Category: Media
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Moyles v Wogan
Lots of today’s RAJAR press coverage focuses on the “battle” between Radio 1’s Chris Moyles (34) and Radio 2’s Terry Wogan (69). There are charts like the one below, a version of which appeared in today’s Times. It all looks pretty close between the two breakfast DJs. But is that chart completely fair? Chris Moyles…
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RAJAR Day
In radio stations up and down the country, radio station bosses have been examining their RAJAR results last night and first thing this morning. Media Guardian has plenty of detail about the overall results. And you can get the raw figures direct from RAJAR. But there’s an interesting blog piece my Media Guardian radio correspondent…
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UKTV Gold Rebrand
So following the story that emerged a couple of weeks ago about Richard and Judy defecting to UKTV for their next chatshow, the question was which channel would they end up on. Well today we learn that it is UKTV Gold that’s going to get the “Dave” treatment. Dave, you’ll recall, was previously called UKTV…
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RAJAR – And the Digital Age
I should preface this entry by saying that it could be a little dull if you’re not interested in radio research; that the views expressed here do not necessarily reflect my employer; and that I have no particular insider knowledge, beyond having used RAJAR for a long time. RAJAR is the organisation that publishes radio…
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BBC Three Sitcoms
There’s a fun “debate” over at The Guardian about whether or not Pulling is actually better than the much feted Gavin & Stacey. I like them both. I missed out on Gavin & Stacey initially, for the most part because it’s on the demented BBC Three which, as you probably know, I’m a massive fan…
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ITV on iTunes
ITV is dipping its toe in the iTunes water by making available some of its back catalogue on the iTunes television store. This is no bad thing, but I think that it does again highlight some of the issues that dealing with Apple can introduce. Despite some of the series being over forty years old…
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UK Advertising Revenues 2003-2008
On Friday, The Guardian published a very good chart showing the relative growth of each of the major media in the UK’s advertising revenues. The chart ends with a 2008 estimate that internet advertising will outstrip the whole of TV. Yet I think we need to be a little careful here, and make sure that…
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A Bit Of Audio To Listen To
I’ve heard a few really entertaining media related pieces of audio in the last couple of days. The first is a Daily Mayo podcast from last week when Gabby Logan was sitting in for Simon Mayo. She was interviewing ITV Executive Chairman, Michael Grade. Unfortunately, because it was last week, and the BBC only keeps…
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Today’s Most Entertaining Media Stories
Two stories have tickled me today from Broadcast magazine (“The Voice of British Broadcasting” – but mostly TV. Radio’s on p14 folks!): Ian Wright has “quit” as a BBC pundit. He’s claiming that the BBC’s coverage of football is too stuffy. And he feels as though he’s the “comedy jester” of the team. In response,…
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HD on Freeview
So today, Ofcom has announced that it’s planning a reorganisation of Freeview to allow one of the current six multiplexes to be made available for high definition services. New Freeview boxes will come onstream, and improved compression rates will to allow these new services to squeeze into the space. At the same time services currently…
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If Only It Were A Fool
The BBC has a list of ten stories that could be April Fools but aren’t. For some reason, the fact that Lily Allen has been recommissioned by BBC Three doesn’t make the list – and it’s not an April Fool!
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Sky And The Champions’ League
Media Guardian are reporting that Sky has won the majority of the Champions’ League games for the three years beginning in 2009. It’s thought that they offered more than £240m representing nearly a 50% increase over what they had previously paid. For that sum, they get all the games bar one – a single Wednesday…
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Bagless Mail
So the Daily Mail has suddenly become devoted to going bagless – that is, seeing the end of the free plastic bag. Earlier this week it launched a massive campaign, and by a complete fluke, and in no way pre-planned, the next day Marks & Spencer announced that it’d no longer be supplying free plastic…