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Page Three plugs 3D
The Sun was plugging Sky's experimental live football 3D service - even on Page Three!
The UX of moving house: Part 7 - Sky's dreadful customer service
When I moved house last year one of the worst examples of user experience, both online and offline, was provided by Sky when I tried to get their TV service installed.
Too much David Tennant on TV? More like too many politicians if you ask me...
In response to claims that David Tennant was on BBC television too much over Christmas, a Conservative MP seems to think he appeared on over 200 channels.
"In the future, there will be journalists"
At a UCLAN workshop in Preston, I was part of a group trying to discover the digital skills and training that a young journalist in 2012 would need. This post explains what we thought the journalist of the future would look like.
'Linking out' makes "Live from Studio Five" more credible than Sky Sports
It seems an unlikely claim, but compared to a Sky Sports magazine that didn't feature any sporting event, however important, not actually shown on the channel in their "Decade of sport", Five's coverage of TV shows from 'the other side' was refreshingly honest.
Live-blogging the BNP on Question Time across the web
Live-blogging the BNP on Question TimeA look at how newspapers and political blogs covered Nick Griffin's BBC appearance online.
Revenue share deal spikes newspaper guns about England's pay-per-view Internet World Cup qualifier
The confirmation that England's World Cup match against Ukraine will only be available pay-per-view on the Internet reminds me of 2000, when an away game against Finland was only available on short-lived and obscure pay TV service u>direct. Perform, the rights holders this time around, have made a shrewd move in allowing newspaper websites to sell the game on a revenue share basis. Whilst I'm not suggesting filthy lucre has unduly influenced editorial decisions, it is certainly a lot...
The Ashes, personalisation and print
Mike Norrish wrote an interesting piece in The Telegraph this week, pointing out that the weekend's Ashes victory had not captured the national mood as much as it had in 2005. Stressing that at the time the 5th Test ended, Songs Of Praise was getting higher viewing figures than the cricket on Sky, he said: "You simply can’t enthrall a nation on subscription TV. The 2005 Ashes series pulled in 7.4 million viewers at its peak. Even people who didn’t...
The mysterious case of The Telegraph's anonymous columnist who cost the BBC £45,000
It was No Rock And Roll Fun who I saw pointing out that The Telegraph had reported on the BBC's £45,000 payout to the Muslim Council of Britain, all the time referring to an anonymous 'panelist' who had made the libelous statements on Question Time. Most other media outlets mentioned that the mysterious 'panelist' was Charles Moore. They also seemed to think the fact that he is a columnist for, and ex-editor of, The Telegraph was a significant element in...
How major publishers are using social media to drive traffic - Part 4
This is the fourth of a series of posts based on a talk I gave during May 2009 at WebCertain's "International Social Media Summit" in London. You can find the first part here, and view the original presentation slides on SlideShare. Twitter Twitter has been, without doubt, the communications technology hype of the year. There are several ways that mainstream companies have been using Twitter - some more successfully than others. One approach is to simply announce all content...
Is peer-to-peer streaming of international football showing the game a new revenue model?
When I lived in Greece it was sometimes a bit hit and miss whether I got to see England games. The time difference meant they were on late in the evening, and often there were competing fixtures of more local interest, or featuring Denmark, Sweden or Norway, from where a great deal of tourists to Chania originated. It meant that during England's doomed attempt to qualify for Euro2008 I got used to the UEFA live match centre, and relied...
Wembley on the web: Part 2 - The FA Cup Final online from Sky Sports and the BBC
Yesterday I started blogging about some of my thoughts on the live online coverage provided for the FA Cup Final between Chelsea and Everton, with a look at the websites of the two channels showing the game live, Setanta and ITV. Today I wanted to look at two networks who no longer have the rights to broadcast the game - Sky Sports and the BBC. Photo by umbrofootball Sky Sports For Sky Sports it must be a major irritation...
Wembley on the web: Part 1 - The FA Cup Final online from ITV and Setanta
Like much of the male half of the country, on Saturday 30th May I shunned the Cup Final weather to sit in a darkened pub and actually watch the Cup Final. Unlike most, I suspect, I picked a pub with wifi so that I could also monitor the live web coverage of the game from the UK's major broadcasters. Photo by umbrofootball ITV ITV had a big-hitting line-up on Saturday, but when you visited ITV.com during the game, the...
BBC Radiophonic Workshop Q&A at the Camden Roundhouse
On May 17th I went to see an evening with 'The Radiophonic Workshop' at Camden's Roundhouse, which was part of their Short Circuit festival of electronica. Yesterday I posted my review of the gig. Photo by Stickpeople Before the show started there was an hour long Q&A session with 5 members of the Radiophonic Workshop, which I was lucky enough to attend. Here are some of my notes from the event. The conference circuit Thanks to their involvement with Doctor...
BBC Radiophonic Workshop live at the Camden Roundhouse
"BBC Radiophonic Workshop live"
Read my review of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop gig at Camden's Roundhouse, along with my notes from the Q&A session which preceded it.
"An Open BBC?" at Broadcasting House
With my posts over the couple the last couple of days about The Guardian's Open Platform and m.guardian.co.uk, you could be forgiven for thinking that it was going to be wall-to-wall Guardian on currybetdotnet from now on. However, on Tuesday night I was back at one of my old stomping grounds, the BBC, for the event wrapping up Steve Bowbrick's time as the BBC's "open blogger". Although, to be fair, Emily Bell was on the panel, so there is still...
