Published 9 November 2011
The 75th Anniversary of the launch of the BBC Television Service from Alexandra Palace was commemorated by a small party at AP on Wednesday 2 November, 2011. Richard Elen was there to describe the scene.
Published 3 March 2010
Although the article leads on a poll result that suggest that the majority of the UK population are “broadly in favour” of the proposed BBC cuts, a new poll published…
Published 10 August 2009
Coverage of the data presented in Ofcom’s Communications Market Report indicates that many correspondents are not at their best when dealing with statistics. But Ofcom themselves don’t make it particularly easy to do anything other than misinterpret the data.
Published 17 July 2009
Despite protestations from a number of Guardian/Observer readers (and the odd columnist) that there wasn’t much of a story in BBC executives’ expenses, now here’s a second round. There is even less of a story this time.
Published 3 July 2009
ITN newscaster Alastair Stewart calls for a “Beeching style enquiry” into the BBC to assess whether its services are all really “necessary and viable”. What a ridiculous idea.
Published 1 July 2009
If we’re keeping DAB, we need to upgrade it to use modern codecs. But why not skip all that and move the “radio space” to IP networks? However, you can’t do that until there is a national broadband infrastructure that will need a lot more than copper-based 2Mb/s. So until then, maybe keeping FM is the thing to do…
Published 24 January 2009
Protest over BBC Gaza appeal veto Let me first state my position. I personally am very much in favour of support for the Gaza Crisis Appeal. Just looking at the…
Published 8 December 2008
John Barrowman item et seq, The Now Show, Series 25, Episode 2, BBC Radio 4 Hats off to BBC Radio 4’s The Now Show for, er, raising the issue of…
Published 5 November 2008
Talk about ugly… for some reason US screen graphics are often garish, overcomplex and hard to read in my view. Look at this example from MSNBC this morning.
Published 5 November 2008
Last night found me glued to the BBC News US Election coverage on the BBC website until I dragged myself away at 3am, with Ohio called for Obama and Virginia…
Published 30 October 2008
Brand has resigned; Ross probably ought to consider doing something similar himself. The pre-recording of edgy comedy programmes is a great way to make sure that the wrong thing doesn’t…
Published 29 October 2008
I’m not a fan of either Ross or Brand; I have no comment on the question as to whether or not they are overpaid; and I certainly think that the…
Published 27 October 2008
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…
Published 13 October 2008
As someone who remains of the opinion that what the British Government did in the years 1945-51 to establish major post-war institutions (despite the country being nearly bankrupt) was brilliant…
Published 3 October 2008
Despite the fact that Cory Ondrejka works for EMI, he knows more about what’s really going on in the music industry than almost anyone else.
Published 3 October 2008
For Google’s 10th anniversary, you can search the web as it was in 2001.
Published 25 September 2008
Can you imagine how much time we wasted watching TV – and what we could now be doing instead?
Published 25 September 2008
Can you imagine how much time we wasted watching TV – and what we could now be doing instead?
Published 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…
Published 20 July 2008
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…