adrian monck

Month: October 2007

  • Sky and ITN

    Here’s the Competition Commission rejecting Sky, as it relates to TV news: We do not think that this shareholding is sufficient to give rise to competition concerns in other areas we’ve looked at such as advertising and TV news provision. As far as the media public interest consideration is concerned, we do not think there…

  • Phoney calls

    The news that someone from the Jo Whiley show called in pretending to be a listener is obviously a one-off. It can never have been industry practice to behave so, erm, underhandedly… Back in the day, however, TV execs did used to pay inordinate attention to “viewers’ calls.” The editor of a famous series –…

  • Mogul news

    From Crikey: Of all the embarrassing stories that have come out about Rupert Murdoch over the years, it is hard to go past today’s revelations in The AFR that he short-changed his own mother and then left her with a huge tax bill.

  • Who is the anonymous Andrew Gilligan commenter?

    My Andrew Gilligan post attracted a couple of anonymous comments, apparently by the same author. Who could the anonymous author be? Well online, nothing is really anonymous – now is it? Take a look at this screenshot for a moment while we play Internet detective… [APOLOGIES – THE SCREENSHOT THAT WAS HERE HAS DISAPPEARED –…