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From the speech made by media secretary Andy Burnham today:
“The old media world has ended – and the sooner we say so the better.
With it must go old thinking.
But the difficulty we all have is this: it doesn’t yet feel like an era of new possibility, and change we can all believe in, but [...]

Posted on January 22nd, 2009 under Broadcasting, Television. Tags: Andy Burnham, BBC, Channel 4, Digital Britain, Five, ITV, Oxford Media Convention, public service broadcasting, Stephen Carter. Comments: None

The TV industry may not agree with Gerhard Zeiler’s assessment of Channel 4 and Five being “complementary broadcasters” (the cultures of the two places are radically different, as is their history), but C4 changed the day it started selling its own advertising in 1993.
From that point on, its public service remit has been in tension [...]

Posted on January 21st, 2009 under Broadcasting, Television. Tags: Andy Burnham, BBC, Big Brother, C4 News, Channel 4, Dispatches, Five, I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here, ITV, Ofcom, public service broadcasting, Strictly Come Dancing. Comments: 1

Andy Burnham, the secretary of state for culture, media and sport (let’s call him the media secretary, eh?) is due to make a speech next week at a media get-together in Oxford where, it’s widely thought, he will outline the government’s thinking on public service TV.
Ofcom’s been doing its own work on this and [...]

Posted on January 14th, 2009 under Broadcasting, Television. Tags: Andy Burnham, BBC, Channel 4, ITV, public service broadcasting. Comments: None

I’ve hot-footed it back from the Smoke, to tell you what you won’t read elsewhere about the Broadcasting Press Guild (BPG) lunch yesterday with BBC chairman Sir Michael Lyons.
For the uninitiated, the BPG is a club - not exactly cosy, but warmish - of journalists and other hacks who write variously about TV, radio and [...]

Posted on October 16th, 2008 under Broadcasting. Tags: BBC, BPG, Channel 4, ITV, Ofcom, public service broadcasting, Sir Michael Lyons. Comments: 4

Lay readers will not know what I mean by this. It’s a word that’s being bandied about everywhere in the debate about the future of public service broadcasting (something else which lay, non-media, people are bemused about - see below).
Plurality means more than one. So let’s just say more than one instead of plurality. It’s [...]

Posted on October 6th, 2008 under Broadcasting. Tags: public service broadcasting. Comments: 1