Month: February 2018
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Things Annoying Me Right Now
People labelling their Tweets “Breaking” before highlighting a story they believe is more important than others. People you generally respect getting so annoyed that a news organisation doesn’t reflect their personal choices, that the news organisation is suddenly worthless. Left-leaning British commentators weighing in pointlessly against right-leaning US gun advocates on Twitter. It’s not that…
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Premier League Rights Update
Yesterday evening came news that the bulk of the Premier League packages for 2019-2022 have been sold to the incumbents, Sky and BT. But revenues are actually down this time around. Sky is paying less than it was previously for a package of 128 matches across the year, both in overall terms, and in the…
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Shutting Down AM
Today, Ofcom published a short consultation based on a request from Absolute Radio to shut down a number of AM transmitters and reduce the power on some others. In essence the request, which I confidently expect to be quickly agreed to, has three main details: They want to close down completely 12 AM sites, and…
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RAJAR Q4 2017
As ever, this post is brought to you in association with RALF from DP Software and Services. I’ve used RALF for the past 9 years, and it’s my favourite RAJAR analysis tool. So I am delighted that I continue to be able to bring you this RAJAR analysis in association with RALF. For more details…
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No Sense of an Ending
Warning: This piece contains spoilers for the 2014 series Amber, 2014 series The Missing and 2018 series Kiri. There has been a trend in recent years for drama series to give is slightly more nuanced endings than we have sometimes expected. Perhaps all the questions haven’t been answered. Perhaps its unclear by the end, which…