Archive for the ‘Corporate media’ Category
Wednesday, November 15th, 2006
European ministers have voted to remove EU restrictions on product placement on TV (other than in children's programming and news) and to allow more frequent commercial breaks in certain types of programming:Movies, news and children's programmes could be interrupted by advertisements every 30 minutes, but no commercial breaks are allowed ...
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Friday, October 6th, 2006
A new Broadcasting Bill is currently being considered in Ireland, and a number of issues bear comment: The Oireachtas committee dealing with the Bill mandated an internet-based consulatation. Unfortunately, I was travelling when I became aware of the process, and though I registered, I wasn't able to set aside time to ...
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Wednesday, May 10th, 2006
As someone who listens almost exclusively to community radio and NPR, it can sometimes be shocking to be reminded of the standard that commercial radio can sometimes drop to here in the States. Of course not all commercial radio is quite this coarse or vile, but that really doesn't seem ...
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Monday, May 8th, 2006
A few weeks old at this point, but Owen pointed me towards the news that the Connacht Tribune newspaper group has bought Galway Bay FM, the sole commercial radio station in Galway.
Had we the type of cross-ownership rules currently present in the United States, this would not have been possible. ...
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Monday, January 16th, 2006
I wonder who's going to buy CanWest's share of TV3.
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Thursday, August 25th, 2005
The BCI has just released the JNLR listenership figures for the past year. RTÉ is continuing its slow slide, but still has a share of 40.5% between the three stations measured (Radio 1, 2FM and Lyric FM).
Personally, though, I always rush to see how my old local commercial station, Galway ...
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Tuesday, August 2nd, 2005
Al Gore's Current TV has launched and The Guardian has a review:The ultimate effect is a well-meaning effort by a middle-aged politician to appeal to young people. But then of course, that is what it is.
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Monday, August 1st, 2005
RTÉ reports today that City Channel, the David Harvey-led group that recently launched in Dublin, plan to expand shortly into Galway and Waterford. They are negotiating with NTL for carriage and then plan to approach the BCI for a license, when the other aspects are a done deal.
I wonder what ...
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Saturday, July 9th, 2005
There's a reason I avoid watching cable news channels.
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Wednesday, June 29th, 2005
Word today of government plans for a Digital Terrestrial Television trial in Ireland. What's significant is that it seems that the trial is being conducted by the government itself, separate from RTÉ's technical subsidiary - though RTÉ could (and probably will) tender for the network and transmission elements. What will ...
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