Scotsman.com: Scottish ITV News Plan Unveiled So Scottish and Grampian have announced proposals to launch a Scottish only evening bulletin to replace the ITV News at 10:30. Ironically the bulletin would still be produced in London....
Posts from January 2005
The Scottish Ten Thirty
Whom Do You Trust?
Press Gazette: In The Beeb We Trust Apparently in a survey of 2,178 people, 624 of them (28%) named the BBC as the news provider they trust the most - making them the highest scorers in the survey. Indeed, they...
Damage limitation
Handing PSP to C4 'would damage Five' Channel Five must be feeling rather vulnerable at this point of time. A byproduct of the last Conservative Government squeezing every last drop out of the analogue TV spectrum, Channel Five has always...
A Cut Too Far
Media Guardian: Fearful US TV networks censor more shows The news that Fox are going to pixelate a bare pair of buttons from a cartoon that was first shown five years ago uncut, on the face of it sounds rather...
ITV 3
Media barons in £6bn plot to capture ITV Lord (Clive) Hollick must have realised that ITV plc would be too difficult to conquer without some form of additional assistance, hence rumours of a possible alliance with Stephen Hopkins Grabiner and...
Paaa, Paaa, Pa Paaaaa
Channel 4's New Idents I was always a fan of Channel 4's last set of idents. In fact, I have always been fond of Channel 4's idents, even the "Coffee Stains" ones everyone else hates. But what of the new...
Clive Hollick's new employer may bid for ITV
Media Guardian ITV shares surge on bid talk Lots of people have been lined up as potential bidders for ITV but there's something interesting about the idea that the former head of a company who sold up all his ITV...
Milkshake Anyone?
The Independent: Five mulls launch of new children's channel Digital Spy: sit-up to launch two movie channels Everyone has to have a multi-channel strategy these days, from Five planning to launch a new kids channel based on its early morning...
Teletext, ITV and sloppy reporting
The Grundiad: Teletext to go digital with ITV Media Grundiad: ITV brings Teletext to digital service Following on from its agreement with Channel 4, Teletext has signed a deal with ITV to make a version of its digital text service...
Ban It Now!
Media Guardian: BBC goes ahead with Springer opera Outrageous! Controversial! Ban it now! Words there not about Jerry Springer, but the view of some people when Mozart and Strauss were composing all those years ago. Nowadays opera is seen as...
The "Get out of jail" card
Files show extent of Murdoch lobbying In retrospect we shouldn't be at all surprised at this sort of lobbying activity, but this helps to further clarify what seemed to be the new strategy when BSkyB announced a while back that...
