Posts from
March 2008
Monday 31 March 2008
End BBC grip on licence fee You can tell that the Conservatives aren't in power yet (and desperate for ideas) as they end up grasping an old policy that was rejected by a select committee which included at least one...
Read all of 'This still doesn't work'.
Sunday 30 March 2008
As if GCap Media's stance on DAB was not obvious enough already, listeners to Classic FM who have not been blasted or lulled into inattention by the ads in the run-up to the news at the top of the hour...
Read all of 'We're not talking about it...'.
Friday 28 March 2008
Digital Spy: Channel 4's DAB mux faces more delays This isn't really that surprising but such news will just conspire to add more gloom to radio industry executives; it now looks increasingly likely that Channel 4 Radio (usually tipped as...
Read all of 'More gloom for DAB'.
Tuesday 25 March 2008
It's not even been a year since the change, but it seems XFM's bold vision of an exciting world of giving listeners the power, and ditching it's daytime presenters has been a resounding success!
Read all of 'Resurrect the DJs, Resurrect the DJs!'.
Thursday 20 March 2008
Where Dave leads, "Fiver" apparently follows as digital channel Five Life, is getting a new name.
Read all of 'Attack of the silly TV station names'.
Saturday 15 March 2008
I feel sorry for those who are living in Atlanta, Georgia, USA right now. Tornados are not fun. We in Cornwall just recently had storm to hurrican force winds dumped on us not too long ago,so we have an idea...
Read all of 'CNN US broadcasting internationally.'.
Wednesday 12 March 2008
Ofcom scraps 'public service publisher' plans The only surprise was what took them so long, namely Ofcom finally conceding defeat with the (expected) scrapping of the 'public service publisher' idea. A recent change of Culture Secretary could have triggered this...
Read all of 'It was a bad idea to start with'.
Sunday 9 March 2008
So here we are in this new media world. We download our music and give it to our friends, so the musicians who make it don't get any income. We write our blogs and splatter our opinions all over the...
Read all of 'How do we make any money?'.
Friday 7 March 2008
UK's world-class astronomy project faces closure Turning a blind eye to a magic kingdom of marvellous things For arch Government stupidity there can be few more stunning examples than the threat to close not only Jodrell Bank radio telescope -...
Read all of 'The world's most famous radio receiver to close?'.
Thursday 6 March 2008
The Register: DAB: A very British failure Radio Today: Secret DAB talks at RadioCentre The recent news of GCap's intention to almost totally withdraw from the DAB digital radio platform may be currently overshadowed by GCap's dealings with both its...
Read all of 'Selling the white elephant'.
Wednesday 5 March 2008
There's been very few things of interest to report in the ratings recently, but this week, there is at least one interesting story to report, and it comes in the publically available programme ratings for the various multi-channels. It has...
Read all of 'Ratings Review: BARB week ending 24th February 2008'.
Well it looks like the battle has finally ended. Surely? The news that the House of Lords have refused to hear an appeal from Christian Voice in their attempts to procecute the BBC for blasphemy for showing Jerry Springer: The Opera.
Read all of 'Jerry Springer's non-blaspheming opera'.
If you're one of those people who think that the BBC would be insane to sell off its flagship building, then you might be encouraged by something on Media Guardian this morning.
Read all of 'TV Centre potentially safe and GCap maybe ready to fall'.
Tuesday 4 March 2008
Digital radio rift at Channel 4 Channel 4 has a countdown conundrum all of its own to solve, namely whether to press ahead full steam with the launch of three radio stations in the face of weakening support for DAB...
Read all of 'Bad timing'.
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