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Monday 14 May 2007
thinkbox Well, here's a blast from the past about which I am ambivalent. According to the about us page, thinkbox is "the television marketing body for the main UK commercial broadcasters - Channel 4, Five, GMTV, ITV, Sky media, Turner...
Read all of 'Monday's Newcomers'.
Friday 24 November 2006
The Cold War re-ignites, to a degree. When you do as I have done and start divorce proceedings from television, you are asking for trouble. Like lovers splitting up, you occasionally seek solice with each other, hoping that the flame...
Read all of 'Peanutvision'.
Tuesday 7 November 2006
Stop everything until we know who's up who. After who knows how many years since television bested radio permanently, that "ancient" medium bounces back... with the middle classes, anyway. "The Archers". 15,000 episodes young. It has, slowly, moved with the...
Read all of 'Oooh noooh!'.
Saturday 21 October 2006
Paul Waters has died. Starting his career with ATV, then moving on to BBC telefilm and then BBC radio, "Paulie" did mostly behind-the-scenes jobs until the invention of "Wake Up to Wogan", where he gradually moved closer to front-of-house, not...
Read all of 'Paul Waters'.
Saturday 30 September 2006
Such a little word. And we'll be coming back to "but" shortly. However (which is "but" in adult clothing, I know; don't write in). However, let us start by not parroting faithfully the line all newspapers chose to latch on...
Read all of '"But"'.
Tuesday 26 September 2006
An incident that only occurred in the mind of a Daily Mail journalist provides a Transdiffusion writer the opportunity of venting his spleen. Again. As a professed fan of the BBC, I never like having to criticize them. The good...
Read all of 'Speeding demons'.
Sunday 27 August 2006
Cracker creator blasts 'chav' TV - The Observer I've been saying it - here and in other places - for years. Now Jimmy McGovern, one of Britain's most talented writers, is also saying it. At the Edinburgh Television Festival,...
Read all of 'Chavtastic ITV'.
Friday 28 July 2006
ITV is losing two useless items, one very quickly, one after a long, painful demise. Some terrible rubbish that ITV had cluelessly thought would steal Saturday nights has bit the dust after one outing, having picked up 1.7million comatose or...
Read all of 'Thanks for coming, you've been great'.
Tuesday 20 June 2006
CBBC: bosses to axe Top of the Pops It's bad news from the point of view of television history - the loss of any show after 40+ years is always bad news - but the decision is probably correct. Appaling...
Read all of 'Bottom of the Pops'.
Monday 24 April 2006
BBC scraps sports show Grandstand BBC.co.uk Oh, the wacky world of broadcaster reasoning. "BBC executives believe that in the new digital on-demand world, in which people consume news, sport and entertainment on computers and mobile phones as well as radio...
Read all of 'BBC scraps Grandstand'.
Thursday 20 April 2006
Flamboyant TV chief who was drawn to conflict dies You've got to love UK libel laws. They're sufficiently nutzo that people from around the world flock to the UK in order to sue their enemies, knowing that it is easy...
Read all of '"Flamboyant" is a wonderful word'.
Saturday 1 April 2006
BBC trumpets new visual feast for viewers. Always at the forefront of technology, the BBC has announced that it is to begin trials of a new line standard. Since 1985, television in Britain has been on the 625-line "standard definition"...
Read all of 'New line standard for BBCtv'.
Tuesday 9 August 2005
Google Earth software for Windows. Probably not all that relevant here, but bear with me. This excellent free program from the guys at Google is an amazing thing on general principles. The ability to fly around the world (and just...
Read all of 'Birds' Eye Viewers'.
Monday 8 August 2005
ABC News online special edition [Go.com] Peter Jennings, the anchor of ABC World News Tonight and a familiar face on US television over 5 decades, has died in New York at the age of 67. Jennings resigned from ABC...
Read all of 'Peter Jennings has died.'.
Monday 11 July 2005
In pictures: London blasts [BBC - caution, possibly disturbing images] At the point that terror came to London, two of Transdiffusion's staff were coincidentally on trains heading to the scene. Our 2 hour journey from Merseyside became a 5 hour...
