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A homepage to call my own
Just a few thoughts, and a random collection of interesting things I have stumbled upon
My CV & contact
My public files
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Just a few thoughts, and a random collection of interesting things I have stumbled upon
My CV & contact
My public files
My private files
Drop files here
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Jun
27th
Fri
27th
Never mind the creative, feel the marketing...
The BBC has selected a marketing man, Tim Davie, to take over from Jenny Abramsky as Director of Audio and Music. Just to be clear, that makes him responsible for 11 national radio stations, as well as the 3 BBC orchestras, television music entertainment, the Proms and a number of other things.
Now I have nothing against marketing of course, nothing much at all happens without it, but to hand over full creative control of ALL BBC audio to someone whose sole objective (it would seem to me) will be reach and metrics, surely doesn’t suggest much attention will be paid to the fringes and experimentation with new ideas.
I’m afraid it makes me question what the BBC thinks it is for - again.
Full story in Broadcast
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Jun
21st
Sat
21st
The BBC will on Monday make an unprecedented proposal to co-operate with commercial broadcasters. Mark Thompson, director-general of the BBC, will suggest in a submission to the industry regulator that the BBC should help commercial rivals by offering to exploit their programmes internationally, and by sharing new technologies to help cut costs.
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According to The Times, on Monday the BBC will launch its fightback against ‘top-slicing’ the licence fee by offering to share resources with rival broadcasters…
BBC ready to help its rivals develop their programmes - Times Online
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The brilliant Adam Buxton has been at it again … (via Twitter - thanks Gia)
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ITV’s £20m investment in broadband TV is starting to pay off, with 12 million views of programmes or clips on ITV.com in May and programming including Coronation Street, Britain’s Got Talent and Euro 2008 football among the biggest online video hits.
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Jun
13th
Fri
13th
A man was handcuffed, arrested and charged – after laughing too much at Have I Got News For You. Christopher Cocker, 36, guffawed so hard at a joke Paul Merton cracked on the BBC One show that he fell off his sofa. The thud startled his downstairs neighbour who thought he had collapsed, so called police.
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Blocking spam registrations with name fields
Britcaster.com - the original home of the Uk’s podcaster community - still ticks over in a lazy backwater of the internet receiving a handful of new show registrations each week. It also…
Britcaster.com - the original home of the Uk’s podcaster community - still ticks over in a lazy backwater of the internet receiving a handful of new show registrations each week. It also…
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Unfortunate juxtaposition of the week
(thanks Gia)
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Jun
10th
Tue
10th
Radiohead’s decision to offer their latest album on a pay-what-you-like basis online “to some extent backfired”, U2’s manager has said. The majority of fans who downloaded In Rainbows ignored the band’s website and acquired it illegally by other means, Paul McGuinness told BBC 6 Music. “Sixty to 70% of the people who downloaded the record stole it anyway, even though it was available for free.” U2’s next album - due this year - would not follow the same approach, he added.
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