Posts from
April 2008
Tuesday 29 April 2008
Will the producers behind the premium-rate phone scams now be individually prosecuted in the wake of ITV's £4m fine? (a) Since ITV has now been punished there's no need to investigate any further (b) Making a scapegoat out of Simon...
Read all of 'Off the hook'.
Monday 28 April 2008
Digital radio needs a makeover, says Ofcom According to Peter Davis who is Ofcom's director of radio and multimedia, DAB just requires a "Freeview-style relaunch" and also claims that "It's not Ofcom's role to save DAB". That last comment may...
Read all of 'On the wrong wavelength'.
Friday 25 April 2008
Murdoch attacks BBC over iPlayer We've already had Peter Bazalgette attack the BBC's public service dominance in a speech this week, so I suppose it just had to be the case that one of the Murdoch boys (in this case,...
Read all of 'Round two'.
Wednesday 23 April 2008
Privatise Channel 4, says Big Brother mogul Want a lively debate combined with a whole host of potential contradictions? Then hire Peter Bazalgette as a guest speaker as what happened with the Royal Television Society last night, so brace yourself...
Read all of 'Mind boggling'.
Thursday 17 April 2008
BBC Programme Catalogue - Now out of action permanently, it seems When a public version of the BBC Programme Catalogue was made available online a while back as a 'beta' version, it became an invaluable resource for anyone interested in...
Read all of 'Catalogue of woe'.
Saturday 12 April 2008
On the more trivial side of broadcasting news recently is the revelation that popular TV personalities Ant and Dec have rushed out and bought the rights to their old shows SM:TV Live and Byker Grove, apparently in a bid to stop digital TV channels buying the rights and showing their previous work without their permission. Or presumably, at all.
Read all of 'Don't be afraid of your past!'.
Friday 11 April 2008
Here's a question for you: What is Google best known for? Is it a) Web services b) Industrial manufacturing c) Food recipies If you think you know the answer (ha!) ring 09012 345678 with your answer for a chance to...
Read all of 'The premium rate phone scandal, cont.'.
The first signs of new management ideas at GCap Media are slowly being revealed. Whilst the company is not yet part of Global Radio (the move has to be agreed by shareholders first), it would seem highly unlikely that the potential new owners would have not been consulted first on todays announcements.
Read all of 'GCap changes tack'.
Wednesday 9 April 2008
There's not much I can say about the latest set of numbers released publically on the BARB website. One story that garners my attention though, is that we have two channels this week, who have scored less than 1,000 viewers,...
Read all of 'Ratings Review: BARB week ending 30th March 2008'.
Ofcom raps BBC over Live Earth swearing Last summer's Live Earth concerts turned out to be controversial not only for the nature of the BBC's coverage (judged by some to be non-partisan though that's a whole separate debate), but also...
Read all of 'Earthy language'.
Tuesday 8 April 2008
Heart and Galaxy local shows cut How local should 'local radio' be? The problem is that there's no straight answer, despite Global Radio chief executive Ashley Tabor assuring us otherwise. He points out that the Global strategy is to offer...
Read all of 'Clearing the airwaves'.
Tuesday 1 April 2008
Top of the pile when it came to today's April Fool jokes was an inspired effort from the BBC which cleverly used special effects to make something happen that wouldn't naturally be the case, namely to make penguins fly....
Read all of 'Pigs Penguins can fly'.
So it's finally happened - GCap has succumbed to Global Media, with the company being sold for £375m.
Read all of 'GCap Media: 2005 - 2008'.
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