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Broadcasters Question BBC's Role In Digital Age
News Commercial broadcasters have questioned the role that the BBC will play in the digital age, following Monday's rise in TV licences. Commercial broadcasters dubbed the rise a "digital poll tax". Commercial broadcasters welcomed the government's...
[February 22, 2000, 11:48]
Broadcasters Revolt Against Spectrum Charges
News UK broadcasters are fighting a government-commissioned review into the radio communications spectrum whose recommendations could free up more space for innovative mobile services. The broadcasters are unhappy that the report, carried out by...
[June 19, 2002, 17:27]
Net Radio Fees Push Some Broadcasters Underground
News What is far from certain is whether many people will follow would-be pirate broadcasters into the underground. Many of the hobbyist broadcasters who use these services are vowing to continue streaming in spite of the ruling.
[July 3, 2002, 14:36]
Digital Content Archiving: A View Of The Future For Broadcasters
White Papers Until recently, broadcasters used digital video primarily for editing and little more. But today, with high demand for operational efficiency, the introduction of new technology, the push to diversify into new revenue-generating channels and...
[May 15, 2004, 0:00]
Putting A Price On Net Music
News Record companies and Internet radio broadcasters will start a long-awaited round of hearings on Monday, aimed at setting the ground rules for the burgeoning online radio business. A decision in the broadcasters' appeal is expected sometime in the...
[July 30, 2001, 10:56]
Digital Is Key For Broadcasting Conference
News Internet and digital TV streaming technology is poised to take centre stage at events held during the National Association of Broadcasters 2002 conference, which opens on Monday in Las Vegas. More broadly, the conference will feature new...
[April 8, 2002, 14:36]
Broadband TV Could Spark Tighter Web Controls
News The drive by Internet service providers and traditional broadcasters to offer video content online could force Ofcom to begin regulating the Web more closely. At the risk of being over-dramatic I would say that most traditional television...
[December 6, 2004, 11:15]
AOL's Parsons: Beware Of Pirates
News Broadcasters must embrace new technologies and develop products for the next generation of digital entertainment, Richard Parsons, incoming chief executive at AOL Time Warner, said on Monday. In an opening keynote speech to a crowd of media...
[April 9, 2002, 10:14]
Bandwidth Hobbles Net Radio Revolution
News Commercial radio broadcasters are blaming poor bandwidth and expensive Net access for delaying the next revolution in Internet broadcasting, David Jones, Head of IT at Virgin radio, says the UK's broadband revolution can't come soon enough for...
[August 17, 1999, 10:36]
Apple Rolls Out New Visual Effects Software
News Apple Computer on Sunday unveiled five new software packages for broadcasters and digital video editors, including new visual effects and editing tools for high definition video. At the annual National Association of Broadcasters conference here...
[April 19, 2004, 9:05]
Digital TV 'tax' Slammed By Media Alliance
News The alliance, unprecedented in modern media, is made of commercial broadcasters including ITV (including its contributing channels), Channel Four, Sky and ON digital who have united in their condemnation of a government report on the future of the...
[August 2, 1999, 17:35]
Image Formats For HDTV
White Papers For several years, European broadcasters have been making programmes in high definition - often based upon co-production deals with the USA and Japan - using the 1920 x 1080 Common Image Format. This situation will soon change as more broadcasters...
[September 20, 2004, 0:00]
TiVo Service To Sell TV Viewing Data
News TiVo announced on Monday that it will sell limited information about the viewing habits of its subscribers to advertisers and broadcasters. The company's new service will let broadcasters and advertisers subscribe to a quarterly audience...
[June 3, 2003, 7:32]
Net Falls Short Of Olympic Gold
News As the torch heads closer to Salt Lake City for the 2002 Winter Olympic Games, organisers and broadcasters once again fear they will be burned by the Net. Since 1995, the IOC has inked with broadcasters from around the globe long-term TV deals that...
[May 29, 2001, 9:34]
Adobe Player Brings Flash Videos To Desktop
News At the National Association of Broadcasters Show in Las Vegas next week, Adobe is expected to detail the new player for downloaded media that will work with Windows or Mac desktops. Seventy-six percent of broadcasters already use Flash for web...
[April 16, 2007, 9:57]
ISPs Help Government To Sink Pirates
News As part of its move to widen the scope of its attack against illegal broadcasters, the Radiocommunications Agency (RA) is increasingly asking ISPs to close down the Web sites that promote these stations.
[February 19, 2003, 12:46]
Europe Defends Online Broadcasting Plans
News Reding rejected the CBI's claims that the TVWF Directive revisions were an attempt to "shoehorn digital content providers into rules designed for traditional broadcasters, undermining high-value, high-tech economic growth when it should be...
[June 15, 2006, 14:45]
Analogue Switch-off As Early As 2006
News Setting out his vision for the future of digital television, Mr Smith told a conference of broadcasters in Cambridge the switch-off could happen within seven years. But that depends very much on how the broadcasters, manufacturers and consumers...
[September 17, 1999, 17:03]
A Year Ago: Digital TV 'tax' Slammed By Media Alliance
News The government will be guilty of "inconsistency and favouritism towards the BBC" if it approves an increase in the TV license fee for viewers of digital TV according to an alliance of broadcasters. The alliance, unprecedented in modern media, is...
[August 1, 2000, 7:00]
Sony Targets Businesses With IP Video Kit
News The company's European president, Chris Deering, said on Wednesday that high-definition video was no longer a luxury for broadcasters alone, and was now a priority business goal for his company. Business customers will be able to transmit in a...
[March 9, 2005, 15:05]
