Posts from
July 2006
Friday 28 July 2006
ITV is losing two useless items, one very quickly, one after a long, painful demise. Some terrible rubbish that ITV had cluelessly thought would steal Saturday nights has bit the dust after one outing, having picked up 1.7million comatose or...
Read all of 'Thanks for coming, you've been great'.
Thursday 27 July 2006
Ofcom proposes new spectrum charge If it wasn't readily apparent before this announcement, it should be blindingly obvious by now. The government (it seems via Ofcom) wants to earn as much money out of the digital switchover as is technically...
Read all of 'Feeling the squeeze'.
What can be said about ITV at the minute? It's Big Brother "beater" is doing appallingly (with an added bonus that Channel 4 is beating it in the ratings). The company ditched one (admittedly awful sounding) Saturday night show after...
Read all of 'Will the last viewer turn out the lights?'.
Wednesday 19 July 2006
ITV lunchtime news could be cut to 30 mins 18th July 2006, 10pm: BBC One - 10 O'Clock News, 4.5 million viewers Channel Five - CSI: NY, 2.4 million viewers BBC Two - Grumpy Old Holidays, 2.3 million viewers Channel...
Read all of 'A clue for the clueless'.
Friday 14 July 2006
ITV shares lose more ground There is certainly a strong possibilty that by this time next week ITV plc will have been taken over by another company. ITV's share price fell below the psychologically important £1 barrier at close of...
Read all of 'Tipping point'.
Wednesday 12 July 2006
Neighbours could air on BBC3 This is interesting. The originally planned remit of BBC Three was intended to have a higher percentage of imported programmes as part of its schedule, but that particular proposal was rejected as being 'not imaginative...
Read all of 'Collision course'.
Monday 10 July 2006
It's surely a truism, but in my view the big problem with commercial broadcasting is... the commercials. Or, more accurately, the crass, ill-conceived and inappropriate ones. Typical is the supermarket chain that will break the mood of a peaceful programme...
Read all of 'Unnatural breaks'.
Sunday 9 July 2006
Many thanks to Malcolm Smith for bringing this to our attention. Alexandra Palace Television Group Chairman: Richard E Norman CBE; Treasurer: Tony Wilding; Secretary: Frank Phillip ****URGENT PRESS RELEASE**** Alexandra Palace TV Heritage Faces Destruction John Thompson, curator of the...
Read all of 'Alexandra Palace TV Heritage Faces Destruction'.
Friday 7 July 2006
Thompson: BBC faces ongoing change To be honest I'm not entirely sure that Mark Thompson is fully aware or even prepared for the possible long term consequences of what he is proposing for the BBC, or indeed whether the planned...
Read all of 'Future imperfect'.
Thursday 6 July 2006
Well, having been listening to the FM radio all day, rather than the DAB radio, I have been pleasantly surprised by the new station on the block in my area. It's called Atlantic FM and it is not related at...
Read all of 'New on the radio: Atlantic FM'.
Tuesday 4 July 2006
BBC risks rivals' ire with fantasy radio MyBBCRadio is precisely the sort of technology-led innovation that the BBC has the capability to do extremely well and will be totally different to what the UK commercial radio sector has to offer...
Read all of 'Cloud cuckoo band?'.
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