Posts from June 2004

Keep our Nottingham Studios!

Media Guardian: NUJ and viewers bid to save ITV's Nottingham studios. Four months after ITV plc announced its plans to close down Central TV's Nottingham studios and move regional programming to Birmingham, and a petition with 20,000 viewers against the...

Maximising production efficiencies

Media Guardian.co.uk: ITV job losses to top 1000 The cost of the merger of Carlton and Granada is a depressing one. By 2005 there will be no networked production in Birmingham, Newcastle, Nottingham or Southampton. 1000 people will have lost...

Game, Set, Match

bbc.co.uk Weather: 5 Day Forecast for Wimbledon bbc.co.uk Sport: Wimbledon goes interactive Yep the summer is here and Wimbledon is on the box so don't forget you can go press red to see your choice of up to five tennis...

Reality disaster

Big Brother descends into chaos and violence Reality series such as Big Brother may gain good viewing figures, but this latest incident illustrates exactly what can happen when broadcasters raise the stakes in order to generate an 'incident'. Whether...

Cut out and keep guide to page numbers

Media Bulletin: Teletext to close loss-making website with 45 jobs axed Teletext is the latest broadcaster to realise that the web doesn't pay and as such is closing down its main (non-holidays) website along with its cable text services. All...

Rock. Hard place. BECTU.

Ballot for action on BBC pay Pity the poor BBC. Damned if they do, damned if they don't - by everyone. Things are made worse when they start to argue with their recognised unions. Thus ever was the fate of...

Welcome to TV Licensing

TV Licensing website To the young, hip things, there's nothing more ludicrous than paying a licence in order to watch television. Thatcher's children (for it is she) have been brainwashed into the idea that broadcasting is free, and can be...

High definition

The announcement that Sky will be offering HDTV channels by 2006 will be interesting not only for people with expensive flat screen TV's but could also fundamentally affect the future digital TV strategy of other channels and perhaps even Freeview...

Blogging Dictionary Definitions 2

Always remember not to go into autopilot when spell checking. Especially when the dictionary thinks that Ofcom should actually be obscene......

Sky brings on Freesat

BSkyB Press Release Ever since Freeview launched there have been rumours that Sky would laugh a competing service but with the BBC and Ofcom recently talking about a freesat service to fill in the gaps unfilled by digital terrestrial television,...

Soap overload

Soap bubble is near bursting It's interesting that David Liddiment (of all people) should write a piece of this very nature since he was Coronation Street's producer at the time when a third episode was introduced on Fridays. He reveals...

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