ITV pays £134m for SDN Now that ITV has a whole multiplex effectively to itself, this raises a number of very important questions. Although ITV will probably be able to place all of its services (and more) on what was...
Posts from April 2005
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What To Top Up To Now?
Channel 4 to Launch E4 on Freeview E4 is to go free to air - as long as you have Freeview anyway. Don't go expecting to start getting it for nowt if you have satellite. And when it launches at...
Robert Farnon dies peacefully at 87
Full biography We regret to inform readers that noted composer Robert Farnon passed away peacefully on the night of Friday, 22 April 2005, at a hospice near his home in Guernsey. He was 87. Farnon was widely regarded as one...
S4C Chair Elan Closs Stephen Hopkinss's Tribute to Gwynfor Evans
Teyrnged Elan Closs Stephen Hopkinss, Cadeirydd S4C, i Gwynfor Evans "Gwynfor Evans realised the power of television to influence and change culture and language and he was determined that Welsh would have a proper place in the medium. His part...
Gwynfor Evans has died.
BBC Wales tributes The majority of our readers here at Transdiffusion are English. We have readers throughout the world, and some of our most active editors and contributors are from the Celtic fringes of the UK (Wales and the "English"...
There's Definitely Something In The Water
It's not often you watch a television programme and are startled by some piece of information. Tonight I was. I was watching The King Of Bling, a Watchdog and You and Yours co-production none-the-less, about the fall of auction shopping...
Election's Switch Off
Media Guardian: Labour commits to 2012 digital switchover I'm sure voters across the country will be biting at the bit to vote on the key issue on this election. Yes, analogue switch off. And thanks to the Media Guardian, we...
Dumbing Down, Cash Cow or both?
Media Guardian: Channel 4 can't do without Big Brother The word on the street is that Channel 4 just can't live without Big Brother and ultimately the money it brings in. Channel 4 seems to becoming increasingly uneasy about the...
Never mind the quality...
More Freeview slots up for grabs Whilst the prospect of having extra Freeview channels may be a good thing - but of course it's also dependent on exactly who gets the slot(s) and what they are used for - I...
How to keep on air during a strike
The Times: ITV begs for a little help from BBC to beat strike With a 36 hour strike in the offing, it's with a hint of irony that ITV's saviour is the BBC's studio facilities in Television Centre. Which is...
Taking Stock
Have you ever noticed that BBC News Online often have some odd photos to illustrate their stories? No? Well besides myself, several others have, and now there's even a blog to celebrate the fact, so that everyone can track of...
Seeing double
ITV faces fine after Central news 'emergency' Bit of a strange one, this. The director of a late evening Central News East bulletin supposedly had an 'emergency' to contend with, so an earlier five minute bulletin is repeated instead of...
ITV4 on the way
Media Guardian: ITV lands Freeview contract So it's finally official - ITV have got one of the new extra Freeview slots, reportedly paying between £5m and £6. And the programming that will fill this space? Likely to be a new...
An important anniversary
This morning is the right time to remember an important event in BBC history. 21 years ago today, the famous Television Centre disaster happened. As everyone knows, during the recording of a "Top of the Pops" Easter special, a...
Editorial: April 2005
Tessa Jowell’s Green Paper on the BBC, the subject of one of our articles this month, appears rather innocuous on the surface, but a more careful reading perhaps begins to explain the extensive, and I believe possibly disastrous staff cuts...
