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TV — a basic problem">Off topic: Voting on TV — a basic problem

May 8, 2008

Chan­nel 4’s Grand Designs Live, is built around ask­ing view­ers to vote on three prop­er­ties. Here is the prob­lem: the first prop­erty fea­tured has a massive advant­age over the last prop­erty in terms of motiv­at­ing people to vote. [Updated] Two three four nights out of three four five, the first prop­erty fea­tured has won… Can Chan­nel 4 not come […]

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Ofcom report card…

March 11, 2008

So you don’t have to, Ofcom­watch has been keep­ing tabs on the UK media reg­u­lator for five years now. Here are the les­sons these tor­tured souls have gathered (the last one is my favour­ite): UK media reg­u­la­tion and policy is almost exclus­ively a Labour affair…the key people, the key themes, and the key policies are Labour-dominated. […]

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TV — the pre-download era">Writing about TV — the pre-download era

March 10, 2008

Tele­v­i­sion com­mis­sion­ing. How hard can it be? Roll up, buy a series, put it on TV. That was before you could down­load the stuff. Writ­ing about TV is more dif­fi­cult. But here is Will Hut­ton con­jur­ing up the pre-download era: Every Brit­ish tele­vi­sion exec­ut­ive would love to have com­mis­sioned the Amer­ican series Mad Men. With com­pel­ling accuracy, […]

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Learning about the future of media from your kids

January 6, 2008

Fred Wilson, affable tech ven­ture cap­it­al­ist and A-list blog­ger gives an anec­dotal insight into media pro­spects based on the tastes of his kids (one of whom blogs too). I try, but it’s hard not to like Wilson. Here are his obser­va­tions: 1) When they walk into a DVD store, they rarely walk out with a movie. It’s almost […]

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ITV — now 20% smaller!">Michael Grade’s ITV — now 20% smaller!

November 9, 2007

Back on 28 Novem­ber 2006, when Michael Grade walked in to 200 Grays Inn Road to take the ITV helm the share price stood at 110.75p. Today it was just 89.1p. That’s a drop of just under 20 per­cent, or as we say in journ­al­ism — nearly a fifth. Of course, share prices can go up as […]

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The future of Channel 4

October 29, 2007

David Lloyd calls for a new pub­lic endow­ment for Chan­nel 4 in the Guard­ian today. It’s an edit of a very enter­tain­ing lec­ture he gave at City Uni­ver­sity last Tues­day — and which we’ll post soon on our web­site. He mis­chiev­ously fuelled spec­u­la­tion that Mark Thompson wasn’t the first choice for Chan­nel 4 CEO when the job fell […]

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