All Comment articles – Page 304
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CommentBBCW's digital strategy takes shape
With BBC shows now available to download via iTunes and plans for the international roll-out of the iPlayer taking shape, BBC Worldwide is taking bold steps to re-invent its business models for the digital age, writes Dominic Schreiber.
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CommentBlog: Virgin will be the real test for iPlayer
On-demand TV will come of age once broadcasters get their catch-up services onto digital TV platforms, writes Robin Parker.
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CommentMedia Money: Is Strictly Come Anything a good idea?
I spent an evening last week at the O2 Arena watching the massively impressive Strictly Come Dancing live show and returned home thinking about what makes a good, exploitable multiplatform format as I drifted off to sleep.
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CommentMedia Money: What would UKTV be worth if it went on the market?
UKTV is one of those jewels in the channel landscape that goes under the radar. But after the recent ratings success of renaming the lacklustre UKTV G2 as the more viewer-friendly Dave, and with 50% shareholder Virgin Media TV talking about scaling back its content business, questions are being asked ...
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CommentHot topic: The Charlie Forman Scholarship
TV must train more documentary-makers, says Peter Bennett-Jones.
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CommentBy the time we get to HD, will it be obsolete?
How much future proofing can broadcasters actually do when technology change continues apace, asks Will Strauss.
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CommentBlog: Don't write off DAB
Doubt was cast over the future of commercial digital radio after GCap announced it was dramatically scaling back its DAB services, but the BBC's Mark Friend says the medium is here to stay.
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CommentBlog: Do you work too many hours?
The TUC is urging media professionals to boycott working unpaid overtime next Friday, but will it make any difference asks Robin Parker.
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CommentSo good for you?
Reviving Arthur Daley could work - but why does TV keep running to the archives?
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Off cuts - 15 December
Funny stories, gossip and general off-the-record, wicked whispers from the broadcast industry.
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CommentMedia Money: What is Virgin Media's strategy now?
To be content-led or not to be content-led? That was the question for Virgin Media's acting chief executive, Neil Berkett, but he seemed to answer it quite definitively last week when he said that the cable company, which less than 18 months ago made a bid for ITV, is now ...
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CommentMedia Money: How big a deal is time-shifted viewing?
The extent of the cudgelling of traditional TV advertising by the PVR has been debated ad nauseam: is the PVR the death of the 30-second spot? The jury is still out, but some new facts about the power of time-shifted viewing make for interesting reading.
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CommentThe Insider: Why we're staying put
An exodus of producer talent will leave 5 Live rather than go to Salford.
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CommentHow average is the average post company?
In the week that Broadcast publishes its Post Survey 2008, Will Strauss looks at the characteristics of the 'average' UK facilities company.
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CommentBlog: Wind of change for DAB
The announcement of an abrupt U-turn on DAB digital radio by Fru Hazlitt, new chief executive of GCap Media, has sent a cold wind through the entire UK radio industry, says Paul Robinson.