adrian monck

Tag: ITN

  • Ofcom – useless or toothless?

    The silence over job cuts at ITN is a reminder of: the lack of political will to take public service commitments seriously and the failure of the the regulator. My personal experience (disclosure: I left the company in 2004) is that ITN is an incredibly tightly run ship. It doesn’t generate profits to pay for…

  • Content – more burger than king

    I spent yesterday at the BBC in Manchester talking to some interesting people, many of whom want to build businesses providing content of one kind or another. So I gave my gloomy look at the content creation business, pointing to Monday’s supply squeeze at ITN, and Scott Karp’s post on NBC Universal/News Corp deal, and…

  • The declining price of broadcast news…

    ITV has just spun out a new deal with its news supplier, ITN. In case you don’t understand the oddness of British TV news – ITV doesn’t have its own news division, it contracts the news out – and has done for fifty years – to a company it 40% owns. According to the headline…

  • Jon Gilbert’s ‘friendly fire’ report

    Disclosure: ITV News reporter Jon Gilbert is a friend and former colleague. Some of the YouTube comments on Jon’s piece regarding the journalism are below. Of 87 comments at time of posting, only four dealt with the reporting of Eldon Anderson‘s remarks: …one question is, how many people that sounded intelligent and onhappy [sic] with…