UK TV STREAMING

Suhanto Kastaredja
Email:
suhantokastaredja@yahoo.com

Should Ofcom regulate the BBC?

BBC Charter 2017: The BBC Trust seems to be not really living up to expectations. Would
Ofcom be a suitable body to regulate the BBC? one comment

BBC Licence fee and new Charter: the political reality

BBC Charter 2017: Let's have an honest look at the current political situation and what it
means for the BBC Charter renewal.
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Licence fee replacements: All-homes broadcast contribution?

BBC Charter 2017: Having looked at the Finnish income-based model, and the French
council-tax add-on, the version preferred by the Select Committee Report is the German
Model. Let us have a closer look.
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Licence fee replacements: broadcasting contribution via the

Council tax?
BBC Charter 2017: Looking at the top three European replacements for the TV Licence,
today we have a closer look at the French system.
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Income-based broadcast support tax

BBC Charter 2017: Let us look in more detail at the income-based broadcasting tax that
could, as had happened in Finland, replace the TV Licence.
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TV Licence replacement: is going to be French, Finnish or

German?
BBC Charter 2017: Back in February 2015, the Culture Media and Sport Committee of the
House of Commons published their Future of the BBC report. It looked at three other systems
in use to collect money for the public service broadcaster. Which do you like?
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UK Free TV: 392 AM radio transmissions now have coverage maps

Digital radio: All of the medium wave transmitters for the radio stations broadcasting to the
UK now have coverage maps.
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New! 1000s of new DAB and FM radio coverage maps

Digital radio: One of the most requested feature upgrades here on UK Free TV is for the
radio maps to show the transmitter coverage areas, as the Freeview pages do. So, please take
a look at the upgrade.
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We ARE going to get BBC Local Radio on Freeview ... today!

Digital radio: OK, only a year after I speculated about it, the service has now started. You
can now enjoy 10 BBC Local Radio stations.
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Moores Law: Infographic

BBC Charter 2017: I detect the odd bit of disbelief in the changes that are expected to digital
TV in the coming decade. So I thought it would be interesting to show you the last 40 years
and how we have moved from kilobytes, to megabytes to gigabytes in that time.
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Freeview Play manufacturers announced

Connected TV: Digital UK and Freeview have today announced that Panasonic will be the
first manufacturer to launch TVs featuring the Freeview Play connected TV service.
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New Freeview logo for a connected future.

Connected TV: Freeview Play will supply catch-up TV, on-demand and even live TV
channels .
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How do the two new national DAB radio bids compare?

Digital radio: We could have another dozen national DAB radio stations transmitting in the
next two years. How do the bids from Listen2Digital and Sound Digital stack up?
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BBC Three: Online only is right - if and only if BBC Charter 2017: The difference between traditional TV and the internet can be boiled
down to one fundamental issue: the internet is forever, and the BBC is ephemeral. The only
way BBC Three will work online is if the library of programmes builds over then years.
Look.....
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BBC Three week: what does TV look like in 2025?

BBC Charter 2017: What is television is going to look like in 2025. Will there still be
channels? Will people still be watching live TV? Will personal video recorders be a thing of
the past? Will channels like "Dave" be something to our grandchildren, with faint nostalgia?
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BBC Three week: the creative challenge to TV

BBC Charter 2017: The creative challenges of the coming decade and funding for new
creative works and how this impacts on the licence fee, advertising, and subscription services.
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BBC three week: the technical challenge

BBC Charter 2017: In the second article I look at the technical challenges to TV in the
coming decade: in particular the competition between television broadcasters and phone
companies for the use of "the airwaves"
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BBC Three week: the history of BBC Three

BBC Charter 2017: Before looking to the future of the channel, first lets look back 22 years
and see how we got here.
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BBC Three Week

BBC Charter 2017: This week: a set of articles is about BBC Three.
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2014 Christmas Quiz - answers

Quiz: Here are the answers to the 20-question Christmas quiz. Now the winner has been
notified by email, you can find out the answers.
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UK Free TV 2014 annual Christmas Quiz

Quiz: Do know everything there is to know about free to air television in the United
Kingdom in 2014? Find out!
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What is in store for the next round of BBC regional TV cuts?

BBC Charter 2017: Taking out 25% - 250 million pounds - from the BBC television budget
next year is going to be a challenge. Today I look at how the BBC regional news services in
England might be "reshaped" to the smaller budget.
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What is in store for the next round of BBC Radio cuts?

BBC Charter 2017: How on earth can you cut nearly a quarter (22%) from the BBC Radio
budget? What does taking 35 million pounds a year away look like?
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What is in store for the next round of BBC cuts?

