Posts by Richard G Elen from 2009

Lies, damned lies and Ofcom

Coverage of the data presented in Ofcom's Communications Market Report indicates that many correspondents are not at their best when dealing with statistics. But Ofcom themselves don't make it particularly easy to do anything other than misinterpret the data.

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.

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…

Lose-lose

Protest over BBC Gaza appeal veto Let me first state my position. I personally am very much in favour of support for the Gaza Crisis Appeal. Just looking at the pictures of dreadful injuries, UN schools shelled, the use of...

MediaBlog

MediaBlog

Feeds

Email Newsletter

Get all our updates in your inbox - every time there's news to tell. Just enter your email address and select "Subscribe". Or if you no longer want to receive our mailings, enter your email and select "Unsubscribe"

Small Print

Opinions expressed in these posts are those of the author and not necessarily those of the Transdiffusion Broadcasting System in general.

These posts and their multimedia are copyright. Some rights are reserved under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 licence.

The Index

From Twitter

RT @Mumbler3: RIP Emyr Daniel,Welsh newsreader and eventually HTV MD. Also did the Brian Cant voiceover on Tredwt, the Welsh language ve ...

Posted on 10 February at 19:43

@george570 Okay! We'll need a rough idea of numbers, though. And will people expect nibbles?

Posted on 10 February at 19:02

RT @TheMediaTweets: Spare a thought for @Daybreak's easily-confused viewers... http://t.co/IhhhFIzS

Posted on 10 February at 17:04

Follow us on Twitter ⇒

Archiving Project

Find out more about our new archiving project and how you can help from the comfort of your own computer

Read more and join in ⇒

Transdiffusion Navigation

February 2012

Transdiffusion Broadcasting System

This web page lives at: http://www.transdiffusion.org/blog/authors/richard_g_elen/2009