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Live Production
Capturing the counts
Philip Stevens talks to several broadcasters about their plans for election night coverage
Live Production
Timeline North to handle live VTs for BBC Sports Personality of the Year
Workload split between up to six edit suites at any one time
Technology
BBC testing Object-Based iPlayer
Computationally intensive tasks have been "offloaded" to a powerful graphics card on a Cloud server
Media Consumption
BBC wins Club World Cup TV rights
Will follow Liverpool's progress in the competition
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Sky exec calls for broadcast regulation overhaul
"Commercial public service broadcasters do seem a bit of an anachronism"
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BBC chairman dismisses Netflix-style subscription model
Sir David Clementi criticises "linear regulation in a digital age"
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Ofcom requests consultation over BBC children’s content
Proposes safeguards to maintain quality of linear children’s channels
Media Consumption
‘Seven Worlds, One Planet’ takes to the skies
Emirates announces simultaneous inflight broadcast
TVBEverywhere
BBC, Sky agree technology partnership
In "early stage exploration" of BBC using Sky's personalised content targeting technology
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Ofcom: BBC risks losing younger viewers
Overall satisfaction with the BBC remains high
News
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BBC launches “UK’s first” interactive voice news service
Includes specialist pieces, flexible bulletins and archive content
News
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David Attenborough calls on BBC to ‘change’ in fight with streamers
Describes plans to revamp iPlayer as a "relief"
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Culture secretary ‘open minded’ about charging subscription for the BBC
Nicky Morgan was speaking to DCMS select committee
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BBC ‘exploring ideas’ around PSB prominence on non-linear
Corporation tells TVBEurope discussions over prominence continue
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BBC, NBCUniversal, Eurosport acquire Ineos 1:59 Challenge rights
To take place on 12th October in Vienna
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BBC creates data specialist apprenticeship
Expected to start recruitment at the end of the year
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BBC to launch revamped iPlayer in 2020
Broadcaster says iPlayer will become “the heart of everything we do"
Business
Ofcom: BritBox poses “no significant risk” to BBC mandate
Regulator finds no material change in broadcaster's commercial activities
TVBEverywhere
BBC ready for ‘second wave of disruption’ says Tony Hall
BBC director general due to speak at RTS Cambridge Convention
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BBC launches TV archive website
More than 1,700 videos made available on bbc.co.uk/archive
Production & Post
Match of the Day kicks off from new dock10 VR studio
Returns to BBC One and BBC iPlayer for its 55th year
Production & Post
BBC tests personalised, data-driven documentary
Uses the viewer's mood, personal preferences and the choices they make to personalise the experience
Features
This month in the world of streaming…
Catch up on all July's activity from the streamers
Videos
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Ofcom confirms approval for iPlayer changes
"Helps ensure the BBC remains relevant in the face of changing viewing habits"
Production & Post
AJA Video helps deliver simultaneous HDR, SDR production
Arena TV employed AJA Video's FS-HDR, FS4 and Hi5-4K-Plus Mini-Converters for the FA Cup Final broadcast
Audio
BBC tests new audio mix technology to help hearing impaired viewers
'Narrative Balancer' helps viewers turn up speech and reduce other sounds
TVBEverywhere
RTS announces Young Technologist Award winner
Lawrence Card is a BBC broadcast engineer trainee
Production & Post
DHD router helps BBC ace Wimbledon coverage
DHD's 52XR MADI Router in place at Wimbledon
Production & Post
MOOV serves up augmented reality graphics for BBC’s Wimbledon coverage
MOOV is employing RT Software’s AR solution on a three camera setup
TVBEverywhere
Sky: iPlayer changes pose “real risk” to competition
BBC makes "no attempt to quantify costs"
Business
BBC Studios financial returns up by 50 per cent
Announces results from first year since merger
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Channel 4: iPlayer changes will “kill competition”
Upgrades were provisionally approved by Ofcom last month
Features
This month in sport broadcasting…
Featuring news from UEFA, Wimbledon and the Women's World Cup
Videos
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BBC unveils personal data centralisation box
BBC Box can be used to build user profiles
Production & Post
BBC to broadcast every match at Wimbledon live in HD
All Centre Court matches will be available in UHD on BBC iPlayer