The delayed converged digital TV joint venture YouView spent nearly £20m in its first nine months of operation, but still has no set top box products ready for launch.
The Guardian reports that YouView was handed £20.2m by its shareholders, including the BBC, ITV, BT and …
Read MoreJanuary 13, 2012 Tags: BBC, Channel 4, Companies House, ITV, Lord Alan Sugar, Stella English, TalkTalk, The Guardian, youview
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Amazon has released a new application that enables users to transfer documents directly from a PC to their Kindle device.
The Send to Kindle software means that PC users can right click on Word documents, PDFs, text files and images, and then …
Read MoreJanuary 13, 2012 Tags: Amazon, iPad, iPhone, iPod, Kindle, Windows
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Rupert Murdoch, the chairman and chief executive of News Corporation, has admitted today that his firm “screwed up” social network MySpace “in every way possible”.
The 80-year-old billionaire used his Twitter account, started on New Year’s Day, to make the frank admission.
News Corp acquired MySpace …
Read MoreJanuary 13, 2012 Tags: Beyond Oblivion, Facebook, Justin Timberlake, Myspace, News Corporation, Rupert Murdoch, Specific Media, Twitter
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The first phase of the government’s plan for local TV envisions broadcasts via digital terrestrial television (Freeview). Sally Broughton-Micova argues that this approach is flawed, especially given that the technology may be obsolete within a few years of roll-out. Internet TV protocol should be adopted instead, as it will allow programmes to be delivered far …
Read MoreJanuary 10, 2012 Tags: DTT, dtt platform, hyper local, hyperlocal, internet tv, IPTV, Jeremy Hunt, Leeds Television, local freeview, local internet tv, local tv proposition, localtv, TV
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When Jeremy Hunt addressed the Royal Television Society last month, his “Boldness be My Friend” reference (to Shakespeare’s Cymbeline, not Pink Floyd’s Cymbaline, wouldn’t that have been awesome?) was a brave one.
In spite of the relentless cynicism, and much behind the scenes lobbying against the project, Hunt and his Department of Culture Media and Sport …
Read MoreJanuary 10, 2012 Tags: DCMS, Jeremy Hunt, local tv, TV
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This week’s “Next Steps For Local Television” Westminster Forum conference proved quite an eye-opener for the uninitiated. With as many opinions as attendees, even agreement to disagree couldn’t be established.
With the main sessions split neatly into two hot topics – Technology and Content – the panelists and the audience divided pretty neatly …
Read MoreJanuary 10, 2012 Tags: BARB, BBC, Big Society, content, DCMS, Muxco, Ofcom
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Local Content Rules in Broadcasting
Many countries have local content rules in the broadcasting sector to protect and promote local programming. It is argued that these rules are necessary because international markets favour countries with large and well-developed broadcasting and production sectors, whose programmes can easily displace local programmes in countries with smaller, less developed sectors. …
Read MoreJanuary 10, 2012 Tags: berkshire, birmingham, Broadcast, channels, get local tv, local, local tv, local tv channels, staffordshire, TV, youview
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The google TV interface is going to change tv as we know it, but so far it has not been very reliable, we will report more….
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January 10, 2012 Tags: Google, TV
Category: Connected TV, General News, Social TV, TV Production No Comments
