Category: Media
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The Daily Show
I have two programmes permamently set in my Sky+ organiser. Everything else comes and goes as I choose. One of those is Sky at Night which normally airs at ungodly hour on BBC1 on a monthly basis. The other programme is The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. We get new episodes Tuesday to Friday at…
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A New Broadcast Code
The big news today is that Product Placement on television is finally allowed, as long as some kind of logo is also displayed on-screen to alert viewers to the commercial arrangement. But far more exciting to a radio audience is the new Section Ten of Ofcom’s Broadcasting Code dealing with radio advertising. After a long…
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Digital Radio – Is It All Doom and Gloom?
I’ve already been through the latest RAJAR results, and in my summary I said: The digital listening figure for all radio went up a fraction as noted above. I think it’s fair to say that it’s a bit disappointing even if the year on year growth is quite reasonable – up from 21.1% to 24.8%…
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The Independent & i
I could start this talking about how I bought the first edition of The Independent in 1986, and how for years I read it pretty religiously – if not exclusively. These days, I’m more of a Guardian man, still buying paper editions of it and its Sunday stablemate every day without fail. I still like…
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The BBC Licence Fee Settlement
It’s still really hard to quite get my head around how the BBC licence fee settlement plays out. The quickest way to get a handle on what the BBC is being asked to do, is to read the letter to the BBC Trust from the DCMS website. The key elements of the statement are: The…
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Things That Have Piqued My Interest Recently
Further proof that BBC Four is the best channel in the UK comes through a series of excellent programmes that have been on-air this week: – Storyville had YouTube Hero: The Winnebego Man starting briefly with the stories on people who made it “big” on YouTube, but highlighting the story of Jack Rebney who shot…
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Some Media Reading
There have been a few reports, publications and press releases recently that are worth highlighting. The BBC has published its latest monthly iPlayer Performance Pack detailing results for July 2010. I always find this is worth a read. It’s interesting to note that requests for BBC iPlayer dipped a bit during both June and July.…
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Daily Star TV Ad Redux
A few months ago I noted that the Daily Star was claiming to be “Britain’s most successful newspaper” in a TV ad. It was basing those findings on the then most recent ABC figures from January 2010, which then showed a small percentage increase in year on year sales results. Those TV ads are running…
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6 Music Saved
Well – “the case has not been made” for closing it down. So reads one of the lines of the BBC Trust’s Interim conclusions. In other words, 6 Music has been saved. On Twitter, the excitement is already palpable. Now though, the station faces the future. How many of its newly found audience will stay…
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Sky’s Freeview Strategy
Media Guardian is today reporting that Sky Sports News is coming off the Freeview platform. Up until now, Sky had effectively been using the channel as something to promote their premium sports services. That’s really why they never showed any action in full-screen. But now they’re pulling the service. I think they’ll get some very…
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Paywalls
This morning a PR team from The Times was dishing out free coffee to colleagues at work. They’re promoting the fact that from today, The Times and Sunday Times have new websites. And with them come paywalls. As it happens, I don’t drink coffee… Last week I had the pleasure of attending a live recording…
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Election Coverage Tonight
Channel 4’s obviously not voting Green. They were advertising their alternative election special this evening with a helicopter dangling this ad at lunchtime over Soho. That follows a very expensively produced booklet that fell out of one of my newspapers at the weekend. The thing is, even though I really like the people involved (Charlie…