Read all of 'News values'.
The Story of ITV - Programme Three Well. A fortnight ago, I blogged a critique of ITV's Story of ITV programme. The first episode had been a curate's egg - parts of it were excellent, but an awful lot of...
Read all of 'The Story of ITV - Programme, er, Three, is it?'.
Sunday 3 July 2005
ITV faces £6.6billion takeover bid from Time Warner consortium [Forbes.com] The ridiculous policy of letting foreign companies buy British broadcasters may be about to have a result, if the Mail On Sunday is to be believed (although that is a...
Read all of 'AOLTimeWarnerITV?'.
Saturday 2 July 2005
From my inbox today: Mr Pot, meet Mr Kettle. I point out an error of fact and you deliver a hissy fit of the highest order. Mediablog is detracting from the valuable work of Transdiffusion. It's like a genital wart....
Read all of 'The Voice Of Reason'.
Friday 1 July 2005
You know, it's an odd world. You write an article the dares criticise the lovely and fragrant Ms Tessa Jowell, stupid cow in chief of the broadcasting world, and you immediate set the internet on fire. Emails, letters to public...
Read all of 'I don't want to set the world on fire'.
Wednesday 29 June 2005
BBC "too commercial", say radio rivals [Guardian] The world of commercial operation is fascinating. They exist because of the belief that competition is a good thing; that competing services mean better services; that money can be made by being...
Read all of 'Commercial competition runs scared.'.
Digital terrestrial for Ireland [IOL] The Republic of Ireland becomes the latest European country to announce a digital terrestrial platform, with the responsible minister calling for tenders for the technical side of the operation. Like most European countries, and unlike...
Read all of 'Ireland goes digital'.
Broadcasters Voice Their Ideas on Future BBC [The Scotsman] What has politics come to? Edward Heath once called television a plant that was continually being plucked out of the ground to see how its roots were doing. Nothing has changed....
Read all of 'Stupid cow(s)'.
ITV wins reduced licence fees [RTE] Twelve years after the Conservatives privatised ITV, and switched from selecting contractors by programme plans to selecting contractors by how rich they were, a little bit of that nonsense has finally been unpicked. The...
Read all of 'ITV licence fees reduced'.
Sunday 26 June 2005
ITV50 website on "The Story of ITV" Well, who won? From tonight's "Story of ITV", you get the only possible answer: Granada. You see, there were several companies, back in the old days. Associated Rediffusion in London: they were there...
Read all of 'The Story of Granada'.
Saturday 4 June 2005
Whiteley set to miss Countdown [BBC News] Few people under the age of 60 actually like Richard Whiteley as a presenter. Too easily mocked, too easily getting on your nerves. His past life as a Calendar presenter, famous ferret-biting incident...
Read all of 'Still ill'.
Friday 27 May 2005
Unions suspend planned BBC strike [BBC News] Did the BBC blink first?...
Read all of 'Strike off'.
Tuesday 24 May 2005
The Scotsman on the BBC strike Britain in the 21st century is a very different place to the Britain I grew up in. This probably sounds obvious, but the differences continue to creep up on me and surprise me. Perhaps...
Read all of 'Industrial action'.
Thursday 21 April 2005
BBC Wales tributes The majority of our readers here at Transdiffusion are English. We have readers throughout the world, and some of our most active editors and contributors are from the Celtic fringes of the UK (Wales and the "English"...
Read all of 'Gwynfor Evans has died.'.
Friday 1 April 2005
This morning is the right time to remember an important event in BBC history. 21 years ago today, the famous Television Centre disaster happened. As everyone knows, during the recording of a "Top of the Pops" Easter special, a...
Read all of 'An important anniversary'.
Saturday 26 March 2005
BBC News - Local TV takes off in Austria For reasons which have always escaped me, the "holy grail" of television has always been to get as local as possible. TV enthusiasts are guarenteed to start hyperventilating at the idea...
