http://www.congoo.com/feed/newschannelsfeed.aspx?chid=2&catid=23News Feed for - UK-mediahttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96609683&Channel_ID=2&Category_ID=232009-11-27T01:08:00Director general Mark Thompson has questioned whether the BBC's news website needs to be so extensive The director general of the BBC yesterday indicated that there would be a reduction in the scale of The Independenthttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96608060&Channel_ID=2&Category_ID=232009-11-27T00:15:00UK The BBC is on the hunt for a next generation web analytics tool for which it is willing to spend up to 6.9m over three years. Thats according to a contract notice issued this week. The broadcaster Research Magazinehttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96607826&Channel_ID=2&Category_ID=232009-11-27T00:11:00paper publisher beats expectation, sparking predictions of 'green shoots' By Nick Clark Friday, 27 November 2009 vine $ new $adsHtml google_ad_request_done(google_ads) s 'Ads by for(i i i++) // the banned The Independenthttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96607652&Channel_ID=2&Category_ID=232009-11-27T00:09:00The BBC has dropped plans to air a controversial ballet during its pre-Christmas schedules after discovering that it features a deformed Pope who abuses altar boys and attacks pregnant women. The ballet, Mail Online UKhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96465936&Channel_ID=2&Category_ID=232009-11-27T00:28:00Viewers of Freesat, the UKÂ?s free-to-air DTH service, will soon be able to catch-up with missed programmes as the BBC plans to launch its iPlayer on-demand service on the platform before Christmas and Digital TV Europehttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96613176&Channel_ID=2&Category_ID=232009-11-27T01:17:00ITV has taken full control of the national breakfast-time Channel 3 licensee, after acquiring the remaining 25% equity stake in the GMTV business from The Walt Disney Company. ITV has made a one-off cash Media Week Onlinehttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96611775&Channel_ID=2&Category_ID=232009-11-27T01:04:00Shokaster writes 'The Register reports that Virgin Media are to begin monitoring file sharing using a deep packet inspection system, CView, provided by Deltica, a BAE subsidiary. The trial will cover Slashdothttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96609557&Channel_ID=2&Category_ID=232009-11-27T00:38:00G�TERSLOH: The impact of the recession on the German economy will last for at least another five years, Hartmut Ostrowski, chief executive of Bertelsmann, the media group, has predicted.According to WARChttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96608338&Channel_ID=2&Category_ID=232009-11-27T00:19:00ANNUAL losses have mounted at debt-laden newspaper publisher Daily Mail & General Trust after another slump in advertising. The owner of the Daily Mail and The Mail on Sunday reported annual pre-tax losses Daily Expresshttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96489292&Channel_ID=2&Category_ID=232009-11-27T00:27:00Tufin firewall rollout makes Virgin's IT department more efficient Virgin media has adopted a new security lifecycle management system to deal with bottlenecks caused by network traffic moving across What PChttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96371725&Channel_ID=2&Category_ID=232009-11-27T00:57:00and HBOS were given a secret £61. 6bn in bridging loans last year on top of the £500bn of support that the banking sector received from the taxpayer, the Governor of the Bank of England disclosed yesterday. BullBearingshttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96604708&Channel_ID=2&Category_ID=232009-11-27T00:38:00Its flagship newspaper may be a champion of traditional values, but Daily Mail and General Trust (DMGT) broke with one of its own yesterday. For the first time in more than 20 years, the 1.5-billion media Times Onlinehttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96603734&Channel_ID=2&Category_ID=232009-11-27T00:35:00A fully loaded, 1950s Rock-Ola jukebox belonging to the former Radio 1 DJ Mike Read, will go up for auction next week as he sells off a record and music memorabilia collection worth more than 1 million. Times Onlinehttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96612079&Channel_ID=2&Category_ID=232009-11-27T00:57:00The Speaker of the House of Commons has commended the BBC's new Democracy Live service. John Bercow hosted an event in the Speaker's state apartments last night to celebrate the launch of the online service. Yahoo! UK and Irelandhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96613302&Channel_ID=2&Category_ID=232009-11-27T01:17:00At Neowin we love Windows 7 applications. We especially love them when they are free and made by talented developers in their spare time. BBC iPlayer in Windows 7 Media Center looks like the real thing, Addict3d.orghttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96609388&Channel_ID=2&Category_ID=232009-11-27T00:35:00Daily Mail & General Trust managed to put aside the effects of the severe advertising slump and a major cost-cutting programme when it issued upbeat results yesterday that beat City forecasts. DMGT, owner Times Onlinehttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96608082&Channel_ID=2&Category_ID=232009-11-27T00:16:00Films of Record, has been commissioned by BBC Two to produce Requiem for Detroit? (1x75â??), a documentary that will tell the roller coaster story of the cityâ??s automotive industry through the testimony Ten Alpshttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96584096&Channel_ID=2&Category_ID=232009-11-26T17:19:00The public can expect a 'smaller BBC' after the analogue TV signal is switched off in 2012, director general Mark Thompson has said. Speaking at a Voice of the Listener and Viewer conference in London, BBChttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96592811&Channel_ID=2&Category_ID=232009-11-26T20:22:00By Mick Cleary No Comments In all the fuss and froth about whether Sky should get their mitts on the Ashes, no-one thought to mention that rugby seems to have the perfect mix. Here am I sat watching Sky?s Telegraphhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96584120&Channel_ID=2&Category_ID=232009-11-26T20:37:00Shadow culture secretary rules out ripping up licence fee deal, saying this could could threaten BBC's impartiality The shadow culture secretary, Jeremy Hunt, today ruled out ripping up the BBC's royal Guardian.co.ukhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96568661&Channel_ID=2&Category_ID=232009-11-26T20:18:00Mark Thompson implies that channels such as 6Music could be in firing line, along with BBC3 and BBC4 The BBC will look at cutting some of its digital television and radio services after the analogue Guardian.co.ukhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96577499&Channel_ID=2&Category_ID=232009-11-26T16:12:00Specialist news represents the only chance of making charging for online content work, says Stevie Spring Stevie Spring, the chief executive of publishing group Future, has today warned that there is Guardian.co.ukhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96511188&Channel_ID=2&Category_ID=232009-11-26T01:32:00LONDON (Hollywood Reporter) - TiVo has signed a deal with UK cable operator Virgin Media to launch jointly branded set-top boxes here, six years after being outgunned in the U.K. by competition from News Reuters UKhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96591807&Channel_ID=2&Category_ID=232009-11-26T21:31:00More than 40 years after Kenneth Clark's Civilisation tackled the small problem of explaining how Western civilization came to be, the BBC has finally come up with a project that sounds equally ambitious National Posthttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96464359&Channel_ID=2&Category_ID=232009-11-25T12:06:00Freesat is now in 750,000 UK homes The BBC iPlayer will be trialled to a select group of Freesat viewers from 7 December, the corporation has announced. Participants in the trial will initially require BBC