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Before The Frost
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Oracle Night
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Rugby
Can it really be true that rugby union want to do away with automatic promotion and relegation? I really do wonder about the rugby authorities. So we end up with a league that becomes meaningless dead rubbers by the end of the season, with the dull games that would bring about. Of course there’s also…
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That Wedding On The Telly
This story just goes to show how poor some TV ratings reporting really is. Media Week are calling the 6.2m on BBC1 and 1.1m on ITV1 who watched the Royal Wedding on Saturday a “damp squib.” For some reason Media Week (who in the same paragraph considered the 7.7m who watched the Grand National, a…
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“Vaughany”
The Independent has an interview (be quick, it’ll probably disappear into a subscription area in a week) with Johnny Vaughan today – or Vaughany as he seems to be called in the text. Just one small point on Fighting Talk: “Naturally, the Americans are all over it and want to buy the rights.” Erm, isn’t…
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The State of TV Reviewing
I know that I’ve moaned about this before, but I still find it intensely frustrating that just about no publications in this country take television reviewing seriously. Look at the writers you get for film reviews: everyone from Philip French, Adam Mars-Jones and Derek Malcolm right through to Will Self. The serious papers have proper…
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Radio v Internet Advertising Spend
There’s been much discussion in recent days about the IAB (Interactive Advertising Bureau) announcing that more money is being spent on the internet than is on radio. I must admit to being a little untrusting of this information and I’m not sure that like is being compared with like. And I don’t just say that…
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2012 Digital TV Switchover “Unrealistic”
Mediaguardian are reporting (free reg. reqd.) something that I’ve always believed to be true: that switching over to digital by 2012 is unrealistic. The report in question from Mediatel Insight (which sadly I don’t have access to since the Mediatel subscription I have is only basic), includes a survey amongst advertising industry executives. Steve Hobbs…
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Loud Noises
Trade magazine Media Week emailed me to complete one of those online surveys, the results of which are obviously going to form the basis of a future article. At the end of the survey it explained that I’d be entered into a free prize draw to win a holiday which was partly sponsored by Formula…
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The Biggest White Elephant In London
The Trocadero must, incredibly, lose more money than anything else in the capital. Let’s see what it has going for it. 1) It’s just off Picadilley Circus and is close to Leicester Square in the heart of London’s West End. 2) It has loads of space within it. 3) It can be adapted to either…
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In The Company Of Cheerful Ladies
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“Broadcasting” via Bluetooth
So following on from my post about the New Order Bluetooth ad the other day I’ve been trying to think of other possibilities using Bluetooth technology. Every year at work we entertain clients at the V Festival. I’d like to be able to use this technology to do something clever for them like this. A…
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Yellowface/All The Lovers In The Night
Yellowface by R F Kuang I first came across R F Kuang with last year’s very enjoyable Babel, an alternate history of the British Empire told in a world where magic exists and is controlled by an elite group of individuals. Yellowface is very different, but no less enjoyable. It’s a book about books, and…
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