'Delivering Digital Britain' still too much about 'delivery'
I was lucky enough to get a seat yesterday morning when Lord Carter presented the next steps for his Digital Britain report at NESTA. The event was heavily over-subscribed and the busiest I've seen at NESTA HQ. The release of the report was heavily criticised in many quarters, some of which was captured by a move to put it into a more malleable format than the PDF document that was initially published. I wondered whether Lord Carter would address any...
Digital Britain Interim report - first impressions
Today is day that the interim 'Digital Britain' report was published by the DCMS. It follows hard on the heels of the Ofcom report into the future of Public Service Broadcasting as part of this curiously two pronged approach to sorting out the regulatory and policy future of the UK's media. I turned the Ofcom document into a Wordle cloud: I've done the same for today's Digital Britain interim report: And, as prompted by @JemStone, here is the comparison chart...
Terrestrial TV's invisible online DEC Appeal
I published a post earlier today looking at how I used to be involved with putting DEC appeals on the BBC website homepage, and thinking about how such an appeal might be fitted into the current personalised homepage design. I thought, this morning, it might be worth zipping around the websites of the three terrestrial broadcasters who had agreed to show the appeal, and look at how they were drawing attention to the plight of Gaza using their websites. I...
'The Fry Effect' - mentioning Twitter on the Jonathan Ross show
I assumed that on Friday night nothing short of appearing in sackcloth and ashes and spending the whole 59 minute slot groveling and apologising profusely could have placated the tabloids. I was rather more interested in the Jonathan Ross impact on Twitter. "All over. Won't reveal too much as press seem anxious to be all over this. JR & I discussed Twitter. Hope it makes the cut. Cruise charming" - @stephenfry Followers of @stephenfry and @wossy knew in advance that...
Ofcom framing a digital content strategy in a vacuum
'From programming to funding' - Ofcom's PSB documents as word clouds
Channel 4's Andy Duncan calls for Internet regulation at NESTA event
Social media: Contextual help on 24 hour news TV websites
Social media and terrestrial television
Social media and TV news: Measuring social media success
Social media and TV news: Measuring the social media success of Russia Today, Euronews and France 24
Social media and TV news: Measuring Al Jazeera's success with social media
Social media and TV news: Measuring CNN's success with social media
Watching Euro2008 on Zattoo in the heart of the BBC
"You're wired!" - 7 things The Apprentice can teach you about new media projects
Zattoo and the rights holders - it is going to end in tears
Can you trust going to a 'Can you trust the media?' event for a good debate?
70 years of televised F.A. Cup Finals
Postcard from Macau #4: Hong Kong's missing TV archive
The Hitch-Hikers Guide to the Doctor Whoniverse
The Buffy guide to the Internet - 1997 style
British television sci-fi is seventy today
24/7 TV news websites: Part 16 - "Most Popular"
24/7 TV news websites: Part 15 - Lateral and related navigation II
24/7 TV news websites: Part 14 - Lateral and related navigation I
24/7 TV news websites: Part 13 - Global navigation and classification
24/7 TV news websites: Part 12 - Search III
24/7 TV news websites: Part 11 - Search II
24/7 TV news websites: Part 10 - Search
24/7 TV news websites: Part 9 - Sky News
24/7 TV news websites: Part 8 - Russia Today
24/7 TV news websites: Part 7 - ITN
24/7 TV news websites: Part 6 - France 24
24/7 TV news websites: Part 5 - Euronews
24/7 TV news websites: Part 4 - CNN
24/7 TV news websites: Part 3 - BBC
24/7 TV news websites: Part 2 - Al Jazeera
24/7 TV news websites: Part 1 - Introduction
Top Gear the second most popular downloaded TV show on BitTorrent
I'm not convinced online voting shows Rhydian was robbed on X-Factor
Finding, sharing, and playing with that Tony Palmer BBC rejection letter
"How do I get a refund for an ITV phone call?"
A good day to bury bad broadcasting news?
3D Television wows me at the BBC Vision Multiplatform day
Watching the Rugby World Cup on ITV.com
Reckless Records RIP - Part 7: Television Personalities
'Faked' Bargain Hunt the final straw
5 quick usability wins for the BBC iPlayer beta trial installation process
A tour of Tour De France news sites - Général Classement
"Show must go on" culture at the BBC more to blame for errors than a calculating culture of deceit
National Television Awards vote seems wide open to multiple vote fraud
Free the BBC from the same old tired DRM debate
Too much Big Brother nipple for the Daily Mail
Peter from Spalding is not impressed by the BBC Trust's iPlayer approval
Digital doesn't automatically mean quality
William Rees-Mogg in The Times on Jerry Springer and Muslims
Jerry Springer - The Aftermath
Distant Shores with Peter Davidson
Top Of The Pops to move from BBC One....and I get a sense of deja vu
Doctor Who back on the cover of the Radio Times
Television coverage of the new Premiership season
Here is an illustrated summary of the BBC News 50 Year celebrations
TiVo was made for football championships
Sky's the limit for the tabloid Independent
TiVo troubles: a word to interaction designers about having a "Happy GUI"
Free access to the BBC's archive, or sale to the highest bidder?
Football, unencrypted satellite broadcast, and bloody huge on-screen graphics
Nostalgia for Saturday night television
Why the Premiership on broadband might not be so bad...
Sea Lions and Dolphins trained for war
Barry Cox calls for an end to public service broadcasting?
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