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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.
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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.
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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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Reading the news
Let me ask you a question. Do you think the same person could read the news at 6pm, and go on and do the same at 10pm? On Sky News, Julie Etchingham is on air from 9am to 1pm. It may sound flippant, but actually, with the cuts currently facing BBC News – it’s anything…