Posts from
December 2006
Sunday 31 December 2006
Wave farewell to AM radio, say experts The Telegraph talks of "the higher quality of digital broadcasts". Compared with? FM? Erm... potentially, yes; unfortunately, most stations on DAB are streamed at a bit-rate nowhere near enough to do them justice,...
Read all of 'The great "digital is better" myth, part 641594827'.
Monday 25 December 2006
Two programmes that are in some way related to two long-running series that originally started barely two months apart many years ago (during the winter of 1963-4) ended up by some quirk of fate being shown next to each other...
Read all of 'A tale of two programmes'.
Tuesday 19 December 2006
Ofcom refuses to guarantee spectrum Since nobody will make money from public service broadcasting, it's perhaps a depressingly predictable response in an era when central government is more interested in pound signs than public service. If such an adminstration had...
Read all of 'It's the thought that counts'.
Monday 18 December 2006
Jowell: BBC Salford move 'expected' Tessa Jowell's comments relating to the BBC's proposed move of key departments to Salford seem to imply that the move will definitely go ahead, but these statements can easily be interpreted to mean different things...
Read all of 'Great expectations'.
Sunday 17 December 2006
Do flat-screen TVs eat more energy? Bad news this month for those of us considering a flat-screen Hi-Def TV who are also energy conscious: they can take more energy than a conventional CRT (Cathode Ray Tube)-based set. This came as...
Read all of 'Flat screens a bad idea - for now?'.
Friday 15 December 2006
No this isn't a post about Steve Irwin (and he isn't in the above picture), but Sky Three tonight decided in their infinite wisdom to plaster "Robbie On The Road: We Are Not Alone" across the top of the...
Read all of 'Crocodile shock'.
Sunday 10 December 2006
Transcript of the proceedings This evening on the BBC Parliament channel there was coverage of a Culture, Media and Sport committee meeting that discussed various aspects of the regulation of quiz TV channels as part of an ongoing inquiry...
Read all of 'An informed choice?'.
Thursday 7 December 2006
Going on from my comments about radio-advertised charities the other day, last night I went to a presentation at the Royal Geographical Society by the Population and Sustainability Network (PSN). The theme of the evening was "Population Increase ? the...
Read all of 'More reasons not to give goats at Christmas'.
Tuesday 5 December 2006
I notice that Classic FM is running a joint promotion in the run-up to Christmas with the theme "The Alternative 12 Days of Christmas". Every day participants can win one of a number of "alternative" gifts ? such as "four...
Read all of 'Where does the money go?'.
Friday 1 December 2006
Tech Digest: 4oD launches next week Channel 4: How to use 4oD Channel 4's 4oD service is perhaps one of the most significant media news stories this year, but you could be forgiven for not knowing about it because its...
Read all of 'Not on demand'.
Media Guardian: Channel 4 to keep Big Brother If the rumours are true, Channel 4 are planning to subject the UK viewing public with another three years of boring, self-obsessed, shouting, moronic idiots who all think they're God's gift to...
Read all of 'Three more years of total quality television.'.
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