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BBC News App Push Alert Fail

25 June 2014 FrequencyCast 1 Comment

Anyone else with the BBC News app on their smartphone just received a rather odd message? Our office iPhone beeped with the following urgent news alert pushed to users of the BBC News App: “NYPD Twitter campaign ‘backfires’ after hashtag hijacked. Push sucks! Pull blows! BREAKING NEWS No nudity in latest episode of Game of…

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FrequencyCast Update 17 March 2011

17 March 20111 June 2012 FrequencyCast No Comments

Pete and Carl have just released a mid-month audio update for your listening pleasure. In this update, the guys talk about the new Apple updates, a look at some BBC radio changes, plus a new appointment to the YouView team. We also read out some of your feedback and play a couple of recent podline…

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BBC Cuts Affect The Galaxy Guide

28 January 201131 January 2011 FrequencyCast No Comments

As any good hitchhiker knows, the central repository of all knowledge in the Universe, is the Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy, with Wikipedia coming a close second… There is, of course, the oft-forgotten H2G2 – The online encyclopedia originally created by fans of the Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy, the Douglas Adams classic. H2G2 is…

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6 Music Saved

5 July 2010 FrequencyCast No Comments

It looks like radio station BBC 6 Music is set to survive. Plans to close the music station were announced by BBC bosses in March, but today, the BBC Trust has announced that plans to shut the station are to be shelved, and the station will carry on. Not so lucky is BBC Asian Network, which…

New BBC HD channel later this year

31 May 201031 May 2010 FrequencyCast No Comments

The BBC has announced that we can expect a new HD channel later this year. BBC One HD should start broadcasting in ‘Autumn 2010’ according to the beeb. The channel will be a simulcast of main national BBC One service, and will be available on Freeview, Sky, Virgin and Freesat. BBC One HD will be…

FrequencyCast update 21 December

21 December 200815 February 2009 FrequencyCast No Comments

The third of our December trials of a weekly podcast has just escaped from the studios. Carl’s almost back on form, and Pete runs through some Virgin Broadband, BBC DAB and movies news, plus the bit where we read your emails, in our “Bit where we read your emails” section. Download from our FrequencyCast Latest…

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BBC to give DAB a hand

14 December 20081 January 2009 FrequencyCast No Comments

As we’ve covered in recent podcasts, all is not well with DAB in the UK – specifically with commercial radio stations on DAB. The commercial national multiplex, owned by Digital One, is sounding decidely empty since the departure of the GCap stations, and with Channel 4’s decision not to launch the Channel 4 Radio stations……

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Radio

Happy Birthday Red Button

23 November 2008 FrequencyCast No Comments

Here at FrequencyCast, we’d like to send special birthday wishes to… the Red Button. It’s been 10 years since the BBC launched its first pilot of the Red Button in the UK. The Interactive service for BBC TV has an audience of around 11 million people. Over the past 10 years, BBC’s Red Button service…

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Digital TV

BBC7 rebrands as BBC Radio 7

7 October 20088 October 2008 FrequencyCast No Comments

The most popular of the BBC digital radio stations, BBC 7, rebranded itself to BBC Radio 7, last Saturday, the 4th of October. With TV stations rebranding to names like Dave, Alibi and Watch for no readily apparent reason, this is quite an innocent change. According to Mary Kalemkerian, the Head of Programmes at BBC…

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BBC News 24 to rebrand

15 April 200816 April 2008 FrequencyCast No Comments

The beeb’s news channel BBC News 24 is set to re-brand as “BBC News” from Monday 21st April… let’s hope they don’t change our favourite piece of music – that 60 countdown at the top of the hour

Digital TV

BBC iPlayer now on Wii

10 April 200810 April 2008 FrequencyCast No Comments

The BBC’s 7-day catchup TV service, BBC iPlayer is now available on the Nintendo Wii. Last month, the iPlayer came to the Apple iPhone, and now it’s on a games console. To get access to the last seven days of BBC TV shows on the Wii, go to the Wii’s web browser, and type in…

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BBC iPlayer now on Apple iPhone

7 March 20087 March 2008 FrequencyCast No Comments

The BBC’s 7 day catch-up TV service is now available on Apple’s iPhone. The service is currently a beta. You can access the iPlayer from an iPhone by typing in the URL http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer from the iPhone’s browser (a little pink triange stating “Beta BBC iPlayer for iPhone” pops up. You can only watch video when…

Digital TV, Phones

BBC iPlayer Update

21 February 200824 February 2008 FrequencyCast No Comments

The seven-day catch-up service from the BBC will soon be available to Virgin Media customers, and we’ve heard that from March, you’ll be able to watch BBC catch-up TV on Apple iPhones and iTouch devices.

Digital TV, Phones

FreeSat to launch in the Spring

3 January 200811 February 2008 FrequencyCast No Comments

Later this year, we can expect to see FreeSat launch in the UK. This is a joint free-to-view satellite TV service that’s due to offer 80 free TV channels, plus some high-definition content. It’s due in “Spring 2008”. What we know so far can be found on our FreeSat UK page.

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