February, 2009 Archive

This week sees the start of a new comedy series with local radio as it’s theme. “FM” stars Chris O’Dowd from The IT Crowd. He plays on-air presenter Lindsay Carol, star of Skin FM, a London Indie station. Other characters include rival presenters, the station’s producer, plus the token dizzy receptionist and techy Station Engineer. [...]

OK… Now we’ve seen everything. The Discovery channel, famous for it’s world-changing documetaries, thought provoking nature shows, and other educational content, is launching something a little bit special next month… Discovery Shed. Yes, you read it right, and no, it’s too early for April Fools. Apparently this new TV channel will be “the place for [...]

Sky is set to replace around 90,000 Sky+ HD set-top box after problems with internal cabling were uncovered. The problem affects early HD boxes manufactured by Pace. To see if yours is affected, go to Services, System Setup, System details and check the version number. Pace boxes with version numbers: 9F3001, 9F3002, 9F3003 and 9F3004 [...]

Following on from Show 36 at the start of February, Carl and Pete bring you a FrequencyCast update. In this Update, we look at the following: Sky is 20 years old, Project Kangaroo is canned, and BT Vision HD news. Plus a look at the emails we received after the controversial show 36, our media [...]

FrequencyCast Update 15 Feb 2009 [ 11:30 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

We’ve been releasing FrequencyCast, the UK TV and Tech podcast, since 2006, and we’ve been hoping to make it into the list of Top Ten shows since we started. For the top ten, we rely on iTunes, which is the leading podcast distribution method. We’re listed in the ‘Tech News’ category, and we see our [...]

Proposed Video-on-Demand service, codenamed Project Kangaroo, has been blocked from launching in the UK by the Competition Commission. Kangaroo was a joint venture between BBC Worldwide, ITV and Channel 4 to launch a huge back-catalogue of their shows on demand, meaning that users could get content in one place, without the need for separate applications [...]

This month marks the 20th anniversary of satellite broadcasting the UK. Rupert Murdoch’s Sky television service started on 5 February 1989. At launch, just 4 channels were available, with that number now over 500. Sky merged with rival BSB (remember the squarial?) in 1990, and now has over 9 million customers in the UK Over [...]

Show 36 of FrequencyCast, the UK’s TV and Tech podcast, has just been released. In our regular online radio show, we discuss all that’s new with digital TV and technology. Here’s what we cover in this show: News Updates: Digital switchover update, plus news on changes to Freeview, Virgin, BT Vision and Sky. Focus: Media [...]

FrequencyCast Show 36 [ 30:40 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download