Posts from
January 2007
Wednesday 31 January 2007
BBC iPlayer gets go-ahead Thankfully proving that the new BBC Trust doesn't drag its heels when making those crucial decisions, the somewhat-controversial iPlayer service finally gets the go-ahead. Compared with the "Let's see what the market supports" approach of Channel...
Read all of 'That was quick'.
Tuesday 30 January 2007
Saga stations to be rebranded as Smooth Radio Whilst other UK radio operators have been very cautious as of late, Guardian Media Group has recently been on the acquisition trail, picking up the Century FM and Saga radio brands and...
Read all of 'Smooth operator'.
Monday 29 January 2007
Dacre's attack: The accused answer back Left-wing, pinko, commie scum newspaper, The Independent, give those recently attacked by Daily Mail editor Paul Dacre, a right to reply. Perhaps most pertinant is this comment by former BBC Director General, Greg...
Read all of 'Responding to Paul Dacre'.
Friday 26 January 2007
Britain is moving on - and leaving Paul Dacre behind Lance Price puts up a sterling defence of the BBC following Daily Mail editor Paul Dacre's recent attack. Unfortunately for Lance, it's published by that bastion of the loony left...
Read all of 'Defending the BBC'.
Tuesday 23 January 2007
Ofcom criticises BBC's on-demand plans Now where do I start? OK, here goes then. First off, why is Ofcom so upset at the BBC offering series longer than 12 episodes for public downloading? Any arbitary restriction will just end up...
Read all of 'Market farces'.
Media Guardian: Dacre attacks BBC 'cultural Marxism' Following on from Daily Mail editor Paul Dacre's attack on the BBC, rumours are that the corporation are acting swiftly and look set to announce a raft of programming aimed at keeping "conservative"...
Read all of 'Pleasing the Daily Mail'.
Monday 22 January 2007
Anyone who, having just arrived back from a visit abroad, switched on Radio 4's The World Tonight last Friday (19 January 2007) would have been forgiven for thinking that a grand re-organization of the radio frequencies had taken place. This...
Read all of 'A storm in a tea-cup'.
Hmmm. First we have the BBC presenting stories about WMDs that the Government doesn't like - stories that turn out, after quite a while, to have been very close to the truth - and then the resulting turmoil, unwarranted departure...
Read all of 'Who's Next? One guess.'.
C4 board to question executives over Big Brother Duncan's darkest hour Whatever the ultimate outcome of the Celebrity Big Brother fiasco for Channel 4, all of this has perhaps helped to emphasise a variety of issues relating to the current...
Read all of 'What happens next?'.
Media Guardian: More licence fee 'slicing' possible Media Guardian: TV and C4 cross swords over funding gap With a price tag of £300m, Ofcom's proposed new public service publisher has to be funded somehow, and it seems that the Television...
Read all of 'Public Service Funding'.
Sunday 21 January 2007
Now, usually, I do not criticise 24 hour news channels for their choices of stories. There are thousands of stories out there every day, and each channel has to decide how they are going to fill the airtime, and it's...
Read all of 'Priorities on Sky News???'.
Saturday 20 January 2007
So the first of the bullies is out on her ear and Big Brother has attained its highest ratings of the series. Two stunningly unsurprising interim results. Other lacks of surprise we can expect in the future include some weak...
Read all of 'When a bigger audience doesn't help'.
Wednesday 17 January 2007
I vowed not to mention the dreaded Celebrity Big Brother in this blog, but if you must read one online article about Celebrity Big Brother, racism and media manipulation then make it this one. However, although the comment "we're only...
Read all of 'Race to the finish'.
Tuesday 16 January 2007
Tonight wins current affairs battle Unsurprising fact of the week so far is that ITV1's Tonight with Trevor McDonald (which can be a misleading title since it often contains precious little of Trevor McDonald) and Coronation Street beat the revamped...
Read all of 'It's not about the ratings'.
Friday 12 January 2007
Fox News Channel constantly advertise themselves as "Fair and Balanced", but the reality of these chyrons, or lower thirds, is quite different. Newshounds has the screenshots. We Report, You Decide!...
Read all of 'Graphically Unbalanced??? Looks like it.'.
Thursday 11 January 2007
Here's one we made much, much earlier - and now it's time to move Sometimes it's difficult to know what to think about the BBC's proposed move for key departments from London to Salford, if it goes ahead that...
Read all of 'Divide and conquer'.
Sunday 7 January 2007
Hacker web sites and forums have been talking for the last week or two about a claim that the AACS (Advanced Access Content System) copy protection system used on both the HD DVD and Blu Ray Disc HD disc formats...
Read all of 'Measure and Countermeasure'.
Thursday 4 January 2007
BBC's Baby Borrowers: experiment or exploitation? Take one underfunded channel desperate for more viewers in order to justify its remit, throw in the current trend for reality TV featuring wives/husbands/children/pets/etc. and Baby Borrowers is (perhaps) the thoroughly predictable end result....
Read all of 'Cheap entertainment'.
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