Online video ‘eroding TV viewing’
One departure, one arrival, and one return from the brink:
Michael Grade left the BBC. The decision was broken, as I understand it, in the Telegraph, and confirmed this morning. No news yet on salary, but it may top £2m. No news yet on how how he will be replaced. A former surgeon, acting Chair Chitra [...]
Variety has the most ridiculously over-blown style. Here it describes the sacking of VRT CEO Tony Mary after the Flemish government got pissed off with Mary’s sale of a popular TV show to a pay-per-view competitor. Piet Van Roe replaces Mary.
Measures of central bank independence have sometimes used the rate of turnover of Central Bank Governors as an indicator of de facto independence (which, it turns out, is reasonably strongly correlated with de jure independence). How does it work for PSBs? The following table gives the average time in post of a number of PSB [...]
The BBC announced today a review of its coverage of business. The review – which follows previous reviews of coverage of the European Union and the Middle East – will be conducted by a panel of six of the ‘great and the good’, and forms part of the new Trust’s ongoing Impartiality Project.
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The centre-right is annoyed with Rai thanks to two programmes: Fabio Fazio’s hosting of Finance Minister Padoa-Schioppa on Che Tempo Che Fa, and Lucia Annunziata’s hosting of Enrico Deaglio on Ballaro. Padoa-Schioppa took time to explain the left’s budget; Deaglio, a journalist, argued that the centre-right was ready to stuff the ballot boxes in last [...]
I’m just back from the PSA Media and Politics Group conference in Sunderland, where I presented a paper on the screen time given over to Italian politicians. Whilst there, I found out that Guy Starkey has compiled similar data [Powerpoint] on the screen-time given over to different parties on the BBC’s Today programme [...]
Senate President Franco Marini today defined the new electoral law ¨a monster¨. The law, passed in December of 2005 and already dubbed a ´piece of rubbish´ by its author was criticised for delivering different results in the Camera and in the Senate and for using closed party lists. ¨Citizens are no longer the referees¨, said [...]
Mediaset has been excluded from the short-list of companies competing to buy German TV group ProSiebenSat. Reuters, citing an anonymous source, claims that the exclusion was made on political grounds.
It is not uncommon to argue that Berlusconi’s business success is built on political connections rather than business acumen. The contrast between Berlusconi’s failure to make [...]
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09 The Smallest Weird Number
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