Posts from July 2009

People have opinions

Top Gear's Jeremy Clarkson faces row over new Gordon Brown slurs Perhaps as predictable as night following day, controversial TV presenter Jeremy Clarkson has again stirred the proverbial hornets' nest courtesy of an insult made about Prime Minister Gordon Brown...

Can pay, won't pay

Dear BBC: No, you can’t have my £142.50. Will I see you in court? There are really only two ways to view Mr Moore's outburst of civil disobedience. It is either a principled stand against what he believes to be...

Top-slicing: Been there, done that?

FT.com: Archives reveal BBC shared its fee It was perhaps inevitable that historical research into the BBC's iicence fee would at some point unearth claims that the fee had previously been nonexclusive to the BBC from time to time, therefore...

BBC expenses: Still nothing to write home about

Despite protestations from a number of Guardian/Observer readers (and the odd columnist) that there wasn't much of a story in BBC executives' expenses, now here's a second round. There is even less of a story this time.

Defending their share

MPs sign motion against top-slicing licence fee Ben Bradshaw attacks BBC bosses It was perhaps inevitable that there would now be open conflict between the BBC and certain government ministers over the issue of so-called "top-slicing" in respect of the...

Lacking reality

BBC News: ITV 'to charge for Talent clips' At least proving that Michael Grade has either a good sense of humour or a complete lack of perspective, he's just announced that in order to properly monetise reality TV, ITV.com plans...

Off the rails

ITN newsreader Alastair Stewart calls for 'Beeching' inquiry into BBC Weirdly misappropriate-yet-somehow-highly-appropriate analogy of the month: TV presenter demands inquiry that results in major cutbacks based on short-term desires which most people end up regretting many years later. Well that's...

Exactly the wrong thing to ask for

ITN newscaster Alastair Stewart calls for a "Beeching style enquiry" into the BBC to assess whether its services are all really "necessary and viable". What a ridiculous idea.

Radio and Britain's Digital Future

If we're keeping DAB, we need to upgrade it to use modern codecs. But why not skip all that and move the "radio space" to IP networks? However, you can't do that until there is a national broadband infrastructure that will need a lot more than copper-based 2Mb/s. So until then, maybe keeping FM is the thing to do…

It's not just tennis

ITV1 slumps to all-time ratings low This is rather hard to believe even allowing for ITV1's lax summer schedule combined with Wimbledon tennis and the slow but continuing growth of multichannel television; namely the fact that ITV1 suffered the worst...

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