Posts from
May 2007
Wednesday 30 May 2007
Digital Spy: Axed 'Grandstand' scoops RTS award The BBC in their folly wisdom may have decided to axe Grandstand for running too long being old-fashioned, but at least the RTS judges recognised that Grandstand was a "national institution" and a...
Read all of 'And the winner is...'.
Thursday 24 May 2007
Ofcom makes landmark ruling over Big Brother Channel 4 review document (PDF) Ofcom Content Sanctions Committee report (PDF) So Ofcom managed to publish their verdict in time before the next series of Big Brother (which starts next week), and the...
Read all of 'Public flogging'.
Wednesday 23 May 2007
'Brown may sell off Channel 4' It may be true that privatising Channel 4 would now have far less an effect on British broadcasting compared to what would have been the case if it was privatised ten or more years...
Read all of 'Warning shot'.
BBC high definition television channel Public Value Test (PDF) Contained within this PDF document are some interesting facts about the planned future of the BBC's HD TV service, and in particular relating to the BBC's short term plans to provide...
Read all of 'The future of BBC HD'.
Tuesday 22 May 2007
Sky News: Mylene Fronts Sky's Klass New Test Card Sky belatedly jumps on the "Test Cards are great even though they are so retro" bandwagon in this latest attempt to get the rest of us to sign up for Sky...
Read all of 'Test Card F's 40th Birthday, Sky style'.
Friday 18 May 2007
Five nabs Neighbours. To follow up on what my esteemed colleague Andrew Bowden posted earlier, it looks like it will be an aussie double bill of soaps, as for the first time ever on British Television, Home and Away &...
Read all of 'New Home for the Neighbours'.
BBC pulls out of Neighbours fight And the hot story on Ramsey Street this week is that the BBC has withdrawn from the bidding for the programme, after contract renewal would have left it paying over three times the current...
Read all of 'No more Neigbours on the BBC'.
Thursday 17 May 2007
Xfm stations axe daytime DJs What do you call a radio station without presenters? Well, Xfm it looks like. The network of alternative music playing radio stations has today announced its ditching the DJ during the daytime - 10am through...
Read all of 'Hang the DJ, Hang the DJ'.
I haven't been following the ratings too much recently, but I do notice in the latest publicly available figures on the BARB website, some very interesting stats. It is noticeable that Sky One has lost a lot of ground and...
Read all of 'Ratings Review: BARB 05th June 2007'.
Tuesday 15 May 2007
Ofcom finds 'stark' future for kids' TV Ofcom's findings that children's television has tripled in five years since 2002 is not that surprising, given the BBC launched two digital spin-off channels, and ITV launched CITV. However the story that the...
Read all of 'Oh, won't someone think of the children?'.
Monday 14 May 2007
thinkbox Well, here's a blast from the past about which I am ambivalent. According to the about us page, thinkbox is "the television marketing body for the main UK commercial broadcasters - Channel 4, Five, GMTV, ITV, Sky media, Turner...
Read all of 'Monday's Newcomers'.
Situation critical The development of the iPlayer has been such a long and drawn-out affair that you can't help but think that there have been some fundamental failures in the project's management or its software development. (Or maybe it was...
Read all of 'Managing change'.
Sunday 13 May 2007
And now, finally, we know when Tony Blair will leave Number Ten. As the media - and Blair himself - continue to be concerned with what his legacy will be, our regular correspondent Russ J Graham considers what future historians...
Read all of 'Blair's Broadcasting Legacy'.
Tuesday 8 May 2007
So, the recent trend for news channels to broadcast on the net continues. The most recent addition is BBC News 24, which can now be watched live on the net. My only concern is that the bandwidth stream being allocated...
Read all of 'Watching the news on the net'.
Monday 7 May 2007
Regular readers of EMC MediaBlog will recall that the BBC decided to spin off BBC Broadcast, its broadcast arm, as a self-contained company. Now called Red Bee Media, the former BBC Broadcast handles playout for BBC television as well as...
Read all of 'The folly of flogging BBC Broadcast'.
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