Category Archives: Ofcom
Friday 2nd December 2011
Viewers of ABC in America, Channel 4 in the UK and other channels in countless other countries will have heard of Wife Swap and The Secret Millionaire. Not so many will have heard of the Zodiak Media Group, the company that owns and makes them. Zodiak Media is a European firm with its main operating headquarters in London and Paris, majority-owned by the Italian De Agostini Group. De Agostini started to build its Communications Division in 2007, acquiring Marathon (France) and Magnolia (Italy and Spain). Then, in 2008, … Read more…
Tuesday 30th August 2011
I was fortunate to hear Eric Schmidt, Chairman of Google, speak at the Edinburgh Television Festival and to attend the Question and Answer session the following morning. Schmidt posed one big question — in my view a massively important one: why hasn’t a country like the UK built large technology companies? (He reminded us that the first commercial use of a computer was at the headquarters of J. Lyons, once famous for its tea shops, in West London). For the audience of British TV Executives the question took a … Read more…
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Friday 10th June 2011
We are in the middle of a large project for the European Commission and just beginning to see the picture that is emerging from this work — that is a picture of Europe’s audiovisual industries seen from a pan-European perspective. We find, as before, a series of cultural islands, with some island clusters — the Scandinavian countries act like a kind of cluster as do the countries that share the same language, France, Belgium, parts of Switzerland, for example. The UK is part of a more complex structure … Read more…
Sunday 29th May 2011
In the “old days” TV advertising was quite a simple business. It was sold on “ratings”, the number of people who watched a show and the commercial spots around it. To be precise we didn’t really know exactly how many people watched a show, but we knew they were in the room with the TV on when it was on the air. That is because a “peoplemeter” in the TV identifies what is on in a selected household and everyone in the household is asked to press … Read more…
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