Month: June 2008

  • Science on TV

    Another old favourite. There’s good news that the BBC is going to produce a new popular science show for BBC1 provisionally titled “What? Where? Why?” to replace the late, and sometimes lamented, Tomorrow’s World. Science has been critically missing from our screens for too long now. We certainly get plenty of natural history, but that’s…

  • Privatising Radio 1 and Radio 2… Again

    I know I keep returning to this having written about it back in February when Peter Bazalgette raised the idea, and again following the Radio 3.0 conference a couple of weeks ago when GCap’s outgoing chairman Richard Eyre also raised the issue in a personal capacity. So it was interesting yesterday that Enders Analysis who…

  • Something to Watch on iTunes

    If you were a UK resident and rushed out and bought an Apple TV device after they were announced in autumn 2006, you’d have been sorely disappointed when you got home and plugged it in. Certainly you could listen to you iTunes library through your TV, as well as any video podcasts you subscribed to.…

  • More on the Virgin Radio Sale And Other Radio News

    A couple of people have asked me why I haven’t blogged more on the sale of Virgin Radio to TIML that was announced on Friday evening. The problem is that you have to tread very carefully when blogging about your employer. So I’m not going to say a great deal more, but as ever, what…