Channel 4’s departing chief executive Andy Duncan has no plans to go quietly at the end of this year, as proved by last week’s announcement of a ground-breaking content tie-up between the broadcaster and YouTube . By the time Duncan is carrying the last of his belongings from the shiny building in Victoria...
Now that Andy Duncan and Channel 4 have finally agreed terms for his departure - a mere £585,000 severance package from the apparently cash-strapped broadcaster - all eyes must turn to who will replace him. In a particularly revealing comment, Channel 4's chairman, Luke Johnson, said that Duncan's...
So Channel 4 finally confirmed that its chief executive Andy Duncan is to step down at the end of the year. After grappling for months with C4's funding hole, Duncan looks set to leave along with chairman, Luke Johnson, at Christmas. The search is on for a replacement. But many in television reckon...
Does ITV know something about the Competition Commission's final decision on CRR that we don't? Already the broadcaster has an ITV1+1 service lined up and ready to start transmitting from the beginning of next month - coincidentally the CC is expected to make its ruling on what 'son of CRR'...
I happen to like Boris Johnson. I think he provides a bit of much-needed colour to the political scene, and he seems better at his job than that annoying nasal Red Ken but I don't live in London so what do I know. But is he worth £250k for a weekly column in the Daily Telegraph? Yes - if they are...
So the Lib Dems use their expenses on biscuits and trouser presses, the Tories on chandeliers and moats and Labour on loo seats and damp rot. While the revelations in The Daily Telegraph have caused acute ambarrassment to all MPs, they also go to prove that most political stereotypes are in fact correct...
Channel 4's annual report, published today, contains the usualy hand-wringing statements about what might happen if some sort of settlement on its future funding model is decided. But instead of Andy Duncan and Luke Johnson going on about their editorial highlights of 2008 (of which there are many...
Channel 4 chief executive Andy Duncan is having to do what his predecessor, Mark Thompson, did before him - make a series of massive cuts that more careful management would have made unnecessary. 4Radio is the most obvious example - it is testament to Channel 4's ambition that it bothered trying...
