Posts from
July 2005
Thursday 28 July 2005
Independents lash out over BBC report To be honest, it's unlikely that an increase in the number of independent productions commissioned would risk killing off the BBC altogether as a production centre since there will always be people that are...
Read all of 'Wrong and not-so-wrong'.
Media Guardian Setanta set to challenge Sky for slice of the action Am I the only one to be getting completely fed up of down right misinformation from the press about Freeview? Take this little quote from the Media Guardian....
Read all of 'Mis-information from Media Guardian'.
Wednesday 27 July 2005
As we come up towards ITV50 in a couple of months time, and in the wake of Lord Bragg's variable-quality self-congratulation for the so-called 'People's Channel', there is a lot of ITV-bashing going on. Some of us see the third...
Read all of 'Is ITV-bashing justified?'.
Friday 22 July 2005
We are sad to note the death of Ray Herbert, one of John Logie Baird's co-workers, on 20 July 2005. Ray Herbert was one of the last remaining former employees of Baird Television Limited, joining the company after it had...
Read all of 'Television Pioneer Dies'.
Wednesday 20 July 2005
Jowell won't rule out 'top slicing' licence fee Although Tessa Jowell has declared that "top-slicing" the licence fee (ie. giving a portion of it to other broadcasters) is still an option that's under consideration, my opinion is that this is...
Read all of 'Nothing to fear'.
Key staff axed in BBC newsroom cuts If you were in charge of cutting back operations in BBC News, would you remove the positions of two of the most experienced journalists in the key fields of race relations and crime...
Read all of 'Crime scene'.
Tuesday 19 July 2005
Tough. No more repeats, promises Grade OK, it's not quite as clear cut as that. Michael Grade has promised to remove all repeats from BBC One and Two by 2016. Looks shocking, doesn't it? Well, of course - what happens...
Read all of 'And if you missed tonight's show...'.
Monday 18 July 2005
BBC plans for 'ultra-local' TV 'threaten regional press' In one sense you can tell that there is real anxiety amongst the proprietors of regional newspapers since the fortunes of newspapers in general have declined noticeably in recent years; some...
Read all of 'Protect and survive'.
Thursday 14 July 2005
ITV boss admits summer schedule failings Tucked away in this article about ITV's summer schedule failures (Celebrity Love Island failed because we foolishly promised advertisers that we would target the 16-34 demographic during the 'quiet' season thereby losing everyone else...
Read all of 'Buy now, pay later'.
Tuesday 12 July 2005
BBC3 programming costs soar Since BBC Three is a core part of the BBC's digital strategy, it's not that surprising to learn that a lot of money has been invested in the channel's programmes in an attempt to establish the...
Read all of 'Money well spent?'.
Monday 11 July 2005
In pictures: London blasts [BBC - caution, possibly disturbing images] At the point that terror came to London, two of Transdiffusion's staff were coincidentally on trains heading to the scene. Our 2 hour journey from Merseyside became a 5 hour...
Read all of 'News values'.
The Story of ITV - Programme Three Well. A fortnight ago, I blogged a critique of ITV's Story of ITV programme. The first episode had been a curate's egg - parts of it were excellent, but an awful lot of...
Read all of 'The Story of ITV - Programme, er, Three, is it?'.
Tuesday 5 July 2005
BBC Trust interviewees 'should face public grilling' Idea of the week so far: "In an era when everybody votes interactively via their TV, interviews [for BBC Trust appointments] should be webcast, so people can see who these individuals are, and...
Read all of 'Too many questions'.
Certainty or Security ? The Path to Digital - a speech by the Chief Executive of Ofcom "If commercial TV wants to cross-promote commercial radio that is part of the same group, then that too can be building public...
Read all of 'Meaningless Statement Of The Day'.
Monday 4 July 2005
Media Guardian : Who'll be the big winner in 2012? Will Sky be number one? Will Freeview be instead? Or will we all have gone video-on-demand loopy? And how will TV pay for itself if we skip all those ads?...
Read all of 'Who Will Win? Who Knows'.
Media Guardian: ITV seeks help from above for the God slot So ITV wants cash to keep on doing its public service bit. Now if ITV was in a pure digital enviroment, and didn't have it's lucrative analogue licenses, I'd...
Read all of 'Cash For God (Slot)'.
ITV2 snaps at Sky One's heels Basically there are several processes at work here: firstly ITV2 has been doing well due to the endless cross promotions on ITV1 as well as cross-channel tie-ins, whilst programme promotions on Sky One are...
Read all of 'What's next'.
Jackanory turns the page after nine-year silence This article is fine but for one tiny detail: Jackanory was briefly revived for a single story shown on BBC Knowledge not long before it turned into BBC Four early in 2002. But...
Read all of 'Telling tales'.
Sunday 3 July 2005
ITV faces £6.6billion takeover bid from Time Warner consortium [Forbes.com] The ridiculous policy of letting foreign companies buy British broadcasters may be about to have a result, if the Mail On Sunday is to be believed (although that is a...
Read all of 'AOLTimeWarnerITV?'.
Saturday 2 July 2005
From my inbox today: Mr Pot, meet Mr Kettle. I point out an error of fact and you deliver a hissy fit of the highest order. Mediablog is detracting from the valuable work of Transdiffusion. It's like a genital wart....
Read all of 'The Voice Of Reason'.
Friday 1 July 2005
You know, it's an odd world. You write an article the dares criticise the lovely and fragrant Ms Tessa Jowell, stupid cow in chief of the broadcasting world, and you immediate set the internet on fire. Emails, letters to public...
Read all of 'I don't want to set the world on fire'.
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