Thursday 12 May 2011, AM
Strong start fades as ITV suffers World Cup hangover - Business News, Business - The Independent
ITV warned that its advertising revenues are set to fall a year on from the football World Cup yesterday, but said that further progress had been made with its five-year overhaul plan. The broadcaster reported an 11 per cent rise in revenues from 450m in the first quarter of 2010 to 500m a year on. Adam Crozier, ITV's chief executive, backed the positive start to the year in which the group outperformed the TV advertising market, with revenues up 12 per cent. - independent.co.ukwww.independent.co.ukWednesday 11 May 2011, PM
ITV chairman: ads like a 'faulty shower' - Media - guardian.co.uk
Archie Norman said ITV was too reliant on TV advertising. However, on Wednesday the company suffered several downgrades from City analysts after reporting that it will see a slowdown in TV ad revenue growth through the summer, the end of 18 months of growth after the recession. The company's share price was down just over 5 at the close of the day, at 71.9p. - guardian.co.ukwww.guardian.co.uk
S4C launches on-demand app - 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.ukwww.broadcastnow.co.ukChannel 4 says ad recovery will help fill Big Brother gap - News - Marketing Week
Channel 4 says a strong recovery in the advertising market last year allowed the broadcaster to increase its investment in original programming and marketing. The company reported a 12.6 increase in revenue to 935.2m for the year to 31 December 2010. Operating profit reached 49.3m, up from 3.9m the previous year. - marketingweek.co.ukwww.marketingweek.co.uk
Editorial independence of S4C must be protected, say MPs - Media - guardian.co.uk
They also asked for more detail on S4C's future funding and governance in the report, published on Wednesday. MPs proposed that S4C's finances should in future be inspected by the National Audit Office. They also suggested that some of its funding should come from the National Assembly for Wales, and that it should be accountable to a committee of the Cardiff administration. - guardian.co.ukwww.guardian.co.ukWednesday 11 May 2011, AM
FT.com / Media - Hunt abandons local TV 'spine'Â plan
Printed from http//www.ft.com/cms/s/0/f2391270-7b21-11e0-9b06-00144feabdc0.html Print a single copy of this article for personal use. - ft.comwww.ft.comTuesday 10 May 2011, PM
Google announces Android @ Home - BGR
Google announced on Tuesday a new feature of the Android operating system called Android Home. The framework and associated functions transform an Android device into a home automation controller that connects and directs all of the devices and appliances in the users home. Android Home framework can be used to control gaming consoles, lighting, appliances, irrigations systems and anything else developers can envision. - bgr.comwww.bgr.comBBC - BBC Internet Blog: What's On BBC Red Button 10th - 23rd May 2011
The second episode 'First to Last', shows how the team set about illustrating the magic moment when your heart first began to beat, just 3 weeks after conception, and how they had to apply some artistic licence so they could take the viewer on a journey inside the miniature world of your blood vessels. Each week a selection of viewers' comments will appear during the programme on BBC Red Button page 155 along with details of the panel and the topics under discussion. On weekends the tone becomes more conversational when Red Button viewers can watch a topical interview in 'Five Minutes with...' or a round-up of the week's weird and wonderful videos in OddBox. - bbc.co.ukwww.bbc.co.ukSouth East England to start switchover in May 2012
- www.dtg.org.ukJeremy Hunt's local TV plans face delay? - News - TechRadar UK
Jeremy Hunt's plans to create a sixth terrestrial channel which focuses on locally-produced content, have hit a rocky patch, with news that the channel faces delays and could be abandoned altogether. The idea for a national 'local' channel was an interesting one when it was mooted back in January. Around 50 bidders expressed an interest in running the channel that would place an onus on locally-produced content. - techradar.comwww.techradar.comQVC launches beauty channel on Freeview
QVC Beauty is a dedicated channel for beauty products and beauty advice, broadcasting one-hour programmes between 0800 and 1300 BST each day. - retailgazette.co.ukwww.retailgazette.co.uk
