BBC Cuts: Nearly 2,000 Jobs To Go
The BBC will axe nearly 2,000 jobs as it looks to save £670m a year in long-awaited cost-cutting plans announced on Thursday morning. Read more »
Microsoft Shifts Strategies To Expand Xbox Live TV, Go Global
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After years of effort and speculation, Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) has pieced together nearly 40 broadcast services from around the world to boos… Read more »
Industry Moves: MSN UK, BBC.com, HuffPo Staff Up On Content; And More
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– MSN UK: Former BBC News interactive head Pete Clifton, who is now MSN UK’s exec producer, is hiring BBC Wales’ social media editor Darren… Read more »
Australia Next For BBC’s Paid iPlayer, U.S. At Some Point
The UK’s leading TV catch-up brand is having a weird global launch. After debuting on iPad only in 11 European countries this July for €6.… Read more »
Interview: Lonely Planet CEO Travels Toward 50/50 Media Balance
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How does the world’s biggest travel guide book publisher, 39-year-old Lonely Planet, pack its bags for the digital era? “Relentlessly,” CEO… Read more »
Lonely Planet Launching Mobile Travel Startup ‘Wenzani’, Seeking Partners
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Lonely Planet has created a separate technology startup in San Francisco to develop next-generation social mobile travel guides together wit… Read more »
BBC Overhauling Its Website For ‘Swipability’
Expect to see more of this. The BBC is redesigning its website to take account of how users are now “swiping” using touchscreen devices. Read more »
T-Mobile, Orange Reboot Their Mobile TV Services In UK
Mobile TV has for years been one of the great white hopes for mobile operators looking for new lines of revenue from their data networks –… Read more »
Industry Moves: Condé Nast, Populis, Briefing Media, BBC Worldwide
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– Condé Nast International is adding Malcolm Simms as its first chief technology officer, reporting to chairman Jonathan Newhouse and “lat… Read more »
BBCWW Selling Top Gear Episodes With Facebook Credits
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BBC Worldwide is make episodes of Top Gear available to Facebook users at a cost of 93p.
The BBC’s commercial arm has developed a video-on-… Read more »
Pot Calling Kettle Black? Mail Rumbled Over Unauthorised Photo Use
An ironic footnote to the story from yesterday that involved the Daily Mail shutting down a proxy site for making unauthorized caches of its… Read more »
BBC Bows Out Of Print For £121 Million, Sells Magazine Business To Exponent
Finally, closure on the long-running question of what would happen to the BBC’s magazine business, the biggest publisher of subscription mag… Read more »
BSkyB, BBC Talking Over VOD TV Solution
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Sky and the BBC are still discussing ways to place the broadcaster’s catch-up TV service on the platform operator’s set-top box, despite app… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 08-08-11
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» News Corp.’s Soft Power in the U.S. (David Carr/NYT)
» 20% of the UK online population use iPlayer. Here’s how the… Read more »
BBC Embraces Booming IPTV Use Of iPlayer
The BBC is tweaking its iPlayer to cater to booming IPTV consumption, whilst offering concessions to TV platforms left disappointed by its r… Read more »
Video: BBC Takes iPlayer Global On iPad For €6.99 A Month
Mark Thompson had set an August deadline, and now BBC Worldwide has finally released its global version of the iPlayer catch-up TV service. Read more »
Pop-Up Radio Potential: Australia Gets It, UK Fails
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Radio is going digital all over the world – on DAB Digital Radio in Europe and Australia, HD Radio in the United States, and via television,… Read more »
WSJ To News Corp. Critics: STFU
How did the Wall Street Journal, led by Rupert Murdoch’s hand-picked Managing Editor Robert Thomson, follow up on the resignation of its pub… Read more »
Shareholder Prince Al-Waleed: ‘Almost Impossible’ For Murdochs To Know’
The BBC is usually regarded as an even-handed observer of the world’s events. But one of its more opinion-led programs, Newsnight, last nigh… Read more »
BBC.com Says It’s In The Black, Two Years Ahead Of Schedule
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BBC’s push to make money from its overseas businesses, particularly online, had a good boost this morning, when the international site, BBC.… Read more »
