Category: Media
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London Papers
Newspapers haven’t been having the greatest time recently. Circulations continue to fall, and there’s a generation growing up who gets its news from the web, perhaps with the odd bit of a 24-hour news channel thrown in. But that’s really paid-for newspapers. We also now have the free titles. Starting with Metro, and added to,…
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TV Sponsorship
A very strange story is in today’s Times. The presenter of ITV1’s Tonight programme, Jonathan Maitland, writes about product placement and sponsorship on TV. First of all, Maitland seems to confuse product placement and sponsorship. As he says, Andy Burnham seems to have ruled out product placement, although I’m not sure that any shift in…
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Listening to the Radio via a Nokia N82
The other day I talked about the frustration I suffered when I tried to listen to BBC Radio Five Live on my mobile streaming via 3G. I thought that it might be worth exploring that a little more. Most of the news about listening to the radio via your phone is about the iPhone. Of…
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Champions’ League on the Radio
It’s been a big week in the biggest club football competition in the world, with Chelsea, Liverpool, Manchester United and Arsenal all featuring in the second leg of the quarter-final. Last night I was returning late from the cinema and realised I was without a radio to listen to the Chelsea v Liverpool fixture. Perhaps…
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Ignorant Reviewer
Friday night saw the first in a new series of Genius on BBC2. It’s a TV transition of the popular Radio 4 comedy presented by Dave Gorman. The radio series is very funny. The TV version is also very funny, being basically the same, except that you can see some of the mock-ups they’ve built…
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David Simon Article
If you enjoyed The Wire, and in particular the fifth season, then you’ll really find this piece by David Simon worth reading. It’s food for though next time somebody says that bloggers or citizen journalists will fill in what traditional media is no longer able to. With UK regional newspapers falling nearly as fast as…
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When TV (or Radio) Uses Your Workplace
This Wednesday, ITV2 launches that rarest of things, a new sitcom. Actually, that’s a bit unfair, as ITV has been commissioning a reasonable amount of programming for ITV2. It’s just that most of it really doesn’t interest me. But this week there’s something that I am looking forward to – FM. Indeed, if you head…
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BAFTA Technical Foul-Up
And it was all going so well. Last year the BAFTA awards had the sound messed up for the BBC1 broadcast. There were apologies all around, and we were told that this wasn’t because the OB was put together by an independent. We were told that the production team had years of experience. This year,…
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RAJAR and All Things Digital
Everything happens at once. Yesterday, saw the publication of Q4 2008’s RAJAR results, and the eagerly awaited Digital Britain report. They’re not really related, but I should probably say something about both. From close to home, my employer, Absolute Radio, published its first results, and they clearly don’t make for comfortable reading. The numbers show…
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Things That Currently Annoy Me
Sky emails me to tell me about the “Exciting New Improvements” they’ve made to the Sky Player (aka Sky Anytime – but since the success of the iPlayer, everything has to be similarly named). I can now watch if I have a Mac (or “MAC” in Sky-speak – isn’t that something to do with WiFi?),…
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Sport and Media
Andy Burnham has today announced the committee that will determine which sporting events will remain “Listed”. At the moment, there are two groups of sports that are protected. That is, they must be offered in one form or another free to air to all viewers. Group A – Full Live Coverage The Olympic Games The…
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The Independent
A new year seems to mean that every newspaper worth its salt has to run some kind of promotion, and this Saturday’s Independent had a very good offer: a free DVD of David Frost interviewing Richard Nixon about Watergate ahead of the release of Frost/Nixon in a week’s time. That was enough for me to…
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More Digital Britain Leaks
If you want to know what’s going on with the Digital Britain report, forthcoming from Lord Carter as metioned yesterday, it seems that you need to keep reading the Financial Times. There is talk in today’s piece about a broader broadcaster that would encompass Channel 4 as well as supplying alternative news programmes to the…