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The Media Show

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This is the programme about a revolution in media.

Social media, anti-social media, breaking news, faking news: this is the programme about a revolution in media.

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The Media Show: BBC R1 on iPlayer; BT Sport and Sky Sports; Pay-per-view news; Al Jazeera English chief

Al Jazeera English chief; BT Sport and Sky Sports; BBC R1 on iPlayer; pay-per-view news

05/11/2014

BBC R1 on iPlayer; BT Sport and Sky Sports; Pay-per-view news; Al Jazeera English chief

BBC Radio 4 - The Media Show, BBC R1 on iPlayer; BT Sport and Sky Sports; Pay-per-view news; Al Jazeera English chief

Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the fast-changing media world.

Steve talks to Al Jazeera English managing director Al Anstey. Plus a new service for BBC Radio on iPlayer, pay-per-view news and the competition between BT Sport and Sky Sports.

The BBC Trust has approved a new service for Radio 1 and 1Xtra, which will see it having its own TV channel on the BBC iPlayer from next week. It's hoped the channel will lead to an incremental 310,000 hours of viewing per month, and help the BBC establish a relationship with its younger viewers. But whilst it can offer the services, can the BBC offer the content that young people want? Steve Hewlett talks to former Radio 1 Managing Editor Paul Robinson.

It's a tough time for international news broadcasters; competition is fierce, and many networks are laying off staff. Not so for Al Jazeera English, which has been recruiting in a bid to boost the channel's "core strength" of eyewitness reporting. Managing Director Al Anstey joins Steve Hewlett to discuss why they're putting this at the centre of their news strategy; and nearly a year since the arrest of Peter Greste and others, Steve asks him how the imprisonment and trial of fellow colleagues has impacted on staff morale.

A new online platform called Blendle is allowing readers in Holland to buy newspaper articles individually, or their money back. It has 140,000 users and has just received financial backing from the New York Times and German publisher Axel Springer. Steve asks one of the founders Alexander Klopping how it can boost readership, and whether it can work elsewhere.

The fierce competition between BT Sport and Sky Sports continued week. The CEO of BT Gavin Patterson claimed Sky is bribing customers by giving away free broadband; Sky hit back saying that was on the day BT ran full page adverts enticing customers with free broadband and sports. Claire Enders from Enders Analysis gives Steve the inside track on how this ties in with sports rights.

Producer: Katy Takatsuki.

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