Posts from
July 2008
Monday 28 July 2008
Plans for reduced public service role are good news for ITV Despite much talk of 'radical' solutions being required for the "digital age" - whatever that is, although for the majority of people it just means more repeats, woefully produced...
Read all of 'Easy options'.
Friday 25 July 2008
Whilst flicking through the channels this evening I noticed that QVC has already started to sell Christmas decorations. In July....
Read all of 'Five months and counting'.
ukfree.tv: Why Freesat did not launch with 230 channels At the moment this story has only appeared on one website as well as being fairly one-sided (there's no rebuttal from Sky), so bear this in mind when considering its overall...
Read all of 'Slowly does it'.
Thursday 24 July 2008
If you haven't seen the BBC's Olympic monkey, then it's time to head over to the BBC website now.
Read all of 'The Story of the Monkey and the Olympics'.
Tuesday 22 July 2008
Once again, a sizeable proportion of online users are being discriminated against by on-demand programme providers: this time by Five's TV-on-demand service Demand Five. If they were visually impaired, for example, this discrimination would probably be illegal - but...
Read all of 'Demand Five - another case of online discrimination'.
Thursday 17 July 2008
Ofcom chairman disputes BBC's 'unique link' with licence fee payers There's more than a hint of trying to defend the indefensible when Ofcom chairman David Currie yet again attempts to weaken the connection between the licence fee and the BBC,...
Read all of 'Lies, statistics, and ITV viewing figures'.
Wednesday 16 July 2008
The "what's on" wars: BBC Local vs commercial radio Now is not a good time to be involved in commercial UK radio, it seems. Advertisers are trimming their marketing budgets in anticipation of a possible economic recession, and this has...
Read all of 'The rules have changed'.
Sunday 13 July 2008
The Cambs Times: Fen Radio expected to close by the end of July As of today this story may not be widely reported, but it seems that radio group UKRD is on the verge of handing back a second local...
Read all of 'Scaling down'.
Saturday 12 July 2008
Of course, as everyone might expect, there was enormous demand for the iPhone 3G when it came out earlier in the week: it's obviously an excellent product with several of the features that people wanted added to the new...
Read all of 'O2 and iPhone 3G: Where 'first come first served' is a lie'.
Wednesday 9 July 2008
Broadcast Now reports that the director of ITV Regions, Michael Jeremy, has sent a letter to all staff in the regions detailing the timetable for redundancies and their plans for creating their new vision of regional ITV. I say this...
Read all of 'ITV regional cutbacks: devil in the details.'.
Thursday 3 July 2008
Channel 4 ponders move into regional news as ITV retreats Currently ITV plc has a big dilemma on its hands. Its share price is several times lower than it was three years ago, and the current economic situation means that...
Read all of 'Role reversal'.
Tuesday 1 July 2008
Bannister says anti-fakery regulations are damaging BBC output It may be true that after the recent premium rate interactivity scandals, both television and radio have become rather more bureaucratic as a result, with more form-filling and back watching to be...
Read all of 'Getting the balance right'.
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