Thursday 10 September 2009, AM
Freeview ready to begin HD testing
It seems to have been a long time coming, but finally Freeview is getting ready to test its high definition TV service. Once this has taken place the service will be rolled out around the UK. - techwatch.co.uk
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Mark Thompson email to BBC staff
It showed very strong public support for us. Our score for trustworthiness was up too 69 agreed that the BBC was trustworthy, compared to 60 in 2004. Our services have never been stronger just look at the summer of music, drama and sport we've been able to deliver to the public. - bbc.co.uk
www.bbc.co.ukBBC Trust - Chairmans open letter to licence fee payers
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downloads.bbc.co.ukWednesday 09 September 2009, AM
DTG :: News :: BBC launches new version of iPlayer for PS3
As part of a V3.0 firmware update, Sony have added an iPlayer icon to the PS3's cross-media bar. The BBC has also optimised the BigScreen interface in a new larger size to take advantage of high-definition displays. DTG Staff 08.09.2009 Links open in a new window. - dtg.org.ukwww.dtg.org.ukAsus unveils high-def monitor range - V3.co.uk - formerly vnunet.com
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www.v3.co.ukNext step in digital changes for television viewers
The switch-off of the analogue signal will mean 10 relay transmitters serving areas such as Neath and Clydach can, for the first time, broadcast their signal. People in Swansea responded really well in adapting to the change at stage one of switchover by preparing in good time. - thisissouthwales.co.ukwww.thisissouthwales.co.ukTuesday 08 September 2009, PM
Radio Today with RCS: DAB postcode checker launched
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radiotoday.co.ukFreeview HD product testing to begin October | Home Cinema Choice
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download.guardian.co.ukMonday 07 September 2009, PM
BBC HD: Autumn Schedule
Hello Everyone There has been a communications lull from me over the summer - although I know that a number of you have been engaging vigorously with Andy Quested's entries about our new encoders, and debating picture quality. I have been working on a range of issues relating to the future of HD and the BBC. They don't address entirely the points that many of you regularly raise with me around your desire to see all the BBC channels, and certainly all the programmes you regularly watch, in HD. - bbc.co.ukwww.bbc.co.ukMonday 07 September 2009, AM
Rupert Murdochs News Corp launches global service to link all its outlets |Media |guardian.co.uk
The service, called NewsCore, will operate like a global wire service for all the company's newspapers, TV networks and websites. When TG24 learns that Vesuvius has blown its top again, everyone in NewsCorp will have it. The NewsCore service, approved by the News Corp chairman and chief executive, Rupert Murdoch, will scan the company's electronic story queues, satellite feeds and websites and make all the content available to company newsrooms around the planet. - guardian.co.ukwww.guardian.co.uk
Murdoch Jr gives BBC a preview of the battle ahead |Steve Hewlett |Media |The Guardian
Predictable perhaps, given the recessionary woes afflicting most of the corporation's competitors and the fact that a Murdoch was giving the keynote speech. First there was the matter of talent pay and whether the BBC should publish details of its salaries. A consensus appears to be building everywhere except the BBC that it is right, or at least inevitable, that the information be made public. - guardian.co.ukwww.guardian.co.uk
Global warning: time to wage war on BBC s Politburo radio - TV Radio, Med
This means he presides over more than 40 per cent of commercial radio content. Theres a recovery taking place in commercial radio, he asserts in his soft Scots burr, acknowledging that the total UK radio audience has reached a record high, and that Global itself attracts more than 19 million listeners. No, he says, commercial radio cannot now put aside its long-running complaint that the BBC has it over a barrel. - independent.co.uk
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Charlie Brooker on James Murdoch and his media empire |Culture |The Guardian
Damien Thorn, offspring of Satan, was educated at Yale before inheriting a global business conglomerate at a shockingly young age and using it to hypnotise millions in a demonic bid to hasten Armageddon. I guess that's what the News Of The World does when it challenges the consensus view that personal voicemails should remain personal, or that concealing a video camera in a woman's private home bathroom is sick and creepy it magically becomes acceptable when she's Kerry Katona. As a news source, Fox is about as plausible and useful as an episode of Thundercats. - guardian.co.ukwww.guardian.co.ukSunday 06 September 2009, PM
BBC Radio 4 In Business, Media Mayhem
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Testing times for Freeview HD | Broadband TV News
Product testing, which also includes Freeview HD personal video recorders, will get underway in October. Testing against Freeview HD brand requirements will mark a step change in market compliance. The DTG can now utilise eight years of test suite development as a foundation to ensure that Freeview HD receivers will meet levels of compliance, only achieved previously on vertical or lower volume proprietary standard platforms. - broadbandtvnews.com
www.broadbandtvnews.comSunday 06 September 2009, AM
North West Evening Mail | News | Digital viewers set for fourth retune
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Public rejects Murdoch view of BBC, says ICM poll |Media |The Guardian
It shows rising levels of trust in the broadcaster and increased public support for the licence fee. His comments opened up debate about the future of the corporation, which is protected by its guaranteed licence fee while some other media organisations are facing sharp falls in revenue. An overwhelming majority, 77, think the BBC is an institution people should be proud of up from 68 in an equivalent ICM poll carried out five years ago. - guardian.co.ukwww.guardian.co.ukBroadband woes: a 2 per cent solution?
