Archive for the ‘Broadcast’ Category

The dream of the personal computer aka the world is mobile

Saturday, July 29th, 2006From the Economist July 29th.On the PC's 25th birthday, The Economist leader article says. The IBM PC helped to democratise computing. Now to finish the job.Merchants in Zambia use mobile phones for banking; farmers in Senegal use them to ...

ITV = A licence to print money. Not anymore

Saturday, July 29th, 2006A leader article from the Guardian on the parlous state of ITV.ITV may well become another example of what happens where ultimately hubris leads organisations. Compare ITV with the BBC or indeed the Guardian, who have maintained high ...

YouTube hits 100m video views per day

Tuesday, July 18th, 2006Internet video site YouTube has said its users are now watching more than 100 million videos per day.YouTube is the leading net video download site in the US, with 29% of the country's multimedia market, according to traffic monitor ...

ITV caught in the gales of creative destruction

Monday, July 17th, 2006TV's share price has dropped further today, after slipping below £1 towards the end of trading yesterday, heightening speculation that the tipping point for another takeover bid has been reached.The broadcaster's share price was 97p at 4.20pm today, down ...

ITV shares lose more ground

Monday, July 17th, 2006TV's share price has dropped further today, after slipping below ?1 towards the end of trading yesterday, heightening speculation that the tipping point for another takeover bid has been reached.The broadcaster's share price was 97p at 4.20pm today, down ...

BBC channels £90m profit in pursuit of global domination

Monday, July 17th, 2006The BBC'S commercial arm is planning an expansion of its international activities, which could lead to it starting as many as six channels in countries such as the United States and India.It believes that it can boost last year's ...

The truth about school dinners

Thursday, July 13th, 2006We love Jamie Oliver. We have blogged about the cheeky chappy once or twice, :-) and we applaud how he has mastered his own brand, kept his authenticity, and utilised combinations of old media and new media to devastating effect.If ...

Primetime is not a time of day it is a state of mind

Monday, July 10th, 2006ITV tells advertisers: back us or lose us followed by ITV needs Love to survive (still struggling to get the right URL link) and The story of the long tailSo lets listen to the ...

telephone age thinking in an internet age

Friday, July 7th, 2006The European Commission and the UK are once again set on a collision course. Forget constitutions, euros or Maastricht. This time it's about something you care about: television, and particularly the future of TV and new media ...

Pictures in our heads

Wednesday, June 28th, 2006For America, the last decade of the twentieth century not only saw a proliferation of the use of new communication technologies but also witnessed the rise of multiculturalism as ethnic communities and new immigrants resisted the earlier normative goal of ...

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