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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 [...]

Posted on June 16th, 2009 under Broadcasting, Other Media. Tags: Digital Britain, news, Radio 4, Stephen Carter, The Move, Today programme. Comments: None

You’ve got to hand it to BBC 1 controller, Jay Hunt. Speaking on Radio 4’s Today programme this morning she ably defended the decision to sack Carol Thatcher from The One Show for using the term “golliwog” in connection with a black tennis player. Hunt also quickly squashed comparisons with the offence Jonathan Ross caused [...]

Posted on February 5th, 2009 under Other Media, Television. Tags: BBC 1, black tennis player, Carol Thatcher, Gael Monfils, Jay Hunt, Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, Radio 4, The One Show, Today. Comments: None

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 [...]

Posted on January 26th, 2009 under Broadcasting, Other Media, Television. Tags: BBC Director General, Gaza appeal, Mark Thompson, Michael Ball, Radio 2, Radio 4, Today programme. Comments: None

You can’t be a blogger today and fail to acknowledge the excitement, the thrill, the buzz around Barack Obama’s inauguration as the 44th and first ever African-American president of the United States of America. Hooray! Today it’s cool again to celebrate the great things that have come out of America. And at last we in [...]

Posted on January 20th, 2009 under Broadcasting, Other Media. Tags: Barack Obama, inauguration, PM, Radio 4. Comments: None