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Do not adjust your set: a revolution in television as content moves online |Media |The Guardian
There's a revolution going on in television but you may not necessarily be watching it on the set in your living room. Online viewing of programmes in the UK will more than triple in the next few years, according to the latest forecasts, boosted by new video on demand websites offering the best British and US shows to internet users for free. This figure is forecast to jump to close to 5bn views by 2013. - guardian.co.ukwww.guardian.co.uk2009 Review of Television Access Services | Ofcom
-www.ofcom.org.ukEnquiry to Ofcom from BBC Free to View Ltd concerning its DTT high definition multiplex licence | Ofcom
You might like to try one of the following to help find what you were looking for Make sure the address of the page you are looking for is spelled correctly. Try submitting a question to our FAQ system Go to the Ofcom homepage and navigate to the information you want. Click the 'back' button to try another link. - ofcom.org.ukwww.ofcom.org.ukNews Star | News | Cumbrian digital TV viewers facing Freeview retune
Some people in west Cumbria have already retuned their set-top digital boxes four times, and many will have thought that the current service was the end of their part in the digital revolution. However, Freeview has now announced another retune on September 30, designed to give better access to Channel 5 and to pave the way for high definition television on Freeview. Terrestrial television signals were turned off in north and west Cumbria on July 22, and the Caldbeck transmitter and its relays were switched to all-digital television services. - newsandstar.co.uk
www.newsandstar.co.ukFriday 04 September 2009, PM
Friday 04 September 2009, AM
Five signs agreement with Sony for new internet TV platform
Five has signed an agreement with Sony that could allow viewers to instantly access TV shows by plugging their TV into an existing broadband connection, according to the broadcaster. Charles Constable, Director of Strategy, Five, said Its vital for broadcasters and other industry stakeholders to explore such initiatives if they are to gain a solid footing in the digital world. As broadband content continues to grow in popularity, Five looks forward to working with Sony to explore and learn from the exciting opportunity to bring on-demand content to the television in the home. - dtg.org.ukwww.dtg.org.ukBarry Fox's Inside View
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ITV Goes HD - AVReview News and comment
More detailed plans will be made available next month. The only concern comes with the lack of availability of Freeview HD boxes, which aren't expected to be available in serious numbers until later next year. - avreview.co.ukwww.avreview.co.uk
Freeview HD content protection issue resolved | Broadband TV News
Subsequently, Ofcom has rushed through its consultation process, inviting comments by September 16th on an amendment to Condition 6 of the licence, making clear the licensees ability to protect intellectual property rights subject to clearance from the regulator. The difficulty for the BBC is that any move would require the co-operation of receiver manufacturers. - broadbandtvnews.comwww.broadbandtvnews.com
Sony shows off triple-tuner HD TV - Register Hardware
It sports a 100,0001 contrast ratio and digitally ups the source 'frame rate' to 100Hz. It can display Blu-ray content at cinema-rate 24f/s. Sony also launched a Freesat-less version of the W5810, called the W5800. - reghardware.co.ukwww.reghardware.co.ukRadio Today with RCS: DRDB to be dismantled
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Trader fumes at cost of Digit Al
The Whitehaven News is aware of at least two people still having problems but Brooks believes the fault has probably now been fixed. Ofcom, the independent regulator of television which has a legal obligation to help consumers, could only advise people with problems to get back in touch with Digital UK. A spokesman has now offered that they can also write to the Broadcasting Technical Policy Department at Ofcom. - whitehaven-news.co.ukwww.whitehaven-news.co.uk
New digital radio switchover body to recruit chief executive |Media |guardian.co.uk
The Digital Radio Development Bureau is to be dismantled and incorporated into a new body charged with meeting the government's 2015 digital radio switchover target. The Radio Council is hopeful an appointment will be made before the end of this year. The Digital Britain plan requires that at least 50 of all radio listening is via digital platforms by 2013. - guardian.co.ukwww.guardian.co.uk
BBC archives - Gone but not forgotten - Features, TV Radio - The Independent
A rare tape of the programme reveals that this is indeed the case, along with the unforgettable sight of a 25ft-high banana statue dominating the grounds of Southern Television. Why, runs the popular argument, should any broadcasting company have paid to store the likes of Compact, an early 1960s BBC soap opera that was critically loathed in its heyday or any other material of little or no repeat value Another reason for the retention of such programmes is as a counterbalance to the more corrosive effects of nostalgia. - independent.co.ukwww.independent.co.uk
Youtube and PRS make peace as musicians protest about plans to punish file sharers |Technology |The Guard
