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BBC Director-General Tim Davie has revealed plans for a “digital first” BBC as the broadcaster celebrates its hundredth year as well as revealing at hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of ...
The Digital Media Initiative (DMI) was a British broadcast engineering project launched by the BBC in 2008. It aimed to modernise the Corporation's production and archiving methods by using connected digital production and media asset management systems.
BBC Design & Engineering was created in 2016 when Matthew Postgate was appointed as Chief Technology Office for a new division that brought together the BBC Digital, Engineering and BBC Worldwide technology teams, thus re-amalgamating departments separated by previous internal restructures. [14]
The Radio Times masthead from 25 December 1931, including the BBC motto "Nation shall speak peace unto Nation" Television pioneer John Logie Baird (seen here in 1917) televised the BBC's first drama, The Man with the Flower in His Mouth, on 14 July 1930, and the first live outside broadcast, The Derby, on 2 June 1931. [30] [31]
Digital first is a communication theory that publishers should release content into new media channels in preference to old media.The premise behind the theory is that after the advent of Internet, most established media organizations continued to give priority to traditional media. [1]
This included work on common technical and metadata standards for digital TV production and sharing best practice in digital production across the industry. From 1 April 2015 the DPP became a not-for-profit company limited by guarantee: Digital Production Partnership Ltd. [2] To date, the DPP has been funded by the BBC, ITV and Channel 4.
The first digital switchover was to begin on Tuesday, 28 May 2013 in Tijuana, but was postponed to 18 July due to the 2013 Baja California state elections. [134] The switchover was completed nationwide on 31 December 2015, when all remaining analog television stations left the air. [135]
BBC Choice was a British digital television channel which was owned by the BBC and was launched on 23 September 1998. It was the first British TV channel to broadcast exclusively in digital format, as well as the BBC's second non-analogue-terrestrial channel launch (following on from the BBC News channel in 1997).