Back in 1996 when I was involved in the UK launch of MSN there was an all-singing, all dancing event at the Royal Commonwealth Institute here in London. Programme makers trouped along to hear MSN tout the Web as the next best thing for watching TV-like content. Bear in mind this was in the days of 28...
Merry Christmas! And what better Christmas present could there be than super-fast broadband to watch all your favourite festive TV programmes and movies (don't forget Mary Poppins!) as well as browse all that wonderful online content while others in the family enjoy a mince pie and watch the Queen...
Anyone else old enough to remember when News at Ten used to end its reports with a run down of company closures and job losses at the end of the forecast? Sandy Gall or Anna Ford would gravely inform the assembled nation of the closure of a steel-works or mass redundancies at a regional manufacturer...
With the benefit of hindsight, the now resolved dispute between Virgin Media and Sky over carriage fees looks like a silly and rather arrogant little spat that should never have been allowed to happen. When it broke out, it looked like evidence of an increasingly confident Virgin Media TV willing to...
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 going to pay anything. Even in better economic times...
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 and the three major networks -- ABC, NBC and CBS...
I have been looking at Virgin 1, trying to work out a reason to watch it. It seems to mostly comprise of programming that has appeared elsewhere. Save 'The Riches' (which I wouldn't), but in the 'Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles' looks like there might be a (pretty geeky) reason...
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 one. One of BR's other bloggers Alan Munro...
