Posts from
February 2008
Thursday 28 February 2008
Fincham replaces Shaps in ITV shakeup Fincham for Shaps: it's time for a new era at ITV When Michael Grade took over the helm of ITV, he didn't immediately sack half of ITV's creative team because coming from an 'old...
Read all of 'Good timing'.
Monday 25 February 2008
Fire fighting: ITV's revamp In an attempt to turn its schedule around, ITV had recently gone for a relatively brave approach in terms of ITV1's programming which will take a while to attract viewers that are more accustomed to the...
Read all of 'No home to call its own'.
Monday 18 February 2008
BBC under fire from ITV over awards sponsorship Normally the BBC doesn't have problems with covering specific events (sporting or otherwise) that have a commercial sponsor, because avoiding any mention of the relevant sponsor would be highly impractical as well...
Read all of 'Both sides of the coin'.
Thursday 14 February 2008
eSkeptic: Journalist-Bites-Reality! – How broadcast journalism is flawed in such a fundamental way that its utility as a tool for informing viewers is almost nil. I'm in the process of reading Andrew Keen's book The Cult of the Amateur, in...
Read all of 'Trust and new media'.
Wednesday 13 February 2008
Last night was an important occasion for BBC Three, as it unveiled both a new(ish) schedule and a whole new look for the channel. The blob idents became history with a 'pink world' concept taking its place; presumably the...
Read all of 'BBC Three, relaunched'.
Monday 11 February 2008
As my colleagues here have been reporting here on the MediaBlog, GCap have annouced the sale of Xfm outside London, the closure of all GCap's digital-only stations on the national Digital One multiplex, and the sale of GCap's majority stake...
Read all of 'GCap's DAB debacle'.
The GCap/DAB story just keeps coming up with new twists as more articles get published. In an article about the economic viability of DAB on the Media Guardian website, there's an interesting comment from Fru Hazlitt.
Read all of 'The GCap/DAB saga continues'.
Whilst most of the emphasis has gone onto GCap closing digital stations and selling its stake in DigitalOne, this mornings announcement also included some other major news that stands the chance of being less widely considered by the press. GCap are selling XFM.
Read all of 'GCap Abandons XFM'.
Sunday 10 February 2008
Times Online: GCap's Fru Hazlitt switches off digital radio What ostensibly seems like a short-term cost cutting measure in a bid to make GCap seem more profitable for potential suitors could end up having a catastrophic effect for the prospects...
Read all of 'On the brink of disaster?'.
If I were to say to you, Simon Bates, what does he do, you'd probably say, he presents Classic FM's breakfast show and he used to be a BBC Radio 1 DJ, and occasional host of Top Of The Pops...
Read all of 'Classic FM's Simon Bates on US television!'.
Wednesday 6 February 2008
Over the last few months we've been rolling out a new feature at Transdiffusion. Nicknamed "More About", it involves putting in a link next to articles to find out similar articles on particular subject.
Read all of 'The popular and unpopular with TBS writers'.
Saturday 2 February 2008
Digital Spy: Ofcom's HDTV plans "jeopardise" Freeview You just have to laugh at the intentions behind some so-called "surveys". Ask people whether they would prefer five high definition channels as opposed to (say) four, and the inevitable response for most...
Read all of 'Compromising options'.
Friday 1 February 2008
BBC News: BBC considers enlarging credits When the BBC introduced a new style of end credits for its TV programmes last year, the intention was to enable a new style of "end credit promotion" (or ECP) to be used wherever...
Read all of 'Size matters'.
I've been a technology journalist of one sort or another since 1974, and in my view there are two fundamental requirements for the job: an ability to write, of course, but also an ability to research. You really need to...
Read all of 'Spiegel im Spiegel'.
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