Blog posts tagged "BBC"

July 28, 2009 6:59 pm 20 Comments

I was intrigued to hear BBC Radio News this morning using its own airwaves to “report” its decision to supply video content to a number of newspapers for free. Not a corporate announcement, of course, but a news story of sufficient importance to warrant its place midway through the main bulletin during the peak period [...]

June 23, 2009 10:46 am No Comments

I was minding my own business on Sunday morning, doing the washing-up from the night before. As is my want, I had Radio 4 on – tuned to Broadcasting House. As usual they had a panel of celeb newspaper reviewers on. Somehow Paddy O’Connell, for it was he, fell to asking the panel: “what’s the [...]

February 9, 2009 6:22 pm No Comments

Further to the Carol Thatcher, Jonathan Ross, Russell Brand, Jeremy Clarkson controversies at the BBC, I think I may be on to something. I’m pretty certain that each has collided with the new “sub-genre, multi-platform delivery structures” being put in place at the BBC.

January 26, 2009 5:55 pm No Comments

The appeal for the Disasters Emergency Committee goes out on Channel 4, ITV and Channel Five tonight. Before the televising, a mere £600,000 had been raised. The TV appeal would normally be expected to raise about £5m (Congo raised £6.2m last month). But we may soon get a sense of whether the political row over [...]