Broadcast Now reports that the director of ITV Regions, Michael Jeremy, has sent a letter to all staff in the regions detailing the timetable for redundancies and their plans for creating their new vision of regional ITV. I say this...
Posts by Ian Beaumont from 2008
ITV regional cutbacks: devil in the details.
Ratings Review: BARB week ending 30th March 2008
There's not much I can say about the latest set of numbers released publically on the BARB website. One story that garners my attention though, is that we have two channels this week, who have scored less than 1,000 viewers,...
CNN US broadcasting internationally.
I feel sorry for those who are living in Atlanta, Georgia, USA right now. Tornados are not fun. We in Cornwall just recently had storm to hurrican force winds dumped on us not too long ago,so we have an idea...
Ratings Review: BARB week ending 24th February 2008
There's been very few things of interest to report in the ratings recently, but this week, there is at least one interesting story to report, and it comes in the publically available programme ratings for the various multi-channels. It has...
GCap's DAB debacle
As my colleagues here have been reporting here on the MediaBlog, GCap have annouced the sale of Xfm outside London, the closure of all GCap's digital-only stations on the national Digital One multiplex, and the sale of GCap's majority stake...
Classic FM's Simon Bates on US television!
If I were to say to you, Simon Bates, what does he do, you'd probably say, he presents Classic FM's breakfast show and he used to be a BBC Radio 1 DJ, and occasional host of Top Of The Pops...
Report talks down DAB radio, with dubious accuracy.
Enders Analysis have done something that the radio industry wanted them to do. A couple of radio bigwigs have been talking about a crisis in DAB digital radio, a crisis that by the way doesn't actually exist except in the...
The Daily Mail and BBC bashing.
Every independent media commentator knows that the Daily Mail is a conservative newspaper with a well established line in BBC bashing. I have previously documented myself just how desperate the Daily Mail is to discredit the BBC at EVERY opportunity....
Ratings Review: week ending 13 January 2008
A bit later in the week than I usually post these, but here we go with another review of the latest publically released BARB ratings. First thing I'm going to talk about is Setanta, as I have noticed in the...
Digital One suffers more closures
As my colleagues have already pointed out, DAB, or more precisely the Digital One multiplex, has lost two more stations. Oneword's closure was not a big surprise, it was expected and predicted for quite some time. And Core has been...
