Posts from
January 2008
Thursday 31 January 2008
Eliot (right) and Carolyn's on-screen 'avatar'. BBC copyright. Wednesday (Tuesday in Scotland) saw the latest in a new documentary strand, Wonderland, on BBC2. This week it was "Virtual Adultery and Cyberspace Love" and was billed as follows: "Carolyn is...
Read all of 'Nothing new under the virtual sun'.
Tuesday 29 January 2008
Enders Analysis have done something that the radio industry wanted them to do. A couple of radio bigwigs have been talking about a crisis in DAB digital radio, a crisis that by the way doesn't actually exist except in the...
Read all of 'Report talks down DAB radio, with dubious accuracy.'.
It can't have come as much of a surprise that BSkyB have been instructed to reduce their stake in ITV plc from 17.9% to at most 7.5%. Nay, not even to BSkyB itself. So much so, that there's almost nothing...
Read all of 'BSkyB forced out of ITV'.
Monday 28 January 2008
Not being a sports fan by any means, this was a story I almost missed. But it's a story that is actually quite interesting. It seems that in Euro 2008 this year, ITV1 will not be showing the competition final....
Read all of 'ITV say nein to the Euro 2008 final'.
Sunday 27 January 2008
Every independent media commentator knows that the Daily Mail is a conservative newspaper with a well established line in BBC bashing. I have previously documented myself just how desperate the Daily Mail is to discredit the BBC at EVERY opportunity....
Read all of 'The Daily Mail and BBC bashing.'.
Friday 25 January 2008
A bit later in the week than I usually post these, but here we go with another review of the latest publically released BARB ratings. First thing I'm going to talk about is Setanta, as I have noticed in the...
Read all of 'Ratings Review: week ending 13 January 2008'.
Wednesday 23 January 2008
'BBC outbid rivals by £2m to keep Ross' Like a pack of hounds closing in to kill its prey, Channel 4's executives are banking on any perceived missteps in how the BBC has spent its licence fee money on 'big...
Read all of 'The smell of blood'.
Tuesday 22 January 2008
A top-sliced licence fee will trigger the BBC's destruction Whether de-coupling the licence fee from the BBC is the way forward or not (and I personally have my doubts), I can't help but think that the BBC still hasn't yet...
Read all of 'How to make the BBC fit for the twenty-first century?'.
Digital Spy: BBC Three unveils new look, new ethos It's been five years since the launch of BBC Three together with distinctive idents that feature 'blob' characters, and five years is a long time in the world of fast-paced 'youth'...
Read all of 'In the pink'.
Monday 21 January 2008
Tonight was the first occasion that an advertiser sponsored a terrestrial channel for a few hours (as opposed to just a programme) since the UK television sponsorship regulations were relaxed by Ofcom at the start of this year. Car...
Read all of 'Channel Fiat'.
Thursday 17 January 2008
Waking up to a new era Today is the 25th anniversary of the launch of Breakfast Time, which was the BBC's response to the soon-to-launch TV-am, a new ITV contractor that was shortly due to launch a nationwide breakfast television...
Read all of 'An early start'.
Tuesday 15 January 2008
First-night defeat for News at Ten Mark Lawson: Sir Trevor back - with same old news Last night's relaunch of ITV's News At Ten may have lost out in the ratings to the BBC's 10 O'Clock News (3.8 versus 4.9...
Read all of 'The bongs are back'.
Saturday 12 January 2008
As my colleagues have already pointed out, DAB, or more precisely the Digital One multiplex, has lost two more stations. Oneword's closure was not a big surprise, it was expected and predicted for quite some time. And Core has been...
Read all of 'Digital One suffers more closures'.
Friday 11 January 2008
More BBC staff to move to Salford Despite the best of intentions, you can't help but think that something somewhere has gone badly wrong with how the reorganisation of the BBC has been planned. The concept of splitting the BBC...
Read all of 'Badly planned?'.
Thursday 10 January 2008
Two digital radio stations to close Barely two weeks into 2008 and digital radio has now lost not one but two radio stations. The final closure of Oneword was just a formality after Channel 4 sold its stake last week...
Read all of 'Not just Oneword'.
Wednesday 9 January 2008
Sarkozy wants to create a French BBC It's been barely a year since international news channel, France 24, hit the airwaves. The station - which broadcasts in English and French - was created in the Jacques Chirac era, with an...
Read all of 'France 24 - Fin'.
Friday 4 January 2008
Channel 4 pulls out of digital speech station When it was started seven years ago, it was seen as the first big competitor for Radio 4. As ever, the hype never really lived up to the expectation and for some...
Read all of 'The end for Oneword?'.
Thursday 3 January 2008
Rovers Return for another bite at Friday nights This new schedule for ITV1 (commencing January 12) is probably the most important thing to happen for the channel in many years, although its overall significance may not be immediately obvious....
Read all of 'New year, new(ish) ITV1'.
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