Read all of 'Local television success?'.
Friday 25 March 2005
Pete Clifton on cuts at BBC News One of the things that eight years of Labour government has brought us (besides war, lies and broken promises) is a long break from the word "cuts". For those of us who lived...
Read all of 'My News Now and other stories'.
Thursday 24 March 2005
BBC News: ITV staff to strike over pay deal When ITV converted from being a broadcaster to being a FTSE100 'profit centre' company last year, the management were delighted. After all, becoming the country's second-largest private broadcaster meant cash cash...
Read all of 'Everybody out!'.
Wednesday 23 March 2005
Logofreetv.org is a worthwhile cause: few if any of us like those on-screen logos that destroy the picture and burn a pattern into our TV screens. It's a shame, therefore, that such a good campaign should be ruined by the...
Read all of 'A series of unfortunate occurances'.
Sunday 6 March 2005
BBC News report on Jowell's opinions on burglar payment The Rt Hon Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport has become quite famous for knowing little about any of the three things in her title. As someone who doesn't...
Read all of 'The Godmother speaks out'.
BBC News report See you around, Tommy....
Read all of 'Tommy Vance has died'.
Wednesday 16 February 2005
From today's Grauniad... Channel Five was reprimanded by the Advertising Standards Authority watchdog yesterday for sending out a promotional mailshot that purported to be the case notes of a serial killer obsessed with the recipient. The mailing, sent to 30,000...
Read all of 'Junk mail'.
Tuesday 28 December 2004
The Radio Times gets a new look. It's hard to say that the last design of the Radio Times masthead was a failure. Certainly it wasn't as recognisable on the shelf as its long-lived curly predecessor, but that design itself...
Read all of 'Other listings magazines are available'.
Monday 15 November 2004
We later discovered that the ITC had found something in their investigation which BSkyB didn't want made public Of course, if Greg himself never found out what (unless he's holding back something really big for later), we're unlikely to find...
Read all of 'Greg Dyke drops a hint'.
Monday 12 July 2004
Inge Meysel dies at 94 [English] Ah, but for the transitory and temporary nature of television. Inge Meysel was so ubiquitous and so much the face of post-war West German television that her passing, even at such a "good innings",...
Read all of 'Necrolog'.
Wednesday 16 June 2004
Ballot for action on BBC pay Pity the poor BBC. Damned if they do, damned if they don't - by everyone. Things are made worse when they start to argue with their recognised unions. Thus ever was the fate of...
Read all of 'Rock. Hard place. BECTU.'.
TV Licensing website To the young, hip things, there's nothing more ludicrous than paying a licence in order to watch television. Thatcher's children (for it is she) have been brainwashed into the idea that broadcasting is free, and can be...
Read all of 'Welcome to TV Licensing'.
Thursday 20 May 2004
AzerTAj, an example to us all Ok, so the parallels aren't really there: the BBC is a state-owned broadcaster but (thank you thank you thank you) remarkably independently minded. AzerTAj is a state news agency, perhaps the complete opposite of...
Read all of 'Labour's commitment to an independent BBC: from lip-service to mouthpiece in one simple war?'.
Monday 17 May 2004
Japan's Daily Yomiuri on the BBC's Pronunciation Unit At last count, I had some 1,127 reasons for the continuation of the BBC (and 2 for ITV, but that's a different matter). Thanks to the Yomiuri for adding reason 1,128: the...
Read all of 'I'm sorry, I don't need to read that again'.
Thursday 13 May 2004
Voting fault hits Eurovision heat Deutsche Telekom, owner of the UK's T-Mobile brand, appears, according to the BBC, to have dropped the ball when it came to tabulating the results for the Eurovision Song Contest semi-final on Wednesday night. The...
Read all of 'Now, there's lucky for you'.
Saturday 1 May 2004
Typical MediaGrauniad non-story This story digested in case you're short of time: An advertiser today complained that the BBC wasn't playing fair. They exist and therefore interrupt the stream of fools who the advertiser wants to watch his ads during...