BBC Charter 2017: The BBC have asked their Anne Bulford to produce a report, "Driving
efficiency at the BBC" that shows where the next lot of cuts are going to happen. What does
it mean for you?
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Connected Freeview comes a step closer today

Freeview news: For several reasons, YouView has not set the UK on fire in the way that
Freeview has. So, Freeview have a new idea, current called "Freeview connected TV" that
provides just what the customer wants: straightforward access to on demand Freeview, and
low cost by using international standard HbbTV.
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TV and radio demographics: a BBC time bomb?

BBC Charter 2017: Teenagers and young adults have always founds more interesting things
to do other than watch the TV, but will the next decade see them not return? Is television, like
radio, destined to become a ghetto for oldies?
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Seeing something different? We are doing A/B testing on a new

Material Design
Site development: The recent survey pointed out that mobile users were unhappy with some
of the aspects of the UK Free design. To address these issues, I have created a new mobilefirst design to the site. This is being shown to half of the people using the site to find out how
effective the changes are.
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Would the BBC work better as a company, charity, instead of a

new Royal charter?
BBC Charter 2017: The BBC exists because, every ten years, the monarch has granted
another Charter. Given the changes in the media landscape in the last decades, should the
BBC move to another status?
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Been missing the Digital Switchover? Good news! There is going

to be another
Freeview news: Ofcom have come down - as I rather thought they would - on the side of
mobile broadband. So, if you have been missing all the retuning and occasional fitting of a
new aerial, it looks like another round a Freeview changes is ahead.
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Capture the flag: the very British problem for the BBC
BBC Charter 2017: What follows is not an attack on the BBC and I would be very
disappointed if anyone took it that way.
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The best of times for the BBC?

BBC Charter 2017: As part of the ongoing democratic process, the BBC founding Royal
Charter is renewed for another decade. With the proliferation of other media, does this mean
that the BBC needs to change?
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Having problems with TV background music?

Sound: The vast majority of people really enjoy the full auto-visual experience that is
television. However if you are one of those who find background music hard to separate from
voices, there are steps you can take.
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Must industry rethink what training and development looks like?

Connected TV: RDI Director Steve Cannon asks if more consumers are becoming aware of
the technologies that are available for them in their homes and will they likely spend money
within this decade to upgrade their systems to become a Connected Home?
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The lower the channel number in the guide, the more viewers it
gets ... Right?
TV channels: One of the reasons that Freeview does not reshuffle the channel numbers is
because there is a lot of value in the lower numbered slots in the electronic guide. I thought it
would be interesting to take a look.
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The next 50 things on UK FREE TV. What would you like to see?
Site development: Now that I have finished updating the code that runs UK FREE TV, I now
have time to write some articles. I would be very interested to hear what you would like me
to write about next.
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UK Free TV now uses friendly web addresses

Site development: I have updated UK Free TV to use modern-style web addresses, which
means goodbye to ".php?" in the site web links. If this has stopped anything working for you,
please tell me!
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Best ever emails and improved menus on UK FREE TV

Site development: I really trust that you will find the new email format useful, and that UK
FREE TV is more attractive to use.
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Use the Knowledge base to find answers to your technical

problems
Site development: From today a new UK Free TV service helps you locate an answer to a
technical TV problem.
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Freeview gains ITV Be, Motors TV channels this week - and Spike
next year
Freeview news: We have not reached the top with the Freeview line-up as ITV brings a
custom channel to the place the UK loves to watch TV.
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Being responsive: a better layout

Site development: This week I have started a programme of upgrades to UK Free TV, and
now I have changes that you will see if you use a mobile device.
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Please share your thoughts about UK FREE TV

Better tweeting - 41 comments

Being responsive: a better menu - 12 comments

Satellite TV operators FRANSAT, TIVUSAT and our Freesat launch FreeTV Alliance
- 24 comments

If Scotland votes Yes, what would happen to Free TV in the rest of the UK? - 27
comments

2050 Tube Map - 27 comments

A bakers dozen of changes: Freeview channel number changes from 3 September

2014 - 90 comments

BBC Productions: will it be Arqiva mark two in 2017? - 17 comments

12th birthday: six improvements to UK Free TV - 7 comments

50th birthday: guest RDI blog - 4 comments

Around the Bend? - 28 comments

DTG Summit: Freeview 700 MHz band for 4G very likely, BBC pay-Freeview not 47 comments

New Freeview and Freesat channel TruTV to start soon - 24 comments

Connected Home refrigerator used by hackers in cyber attack - 28 comments

More digital radio stations. Ofcom - finally - proposes DAB+ - 172 comments

BBC 2017: The problem with turning Freeview into Payview to keep the 3% happy 59 comments
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Various corrections and updates for Freeview HD, local TV and so on - 10 comments

The Evolution of the Connected Home - 13 comments

BBC 2017: Tell me about the 16 options to collect the BBC 4 billion quid a year? - 33
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BBC 2017: Which of these 14 options is best to collect 4 billion quid a year? - 29
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