BBC News - South East TV digital switchover dates
Freeview signals will be boosted enabling thousands of homes to receive the digital service for the first time. An advice line and website are available to help with the switchover. Analogue services are scheduled to be switched off in two stages at each transmitter group. - bbc.co.ukwww.bbc.co.ukJeremy Hunt's plan for new national TV network likely to be delayed - Media - guardian.co.uk
The new national network is a key part of Jeremy Hunt's local TV plan. However, MediaGuardian.co.uk understands this is now likely to be delayed until after the local services launch and may be abandoned altogether. Extensive lobbying by would-be local operators, fearful of being dominated by a commercial national network operator with its own priorities and anxious to get started, is also understood to have influenced the government's thinking. - guardian.co.ukwww.guardian.co.ukMonday 09 May 2011, PM
Government names Huw Jones as preferred candidate for S4C chairman - Media - guardian.co.uk
Jeremy Hunt, the culture secretary, was reported to be disappointed with the lack of any truly independent names on the list. Jones will appear before the Commons culture media and sport and Welsh affairs select committees on 24 May for a pre-appointment vetting. He is a Welsh speaker and former independent producer who was S4C's chief executive between 1994 and 2005. - guardian.co.ukwww.guardian.co.ukRadio income per capita - James Cridland
Radio income per capita Posted on Monday, May 9th, 2011 at 1222 pm. An interesting graph, sourced from Ofcom, showing revenue earnt per capita for major radio markets worldwide. The UK appears to be pretty standard in terms of revenue per capita Germany, Canada and Sweden seem to be particularly better than us. - james.cridland.netjames.cridland.netITV expected to report first decline in ad revenues for 18 months - Media - The Guardian
Some analysts question whether ITV chief Adam Crozier has used his first year wisely to build for the future. However, reality will bite on Wednesday when he announces that the broadcaster is set to report its first fall in ad revenue in 18 months. Crozier revealed bumper results for 2010 in March, fuelled almost entirely by an outstanding market-beating TV ad sales performance up 16 year-on-year. - guardian.co.ukwww.guardian.co.ukSunday 08 May 2011, AM
Are we really about to say goodbye to TV and DVDs? - Technology - The Observer
A new report from Nielsen, the US media ratings firm, conveys some bad news to the broadcast TV networks. Ownership of television sets by US households has fallen for the first time in two decades. Granted, the decline 96.7 of American households now own sets, down from 98.9 previously may not seem very much, but there will be many in the industry who will wonder if it's the faint tremor that presages an earthquake. - guardian.co.ukwww.guardian.co.ukFriday 06 May 2011, PM
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Thursday 05 May 2011, PM
DTG :: News :: Austria to tender DVB-T2 multiplexes
The broadcasting of DVB-T2 could begin in the first half of 2012 and could offer up to 30 new channels. Austria are also considering introducing digital radio using the DAB standard. Austrian media authority KommAustria will launch an nationwide survey to determine interest on 1 June 2012. - dtg.org.ukwww.dtg.org.ukBBC News to cut 45 more jobs - Media - guardian.co.uk
Photograph Eamonn Mccabe BBC News is to axe a further 45 jobs in the final stage of a five-year plan that will see the loss of more than 450 posts. BBC News has already closed 420 posts in the first four years of the Creative Future plan. By the end of year five, with another 45 jobs to go, BBC News will have saved 161m, of which the corporation said 63.4m has been reinvested into journalism. - guardian.co.ukwww.guardian.co.uk
News Corp bids to talk down BSkyB - News - Broadcast
5 May, 2011 News Corps chief operating officer has responded to the escalating price of British Sky Broadcasting shares, which threatens to hike up the price it must pay to take full control of the company. 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.ukwww.broadcastnow.co.ukWednesday 04 May 2011, PM
BBC aims to 'dial down compliance' - Media - guardian.co.uk
