2009-05-02T07:15:32Z Electromusications - New broadcasting history and comment from Transdiffusion tag:www.transdiffusion.org,2009:/emc/9 Movable Type Copyright (c) 2008, Transdiffusion Broadcasting System 2009-05-02T07:15:32Z 2008-10-27T13:06:57Z tag:www.transdiffusion.org,2008:/emc/editorial//9.3148

I've talked about this issue before, but as it keeps coming up, perhaps it's time to talk about it again. It is commonly assumed that for the media to be balanced, they must needs simply give equal time to the...

Richard G Elen 2008-09-25T23:45:02Z 2008-09-25T15:03:55Z tag:www.transdiffusion.org,2008:/emc/editorial//9.3133

Can you imagine how much time we wasted watching TV - and what we could now be doing instead?

Richard G Elen 2008-07-23T10:39:08Z 2008-07-20T18:43:54Z tag:www.transdiffusion.org,2008:/emc/editorial//9.3080

COO of BSkyB, Mike Darcey, writing in the Royal Television Society journal Television (Vol. 45:6, July 2008 p12), reckons Ofcom – and many of the rest of us – are all asking the wrong question about the future of Public...

Richard G Elen 2008-06-23T14:46:46Z 2008-06-23T14:07:13Z tag:www.transdiffusion.org,2008:/emc/editorial//9.3068

On the internet, news travels too quickly

Richard G Elen 2008-04-09T20:33:40Z 2008-04-01T12:48:32Z tag:www.transdiffusion.org,2008:/emc/editorial//9.3013

So here we are in this new media world. We download our music and give it to our friends, so the musicians who make it don't get any income. We write our blogs and splatter our opinions all over the...

Richard G Elen 2008-04-09T12:48:47Z 2008-02-01T13:45:47Z tag:www.transdiffusion.org,2008:/emc/editorial//9.3012

For an extended version of this article, click here. It was bad enough that the BBC's iPlayer excludes tens of thousands of licence-payers by being Windows-only. Now Classic FM, the UK's most popular commercial radio station, has done the self-same...

Richard G Elen 2008-04-09T12:46:32Z 2007-12-01T13:43:49Z tag:www.transdiffusion.org,2007:/emc/editorial//9.3011

Of all the broadcasting anniversaries we've been noting recently in these pages, there's one that seems to have slipped by. It might seem a small thing, but it was actually quite important, especially at the time. On Thursday 8th November...

Richard G Elen 2008-04-09T12:43:20Z 2007-08-01T12:37:56Z tag:www.transdiffusion.org,2007:/emc/editorial//9.3010

A recent blog entry on the web site www.defectivebydesign.org, under the headline "BBC Corrupted by Microsoft" bemoans the latest development in copy protection. What it is fundamentally about is that the BBC's iPlayer, which is required to view the content...

Richard G Elen 2008-04-09T12:53:07Z 2007-07-01T12:35:35Z tag:www.transdiffusion.org,2007:/emc/editorial//9.3009

I had the occasion recently to go into hospital for an operation. In fact, it was the second attempt to remove a lump on my vocal cords which had grown back after previous laser removal in March. So here I...

Richard G Elen 2008-04-09T12:34:29Z 2007-06-01T12:32:20Z tag:www.transdiffusion.org,2007:/emc/editorial//9.3008

It's evidently not enough that Ofcom has roundly condemned the participants in the Big Brother racism row (see our June article) and there's already a further racism accusation raging regarding the new series. And now the same production company responsible...

Richard G Elen 2008-04-09T12:29:47Z 2007-03-01T13:28:05Z tag:www.transdiffusion.org,2007:/emc/editorial//9.3007

You'd think the headlong rush to acquire large flat-screen TVs - that cost more to run, have a larger carbon footprint, and give a poorer picture than the CRT-based sets they replace - was bad enough at the consumer end...

Richard G Elen 2008-04-09T12:26:58Z 2007-01-01T13:25:06Z tag:www.transdiffusion.org,2007:/emc/editorial//9.3006

Hacker web sites and forums have been talking for the last week or two about a claim that the AACS (Advanced Access Content System) copy protection system used on both the HD DVD and Blu Ray Disc HD disc formats...

Richard G Elen 2008-04-09T12:24:56Z 2006-12-01T13:23:52Z tag:www.transdiffusion.org,2006:/emc/editorial//9.3005

Whatever the impact of Michael Grade's departure on the BBC - and there are all sorts of opinions on that from disaster to nothing at all - there can be no doubt that his move to ITV can be anything...

Richard G Elen 2008-04-09T21:00:17Z 2006-11-01T13:21:17Z tag:www.transdiffusion.org,2006:/emc/editorial//9.3004

There was a time, not so long ago, when ITV was the country's leading advertising medium, with vast amounts of money changing hands for expensive spots. Now, as ITV1 continues to lose its way, the precipitous fall in popularity -...

Richard G Elen 2008-04-09T12:20:48Z 2006-10-01T12:18:57Z tag:www.transdiffusion.org,2006:/emc/editorial//9.3003

The recent sad passing of naturalist and TV presenter Steve Irwin inevitably raises questions about how we produce television programmes about the natural world. The BBC spends vast amounts of our money on natural history programming, and the resulting multi-award-winning...

Richard G Elen 2008-04-09T12:18:38Z 2006-09-01T12:15:08Z tag:www.transdiffusion.org,2006:/emc/editorial//9.3002

So, the World Cup has long since passed, and as a result you're probably watching the crop of available HD channels on your Sky box and wondering what to do next. Needless to say, the BBC content is wonderful -...

Richard G Elen 2008-04-09T21:27:55Z 2006-08-01T11:28:15Z tag:www.transdiffusion.org,2006:/emc/editorial//9.2999

"What ITV is up to" is a subject that occupies our minds from time to time here at Transdiffusion, especially in the wake of the 50th anniversary last year, which encouraged us fairly inevitably to look back over that half-century...

Richard G Elen 2008-04-02T12:41:14Z 2006-07-01T12:40:10Z tag:www.transdiffusion.org,2006:/emc/editorial//9.2998

I wonder if you invested in an HDMI/HDCP-equipped flat panel display and an HD box to watch the World Cup in Hi-Def? Well, let’s not talk about that then. But have you seen Wimbledon in HD? The World Cup looks...

Richard G Elen 2008-04-02T12:39:37Z 2006-06-01T12:38:35Z tag:www.transdiffusion.org,2006:/emc/editorial//9.2997

It seems that hardly a week goes by when there isn't some new scheme from the commercial sector to emasculate the BBC, either by stopping it from getting the money it plainly needs to continue its world-leading services, or by...

Richard G Elen 2008-04-02T12:38:23Z 2006-05-01T12:36:45Z tag:www.transdiffusion.org,2006:/emc/editorial//9.2996

There's something that has been widely talked about recently in the several forums and email lists that discuss goings-on in television and the media. If you're someone who frequents such places, you'll already know about it: but to the vast...

Richard G Elen