Published 12 September 2007
The first set of ratings for the new Autumn season have been released by BARB and it makes for interesting reading. Sky One, which was once the top rating satellite/cable/digital…
Published 31 August 2007
It’s time to talk about the growing Countdown. No, this is nothing to do with the Channel 4 game show which started on the same day that the channel did,…
Published 24 August 2007
The Joint National Listenership Research (JNLR) figures for Jun 06-Jun 07 have been released by Ireland’s media regulator, the Broadcasting Commission of Ireland (BCI). These are the figures for radio…
Published 22 August 2007
Hot on the heels of one piece of bad journalism from the Daily Star yesterday, comes a very different journalistic boo-boo from the ultra-conservative Daily Mail. This time, making a…
Published 21 August 2007
Stories may go in and out of television and radio news bulletins and newspapers depending on how much has happened in the meantime, but rarely do you get stale news….
Published 8 June 2007
So, the Scottish National Party wants to reignite the campaign to bring a “Scottish Six” bulletin to BBC1. Perhaps it would be more helpful in general if there was much…
Published 18 May 2007
Five nabs Neighbours. To follow up on what my esteemed colleague Andrew Bowden posted earlier, it looks like it will be an aussie double bill of soaps, as for the…
Published 17 May 2007
I haven’t been following the ratings too much recently, but I do notice in the latest publicly available figures on the BARB website, some very interesting stats. It is noticeable…
Published 8 May 2007
So, the recent trend for news channels to broadcast on the net continues. The most recent addition is BBC News 24, which can now be watched live on the net….
Published 20 April 2007
I would call myself something of a news junkie. I like to tune in to various news sources to get different perspectives on the news. This is a way of…
Published 20 March 2007
At the request of BT, Setanta, Virgin Media and Top Up TV, OFCOM are to investigate the world of UK based pay television. Whilst I am all in favour of…
Published 19 March 2007
Yes, it is true. A legend of the television industry has returned to the broadcasting ether. This particular legend first arrived on South West televison screens in 1961, and disappeared…
Published 13 March 2007
Well, I have to say this is great news for people like myself who have a love of the broadcast media. The overly commercial venture known as ITV Play, is…
Published 21 January 2007
Now, usually, I do not criticise 24 hour news channels for their choices of stories. There are thousands of stories out there every day, and each channel has to decide…
Published 12 January 2007
Fox News Channel constantly advertise themselves as “Fair and Balanced”, but the reality of these chyrons, or lower thirds, is quite different. Newshounds has the screenshots. We Report, You Decide!
Published 5 November 2006
There have been many rumours around the net about the launch of Al-Jazeera International. So many and for so long, that this has become one of the most anticipated launches…
Published 26 October 2006
It has taken a day or so of analysis of the publicly available BARB data, but there are one or two interesting conclusions out of this week’s data. It doesn’t…
Published 23 October 2006
I have noticed something in my observations of the various blogs and commentators on the internet, and that is that there is no single “enemy” organisation for conservatives. Bill O’Reilly,…
Published 11 October 2006
Well, there are a few surprises coming out of the latest publicly viewable ratings. On the channel side, we see that the joint highest rating channels right now, according to…
Published 6 July 2006
Well, having been listening to the FM radio all day, rather than the DAB radio, I have been pleasantly surprised by the new station on the block in my area….
Published 9 June 2006
Over 2 million Americans and many others around the world watch Bill O’Reilly’s “The O’Reilly Factor” on Fox News Channel. But yesterday, the programme, which is often refered to as…
Published 18 May 2006
Well, this is an odd move, but one I applaud. The BBC have revamped the music that counts down to the top of the hour on their 24 hour news…
Published 13 January 2006
Okay, it will only be for viewers of the Anglia region, but as EDP 24 reports, the knight is to return as part of the new title sequence for Anglia’s…
Published 6 January 2006
This is not the sort of thing I like talking about, but it definitely is a shaker. A phone-in caller to a local radio station in Liverpool, died whilst he…
Published 27 December 2005
He was the richest man in Australia, a man who caused a ton of controversy when introducing World Series Cricket in 1977. Much like some of his fellow Australian media…
Published 1 December 2005
In this Ratings Review segment, I will highlight the worst performers according to BARB’s publicly available ratings, in this case, ranked according to their performance on the Weekly Reach ratings….
Published 1 December 2005
I have been listening to a classic local radio pairing on BBC Radio Cornwall, reunited after 15 years. Former Westcountry continuity announcer Chris Langmore has been reunited with former Late…
Published 27 October 2005
Well, there are no real surprises in the big headline stories from these figures, publically available from the RAJAR website. BBC Radio 2 continues to hold the status of Most…
Published 26 June 2005
BBC News is reporting the death of Channel 4 and Yorkshire Television presenter Richard Whitely, who was nicknamed “Twice Nightly” for regularly appearing on both Countdown and Calendar on the…
Published 23 June 2005
We have a new leader in the BARB Multichannel Stakes. Originally, it was Sky One. Then ITV2 took over the mantle. Now, the new king of the multichannel empire is…
Published 21 June 2005
It seems that the concept of radio by satellite is very much here to stay, and even the BBC is onboard with the concept. The BBC World Service is already…
Published 24 May 2005
Having spent some time reflecting on the stirke at the BBC, I find myself in the unenviable position of being able to see both sides, to see that, yes, the…
Published 7 May 2005
Well, having reviewed the night of the general election, there are several points that spring up in my mind. First, one thing that ITV actually did right, was to have…
Published 1 May 2005
This is money.co.uk is reporting that industry insiders believe that Charles Allen could be looking to revive ITV Digital by purchasing Top Up TV. Now, combine this info with the…
Published 9 March 2005
Well, after a couple of weeks where the freely available ratings didn’t show anything special, this week has proved rather different. First of all, Sky One has had a breakout…
Published 16 February 2005
Well, it’s got to be said that there are few big surprises in the freely available channel data from BARB. Sky Sports 1 raised its rating again this week to…
Published 11 February 2005
Well, the Evening Standard yesterday reported that the BBC plans to launch an Free-To-Air sports channel, sometime after 2006. Quoting BBC Controller of Sport Peter Salmon, they speculate that the…
Published 9 February 2005
Well, as per last week, Sky One has been beaten by both ITV2 and Sky Sports 1. However this time, the ratings show that whilst ITV2 was helped by American…
Published 9 February 2005
The announcement has been made of all the nominees in the various categories of the National Hospital Radio Awards, which will be presented at the HBA Spring Conference in Belfast…
Published 9 February 2005
Finally, OFCOM have actually published a proposed timetable for the region-by-region switch off of Analogue Terrestrial Television (ATT). The proposed dates for switch off are, in switchover order… 2008: Border,…