Channel 4 and BBC discuss alliance Much has been speculated about Channel 4's future - commercial or otherwise - since the channel now relies almost totally on advertising revenue for its funding in what's now a very competitive market. Not...
Posts from August 2004
Asset disposal
Goodbye to DIY?
BBC shows Changing Rooms the door The recent high profile failure of ITV's "The Block" helped to underline the fact that the love affair with makeover shows seems to be well and truly over, and although some are appropriating the...
The Logoround
Media Guardian: New Sky One Logo Thanks to the Media Guardian, we can see the new Sky One logo. After all, they've only been using the current one for about two and a half year. Quite why they adopted this...
Going through the motions
ITV apologises for Ramsay outburst All this is rather pointless, to be honest. ITV gets a slap on the wrist from Ofcom (Ouch! That hurt, er, not a lot...) for broadcasting uncensored Gordon Ramsay-speak; anyone who knows who Gordon Ramsay...
Running out of ideas. Fast
ITV renovates schedule by dropping The Block The Block must have looked good on paper - with the series format outperforming Big Brother in Australia - but ITV just expected to take a 'winning' format, throw in tried and tested...
Just part of the furniture
Media Guardian: Television 'a wallpaper medium' There was a time when watching television was a rarity - a family event. I can still remember the excitement when my parents brought back their very first colour TV in the early 1980s....
Seen it all before
ITV Sales: ITV announces launch Of ITV3 Before everyone stops reading this in expectation of sheer boredom, there's an interesting point to be gleaned from this news story press release. Let's take a look at some of what ITV3...
Ghetto blaster
'Documentary soap' blighting BBC The rise and rise of the 'docusoap' has been well documented over the last few years; it's a format which has been made possible in recent times through the availability of cheap and small video cameras,...
"...and now we're so desparate, we'll give anything a go."
ITV's Block flops in ratings "Obviously, it was not what we would have hoped for the launch episode, but there are certainly not any alarm bells ringing at the moment. The next couple of weeks will be crucial" This was...
ITV and Sky shares in the red
If you are a shareholder of ITV or BSkyB, then Wednesday 4th August 2004 will not have been a good day for you. ITV plc shareholders may have only seen a half pence fall in their share price, down to...
Disney to launch ABC1 on Freeview.
Well, you wait ages for a decent Freeview channel to come along, and suddenly, there is a rush of them. Hard on the heels of the news of ITV3's launch, comes word from Digitial Spy of the launch of Disney's...
ITV3 on Freeview, but who goes?
Both Media Guardian. and Sky Digi Online are reporting that ITV is to launch ITV3 onto the Freeview platform on DTT, as well as the usual launches on Sky and Cable, on Novemeber 1st. Now whilst I consider this to...
They will have Sky... Or else.
Media Guardian.co.uk: BSkyB - 'We will have 10m homes by end of decade' So Sky think 80% of the population will have pay-TV. Goodness knows how. Are there that many people who will keep on stumping up the cash for...
Just you and five other people watching.
Media Guardian diary A little aside in the Media Guardian Diary revealed the comparative fortunes of the three main news channels in the UK... As Media Monkey explained to readers... "Sky's audiences slumped from 34,000 at 8pm, before the story...
