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Terrrifying BBC trailer watch at your own peril

Have you seen the TV trailer for BBC Radio 4's Science Fiction series? It is a fine piece of scary advertising. The complaints are bound to rack up thick and fast for this cardiac arrest inducing trailer. Other than the Today Programme, I never listen...

Posted Feb 25 2009, 08:48 AM by Gordon Macmillan with | with 5 comment(s)

Filed under: Battlestar Galactica, BBC, BSkyB, science fiction, BBC Radio 4, Blake's 7

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No one is going to pay for PSB on ITV

Ofcom's proposals published today on public service broadcasting seem largely sensible, but its research claiming that people are willing to pay to see public service TV on a network other than the BBC holds no water. I don't buy it. No one is...

Posted Sep 25 2008, 10:40 AM by Gordon Macmillan with | with no comments

Filed under: BBC, BSkyB, ITV, Virgin Media, public service broadcasting

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Do not under any circumstances free the Noel Edmonds one

The TV presenter and general figure of derision that is Noel Edmonds should be behind bars. There are many reasons for this most of which relate to crimes committed during his television career. He should have been there long ago and now there is a real...

Posted Sep 15 2008, 12:16 PM by Gordon Macmillan with | with 6 comment(s)

Filed under: BBC, BSkyB

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"We hate Setanta" on YouTube

Not me, personally, but it's on YouTube and it's what England fans are singing on the terraces about the digital sports channel that scored an almighty own goal with its failure to sell the highlights package to the England v Croatia game. Millions...

Posted Sep 11 2008, 04:33 PM by Gordon Macmillan with | with no comments

Filed under: BSkyB, football, Setanta, sport

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Thinkbox research doesn't tally with my reality

I've been reading Thinkbox's latest research into how many people are watching TV ads. I have to say that it the findings don't tally with my television viewing habits or those of my friends and family. Let me say, for starters, I think television...

Posted Aug 12 2008, 09:24 AM by Gordon Macmillan with | with 4 comment(s)

Filed under: Advertising, BSkyB, Thinkbox

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ECB throws cricket ball out of pram boo hoo

It's rich of the English Cricket Board to have a go at the BBC for failing to put a bid in for domestic and international cricket TV rights when it was asking for huge amounts of cash. The ECB has priced cricket off of terrestrial TV. The ECB only...

Posted Aug 06 2008, 09:30 AM by Gordon Macmillan with | with 3 comment(s)

Filed under: BBC, BSkyB, sport, TV rights, cricket, Formula 1, ECB

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The Battlestar effect

I can't tell you how disappointed I am. You go away for a few days and back home earth shattering news rocks the TV world. No not Dawn Airey, but the return of 'Blake's 7'. Anyone who has been here before will know that I am of the firm...

Posted May 01 2008, 11:31 AM by Gordon Macmillan with | with no comments

Filed under: Battlestar Galactica, BSkyB

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Is there any way to save Britney?

I've been thinking a lot about this lately. Okay this morning at least as I read that Sky One plans a charmingly named documentary ' Britney: speared by the paps'. We love a pun around here, but hounded to the point of insanity seems closer...

Posted Mar 07 2008, 11:18 AM by Gordon Macmillan with | with 4 comment(s)

Filed under: BSkyB

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Army recruitment/Ross Kemp

After the British Army seemed to be unfairly criticised for its recruitment techniques recently in an "independent" report (written by a Quaker), it is getting a timely boost from former 'East Ender' Ross Kemp whose Sky One documentary...

Posted Jan 21 2008, 03:37 PM by Gordon Macmillan with | with no comments

Filed under: Blogging, BSkyB

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US TV networks return cash to advertisers

The future of advertising is starting to arrive in the US this week and it could be here soon as well. TV networks there are returning cash to advertisers as the impact of digital video recorders start to bite. US TV networks are facing a ratings decline...

Posted Dec 12 2007, 10:05 AM by Gordon Macmillan with | with no comments

Filed under: BSkyB, NBC, Virgin, Virgin 1, Virgin Media

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The AOP Conference 2007

Final session at the AOP 2007 conference. Guess it had to happen, but they seemed to turn off the wireless network at half past four. Not helpful. Anyway 'Editorial change in the digital era' is the title and it looked at how publishers need to...

Posted Oct 03 2007, 03:02 PM by Gordon Macmillan with | with 1 comment(s)

Filed under: BBC, BSkyB, Conde Nast, Google, Myspace, National Magazine Company, Reed, social media, The Sun, The Times, The Washington Post, Unilever, User generated content, Web 2.0, Caroline Little

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Virgin Media desperation

Just how desperate are Virgin Media to hang on to customers? The answer I found after ringing them was very. I've been seriously toying with leaving Virgin Media ever since it fell out with Sky and lost its basic set of channels. I'm not the only...

Posted Jun 06 2007, 09:18 AM by Gordon Macmillan with | with 7 comment(s)

Filed under: Battlestar Galactica, BSkyB, Virgin Media

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Branson's nasty side

It is all getting personal with Sir Richard Branson, according to James Murdoch, the BSkyB chief executive, who has been talking about his rival's nasty side. In an interview in Management Today magazine this month, Murdoch talks about how the battle...

Posted May 02 2007, 09:19 AM by Gordon Macmillan with | with no comments

Filed under: BSkyB

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Skyless

BSkyB is taking it all the way. Having rattled its sabre and asked for a big pile of cash it will soon strip 3.3m Virgin Media customers of Sky One and Sky News, as well as a few other channels. It's playing hard ball, but ultimately a huge mistake...

Posted Feb 26 2007, 03:53 PM by Gordon Macmillan with | with 1 comment(s)

Filed under: 24, Battlestar Galactica, BSkyB, Lost

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Monday night football

Finally, someone has Sky by the balls, or some of them at least, as Setanta says it plans to put Premiership football on Freeview for just £11 a month. Before Sky came to dominate top flight football, Monday night was a big draw and it can be so...

Posted Feb 05 2007, 11:55 AM by Gordon Macmillan with | with no comments

Filed under: BSkyB, Premiership, Setanta

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Terrrifying BBC trailer watch at your own peril

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No one is going to pay for PSB on ITV

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Do not under any circumstances free the Noel Edmonds one

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"We hate Setanta" on YouTube

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Thinkbox research doesn't tally with my reality

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ECB throws cricket ball out of pram boo hoo

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The Battlestar effect

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Is there any way to save Britney?

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Army recruitment/Ross Kemp

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US TV networks return cash to advertisers

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The AOP Conference 2007

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Virgin Media desperation

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Branson's nasty side

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Skyless

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Monday night football