Category: Media
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Transatlantic News Values
Listening to this week’s On the Media on the way home today, it was suddenly very jarring to realise the real difference between US media and its British equivalent. In a piece about in-fighting between the English language Miami Herald and its sister newspaper El Nuevo Herald, one of the main differences between the papers…
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Death of a President
The assassination of George W Bush as part of a new drama airing on More4 tonight. Some bright spark decided to buy a four-page wraparound ad for this programme – an ad-type that only a free newspaper would sell. Of course, someone might be mislead into believing that Bush really had been assassinated on first…
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Digital TV Secrets
Torin Douglas writes an article in this week’s Marketing Week which pretty clearly explains the whole situation at the moment regarding digital TV. First of all he points out that one of the things most people don’t tell you is that many flat screen TVs aren’t as good as old cathode ray tubes. I still…
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Catching Up
Media Guardian catches up with something that I wrote about two months ago.
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Cinema Shuts For Two Weeks
Love this story. “The movies are so bad, and I don’t need the money. … I just didn’t think I should use my high-quality facilities to show people vomiting on-screen.”
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Times Today
Just a reminder that one of the best films you’re ever likely to get free is inside The Times today. In The Mood For Love is inside every copy. Grab one now! And yes, I know that this makes me sound like a Murdoch shill.
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Broadcast Blog
Broadcast has a blog. Broadcast has RSS feeds. Sadly they don’t have an RSS feed to their blog. Brilliant!
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Newspaper Bribery Returns
September’s here, and the newspapers are desperate to remind everyone coming back from their holidays that they should continue to buy a daily newspaper. They don’t do this with news (well aside from book buyups and the soap exclusives). No, they do it with free gifts! Yes, it’s that time of year when you linger…
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Returning to Little Miss Sunshine
I’ve just read The Guardian’s review by Peter Bradshaw of Little Miss Sunshine, and I wanted to quickly say that it’s so way off base, it’s actually badly wrong. Bradshaw gives the film a paltry two stars out of five. If he can possibly direct me to a better comedy this year, I’d be really…
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Let Battle Commence
So today battle finally got underway in the London newspaper market. For years now the Evening Standard has been dominant. Dominant, that is, in a declining market. Then in 1999, following the lead of the similarly named, but separately owned Scandinavian Metro, the Evening Standard’s owners, Associated Newspapers, launched Metro (at first in London, but…
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New York Times Article Unavailable in the UK
If you read a story like this one on Mediaguardian explaining how the New York Times has prevented internet users in the UK from reading a specific article it has published online, what’s your natural inclination? To find a way to read the article of course! According to the Mediaguardian piece and another piece on…
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IPTV and the IAB
This week’s New Media Age makes quite interesting reading for various reasons – some of which I’ll go through separately, not least the interview with David Elstein. But there’s an interesting piece by Guy Phillipson of the Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB), an organisation who’s role is to “work with our members to ensure marketers can…
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ITV Luddites
OK – that’s not my headline. I lifted it from the editorial in last week’s Marketing magazine. They carried a story which I’ve only just got around to reading that says that ITV is trying to limit Freeview PVR technology. With Sky+ being by far the market leader in PVRs, the Freeview consortium has been…