{"id":655,"date":"2004-04-22T14:06:54","date_gmt":"2004-04-22T14:06:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/2004\/04\/april_fools_day\/"},"modified":"2004-04-22T14:06:54","modified_gmt":"2004-04-22T14:06:54","slug":"april_fools_day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/2004\/04\/april_fools_day\/","title":{"rendered":"April Fools&#8217; Day Comes Late"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.broadcastnow.co.uk\">Broadcast<\/a> day, so here are my highlights from today&#8217;s issue:<br \/>\nSMG want the BBC to hand over Radio 3&#8217;s FM frequency allocation to Virgin Radio (no comment!)&#8230; Five want to show a live Caesarean birth on TV (and there was me thinking it was an emergency procedure, so how can it be planned for a live TV slot?)&#8230; ITV have commissioned nine more hours of television I&#8217;ll never watch (Footballers&#8217; Wives is returning)&#8230; Living TV are to show a series in which Gail Porter enlists an American &#8220;medium&#8221; to speak to dead Hollywood legends (just as well they&#8217;re happy to make time for a satellite station)&#8230; Sky One are to make a show called Sun, Sea &#038; Silicone in which four girls go to Penang for &#8220;cut-price plastic surgery&#8221;&#8230; C4 has ordered a programme called F**k the Watershed&#8230;<br \/>\nWho says that TV is dumbing down?<br \/>\nLast night Jeremy Paxman was interviewing Stephen Carter from Ofcom on <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/programmes\/newsnight\/3647299.stm\">Newsnight<\/a> about publication of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ofcom.org.uk\/consultations\/current\/psb\/psb.pdf\">Ofcom&#8217;s Public Service Review (pdf)<\/a> yesterday.<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll spend a little more time reading through it before commenting, but I&#8217;d say that Paxman asked some tough but fair questions last night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday is Broadcast day, so here are my highlights from today&#8217;s issue: SMG want the BBC to hand over Radio 3&#8217;s FM frequency allocation to Virgin Radio (no comment!)&#8230; Five want to show a live Caesarean birth on TV (and there was me thinking it was an emergency procedure, so how can it be planned [&hellip;]<\/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\/655"}],"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=655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}