Jordan told the House of Lords communications committee on Tuesday that he hoped to lighten the burden of editorial constraints on programme-makers. Jordan also denied the BBC was risk averse. He pointed to the expensive undercover filming investigations the BBC commissions, which recently included exposing bullying within the army barracks at Catterick. - guardian.co.ukwww.guardian.co.ukSwitchover Or Switch-off / News / Roundup / Articles / Cumnock Chronicle
The Digital Switchover has been hailed as the biggest change since the introduction of colour. Folk can expect up to 40 channels, sharper images and additional services such as audio description for viewers with disabilities once the static settles on May 25. The broadcast signal for viewers in in Cumnock and Doon Valley is transmitted through the Darvel receivers. - cumnockchronicle.comwww.cumnockchronicle.comPanasonic BWT800 and BWT700 3D Blu-ray recorders announced - News - TechRadar UK
There's also a high-speed copying function, which means you can record unprotected hard-drive content on to a Blu-ray drive in a speedier way. - techradar.comwww.techradar.comWorld Service 'safer' with BBC
- radiotoday.co.ukBBC executives still paid too much, says Lord Patten - Media - guardian.co.uk
Lord Patten says some of the BBC's executives are still paid too highly. Speaking on Radio 4's Today programme, Patten said the corporation was working through a series of cuts that would scale back the number of senior executives by about a quarter. He refused to categorically rule out certain BBC services being reduced as the BBC deals with a budget cutback of about 16. - guardian.co.ukwww.guardian.co.ukWednesday 04 May 2011, AM
Digital radio switchover explained - Audio - Which? Technology
- www.which.co.ukFailing to defend BBC's independence would make me a moron – Lord Patten - Media - guardian.co.uk
BBC chairman Lord Patten said the corporation faced some 'difficult choices'. Patten said he hoped the BBC could push through a massive programme of savings following last year's licence fee settlement, which froze the annual levy at its current rate until 2016 without cutting services. It was rumoured that the BBC will announce details of some job cuts on Wednesday. - guardian.co.ukwww.guardian.co.ukTuesday 03 May 2011, PM
Call to delay digital radio switchover by five years - News - Broadcast
3 May, 2011 Consumer group Which has called on the Government to delay digital radio switchover for at least five years. 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.ukwww.broadcastnow.co.ukTuesday 03 May 2011, AM
Perform insists it will live up to its sporting name - Telegraph
Two of Perform's main sources of revenue are distributing sports content to betting sites and online media across the world and the sale of adverts running within content on its own and others' websites. The group owns digital rights through contracts relating to more than 200 leagues, tournaments and events and also manages websites, such as Chelsea FC's. There are 9,000 live events' rights under contract 3,500 are for football matches, 2,500 tennis and 1,000 for basketball. - telegraph.co.ukwww.telegraph.co.ukDish Network, EchoStar will pay TiVo $500 million to settle DVR lawsuit -- Engadget
The parties also granted certain patent licenses to each other. No. 6,233,389 and certain related patents, for the remaining life of those patents. TiVo also distributes its technology and services through solutions tailored for cable, satellite, and broadcasting companies. - engadget.comwww.engadget.comMonday 02 May 2011, AM
Pay TV player BSkyB is winning the war to dominate digital - Steve Hewlett - Media - The Guardian
A good set of financial results from BSkyB hardly counts as news these days it has after all been the way of things for some time. Yes, there were customer additions in every sector of the business and the broadcaster is on course to exceed 1bn annual profits on a strongly rising trend. Which is why competitors are looking at BSkyB not just with green eyes but mounting concern that the position it has built for itself might already be unassailable. - guardian.co.ukwww.guardian.co.ukWould Sky pay to keep the Abbey habit? - Media - The Guardian
Indeed, a groundswell movement among disgruntled public-service broadcasters is finally gathering pace as its rivals weigh up challenging an arrangement that has proved as generous and useful to Sky as was the music industry's decision to allow MTV free use of music videos in that network's early days. Their aim is to claw back fees that they hope could amount to as much as 120m a year. Thompson looked for the best authority he could find, quoting News Corp chief executive, Rupert Murdoch, to back up his argument. - guardian.co.ukwww.guardian.co.uk
