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Andy Burnham’s speech

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 [...]

The future of TV: the government must decide

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 [...]

The future of television: right here, next week

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 [...]

BBC chairman finishes lunch, despite pressing policy issues

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 [...]

Plurality

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 [...]

Ofcom inches forward with interminable review, public doesn’t care

Not the greatest of headlines but a pretty accurate summary, IMHO, of Ofcom’s announcement today about the second phase in its ongoing review of public service broadcasting.
If you don’t work in TV or, to be more precise, in the public affairs department of a British broadcaster, you can’t possibly care about this stuff [...]

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