Posts from
December 2003
Tuesday 30 December 2003
Danielle Demtriou twists the words of a BBC spokesperson in order to create a news story that wasn't there originally. "[The BBC] does not rule them [resignations] in or out", becomes, miraculously, "Hutton a resigning matter, BBC admits". Wow! Could...
Read all of 'An Independent choice of words'.
Lies, half-truths and utter bollocks about the BBC from an American 'news source'. Least said, soonest mended on this one. But the fact that Google News is drawing on this as a 'source' is disturbing - why, Google, why? If...
Read all of 'WorldNetDaily: unbiased news for the fourth reich'.
Sunday 28 December 2003
This year's Christmas presentation on the terrestrial channels was a mixture of the dull and not-quite-so-dull: BBC One: This year was essentially the same as last Christmas, though the 'children' ident is arguably the best implementation of the current 'music...
Read all of 'A Christmas 2003 Presentation Retrospective'.
Saturday 27 December 2003
An unusually perceptive piece from Nick Higham on BBCi And so it has come to pass. To the surprise of everyone except us 'amateurs' who don't know what we're talking about (apparently): - Scottish Media Group are unhappy with Granada...
Read all of 'Casualties of the ITV merger'.
Friday 26 December 2003
BBC licence fee 'criminalises poor' says a known group of idiots in the Financial Times. This just in: a group of known freelance idiots calling themselves the Institute of Public Policy Research have idiotically announced that the licence fee is...
Read all of 'Idiots in anti-licence fee lobby'.
Xmas TV Listings So this is Christmas, and what have you done... to us? EastEnders (soap), Meet the Parents (film, Ben Stiller) Rio Grande (film), Mastermind Celebrity Special (quiz), Porridge follow-up 'documentary' The Grinch (film, Jim Carrey), Coronation Street (soap),...
Read all of 'Those Radio Times'.
Thursday 18 December 2003
Media Guardian on the new deal Shock! Horror! BSkyB doesn't have everything its own way! Think what you will about the European Commission, but there are times when it comes in very useful and breaking up monopolies (which the UK...
Read all of 'Sky's Not The Limit'.
Tuesday 16 December 2003
ITV Winter Lineup Press Release (Word document) Some of the 'highlights' to come this winter on ITV1. There's a programme where Rob Brydon talks over old comedy shows, in the style of a DVD commentary (cheap). And a programme that...
Read all of 'ITV1 Winter Lineup'.
Saturday 13 December 2003
BBCi Charter Review page BBC Charter Review At the top of a webpage there was a large advert-style link entitled "WANTED Your opinions about the future of the BBC. All views welcome. Click here."; normally I don't bother to click...
Read all of 'BBC Charter Review'.
Thursday 11 December 2003
Department of Health Tender Document (pdf) Department of Education and Skills press release It is the era of niche broadcasting. We already have TV channels for bangra fans, art fans, pub landlords and people who want to buy tasteless tat...
Read all of 'Propaganda 24.'.
Wednesday 10 December 2003
Here's an interesting point. BBC Radio Five Live this morning had a phone in on whether people are better off under Labour. Towards the beginning, one of the invited commentators stated that people who are in work are likely to...
Read all of 'BBC Bias?'.
Media Guardian opinion piece BBC Four is one of those channels which you may either avidly watch or alternatively dip into when everything else fails to impress; despite my admiration for the channel I (more often or not) tend to...
Read all of '"Why I just love BBC4"'.
Tuesday 9 December 2003
MediaGuardian : Overnight Viewing Figures A relaunched News 24 gives the Media Guardian the perfect excuse to print a piece which reads like a blow by blow report of a boxing match between Sky News and the revamped BBC News...
Read all of 'Sky, News 24, Rugby punch-up.'.
Monday 8 December 2003
Well, the long-awaited BBC News 24 rebrand has finally been realised, and it is really rather nice. I'll start with the good points. The Studio is very much like the one used with the national news, although the large screens...
Read all of 'New News'.
Saturday 6 December 2003
BBC-1 BBC-2 Strange that ITV.com don't offer the ability to download their idents, too. Perhaps we wouldn't be interested in 'celebrities' we can't quite put a name to and anonymous shots of our regions to make us feel at home?...
Read all of 'BBCi for idents'.
Friday 5 December 2003
pride-drop.tv Freeview Launch Press Release Following on from the appearence of Price-drop.tv on digital terrestrial television on the 2nd December, lots of people will be talking. Lots of people will moan at the launch of yet another shopping channel on...
Read all of 'Price-dropping Freeview-busting Shopping-Channel.'.
Tuesday 2 December 2003
Media Guardian report This is an ingenious way of advertising a product on the BBC by Coca-Cola exploiting a loophole via its new deal with the Official UK Charts Company which means that Coca-Cola is guaranteed two mentions on the...
Read all of 'Let the rot set in'.
Monday 1 December 2003
BBC Press Office Audience figures are a tyranny. They tell us nothing of use and blind programme makers to the possibilities of television as an artform. They are derived from a ridiculously small sample, and show only what "the majority"...
Read all of 'BBC Audience Figures'.
BBC News: Japanese viewers get digital TV. NHK Digital Site (in English) It's funny - you always think of the Japanese as being at the forefront of technology but digital terrestrial television (DTT) has only just launched in three cities...
Read all of 'Japanese goes digital'.
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