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The future of Channel 4
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…
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ITV: bad news bears
Two announcements today from ITV: RDF is back in business as a supplier, subject to new compliance procedures – like don’t let your chief creative officer get his hands on any rushes – that kind of thing. That one certainly slipped out didn’t it? Nothing to do with timing… And the Deloitte Report. My favourite…
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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.
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Media future by numbers and headlines
Private equity house VSS is flagging up its new four-year media forecast, yours for just $2,495 – just drop the figures into your business plan! And while you are about it, choose your own headline…