blogging about TV
That question is, of course, has Chris Evans changed? The DJ who went AWOL from Virgin Radio despite owning most if not all of it and who parted company with Radio 1 somewhat acrimoniously back in 1997. His brilliance became self-importance and he paid the ultimate price - years in a celebrity wilderness.
Now Evans is [...]
Media companies, but particularly newspapers, have had their knickers in a twist for some time now as they wonder how to make money out of “online”. That is, the provision of information via the internet which, before the advent of the internet, they were able to charge money for. It is almost axiomatic today that if [...]
While most of the TV industry got itself into a light lather over the Digital Britain report which was published today, Tuesday, I was having a much more amusing time thinking about how we actually consume media in our house.
For about two years now, since my older daughter started school, we’ve had to use an [...]
On Friday I was at the Broadcasting Press Guild awards luncheon at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. For those who don’t know, the BPG is a club, I suppose, of journalists past and present who write or wrote about TV and radio. It encapsulates all TV and radio critics and correspondents of the national newspapers [...]
Have been too busy with paid employment to post on here. But the crap has clearly hit the circulating cooling device today, with ITV unveiling an abysmal set of results and announcing 600 job losses plus a staggering £65m cut to its programming budget. ITV spends less than £1bn a year on programming (£867m last [...]
Yesterday, ITV unveiled a cunning plan. It could merge with Channel 4 and Five, to save all the commercial (advertising funded) broadcasters from certain doom during this recession. But it will never happen. And it’s not just me who says so.
I caught former ITV exec Steve Hewlett opining on this subject on, of all things, [...]
Good to see channel Five chief executive Dawn Airey keeping up the pressure for a possible merger with Channel 4. This is the most obvious solution to C4’s various problems, which basically stem from not being able to make enough money to fund everything it wants to do in future including low-rating but worthy programmes [...]
At the heart of the Digital Britain report published yesterday is the government’s laudable desire to ensure everyone in the UK has access to broadband internet access.
In the words of the report: “We need a programme to ensure that everyone can connect to the digital economy, that its benefits and advantages are available to all. [...]
For those two readers who are avidly following recent policy (non-)developments in the world of broadcasting, my cursory reading of the Digital Britain interim report published today is that things are still under review.
Of the 22 action points so carefully detailed by broadcast minister Stephen Carter and team, the ones that relate directly to TV [...]
It clearly wasn’t enough for BBC director general Mark Thompson to post a defence of the corporation’s decision not to air an appeal for Gazan aid on a BBC News blog on Saturday evening. Noone appeared to have read it. The Sunday papers review on the otherwise execrable Radio 2 Michael Ball show made no [...]
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