More social media insight! This time from Ben Chapman who heads up interactive for BBC Radio 1 . In this 12 minute interview he serves up how they use digital to enhance radio for their 11 million weekly listeners.
I met an Oscar winner last night. Estelle Parsons , who won best supporting actress in Bonnie and Clyde, was performing in August – Osage County at the Paramount Theatre in Seattle and I was lucky enough to get back stage and shake her hand. The play was awesome! A company of about 12 actors had 2000...
A couple of reports around today on the BBC's social media plans saying that as soon as this weekend it will begin adding applications to support its most popular shows. Broadband TV News says that the likes of 'Strictly Come Dancing' will get the social media treatment first and that the...
The story that won't seem to lie down and die quietly rumbles on as News Corp desperately continues to try to lead their fellow publishers into pay-for-content models. If they could get everyone to follow suit, this strategy may well work - hence James Murdoch's recent vitriolic attack on the...
One thing you have to admire about the Prime Minister of Italy are his balls. Metaphorically speaking of course. Last week, trapped in yet more scandal over "beautiful women" attending his parties, he continued to insist that he has never paid for sex: "For those who love to conquer,"...
It's quite something when a six month loss of £105m is considered surprisingly good news, but that's how I felt this morning when I saw ITV's interim results. Given the state of the economy, the ad market plus the absurd restrictions and regulations that the broadcaster is restrained by I...
While it is music to Thinkbox’s – and advertisers’ – ears that commercial TV has increased its share of viewing and that commercial broadcast TV viewing is continuing to grow , it certainly wasn’t our intention that this should be used as a stick to beat the BBC, as some have . There are quite enough...
Good news for fans of swine flu. According to today's Times , if a pandemic forces the closure of schools the Government could invoke an emergency clause in the BBC's charter forcing it to 'broadcast or otherwise distribute any announcement or other programme'. The report goes on to state...
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...
