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US Demonstrations | News Coverage

Chris Jansing has had enough:



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Television About Television

There used to be a lot of media coverage on BBC2 and Channel 4, both very different channels in the 1990s. Some features from arts programmes like The Late Show, specials and regular programmes on the media that spring to mind:

Did You See? (BBC2)



The Late Show (BBC2)




TV Hell Night (BBC2)

One of BBC2's best theme nights in the 1990s. Here's one programme on TV-AM. Others on YouTube include the A-Z Of Hell, Disastermind and Hello and Goodbye.


Trouble At The Top - Nightmare At Canary Wharf (BBC2)

Behind the scenes of the launch of Live TV by Janet Street-Porter and Kelvin Mackenzie:



Watch This Or The Dog Dies - The History Of Youth TV (BBC2)



The Media Show (Channel 4)



Right To Reply (Channel 4)



There was also a big season on TV news on Channel 4 in the 1990s "Whose News" which included this edition of its polemic strand "J'Accuse".



I can't find any clips on YouTube but there was a weekly media show "Late Media" on BBC2 in the 1990s, presented by Joanna Coles who used to present Mediumwave on Radio 4.
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Bauer rebranding 53 stations to The Hits/Greatest Hits

I can see the argument that national brands are easier to market and more attractive to advertisers, but OFCOM has made a hash of regulation to maintain local content.

To maintain "localness" on the former GWR stations in the East Midlands (Leicester Sound, Ram FM, Trent FM) which are now Capital, it has a drive time show presented from Birmingham. For residents of the East Midlands, Birmingham is barely more local than London.

You can't fault the quality of execution by Global and their investment in brands and studios (videos of interviews on BBC Radio 4 and Five Live are embarrassing by comparison).

On the other hand, Bauer's rebranding of Key 103 as The Hits has been a disaster - a remarkable fall for what was once a formidable force in local radio.
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Coronavirus | Television News Coverage

Doubt we've heard the last of this. Never underestimate the BBC's ability to shoot itself in the foot.

There was no need for it to single out this complaint for a fast turnaround with a tweet from the BBC News PR team. Otherwise, it would have soon been forgotten about.
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BBC News: Presenters, correspondent & rotas

The problem with Laura K is that she seems to use Twitter breathlessly as a form of notepad, often without even taking the time construct proper sentences.

What would often only merit inclusion in one of the last paragraphs of a story appears as a single tweet and get seized upon.

Laura didn't help herself last night using the reply function to a tweet from Mirror journalist Pippa Crerar to post an off the record comment from a "source" which gave the impression she was correcting the Mirror's journalism.

The whole Westminster lobby system of the off the record briefing needs reform. Some newspaper journalists posting "it's fake news from The Guardian" from "allies" and "friends" of Dominic Cummings did not cover themselves in glory last night.
BFGArmy and Night Thoughts gave kudos
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BBC Four to become archive channel (p15)

From the BBC's Annual Plan document:

http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/aboutthebbc/reports/annualplan/annual-plan-2020-21.pdf

Quote:
BBC Two will become the home of the BBC’s specialist programming with a renewed focus on premium and distinctive factual content from documentaries, science and history to the arts, music and religion – helping audiences to discover and understand the world in all its complexity. It will remain a mixed-genre channel that will provide a vital creative pipeline to BBC One for scripted and factual entertainment content in order to grow the hits of the future and continue that strong and successful tradition. BBC Two will be enriched by taking the best of BBC Four’s originations, giving these programmes a bigger shop window

BBC Three has demonstrated an extraordinary track record of originality. It has grown new talent, created huge global hits and has been named Channel Of The Year three times. We are now backing this success, more than doubling its budget and maximising its reach across broadcast and online. We will expand the range of content that it commissions, but retain its focus on new talent, compelling drama (like Normal People, Killing Eve, Thirteen and Killed by my Debt), life-changing current affairs and factual (like Stacey Dooley’s investigations and Love and Hate Crime), entertainment (like RuPaul's Drag Race UK and Glow Up) and comedy (like This Country, Fleabag and Famalam).

We are exploring how we can maximise the impact of this new young adult content. Our research evidence shows that there is a big available audience on linear television and the BBC could reach them if we move decisively. So there is potentially a strong case for restoring BBC Three as a linear channel as well as an online destination. But in the course of this year we will need to explore how viewing habits develop during the Covid-19 crisis

BBC Four will increase focus on bringing together collections of the most distinctive content from the BBC’s rich archive. Arts will continue to be a centrepiece of Four as we carry on showcasing Culture in Quarantine through this period. Outside the UK, we are exploring potential commercial opportunities for BBC Four to become a new global subscription service that takes our strengths in specialist factual to the world stage.


Here is the supporting press release:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2020/annual-plan
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BBC Four to become archive channel (p15)

Would this need OFCOM approval?

I would imagine Channel 4 would lobby quite hard against it, particularly given their current financial position.

(Remember Stuart Murphy's vow to "screw E4"?)
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BBC Four to become archive channel (p15)

WMD posted:
But BBC Three could return to linear TV... https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-52719883


A curiously worded quote from the BBC:

Quote:
"A BBC spokesman said "we'd be wrong not to back a service that is doing better than anyone could have ever conceived".


This story is also on the front page of tomorrow's Times and in The Guardian:

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2020/may/19/bbc-three-could-return-as-broadcast-channel-under-proposals

Looks like it has been actively leaked with a 10pm embargo ahead of tomorrow's annual plan.
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Good Morning Britain in 2020

Piers' response may have been over the top - I guess the use of his phone gave a sense of immediacy and suits his image of leading a personal crusade, but the BBC has been far too timid over government boycotts of the Today programme and Newsnight.

If the government chooses to actively boycott specific programmes they should be empty chaired.
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BBC Four to become archive channel (p15)

I don't agree with this.

The BBC has already lost spare terrestrial capacity for events like Glastonbury due to the closure of BBC3 which, as many warned at the time, is now clearly a huge strategic error.

Like the closure of BBC3, which was dressed up as the BBC taking the lead, this is being done as a reaction from a position of weakness because of the Government progressively turning the screw on the BBC, not from a position of confidence and strength when the BBC was able to lead technological change in broadcasting. Yes, streaming has widespread adoption, but it is still nowhere near as resilient and universal as free to air broadcast.

If the closure of BBC3 and BBC4 meant a return to the BBC2 of the 1990s, I would accept their closure, but it won't.
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Coronavirus | Television News Coverage

A live link to Leicester on BBC News had to be dropped because of abuse towards the crew:



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Election 2010

The 4:3 safe zone is very much in action on split screen shots.