All articles by Kate Bulkley – Page 19
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CommentMedia money: Are live advertisements worth the anxiety?
After being inspired by those clever people at Channel 4 and Honda (which delivered the live skydiving ad last week), I am proud to announce that this column is being written live. Cue triumphant music.
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NewsDyke: ITV needs to slash programming by£150m
ITV should slash£150m from its original programming budget in order to regain the confidence of the market and its investors, according to Greg Dyke.
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CommentMedia money: What will Tinopolis gain from the purchase of a Tulsa sports producer?
The odds of Llanelli and Tulsa, Oklahoma, having much in common seem extreme, but if Welsh producer Tinopolis buys US sports producer Winnercomm, a lot of cultural and business exchange will be on the cards.
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CommentMedia money: Why is ITV changing the Friends Reunited business model?
There is an old saying in business: if it ain't broke, don't fix it.
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CommentMedia Money: Why is SMG launching a new linear TV channel?
The cry of the big broadcasters seems to be: when in doubt, launch another channel. And so it is that SMG wants to launch a new channel by 2009/10, anchored with some 200,000 hours of programming from its video archives.
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CommentMedia Money: Challenges for new Endemol CEO
If any TV company understands the power of Big Brother, it's Endemol. The biggest indie in Europe has been having money troubles lately, so what did the owners do? Install a financial “Big Brother” to sort out the mess.
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CommentMedia money: Blinkx and Mr Murdoch?
Shares in video search engine Blinkx surged 50% in one day last week to nearly 40p per share - up from a recent low of 14.5p a share - on speculation that News Corp was preparing a bid.
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CommentMedia money: As Tinopolis delists, will others follow?
A trickle of independent production companies looking to take themselves off the public market could be set to turn into a rout.
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CommentMedia money: Who will be the biggest winners and losers in the Freesat landscape?
When you're fitting in the last piece of a jigsaw, you want to get it right. Michael Grade believes Freesat is the last piece in the digital television jigsaw, and the fact that Sky is not involved in this platform is significant to its potential for success.
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CommentMedia money: What will the sale of Jalipo mean?
You may be forgiven if you haven't heard of Jalipo. The niche content aggregator was officially set up in the UK two years ago. It raised and spent a few million pounds and was sold this week in an all-share deal worth $16.8m to US-based ROK Entertainment Group.
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NewsRTL won Airey with whirlwind approach
RTL took just a few weeks to convince Dawn Airey to quit ITV to become Five's new supremo.
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CommentMedia money: Will RDF's delisting lead to indies abandoning the Stock Exchange?
RDF Media's management plan to leave the goldfish bowl we call the Stock Exchange is no big surprise. The question is will others follow suit or is RDF's situation unique?
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CommentMedia money: Is Channel 4's Andy Duncan paid too much?
There's been a lot of braying in the press about Andy Duncan's salary doubling to£1.2m in 2007, just as Channel 4 is claiming a financial crisis. His pay packet may look big to us mere mortals, but the real question is: compared to what?
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CommentMedia money: What do Richard & Judy know about digital that we don't?
Richard Madeley and Judy Finnigan are always full of surprises, whether it's dressing up as Ali G or showing more than just a little cleavage at an awards ceremony.
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CommentMedia money: What is next for Shed and RDF?
On the eve of Shed's results (30 April), the company should be riding high.
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CommentMedia money: Murdoch calls on UK to relax product placement advertising rules
Fresh from her purchase of Ugly Betty producer Reveille in the US, Elisabeth Murdoch was beating the drum this week for the UK to relax the rules on product placement soon - or risk falling behind creatively.
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CommentMedia money: Fremantle Media puts on a new face in Japan
Fremantle Media has had an office in Japan for three years, but it's been tough to convince Japanese broadcasters that “foreign” programming could work there.
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CommentMedia Money: Is top slicing the BBC inevitable?
The Conservatives' recent broadcasting policy paper has put top slicing the BBC's licence fee squarely on their political agenda, but they aren't alone in wanting to share the corporation's lunch money around the TV playground.