{"id":1847,"date":"2007-03-08T12:59:12","date_gmt":"2007-03-08T12:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/2007\/03\/participation_t\/"},"modified":"2007-03-08T12:59:12","modified_gmt":"2007-03-08T12:59:12","slug":"participation_t","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/participation_t\/","title":{"rendered":"“Participation TV”"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s all go today.
\nBroadcast<\/a> reports that ITV is losing £1.5m per week while it suspends its premium rate lines. The voting mechanism will be up and running for Dancing on Ice tomorrow, but there’s even a suggestion that ITV Play won’t be returning at all! Of course I doubt it’ll be replaced with anything decent. ITV could<\/em> launch ITV Movies but why do suspect that Men & Motors will make a return to Freeview?
\nMeanwhile, it seems<\/a> that Five has now suspended all its premium rate phone services after “discovering a problem with Endemol daily quizshow Brainteaser”. Brainteaser has been running for a few years now. How far does this problem go back?
\nAnd we look forward to an ICSTIS press conference at 2pm this afternoon.
\nWith newspapers – particularly the tabloids – running stories on a very regular basis about the problems with these services, the question must be asked: will viewers actually start using these services again?
\nI really hope that viewers are scared away and that the services become uneconomical and die a natural death. Although a regulatory framework would be useful too.
\nBut I’m with Media Guardian’s Janine Gibson and Emily Bell<\/a> in saying that if ITV can’t make money through advertising, sponsorship and other legitimate<\/em> means, then they should simply hand back their licence and cope in the digital world on their own without all the benefits a public service broadcaster has. They can occupy an EPG slot somewhere between Living and FX, and fight for viewers like those channels. I’m sure that there wouldn’t be a shortage of takers for ITV’s position.
\nIn other media news the BBC has re-awarded<\/a> Mentorn the contract for Question Time. All four shortlisted companies “came up with strong proposals both for the linear programme and for developing multi-platform offerings.” I assume any ideas for phone-votes on issues of the idea have now been quietly ditched!
\nAnd fairplay to Carphone Warehouse. They really have pulled<\/a> their Big Brother sponsorship. At the time of the Celebrity Big Brother racism row, I was cynical<\/a> about their move, and assumed that they’d be back for the regular edition in the summer as it’s a strong brand to sponsor. But they’re not. I don’t doubt that C4 will find a replacement sponsor relatively easily.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s all go today. Broadcast reports that ITV is losing £1.5m per week while it suspends its premium rate lines. The voting mechanism will be up and running for Dancing on Ice tomorrow, but there’s even a suggestion that ITV Play won’t be returning at all! Of course I doubt it’ll be replaced with anything […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1847"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1847\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}