Posts from
December 2004
Tuesday 28 December 2004
The Radio Times gets a new look. It's hard to say that the last design of the Radio Times masthead was a failure. Certainly it wasn't as recognisable on the shelf as its long-lived curly predecessor, but that design itself...
Read all of 'Other listings magazines are available'.
Monday 27 December 2004
Courtesy of Channel Five, this evening some archive repeats are being shown from 7pm onwards, kicking off with The Goodies and the Beanstalk. Previous BBC Two controller Jane Root supposedly axed a Goodies theme night which was close to its...
Read all of 'This year's Christmas treat'.
Saturday 25 December 2004
...to be watching programmes in the wrong aspect ratio and you being the only person who even notices, yet alone cares, tra-la-la-la-laarr, tra-la-larrr......
Read all of 'Tis the season...'.
A very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from myself and everyone else at Transdiffusion. To get you in the spirit, Captain Brownlegg has invited you to his Christmas bash! Next year we have to look forward to new...
Read all of 'Seasonal Greetings'.
Monday 20 December 2004
Black day for Cilla Here's an object lesson in that no matter how hard you try to produce something that will draw a large audience to your channel, there are numerous pitfalls to be encountered when chasing those elusive large...
Read all of 'Surprise surprise'.
Friday 10 December 2004
Thomson buys ITV's special effects unit TWW History "We have made very significant progress on restructuring our balance sheet, reducing debt and delivering the benefits of the merger, and driving shareholder value." Charles Allen chief executive of ITV plc "We...
Read all of 'Compare and contrast...'.
Wednesday 8 December 2004
Skateboarding with a Ming vase Amidst controversy surrounding the massive job cuts and extensive reorganisation at the BBC announced yesterday by the DG, Mark Thompson last night delivered the New Statesman Media Lecture in which he placed the announcements in...
Read all of 'Thompson states his case'.
Although some of us were expecting some major reorgs at the BBC, including bits and bobs of something-or-other moving to Manchester, I am sure the loss of so many jobs came as a surprise to many people. I really don't...
Read all of 'Smaller may not be so beautiful'.
Tuesday 7 December 2004
The happy, jolly, positive side from the BBC The truth from the Guardian Well, we all knew it was going to happen, and today it was announced that a chunk of the BBC will be decamping to Manchester over...
Read all of 'Hi ho, hi ho, it's oop north we go...'.
Saturday 4 December 2004
John McEnroe's TV talk show axed "McEnroe launched in July with TV bosses hoping his outspoken attitude and opinions would be a draw for viewers." Hmm. Personally I'm not that surprised it gets no viewers......
Read all of 'You can not be serious!'.
Friday 3 December 2004
BBC defends digital TV and radio Striking the correct balance between innovation and audience reach is always a tricky proposition for the BBC, especially when you have so many licence fee payers to please as opposed to just 'entertaining viewers'...
Read all of 'Defending the faith'.
Media Guardian: 'regional news needs public funding' So ITV's campaign to reduce its costs and indeed what it has to produces, continues with a campaign to get public cash to pay for its regional news programmes. But should we be...
Read all of 'To Give To ITV, Or Not To Give To ITV. That Is The Question.'.
Wednesday 1 December 2004
Media Guardian: ITV unveils festive line-up Whilst the Media Guardian seems to portray ITV as actually trying to compete this Christmas, once you scratch beyond the surface it's quite clear that ITV isn't deviating much beyond its recent christmas formula....
Read all of 'The Old Bankers'.
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