Read all of 'Idiot Toyota ad chief attacks BBC 'sabotage''.
Tuesday 20 April 2004
Telephone Numbers for drama purposes (TV, Radio etc) A lot of water has passed under the bridge since VINcent XXXX was the dramatist's number of choice. OfGums, showing more imagination than the American 555 single option, offer 01632 as a...
Read all of 'Planning a drama?'.
Wednesday 14 April 2004
BBCi takes an interesting line... ...not backed up by their own figures. Success stories: Arsenal vs Newcastle United, Sky Sports, Sunday - 1.6 million viewers Friends, E4, Thursday - 1m viewers Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Saturday -...
Read all of 'Multi-channel TV comes of age... it says here'.
Monday 12 April 2004
Interview with producer/director Jo Haywood Would someone - anyone - like to explain the meaning of the following quote from Jo Haywood? ...but ITV have also lost a lot of stuff. When all of the contracts changed hands between Granada...
Read all of 'Missing Believed Wiped interview on BBC4's website'.
Sunday 11 April 2004
The Scotsman - of all things - on the BBC Essex free radio celebration. This is a busy year for broadcasting historians - the 40th anniversaries of Radio Caroline, Rediffusion London, BBC2, RTF2 and ahem Transdiffusion. The first celebration is...
Read all of 'Pirate DJs take to the waves again'.
Thursday 11 March 2004
DCMS starts S4C Review Television is the plant forever being plucked out of the ground to examine its roots. But S4C, despite difficult birth pangs, has so far escaped the hell that is "independent" reviews commissioned by HM Government. Most...
Read all of 'The best defence is offence'.
Guardian Politics on BBC succession More likely to be true than if it had been in the Grauniad's Media pages, this is, finally, is a piece of good news for the BBC. But will the Ministry of Culcha be wise...
Read all of 'Dimbleby on shortlist for BBC chairman'.
Sunday 7 March 2004
Getting email from the BBC Google is the world's best website. Simple, easy to use and giving you what you want when you want it with no faff and no bias. Second best? BBCi, aka BBC Online. No commercial 'competitor'...
Read all of 'The joy of email... er...'.
Thursday 26 February 2004
Mass Observation through the years Typically, I find my evening taken up with researching for future Transdiffusion projects. Tonight, it's the turn of Sean Day-Lewis's (ed) 1989 book "One Day In The Life Of Television" for the BFI (ISBN 0-246-13424-0)....
Read all of 'A researcher writes'.
Friday 20 February 2004
Chris Stacey on being unemployed from the media industry at 44. One can't but feel sympathy for people like Chris Stacey. Bitten by the media bug, he wants to do nothing else by work in the dark arts that are...
Read all of 'The spectre of unemployment'.
Thursday 12 February 2004
Shropshire Star confused 'news' report Leave it to dire local news sheets to miss a point with such accuracy (can you hear the true story whistling as it passes their journalist's ears?) Many insults, most of them justified, are hurled...
Read all of 'Sky 'Solus' cards'.
Wednesday 4 February 2004
Pay TV for Freeview Ignoring the fact we've seen this story ages ago on DigitalSpy (but two cheers for the Grauniad for being second with the news... as usual) would anyone with any knowledge of the technicalities of terrestrial digital...
Read all of 'MediaGrauniad non-story of the week'.
Wednesday 28 January 2004
Reuters 'short' on the resignation of Gavyn Davies The main news story here is not that Gavyn Davies has resigned, but that the Chairmanship of the BBC is in the gift of the Prime Minister. Mr Blair now has two...
Read all of 'All the colours of darkness'.
Tuesday 27 January 2004
BBC News Online - Nick Higham on Hutton Not wishing to prejudice the Hutton report, but this article is a must read. Whatever side of the political spectrum you are on (for the record: socialist, ex-Labour as of the attack...
Read all of 'Hutton'.
Monday 26 January 2004
Media Grauniad story The Grauniad's well-known and much, much regretted rabid anti-BBC stance (made worse because it is evidently all from a biased view that the BBC is a 'competitor' to GMG's media operations) makes the rest of the world...
