Posts from
June 2008
Tuesday 24 June 2008
Digital Spy: BBC phasing out quarter-size credits As somehow befitting a modern broadcaster, it's taken a while but they got there in the end, namely that someone within the BBC has finally realised that the recently-imposed corporate end credit promotion...
Read all of 'It makes you wonder'.
Monday 23 June 2008
BBC: 'We'll share expertise to save licence fee' This could theoretically end up being the best solution to the lingering problem of how best to support broadcasters with public service remits when money is hard to come by and when...
Read all of 'Two-way street'.
On the internet, news can sometimes travel too fast
Read all of 'Breaking the news too fast'.
Tuesday 17 June 2008
Here's an interesting one. The Guardian are reporting that the Scottish Government are consulting about a possible ban of alcohol related TV ads before the 9pm watershed. It's a question that has been raised nationwide, but so far not discounted.
Read all of 'No booze ads in Scotland?'.
Monday 16 June 2008
ITV News: Beat the property slump Tonight's "Beat the property slump" on ITV1 (which for the next couple of days can be seen again via ITV Catch Up if you have the Silverlight plugin) contained an interesting media-related accusation: "One...
Read all of 'Property pawn'.
Wednesday 11 June 2008
Product placement: UK to oppose European Union directive, says Andy Burnham Now here's a surprise that some people may not have seen coming, namely the fact that Culture Secretary Andy Burnham is actually defending the integrity of television programmes over...
Read all of 'Shock! Horror!'.
Saturday 7 June 2008
Doctor Who Restoration Team Forum: Colour recovery Colour Recovery Working Group » Full gamut colour recovery During the early years of colour television in the UK, colour videotape recording was very expensive, therefore videotapes were often reused or junked...
Read all of 'Wine from water'.
Wednesday 4 June 2008
MTV fined £255k for offensive material Maybe MTV deserves the fine just for the mere notion of showing lots of cheaply-produced, derivative, clichéd and target audience-obsessed identikit reality TV fodder such as Totally Jodie Marsh. At any time....
Read all of 'Perhaps missing the point'.
EU minded to block BBC aid for Channel 4's digital switchover This if anything is potentially good news for both the BBC and (paradoxically) Channel 4, namely that the European Union seems to think that diverting cash from the licence...
Read all of 'Left to its own devices?'.
Monday 2 June 2008
Is it too late to save the Whale? Whatever James Whale himself might say, flogging double-sided bed linen, toasters and gold bangles is still a demotion from his previous radio presenter job on TalkSport; Bid TV's advertised salary (circa £25k)...
Read all of 'While stocks last'.
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