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Stephen
Tuesday 6 May 2008
It's not been a good few years for Talk Sport, the station that former Sun editor Kelvin MacKenzie fashioned in his old newspaper's image after buying Talk Radio in 1998 and sacking half the presenters. First, a lawsuit Mr MacKenzie...
Read all of 'More troubles at Talk Sport'.
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.'.
Tuesday 22 January 2008
A top-sliced licence fee will trigger the BBC's destruction Whether de-coupling the licence fee from the BBC is the way forward or not (and I personally have my doubts), I can't help but think that the BBC still hasn't yet...
Read all of 'How to make the BBC fit for the twenty-first century?'.
Sunday 11 November 2007
40% of adults pray, says survey "Britain is the most atheistic country on earth, thank God." Thus Nick Cohen - capital "G" and all, quoted in "Pretty Straight Guys" some four years ago. Perhaps it is, I don't know. Perhaps...
Read all of 'Thought for the day'.
Sunday 21 October 2007
I know the MediaBlog usually concerns itself with the broadcast variety, but technically the media includes the press, so I'll chance it. It was hilarious listening to Trevor Kavanagh on Any Questions this week, rabbiting on as usual about those...
Read all of 'Will they never shut up?'.
Wednesday 8 August 2007
Channel 4 accused of 'distortion' Not for the first time, we have a broadcaster using events out of sequence and out of context to create the impression it wanted. The story is supposed to fit the facts, not the other...
Read all of 'Creative editing'.
Thursday 2 August 2007
BBC corrupted by Microsoft In its defence, it's not exactly the BBC's fault that a) it's faced with a choice between DRM-protected downloads and no downloads at all, and b) the only implementation so far that fits the bill isn't...
Read all of 'Some might prefer blank screens'.
Friday 13 July 2007
BBC error 'no reason to resign' Oh no, not again. It's not been a good few years for the BBC. WMD; "sexing up" claims; David Kelly; Hutton; resignations at the highest levels; Butler. Then the Blue Peter phone-in incident; publication...
Read all of 'A catalogue of errors'.
Thursday 5 July 2007
http://www.rsf.org Following on from the very welcome news that the BBC reporter Alan Johnston has been released, I think this would be a good time to reflect on the dangerous profession that proper journalism can be. In particular, let us...
Read all of 'A dangerous profession'.
Sunday 24 June 2007
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6763205.stm On the way home Friday evening, The Now Show, among its other targets, took a pot-shot at ITV. One of the comics spoke about a visit he'd made in 2003 to Las Vegas, Nevada. The taxi driver said, we...
Read all of 'Report gives BBC News a (reasonably) clean bill of health'.
Monday 7 May 2007
Regular readers of EMC MediaBlog will recall that the BBC decided to spin off BBC Broadcast, its broadcast arm, as a self-contained company. Now called Red Bee Media, the former BBC Broadcast handles playout for BBC television as well as...
Read all of 'The folly of flogging BBC Broadcast'.
Tuesday 6 March 2007
Life on Mars Apart from the retro continuity, mucking about with Test Card F and other trivia of interest to us pres geeks, Life on Mars offers a fascinating look back to another world. It's actually quite an apt name....
Read all of 'The good ol' days'.
Friday 9 February 2007
Joy at direct hit turns to horror Until The Sun published the DVD at the centre of the inquest into the death of Corporal Matty Hull, the Pentagon was still refusing to give permission for it to be shown. Now...
Read all of 'Press freedom'.
Monday 22 January 2007
Anyone who, having just arrived back from a visit abroad, switched on Radio 4's The World Tonight last Friday (19 January 2007) would have been forgiven for thinking that a grand re-organization of the radio frequencies had taken place. This...
Read all of 'A storm in a tea-cup'.
Sunday 31 December 2006
Wave farewell to AM radio, say experts The Telegraph talks of "the higher quality of digital broadcasts". Compared with? FM? Erm... potentially, yes; unfortunately, most stations on DAB are streamed at a bit-rate nowhere near enough to do them justice,...
Read all of 'The great "digital is better" myth, part 641594827'.
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