Read all of 'BBC's Hutton 'Google AdWords' buying spree'.
Puff-piece pretending to be news 'ITV mulls soap spin-offs' So, ITV1 isn't doing too well. We need a solution, and fast. I know! More crappy soap operas! They're not at all mostly the problem with the doomed channel in any...
Read all of 'Bankrupt for ideas? Moi?'.
Tuesday 13 January 2004
BBC to broadcast silent orchestra My latest artwork is 4'34" long and is also completely silent, save for a distant sound of someone giggling whilst rolling about on a pile of money. I'll be pleased to get a cheque from...
Read all of 'Nice work if you can get it'.
Monday 12 January 2004
A new channel for people with no lives A rousing two cheers for Murdoch's latest venture - FX-TV, a 'lad's channel' which will launch all too soon with a mixture of celebrity gossip, tits, bums and puerile nonsense pretending...
Read all of 'FX UK'.
Arts host says BBC should share licence fee with any pretentious idiot who would like some free money for tat. Of all people, Melvyn Bragg should know better. You'd think. But anyone who believes that television would improve if the...
Read all of 'Artsing about'.
Thursday 8 January 2004
Scotsman.com report bizarrely celebrating less political regionalism in the kingdom Perhaps, after all, we can now see how come regionalism, that noble goal of broadcasting in this country since 1922, has gone quietly unto the dark. Here, The Scotsman -...
Read all of 'Scottish politics coverage to have even worse coverage.'.
Tuesday 6 January 2004
allAfrica.com on Zambian censorship of the BBC World Service's 'Network Africa'. I'd imagine that corruption, a chained press speaking with one voice, and oppression of those with views other than those that the Government wishes them to have, would be...
Read all of 'Censorship, or why the world needs the BBC'.
Monday 5 January 2004
Financial Times report on the blandname 'ITV' It seems, although it's barely believeable, that the brandname 'ITV' has monetary value. The FT reports, from that curiously-isolated high-money perspective that it has, that the 3 companies still outside of the cruddy...
Read all of 'A crime by any other name would still smell of...'.
Sunday 4 January 2004
Any 'blog like this can become a place to whinge about the ills of the world. Indeed, I do a lot of that here about television (only as a public service, in order to save you the bother, of course)....
Read all of 'My point being...'.
BBC News report Former BBC-1 continuity announcer Michael Aspel is suffering from non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, a cancer of the immune system. The cancer is under control through chemotherapy and other treatments and is not believed to be life-threatening. Get well soon,...
Read all of 'TV star Michael Aspel has cancer'.
Friday 2 January 2004
Tawdry but gramatically interesting piece from the Daily Record about Hogmany television. The verdict: BBC-1 won but were awful. SMG [don't click this link - it'll play music at you] lost and were unremarkable. But SMG gets the last laugh...
Read all of 'It gets grimmer the further north you go'.
Tuesday 30 December 2003
Danielle Demtriou twists the words of a BBC spokesperson in order to create a news story that wasn't there originally. "[The BBC] does not rule them [resignations] in or out", becomes, miraculously, "Hutton a resigning matter, BBC admits". Wow! Could...
Read all of 'An Independent choice of words'.
Lies, half-truths and utter bollocks about the BBC from an American 'news source'. Least said, soonest mended on this one. But the fact that Google News is drawing on this as a 'source' is disturbing - why, Google, why? If...
Read all of 'WorldNetDaily: unbiased news for the fourth reich'.
Saturday 27 December 2003
An unusually perceptive piece from Nick Higham on BBCi And so it has come to pass. To the surprise of everyone except us 'amateurs' who don't know what we're talking about (apparently): - Scottish Media Group are unhappy with Granada...
Read all of 'Casualties of the ITV merger'.
Friday 26 December 2003
BBC licence fee 'criminalises poor' says a known group of idiots in the Financial Times. This just in: a group of known freelance idiots calling themselves the Institute of Public Policy Research have idiotically announced that the licence fee is...
