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Ian Beaumont

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Electromusications

The Fourth Channel at 25
A quarter century of Channel 4 and S4/C.
Editorialising the News
Politics subverts purpose
Programmes in the Pod
The impact of podcasting on the future of TV and radio
First, fair, Fox?
A fair and balanced commentary from Ian Beaumont
Ian Stirling
Local legend
New look for Five News
Kirsty on the mezzanine
ITV3: reaching for the Sky
A tortuous path to getting the new channel on satellite
Too Much Choice
Annoying ways of getting your attention
Compromising the brand
Bad branding or bad programmes?
Brandwise
Modernity vs those things that have always been done
Ideal presentation
The best of presentation techniques
Southwest blues
The changes of style in a small region
New dogs, old tricks
Finding old habits die hard. Good.
Clocking off
Telling the time on television
Topping up DTT
Pay-terrestrial is back. Will you be topping up your viewing?
Unified
A new news for ITV - nationally and regionally
The Controller's Chair: BBC One
Ian Beaumont takes over another channel
The Controller's Chair: BBC Three
Third time wasn't so lucky for BBC Three.
Give Ian Beaumont a go
Defending Auntie
Ian Beaumont supports the BBC
Redraw the map
Regions and how they work now
Cheap Drama
Tricks of the trade exposed
Street Cred
Ratings shouldn’t be the only yardstick
Sky One
From Sky Channel to Sky One
Sky News
The third or so force in television news
Cineplex
The state of the UK film industry
BSB Galaxy
From Galaxy to Sky One
Set Pieces
Set design makes television
All Change
Programme sales
Booth broadcasting
Television is shrinking
Into the firing line
Broadcasters are under the closest scrutiny they have been under in years
A day attheraces
Ian Beaumont bets on Channel Four
A better News 24
The government wants a better BBC News 24.
All new news
ITN News Channel is now ITV News Channel. No change.
Catch the penny
But Ian Beaumont thinks the broadcasters are missing the pound
Four At The Movies
Thank heavens for FilmFour
Breaking free
Getting away from Sky and going free-to-air
A merger too far
One ITV multiplies the business risks, says Ian Beaumont
24 hours too many
Ian Beaumont says 24 hour television is a waste of time
The anti-globes
Can dancing be as good as the whole world?
Digital futures
And they're off: ITV Digital bows out
Another fine mess
ITV Digital goes into receivership
Hello, Goodbye
Ian Beaumont waves goodbye to Westward
Generations
Ian Beaumont on the eras of the fourth channel
The war will be televised
Changes predicted for when a crisis comes to a head
Brand X
Ian Beaumont on branding old and new
Celtic Times
Ian Beaumont wants media independence for the south west
No Logo
Ian Beaumont on the death of regional ITV
Service Stations
Ian Beaumont asks is public service exists in commercial TV
With a whimper
Ian Beaumont watches ITV slide out of the running
Regional rollercoaster
Ian Beaumont misses his region
OFFdigital
Trouble up t'mill at ITV Digital
2001 Odyssey
The story so far (to 2001)
Digitv.com 1
What happened next
Digitv.com 2
And after that
Digitv.com 3
And after that
Digitv.com 4
And after that

Radiomusications

Dead And Buried?
Is DAB on the way out?
Radio recall
Growing up with Radios 1 & 2
Freeview Radio
Find it for free
Spread South West
Local radio makes its way down the Cornwall peninsular
GWR in trouble
The slow death of a radio behemoth
Radio in Cornwall
The slow arrival of radio in the south west
The first word in jingles
Welcome to PAMS

Telemusications

From ITV to plc
Merge, merge, merge and miss the boat
London's television
Thames made the programmes that made Thames
The Avengers
Exquisitely British heroes

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