Posts from
November 2006
Wednesday 29 November 2006
That's the question that I am sure many people at the BBC are asking at the moment. On the face of it, Grade's departure is an enormous slap in the face for the Corporation. But is that really the case?...
Read all of 'Betraying ? or just leaving?'.
Tuesday 28 November 2006
Grade steps down from BBC Although some might disagree with this sentiment, it's arguable that Michael Grade somehow just wasn't quite right for the BBC, and the corporation seems to be having major problems relating to its licence fee settlement...
Read all of 'Switching sides'.
BBC News: Alan 'Fluff' Freeman Alan Freeman has died, aged 79. For other forty years, Fluff was a radio institution - from Pick of the Pops to his legendary rock shows which mixed metal with classical music, and he will...
Read all of 'A radio legend? Not 'arf.'.
Sunday 26 November 2006
Unless I'm away, items seldom stay long on my Sky+ system: I've usually watched them and either wiped them or archived them to DVD before the week is out. So why is last week's Torchwood still on my hard drive,...
Read all of 'Over the top'.
Saturday 25 November 2006
Is it me, or has the BBC's Click technology programme gone completely off the rails while I wasn't looking? I haven't seen the programme for some time and happened to switch on News 24 this morning just before it...
Read all of 'Click off'.
Friday 24 November 2006
The Cold War re-ignites, to a degree. When you do as I have done and start divorce proceedings from television, you are asking for trouble. Like lovers splitting up, you occasionally seek solice with each other, hoping that the flame...
Read all of 'Peanutvision'.
ITV dumps Love Island ITV dumping Love Island after a disappointing second series was as predictable as night following day, but what is amusing is the response from Simon Shaps, namely, to quote: "Mr Shaps said he did not now...
Read all of 'Island chopping'.
Thursday 23 November 2006
Just as the war between HD-DVD and Blu-Ray Disc is ensuring that comparatively few people buy either HD disc format (leaving the way open to downloads superseding packaged media on video as well as audio), along comes something to...
Read all of 'Beatles breathe new life into hi-res audio'.
Al Jazeera's English service gets into its stride Despite US protestations, nobody can surely now be in any doubt that "Al Jazeera is the new frontier" as Sir David Frost claims in their trailers. Looking at the English language service...
Read all of 'Changing the news agenda'.
Tuesday 21 November 2006
Branson: Sky already controlling ITV As of today, Richard Branson's pubilcity machine swung into action in order to exert pressure on Ofcom, the Government, BSkyB and anyone else who just happens to be listening that BSkyB is the big bad...
Read all of 'But is it?'.
Friday 17 November 2006
Murdoch buys say in ITV's future Two days ago, James Murdoch said that he didn't see "much of an impact" relating to an ITV/NTL deal, so therefore the reason given for BSkyB today buying a 17.9% stake in ITV -...
Read all of 'Sky surprise'.
Thursday 9 November 2006
ITV and NTL 'in merger talks' ITV is in trouble. NTL is in trouble. Both have complimentary business strategies (don't laugh). So on paper at least, an ITV/NTL merger makes a great deal of sense, if only to prop each...
Read all of 'Double trouble'.
Tuesday 7 November 2006
Stop everything until we know who's up who. After who knows how many years since television bested radio permanently, that "ancient" medium bounces back... with the middle classes, anyway. "The Archers". 15,000 episodes young. It has, slowly, moved with the...
Read all of 'Oooh noooh!'.
Commercial challenge to BBC iPlayer Relating to the British Interactive Publishing Association's "challenge" to the BBC's iPlayer proposal, it seems very self-evident that the BBC's commercial competition is too busy worrying about the BBC. Or maybe not, since its members...
Read all of 'Interactive chaos'.
Sunday 5 November 2006
There have been many rumours around the net about the launch of Al-Jazeera International. So many and for so long, that this has become one of the most anticipated launches this year, on a par with the new channels from...
Read all of 'Al-Jazeera International: Do Conservatives want to see it?'.
Friday 3 November 2006
ITV to launch innovation arm The announcement that ITV is going to create a new department (ITV Imagine) that will be devoted to generating creative ideas looks like a step in the right direction, at least on paper. In essence...
Read all of 'Here's a thought'.
Wednesday 1 November 2006
There was a time, not so long ago, when ITV was the country's leading advertising medium, with vast amounts of money changing hands for expensive spots. Now, as ITV1 continues to lose its way, the precipitous fall in popularity -...
Read all of 'The trouble with ITV'.
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