Read all of 'Idiots in anti-licence fee lobby'.
Xmas TV Listings So this is Christmas, and what have you done... to us? EastEnders (soap), Meet the Parents (film, Ben Stiller) Rio Grande (film), Mastermind Celebrity Special (quiz), Porridge follow-up 'documentary' The Grinch (film, Jim Carrey), Coronation Street (soap),...
Read all of 'Those Radio Times'.
Saturday 6 December 2003
BBC-1 BBC-2 Strange that ITV.com don't offer the ability to download their idents, too. Perhaps we wouldn't be interested in 'celebrities' we can't quite put a name to and anonymous shots of our regions to make us feel at home?...
Read all of 'BBCi for idents'.
Monday 1 December 2003
BBC Press Office Audience figures are a tyranny. They tell us nothing of use and blind programme makers to the possibilities of television as an artform. They are derived from a ridiculously small sample, and show only what "the majority"...
Read all of 'BBC Audience Figures'.
Friday 28 November 2003
Media Grauniad report "...the way we've been expressing breaking news on-screen has not been conspicuous enough. Lots of people watch News 24 in offices with the sound turned down," Rachel Attwell, News 24 controller and, apparently, half-wit. Oh dear, oh...
Read all of 'BBC News 24 new look'.
Media Grauniad report The fallout from today's power cut continues, with news that BBC News 24 is to miss its planned relaunch date of Monday. The loss of a day's work on the new-look set has pushed the launch back...
Read all of 'News 24 relaunch delay'.
Thursday 27 November 2003
BBC Press Release Westminster insiders are quite clear that the BBC as we know it will not make it through the next Charter renewal. The lobbying efforts of those bastions of quality television (News International and ITV) have helped; but...
Read all of 'Going quietly unto the dark'.
Tuesday 18 November 2003
VRT website A trip tomorrow to Belgium causes me, somewhat sadly, to have a poke around for what I could watch on TV whilst I'm there. Of course, British television is now so heartachingly awful that I watch a grand...
Read all of 'Sunny Belgium'.
Saturday 15 November 2003
Latest Sky financial results press release Is anyone here concerned about BSkyB's profits being too high? If you consider that the majority of their profit appears - according to their press release - to come from the unjustified 'tax' on...
Read all of 'Paying the piper, or How I learned to stop worrying about the BBC and start begruding Sky's megaprofits'.
Sky Corporate's press release on the recent AGM. "It is a great honour to be able to stand before you today as Sky's chief executive, and I am deeply grateful for this opportunity to play a role in the future...
Read all of 'Sky's (infamous) AGM'.
Tuesday 28 October 2003
Strange testpage A search on Google for Transdiffusion brings up a new look for LogofreeTV. This site, which started out with the admirable aim of campaigning against the various screen furniture now imposed upon us by nervous broadcasters who don't...
Read all of 'LogofreeTV self-destructs?'.
Friday 24 October 2003
Oddly parochial story from 'The Scotsman' All of you people left without access to ITV, Channel 4 and five on Sky will be very pleased to discover that you can pay a private company £20 to get these channels back...
Read all of 'Don't bother'.
Friday 10 October 2003
Grauniad speculation Oh good, the same bunch that have made ITV such a success in the last decade will continue in power for the next phase of ITV. Plus a bunch of tired old retreads from the likes of Sky,...
Read all of 'ITV plc's new board'.
Reuters speculates... A Disney channel, but not branded under the Disney name. Sky Travel to go General Entertainment, but not until there are 2 million 'subscribers' to the Freeview service. Disney to buy GMTV if it goes up for sale...
Read all of 'Freeview plans'.
Eastern Daily Press news story Of course, you have to expect the regional newspapers, struggling for so long, to welcome - or at least fail to notice the shortcomings - of a plan to reduce the regional ITV licences commitment...
Read all of 'No news is bad news'.
Wednesday 8 October 2003
Croner news release "Some day a sympathetic writer will have to analyse the effect of mergers - and there are hundreds of them - and the impact they have upon the people concerned" - Howard Thomas, With An Independent Air...
