Posts from September 2010

Manchester loses its Granada TV sign

Anyone who ever visited Manchester city centre will know there's plenty of great delights to admire. And I'm not talking about the Arndale Centre here.

Is Chris Blumer the hardest working presenter in radio? Well maybe not...

Following on from my blog post Is Chris Blumer the Hardest Working Presenter in Radio, Bridge FM have been in touch and it turns out Chris Blumer isn't actually as hard working as I portrayed him. Apparently Chris actually presents...

Is Chris Blumer the hardest working presenter in radio?

From Wales Town and Country Broadcasting operates eight radio stations, mostly clustered along the south of the country, Many of its stations share presenters. Notably they're generally not networking, but several of its presenters do shows on different stations, sometimes at the same time.

The road to ITV's recovery

Russ J Graham on what lessons can be learned from ITV making great drama for the BBC

Frozen in time

Perhaps a very predictable thing to happen to the TV licence fee given recent events, but the decision to freeze the fee until at least 2013 further highlights ongoing weaknesses within BBC management as it currently stands; a problem that...

No longer a Channel One - it's all nothing from now on

Well here's something we didn't expect to be saying. Just over a month after it was announced that Virgin One would becoming Channel One after Sky bought it and other channels from Virgin Media, and just a few weeks after the station rebrand went ahead and... err... well... Sky decide to close it down completely...

Happy (belated) birthday to the Broom Cupboard

For those children of the 80s the sight of Phillip Schofield in a cupboard will always be one that will hold a special place in our hearts. CBBC launched at 3:55 on 9 September 1985 and has been hanging around ever since.

The S4/C problem

Now is not a good time for Welsh television broadcaster S4/C, which has just been given an ultimatum by Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt to draw up a financial plan for survival in four weeks or face the consequences, whatever they...

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