Posts from
June 2004
Monday 28 June 2004
Media Guardian: NUJ and viewers bid to save ITV's Nottingham studios. Four months after ITV plc announced its plans to close down Central TV's Nottingham studios and move regional programming to Birmingham, and a petition with 20,000 viewers against the...
Read all of 'Keep our Nottingham Studios!'.
Friday 25 June 2004
Media Guardian.co.uk: ITV job losses to top 1000 The cost of the merger of Carlton and Granada is a depressing one. By 2005 there will be no networked production in Birmingham, Newcastle, Nottingham or Southampton. 1000 people will have lost...
Read all of 'Maximising production efficiencies'.
Monday 21 June 2004
bbc.co.uk Weather: 5 Day Forecast for Wimbledon bbc.co.uk Sport: Wimbledon goes interactive Yep the summer is here and Wimbledon is on the box so don't forget you can go press red to see your choice of up to five tennis...
Read all of 'Game, Set, Match'.
Thursday 17 June 2004
Big Brother descends into chaos and violence Reality series such as Big Brother may gain good viewing figures, but this latest incident illustrates exactly what can happen when broadcasters raise the stakes in order to generate an 'incident'. Whether...
Read all of 'Reality disaster'.
Media Bulletin: Teletext to close loss-making website with 45 jobs axed Teletext is the latest broadcaster to realise that the web doesn't pay and as such is closing down its main (non-holidays) website along with its cable text services. All...
Read all of 'Cut out and keep guide to page numbers'.
Wednesday 16 June 2004
Ballot for action on BBC pay Pity the poor BBC. Damned if they do, damned if they don't - by everyone. Things are made worse when they start to argue with their recognised unions. Thus ever was the fate of...
Read all of 'Rock. Hard place. BECTU.'.
TV Licensing website To the young, hip things, there's nothing more ludicrous than paying a licence in order to watch television. Thatcher's children (for it is she) have been brainwashed into the idea that broadcasting is free, and can be...
Read all of 'Welcome to TV Licensing'.
Wednesday 9 June 2004
The announcement that Sky will be offering HDTV channels by 2006 will be interesting not only for people with expensive flat screen TV's but could also fundamentally affect the future digital TV strategy of other channels and perhaps even Freeview...
Read all of 'High definition'.
Always remember not to go into autopilot when spell checking. Especially when the dictionary thinks that Ofcom should actually be obscene......
Read all of 'Blogging Dictionary Definitions 2'.
BSkyB Press Release Ever since Freeview launched there have been rumours that Sky would laugh a competing service but with the BBC and Ofcom recently talking about a freesat service to fill in the gaps unfilled by digital terrestrial television,...
Read all of 'Sky brings on Freesat'.
Monday 7 June 2004
Soap bubble is near bursting It's interesting that David Liddiment (of all people) should write a piece of this very nature since he was Coronation Street's producer at the time when a third episode was introduced on Fridays. He reveals...
Read all of 'Soap overload'.
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