Read all of 'The true cost'.
Name dropping signals end of an era for Granada So, farewell then Granada TV Manchester 3. You were staid And old fashioned But you had dignity. Keith's mum says She'd forgotten about you. But then she's stopped watching ITV like...
Read all of 'Thanks for the memories'.
Tuesday 7 October 2003
BBC Business News Video Clip: Rory Cellan-Jones on BBC News BBC Business News Q&A BBC Entertainment sees things from a programme perspective BBC voxpops filler on Carlton-Granada merger The Guardian on the negative... ...and the positive reactions The Guardian doorsteps...
Read all of 'Newsround-up: ITV 'merger''.
The ITC have approved the "merger" of Granada and Carlton. Most likely outcome: both companies continue to exist as seperate entities, but the broadcast licences of both will be merged into a new ITV plc, in which shareholders of Carlton...
Read all of 'Yes'.
Sunday 5 October 2003
Press release Sky News are to launch a 9pm news programme targetted at the Republic of Ireland, to go out on the pre-existing version of Sky News with RoI adverts, I'd assume (though a 30-minute daily round-up of news from...
Read all of 'Sky News Ireland'.
Thursday 2 October 2003
Granada writes An update to Telemusications - a very detailed article by Dave Jeffery, originally published by EMC in September 2002, is nothing less than hardcore presentation: the fonts of Granada through the ages. A fascinating and unmissable read that...
Read all of 'From the forge'.
ITC Press Release The useless ITC, now marking time waiting to become part of the useless OfGums, have finally - finally - finally - decided: no more News at When. So it's to be the News at 10.30 (or the...
Read all of 'Bong!'.
Tuesday 30 September 2003
The Authority No new articles, but some additional nice illustrations from the Transdiffusion archives....
Read all of 'EMC's The Authority updated'.
Thursday 25 September 2003
The BBC Loses a Bit of Its Luster Thanks to regular contributor Joseph Gallant for pointing this piece of, er, journalism out. He says "I found this story on the New York Times website, giving an American view of the...
Read all of 'A little bit of knowledge...'.
Tuesday 23 September 2003
ITV1 REFRESHES ON-AIR LOOK See also here EMBARGO: NOT FOR PUBLICATION BEFORE WEDNESDAY 27TH AUGUST 2003 because we're scared ITV1 REFRESHES ON-AIR LOOK not that it was stale or ill-thought-out or anything ITV1 is to refresh the channel?s on-air branding...
Read all of 'A translator writes...'.
Whilst the Transdiffusion Broadcasting System has been around for about 40 years (we're celebrating the big 4-0 next year for very complex reasons), 22 September is our anniversary on the web. And, as usual, we like to bring you something...
Read all of 'Transdiffusion News'.
Monday 22 September 2003
48 years of Independent Television, and ITV is celebrating by... doing nothing. No press release, no party, no special idents, no story on the awful ITV.com. Nothing at all. But then, any of this would suggest something to celebrate. And...
Read all of 'I've come to wish you an Unhappy Birthday'.
Sunday 21 September 2003
8pm on 22 September marks our 4th birthday on the web. Contrary to the impression I gave below, there's no big splash of an update (senior management has spoken - not my choice but I'm happy with the decision), just...
Read all of 'Happy Birthday to us!'.
BBC News on end of RI:SE Poor C4. The Channel Four Daily, The Big Breakfast, an unexpected interregnum, and RI:SE (in two flavours). The Channel Four Daily (C4D) was an excellent idea. You could have a mixture of the BBC's...
Read all of 'Fourth time lucky?'.
Saturday 20 September 2003
Well, time to kick off MediaBlog in style. Or not - since this Blog officially doesn't go 'live' until Monday evening. However, you can get a brief insight into my world just before an update: fraught. 22 September is the...
Read all of 'It's time to get things started, it's time to light the lights...'.
A bit boring, this, but worth the effort to get it right. I'm told. RJG...
Read all of 'This is the second test post'.
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