirely digital despite the obituaries written in April. Exactly how the signal will be killed off is described in quite terrifying detail by the A516 Digital blog. - theregister.co.uk

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Regional MXR digital multiplexes to close : Radio Today

The three shareholders of the MXR regional DAB multiplexes have decided not to renew their licence to operate the services. However, some stations are committed to being on DAB as part of their licence extension agreement. The mutliplexes will close between July and September 2013 except Yorkshire which will continue till 2015. - radiotoday.co.uk

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Age UK launches DAB station - 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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Challenges face BBC network radio - Comment - Broadcast

25 September, 2012 The BBCs first national syndicated evening show to 39 local radio stations is welcome. 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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