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The Open Goes to Sky
As has been widely anticipated in the press, today saw news that Sky Sports has won a five-year contract beginning in 2017 to broadcast The Open golf tournament exclusively live. The BBC will have a two hour 8pm-10pm highlights package. Sky is said to be paying twice as much as the BBC, and they will…
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Big Blue Sky
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Walk London – High Barnet to Cockfosters
Last weekend saw 41 different Winter Warmers walks around London, organised by Walk London and TFL. I went on the High Barnet to Cockfosters walk, with around 100 other people. Our guide mentioned that it was the biggest group he’d ever been out with! A meandering route from High Barnet tube took us through King…
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The Sky Garden
The Sky Garden is that rarest of things – a view of London from atop a sky scraper that is actually free of charge to visit. It sits on top of 20 Fenchurch Street, aka the walkie talkie. I believe that there was some quid pro quo done with the building’s owners letting them get…
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D2 Bid: Sound Digital
Earlier in the week I put a bit of context into the background surrounding the advertising of a second national commercial multiplex. I plan to go through in a bit of detail what each of the bidders is proposing. As ever, these are my own views and don’t represent those of any employer, past or…
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D2 Bid: Listen2Digital
Earlier in the week I put a bit of context into the background surrounding the advertising of a second national commercial multiplex. I plan to go through in a bit of detail what each of the bidders is proposing. As ever, these are my own views and don’t represent those of any employer, past or…
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Looking Ahead to the Second National Digital Radio Multiplex
Ofcom is finally closing its doors on applications for a second national commercial radio digital radio multiplex. Originally bids had to be in by the end of October 2014, but Ofcom extended its application period to the end of January 2015 when a potential bidder sought a Network Access-only reference offer from Arqiva. (Since Arqiva…
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Things I’m Not Going to Embark on this January
This isn’t a blog about New Year’s resolutions. I’d be a few weeks’ late if it was. But January is an interesting time for another reason – it’s when those curious partwork publications kick off their new runs. You know the sort: often advertised heavily on TV, with cheap first issues (although much more steeply…
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The Day We Phoned Maggie
One of the big stories in the news today is that someone somehow got through to David Cameron on the phone, and pretended to be the head of GCHQ. Cameron says that he realised that it was a hoax fairly quickly and hung up. I suspect that a lot of people are wondering: “Surely it…
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Refurbishment
This premises on Great Portland Street is using pop-culture magazines to black out its windows while it undergoes refurbishment. I can’t decide if it’s cool or sacrilegious! The naive person within me thinks that they found some magazines under some stairs somewhere and decided to use them to cover up the windows. The realist in…
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On a Canal in a Canoe – Secret Adventures
It being the middle of January, and therefore getting quite cold, what better way of spending a Monday evening could there be than paddling a canoe around London? This was an organised trip via “Secret Adventures“, an internet Meetup group. We set off from Moo Canoes’ base in Limehouse, heading up Limehouse Cut heading in…
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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…
Hadrian’s Wall
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