Complete guide to MythTV - News - TechRadar UK
MythTV is a little involved to set up, but worth the effort. It's more than a TV recorder - its plug-ins add plenty of extra functions, and the scripting interface means that you can do all sorts of clever things with it. We'll look at installing and setting up MythTV, as well as how to use the various functions. - techradar.comwww.techradar.comHelp on hand for the digital switch - News - Saffron Walden Reporter
To send a link to this page to a friend, you must be logged in. On that day the analogue TV signal will be switched off and replaced with a new, stronger digital signal. For more information, call 0800 4085900 or visit helpscheme.co.uk. - saffronwaldenreporter.co.ukwww.saffronwaldenreporter.co.ukThursday 28 April 2011, PM
BBCWW told to be more global
C21Media.net is Everything about content in the 21st Century, from television to web, mobile, tablet and beyond. - c21media.netwww.c21media.net
Give auditors access to BBC books, says Hunt - 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.ukwww.broadcastnow.co.uk
A fresh start for ITV and STV - Comment - 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.ukwww.broadcastnow.co.ukBBC Worldwide gets green light for new global strategy - Media - guardian.co.uk
The strategy published today follows an 18-month review of the BBC's commercial activity which concluded in November 2009. The business reported record profits of 145.2m in the year to the end of March 2010, on the back of its biggest-ever revenue of 1.07bn. BBC Worldwide is still in the process of selling its magazine division and is understood to be getting close to a preferred bidder. - guardian.co.ukwww.guardian.co.ukThursday 28 April 2011, AM
Marks: BT Vision favoured subs over content - Broadband TV News
As a telco BT are first in the market in providing a telephony service and its sky that is playing catch up. When we started in the UK, BT was hampered by competition all of which was on the side of telephony, because no one wanted BT to get the same dominance in content. Marks explained the original philosophy of BT Vision was to start with a large amount of subscribers and a familiar trusted brand rather than secure content. - broadbandtvnews.comwww.broadbandtvnews.comWednesday 27 April 2011, PM
Wednesday 27 April 2011, AM
PSBs should not shirk their responsibility to the world - Comment - Broadcast
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Why Hunt should think before he acts - Comment - Broadcast
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Microsoft opens Xbox Live to broadcasters - News - Broadcast
27 April, 2011 By Alex Farber Microsoft will offer broadcasters the opportunity to distribute content via its Xbox games console following a U-turn in its content partnership strategy. 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.ukwww.broadcastnow.co.uk
UKTV's Kingsbury to spearhead launch of PBS in the UK - 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.ukwww.broadcastnow.co.ukBBC trials digital archive with UK cultural bodies - 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.ukwww.broadcastnow.co.uk
ITV, STV end legal rows with $30m deal
C21Media.net is Everything about content in the 21st Century, from television to web, mobile, tablet and beyond. - c21media.netwww.c21media.netBBC blames salary cuts as it struggles to fill senior roles - Media - guardian.co.uk
Although the BBC said it would cast its net globally for the Vision post and employed headhunters, few international executives put their names forward. It is thought the BBC is offering candidates north of 300,000 a huge sum to most licence fee payers. According to sources, the corporation's decision to cut the pay of the BBC Vision role has put off some candidates. - guardian.co.ukwww.guardian.co.ukVevo Launches In The UK, Netflix Next?
Way back in 2010, Reuters reported Netflix would make a UK launch during 2010. All of this means an opportunity for Netflix to expand in to Europes most attractive video market without having to deploy DVD rentals. More than any of its rivals, Netflix could shake up the UK market. - paidcontent.orgpaidcontent.orgpick a page