adrian monck

Month: October 2007

  • Happy birthday, blog

    This blog is officially a year old. A year on, Sitemeter reckons this blog has clocked up about 27,000 users, just over 2,000 a month. There seem to be about 250 subscribers. It was always my intention to build this up as a media property, and then sell it on. An online auction should be…

  • Democracy might have saved the BBC

    Now the BBC is in trouble and there is no one to come to its aid. In the final irony, its own rules on impartiality forbid it from campaigning against its own evisceration.Two years ago I hosted a lunch for Michael Grade where he explained his plans for revising BBC governance. After he talked amusingly…

  • Blood at the Beeb

    There is an upside to the dark times at the BBC: more factual output will be gathered around “totemic” brands such as Panorama and The One Show. Thank God! Jeremy Vine’s links and The One Show are safe! What is television for, asked Jeremy Paxman. There’s your answer mate.

  • Sky News Radio

    Was due to launch end of October on LBC 1152AM, and help develop a UK-wide 24-hour rolling news service for the 4Digital consortium on DAB. David Ford picked to run it. Now not happening. Looks like Global – run by beloved media veteran Charles Allen – have pulled the plug.