BBC Worldwide Will Rent Out ‘Doctor Who’ Episodes Via Facebook Credits
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Facebook Credits today got another vote from the media industry as a currency for paid digital content: the BBC’s commercial arm, BBC Worldw… Read more »
News Corp: The Latest Developments In Links
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Here’s a look at some of the key revelations and developments in the fiasco that has hit News International and the publisher’s owner News C… Read more »
Update: NOTW Redux? News International Registers “SunOnSunday” Domains
Update: So now the mystery has been solved. Some time late today, the ownerships of the domain names thesunonsunday.co.uk and sunonsunday.co… Read more »
BBC’s Rivera Era Is About Multi-Screenism
Eight months after he joined the corporation from Major League Gaming, Ralph Rivera has set out his aims for the first time as the BBC’s fut… Read more »
BBC iPlayer Global Launch To Begin In Western Europe
Doctor Who and Fawlty Towers will be made available to Europeans armed with an iPad from later this year, as the BBC begins the process of i… Read more »
Boxee Adding Blinkbox, iPlayer For European Services
Back in March, paidContent:UK revealed the IPTV service Boxee, after taking new funding, hired Wil Stephens to lead a European push. Now it… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 06-03-11
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» Now that Groupon has filed for a $750 million IPO, it’s time to guess the next daily deal site to go public. (paidContent)
BBC Vision Cuts: 100 Layoffs, Multi-Platform Commissioners Scrapped
The BBC’s Vision department, which produces BBC content, is axing about 100 jobs by March 2012 and scrapping the roles of multi-platform com… Read more »
What Does Twitter Really Think About Users’ Right To Free Speech?
When Twitter and its users were sued last week for allegedly breaking a UK injunction granting privacy to a British footballer, the service… Read more »
BBC News App Finally Hits Android Market
*Time* between launching on iOS and Android? Ten months, in BBC News’ case.
The broadcaster, with all its resources, has only today debuted… Read more »
Video Interview: BBC Worldwide’s Dan Heaf On Social Media
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Thirty percent of TopGear.com’s traffic comes from Facebook fans, BBC Worldwide’s digital director Dan Heaf tells Beet.tv’s Andy Plesser… Read more »
@ pcMobile: Mobile Video And The Coming Bandwidth Crisis
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It does to TV rights holders, but for consumers — it depends what they’re watching, panelists at the pcMobile 2011 conference. Jon Dube, pa… Read more »
CEO’s Staff Memo: Lonely Planet Digital Will Locate With BBCWW
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[Detail of how Lonely Planet is moving its digital team out of Melbourne]
Hi everyone,
Today we are making some changes to our organisatio… Read more »
Lonely Planet Layoffs Move Digital Ops Out Of Australia
Lonely Planet is making around 15 percent of its staff redundant, including relocating its online operations from Melbourne to London, in a… Read more »
AP’s Nick Ascheim To Run Digital For BBC Worldwide Americas
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Nick Ascheim is leaving his post as the Associated Press’s Digital GM to join BBC Worldwide Americas to help the company chart its mobile st… Read more »
The Royal Wedding: Big Hats, And Bigger Viewing Figures
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The numbers are coming in on just how many people tuned in to watch the wedding of Prince William to Kate Middleton. While some are highly s… Read more »
How The Wedding Was Watched: Social Media Does A Royal Flyover
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If you, like millions of others, witnessed any of today’s Royal Wedding between Prince William and Kate Middleton on the TV, Internet or in… Read more »
The Misadventures Of PlayBook: Questioning Reviews Jump The Launch Gun
RIM (NSDQ: RIMM) has been previewing and talking up its new PlayBook tablet for months already, with demonstrations shepherded by the likes… Read more »
BBC News’ Clifton Replacing Bale As MSN UK Head
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One of the BBC News website’s veteran editors Pete Clifton is joining MSN UK as executive producer, the role formerly occupied by CNN Intern… Read more »
Who’s Really Distorting The Paid Content Opportunity?
In yet another “paywalls” debate Wednesday morning, came an interesting twist on the oft-heard grumble that “free” BBC News is a barrier to… Read more »
