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Wiggin's broadcasting team is regarded as one of the best in the country. It is rated in the top three by the independent published guides to the legal profession and is the preferred choice of most of the major media organisations in the UK for broadcasting work. Clients range from terrestrial public service broadcasters through to cable and satellite package providers, single interest package providers such as adult and home shopping bouquets, global news services, gambling providers and European and Middle Eastern broadcasters. The team is also retained by media technology and platform providers such as cable operators, DTT multiplex providers and mobile and wireless content providers. The three broadcast partners, Sean James, Shaun Lowde and Jason Chess are unsurprisingly cited as experts in their field. Generally, the team acts for major media clients at every stage of their business. Our expertise starts with advice on the production of content for radio, television and electronic media. We have extensive experience of the subsequent packaging, branding and wholesaling of that content in the form of television and radio channels, online and wireless portals and the services that populate them. We have a thorough technical knowledge of the technical infrastructure that underpins the radio and television distribution chains, starting from the caching, scheduling and playout of material, through the multiplexing, uplinking and contribution stages, on to the satellite or DTT broadcast capacity and finally through to the eventual consumer interface, whether that be a cable system, a streamed Internet Protocol Television Service, a television or broadband Video On Demand offering or an "ordinary" television channel received through a rooftop aerial. As the technological opportunities for new media have opened up, we have developed an industry leading speciality in the handling of interactive and enhanced television content, advising upon the coding, branding, packaging, transmission, retailing and legality of a whole range of retail, advertising, gambling, voting and other interactive and enhanced television products. We advise on the liability issues surrounding use of satellite set top boxes and the costs and functionality of conditional access, customer management, browser and return path functionalities. A crucial dimension of the media practice is our regulatory expertise. We advise in detail on the Codes and Guidelines of OFCOM, the broadcasting regulator, as well as those of the ASA. We advise on the provision of regulated services, such as conditional access and electronic programme guide services. We advise on the detailed application of the United Kingdom's Broadcasting and Communications Acts as well as on the European Directives that sit behind them. Our immersion in the technical and commercial realities of the media industry give us an accumulation of commercial experience that enables the team not just to advise legally but to contribute real value to the structuring and negotiation of commercial deals. There is very little in the media space we haven't seen, negotiated and closed before: as a result, we know how it works, how it's done and what the problems are. This is the value we bring to our clients. For more information, please contact Sean James or Jason Chess or Richard McMorris. Click the link below to view a broadcasting case study:  Broadcasting case study (94KB)
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