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We have put the subscription barriers back in place on Broadcast’s website Broadcastnow.co.uk  after a year or so of being “free to air”.
So far the response has been largely positive. I saw one Tweet last week from someone saying the barriers had gone up so they’d removed us from their favourites list. It’s a price we will [...]

We might not have got a barbecue Summer, but it does promise to be a vintage Autumn – in the media at least.
Already the market’s showed a sign of hotting up.  On one day last week, Mick Pilsworth’s  TV company Motive jumped in value by 95% on signing an interesting technology deal, drama producer Shed [...]

Twitter has courted its fair share of news headlines since the turn of the year – many for its novelty factor, in truth – but this time it was different. When online news sources began reporting that the service had rescheduled technical maintenance in order to allow a crucial daytime period for Iranian users to [...]

While undoubtedly the most high profile filesharing courtcase to date, Pirate Baygate has this weekend also become one of the leading global news stories. Sir Paul McCartney has brought the debate closer to the UK with his comments to the BBC, judging the verdict the ‘fair’; the Guardian has poured scorn on the ruling that will [...]

I received an email this week from a contact who works in the TV industry in Australia asking my opinion on something to do with what he called ‘PDRs’?   Now I had to stop and think what on earth he was talking about. Eventually I went back to him to check my assumption that PDR [...]

It’s just three months since the first Media Festival and so much has changed.  Yes, we knew it as going to be bad back in the dark days of November last year – but I’m not sure anyone really anticipated quite how bad. We’d already had the run on Northern Rock, we’d seen the employees [...]

I don’t expect to find myself agreeing with former Tory cabinet minister Sir Norman Fowler too often, but he made a strong case for further reform of the BBC in this week’s Media Guardian. The BBC Trust, created in the wake of the Hutton report and whilst the BBC was still shell-shocked about the death [...]

Though Facebook was celebrating its fifth birthday this month with its 150m users, the party has been overshadowed by the spiralling stock of a rival social media platform. ‘Suddenly, it seems as though all the world’s a-twitter’, goes one of the social networking site’s snippet-like reviews. That might have been considered a premature verdict to [...]

Well you have to start with the downturn, and how badly it’s affecting stations and groups. The numbers are of course terrible and I suspect we’ll see some horrible double digit declines over the next few months. But you know what - we’ve been here before. I checked the data and in January 1991 - [...]

The latest Bellwether report from the IPA makes for grim reading - UK marketing budgets in the last quarter of 2008 fell to a record low, and 2009 looks set to see further spending cuts.
Laura Swinton reports delves inside the numbers that give an indication of the year to come.
49 per cent of companies [...]