Category: Media
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3D Football
Sky is trumpeting the fact that last weekend’s fixture between Man Utd and Blackburn Rovers (a 0-0 “thriller”) was watched by 200,000 viewers. A remarkable achievement based on average of 133 people per pub in the 1500 or so pubs that have the 3D TVs so far. These are obviously all pretty large pubs! But…
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Breakfast Show TV Ads
At the weekend I was idly watching some television with the netbook on my lap (something that happens a bit too much) when out of the corner of my eye I noticed Johnny and Lisa on a TV ad. I looked up, keen to see what the new Capital Radio TV ad would look like.…
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BBC Mobile Apps On Hold
Today comes news that the BBC has had to delay its mobile phone applications until the BBC Trust has taken a close look at what it’s doing. That obviously includes iPhone apps, but other operating systems are available, and the BBC was developing for them too. The announcement that the BBC was developing applications came…
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Paywalls Come Tumbling Up
I know – that’s awful. Sorry. What to make of The Times’ much vaunted and soon to be realised paywall? At the moment, not a lot. There’ll be a £1 charge for a day’s access and £2 for a week. In terms of the paper itself, the value isn’t bad. The daily paper costs £1…
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Should The Ashes Be Listed?
On Friday, a Department of Culture, Media & Sport consultation based around their Review of Listed Events closed. This consultation was based around some preliminary suggestions on the updating of the list of sporting (and other cultural) events for which either live free-to-air TV coverage, or recorded highlights should be made available. The big issue…
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Daily Star: Britain’s Most “Successful” Newspaper?
I was unfortunate enough to catch a TV advert for the Daily Star last night. I think it must have been after the football which I saw a few minutes of. I can’t imagine another programme I might have been watching which the Daily Star might want to target me in. At least it wasn’t…
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Alice
As everyone looks forward to the new Tim Burton take on Alice in Wonderland, and I wonder whether I can be bothered to see it in 3D, the BFI has put its newly restored version of the first ever version of Alice on YouTube. Running at just under ten minutes, it’s a remarkable document dating…
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Science on Trial
If you’re quick, there’s still a chance to hear last week’s Radio 4 programme Science on Trial. With enormous topicality, it examined some of the very concerning legal cases that have been brought in British courts surrounding use of libel laws to restrict scientific debate, and effectively silence some of those who otherwise promote remedies…
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BBC Mobile Apps
The big news eminating from the BBC today is that they’re finally getting around to releasing some mobile applications. That’s not entirely true: the BBC has previously released other applications, such as the iPlayer for various Nokia mobile phones. But notably, it hasn’t released any applications on the mobile daddy of them all – the…
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How Many Listened?
According to a story in Media Guardian, “an estimated 5 million” people tuned in to hear who would be the Christmas number one yesterday during the various chart shows. There are two main chart shows these days: the Radio 1 version which is considered the official chart, and the Big Top 40 chart which runs…
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Hunting In Packs
In today’s Standard (I managed to get a copy at Kings Cross – they’re never available much beyond 5.30pm at Oxford Circus or Piccadilly Circus), David Sexton pontificates over two pages about why “bloggers” are so hostile towards Ian McEwan. This is the piece that Sexton is talking about. Following a series of Guardian Book…
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Inside Out Upside Down
Given that ITV barely does any local or regional news, it seems a bit unfair to target the BBC’s programme – Inside Out – that covers the English regions. And I’m not. But for reasons I can’t really explain, I decided to go channel surfing in the 970s and 980s on Sky to see what…
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Five Live
On Monday there was a Radio Academy event in London with Matt Wells asking the questions of BBC Radio Five Live’s controller, Adrian van Klaveren. The obvious area for questioning surrounded Five Live’s forthcoming move to a new facility in Salford. As someone who listens to an awful lot of Five Live, I’m still unconvinced,…