Thousands of music videos pulled from YouTube in a royalties dispute will go back online after peace broke out today between the website and the music industry. A new licensing deal with PRS for Music, the trade body that collects music royalties, has brought the six-month dispute to an end. Thousands of music videos are now being reinstated after being blocked from the site by YouTube's parent company Google during the licensing wrangle. - guardian.co.ukwww.guardian.co.ukBBC The Media Show, 02 Sep 09
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-blog.wotsat.comWhy Murdochs are wrong to blame BBC for medias woes | Business
It is a multi-platform provider of information and entertainment and, in his view, should be forced to climb off some of those platforms in double-quick time. Before I take issue with him, let's admit that there was a lot of good sense in the speech last weekend. He showed that he understands the complexity of the fast-moving digital landscape and, most particularly, the increasing convergence between what were once separate forms of communication. - thisislondon.co.uk
www.thisislondon.co.ukIn pictures - Stephen Frys wildlife odyssey |Environment |guardian.co.uk
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ITV to launch time-shift channel | 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
www.broadcastnow.co.ukWednesday 02 September 2009, AM
ASA criticises Sky HD sport ads |Media |guardian.co.uk
Link to this video BSkyB has been criticised by the advertising watchdog for promoting its high-definition Ashes cricket and Lions rugby union coverage this summer, when both contests would have ended by the time some customers could have the service installed. The press ad also promoted the benefits of watching the cricket in HD. One reader objected about the press ad on the same grounds. - guardian.co.ukwww.guardian.co.uk
Dont let Murdoch smash this jewel. The BBC must act to save itself | Jonathan Freedland |Comment is free |
Credit where it's due the free-market right is nothing if not brave. Fainter-hearted souls would have spotted the imminent first anniversary of the collapse of Lehman brothers that started the global financial crisis and decided that now was not the moment to trumpet the case for unfettered private enterprise, free of meddling regulation. Of the recent history of deregulation, with its catastrophic consequences for the world's economy, there was not a mention. - guardian.co.ukwww.guardian.co.ukTuesday 01 September 2009, PM
UK media policy reform: baby steps we can all agree on...
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Broadcasting - News - ITV to launch ITV1+1 channel - Digital Spy
ITV will launch a one-hour timeshift of its main ITV1 channel on October 1. ITV11 will launch on digital satellite and Virgin Media's digital cable service and run from 1025 to 0700 every day. Channel 3 franchises are operated in these areas by franchisees not part of ITV plc. - digitalspy.co.uk
www.digitalspy.co.ukDigital change begins in parts of Powys
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www.countytimes.co.ukFreeview in 4m star studded ad push | News | Marketing Week
The ad, which aims to communicate the value of Freeviews offering, is set to the theme music of 70s TV show The Professionals. The ad, created by Beattie McGuiness Bungay, will be supported through-the-line with DM activity, point of sale and online with pre-roll ads and seeding to entertainment blogs and forums. - marketingweek.co.uk
www.marketingweek.co.ukTuesday 01 September 2009, AM
Watch Freeview ad featuring Alan Whicker, Amanda Holden, Piers Morgan and Katie Price |Media |guardian.co
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Channel Five owner sees profits plummet |Business |guardian.co.uk
The advertising slump has hit half-year profits at Germany's Bertelsmann, whose media empire spans television, magazines and book publishing. Bertelsmann, which has been controlled by the Mohn family for the past century, said cost-cutting measures had cushioned the impact of the global downturn on its businesses, although it still expects revenues and operating profits to fall over the whole year. The media company is taking 2,500 austerity measures to save more than 900m 792m across the group this year. - guardian.co.ukwww.guardian.co.ukMicrosoft man says TV has three years to adapt
Ashley Highfield, giving the Futureview address at the Edinburgh International Television Festival, compared television executives to frogs in hot water not realising that they are about to die. He said the industry has no more than two to three years to adapt and embrace what he called internet thinking. Three years previously, as director of future media and technology at the BBC, Ashley Highfield spoke about the future of the television industry and the potential of the long tail. - informitv.cominformitv.comNew television standard throws BBC on Canvas
A new pan-European approach has been launched aimed at establishing a standard for news, information and entertainment services delivered to displays and other devices based on hybrid broadcast and broadband delivery. The Institut fr Rundfunktechnik or IRT, a leading broadcasting research centre that represents the interests of German public service broadcasters, is a lead member of the consortium. HbbTV not only allows service providers to enrich their offering, but results in considerable benefits to the end consumer who will no longer be challenged by usability issues across multiple platforms, said its managing director, Dr Klaus Illgner-Fehns. - informitv.cominformitv.compick a page