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  • Misinterpreting Research Figures

    If you read the right sort of newspapers, you couldn’t help but fail to notice that the fifth and final series of The Wire premiered on FX channel in the UK this week. Then this morning, the various media sites, including Mediaguardian publish the fact that “only” 38,000 people watched the show last night. More…

  • Radio Sitcom

    I see from today’s Broadcast that ITV2 has commissioned “FM” a 6 x 30 minute sitcom about a “neurotic indie DJ” who works at Skin FM. The sitcom will apparently feature real bands and current tracks which is quite an interesting idea – if you think about it, with the exception of trails, sports montages…

  • Mediaguardian 100

    Like all those interminable list programmes which Channel 4 doesn’t seem to run quite as often as it once did, Mediaguardian today published its list of the Media Top 100 2008. Of course it’s largely designed to rile large numbers of the actual people in the list who are lower than they believe that they…

  • AM-FM Broadcasting is ‘A Form of Piracy’

    Here’s a remarkable story from Wired. It refers to ongoing talks in the US where the record industry is trying to make the radio industry pay royalties to singers and musicians. Unlike the UK, where both songer writers and the performing artists separately get paid by radio stations, in the US only the songwriters get…

  • Digital Radio Working Group – Interim Report

    If you’re at all interested in the future of radio in this country – then you might want to read this interim report which has just shown up on the DCMS website. In summary there are two sets of key things to take from this: – DAB should become the primary platform for all national,…

  • Wimbledon Live Online

    So today is the start of Wimbledon, and as ever, the BBC has enormously comprehensive coverage. On digital TV they have the exceptional service that allows you to pick and choose which game you watch, and this is all replicated online (for UK users). Five Live and Five Live Sports Xtra have commentaries available throughout…

  • Product Placement

    Mark Kermode of Five Live and The Culture Show has a great rant about Sex and the City, exposing it for the product placement-fest that it is. And product placement is only growing in films. It’s long been accepted in the Bond films, but since The Matrix every blockbuster has done a mobile phone deal,…

  • The Death of TV Reviewers

    There have been a couple of pieces recently wondering about why we’re losing TV critics in our national newspapers. Ray Snoddy in Marketing magazine wrote about it last week following the ditching of daily TV reviews by the Daily Telegraph. He noted that the Mail on Sunday and the Daily Mail have also ditched them.…

  • Dave’s Success

    As the sale of Virgin Radio nears completion, thoughts turn to the rebranding exercise to be carried out by Albion. One of the most obvious, and spectacularly successful media rebrands of recent years was that of UK TV G2 into Dave which took place back in October 2007. I wrote a piece on Dave’s success…

  • 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…