Posts from November 2010

Bleakley and Chiles talk Daybreak

Much has been said about ITV1's Daybreak, the replacement for GMTV which, it has to be said, hasn't got off to the greatest of starts. None of what's been said has been said by me as frankly I'm a Today programme listener and not even my natural interest could beat my early morning, groggy inertia and make me put the television on. However whilst much has been said in the press and by other commentators, not a huge amount as been said by its stars. Until now.

Not much to love

Whilst everyone else is currently thinking about other, much more pressing matters such as the economy, student fees or a certain wedding, the UK radio industry is still fretting to itself in a quiet corner as to what will happen...

Does anyone care what happens to Five News anymore?

The news that Channel 5's new owner Richard Desmond wants to make a more popularist, celebrity led news service, just makes me want to shrug and go "meh".

Sky writing

Want something to read that's simultaneously both amusing and sinister at the same time? Then head over to the Sky website and download the PDF of BSkyB's submission to Ofcom in relation to a share buyout planned by a certain...

A face for radio?

As well as a certain dispute involving a group of disgruntled journalists, there's another ongoing BBC-related row in the form of employment tribunal action taken by ex-Countryfile presenter Miriam O'Reilly against the BBC, or specifically ex-BBC One controller Jay Hunt...

The hardest sell

Strikes are never nice things even when you have 100% support from all concerned, but when it affects a group of people who appear to have relatively secure and reasonably paid jobs that many people would love to have, any...

BBC Strikes

As I type it's about two hours to go before the start of a 48 hour walkout by BBC members of the NUJ union as part of a protest about pension changes at the broadcaster. The walkout is expected to affect most of the Corporation's news and current affairs output with high profile casualties likely to include the Today Programme and Newsnight, as well as BBC One's news bulletins and the BBC News Channel.

Catch-up work

Nearly everyone seems to agree that some form of video-on-demand represents the future of television, so naturally there's a race on between established UK providers (BSkyB, Virgin Media) and broadcasters/producers who want something that's perhaps a bit less proprietary (namely,...

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