Great things to read about British TV from March 2008 to today

Wednesday 04 April 2018, PM

How porno conquered podcasts

Local DAB radio coverage expansion complete – RadioToday

The launch of the two new transmitters completes the transformative initiative to expand the UK's local DAB transmission network towards FM equivalence, which was announced by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport in 2015 and jointly funded by the DCMS, BBC and local DAB multiplex operators. The programme of work, which was delivered by Arqiva, has doubled the local DAB network, with new transmitters or modifications to 221 local DAB sites, boosting local DAB coverage from 72 to more than 90 of UK households. - radiotoday.co.uk

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Tuesday 03 April 2018, PM

30/03/2018 Radio 4 Feedback

Sunday 01 April 2018, PM

Is the BBC abdicating its responsibilities over Brexit?

When the BBC is accused of bias, its reaction is always the same - executives and journalists protest that if all sides attack the BBC with equal force all the time then they must be doing something right. Last weekend, thousands of EU supporters marched in towns and cities across the country, but little appeared on the BBC. Yet Nigel Farage has only to tip a crate of fish into the Thames and the BBC dutifully turns up to film the stunt. - www.theguardian.com

Sunday 01 April 2018, AM

Isle of Man

Jason Moorhouse wanted to know what plans there were to bring the digital TV and radio coverage in the Isle of Man up to an equivalent level with the UK. Currently, fewer Freeview television services are available from Manx relay transmitters than from the main masts in the UK. The island's three radio stations - EnergyFM, 3FM and government-subsidised Manx Radio - all broadcast on analogue frequencies and online. With regard to the BBC, he said he could raise the issue of allowing other stations to use the DAB transmitter as part of wider negotiations over the TV licence fee and the corporation's Isle of Man coverage. - www.iomtoday.co.im

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Friday 30 March 2018, AM

91A: RadioDays Europe - Paul Robinson interviews Midge Ure (Ultravox), Daniela Linzer (Kronehit), Bob Shennan (BBC) and

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Thursday 29 March 2018, PM

BONUS Richard Gingras of Google News and Mark Thompson of The New York Times

Thursday 29 March 2018, AM

Media Masters - Audrey Cooper

Wednesday 28 March 2018, PM

Who owns our data?

Friday 23 March 2018, PM

23/03/2018 Radio 4 Feedback

Episode 91: Talent Trouble, Cambridge Analytica RadioDays Europe

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Thursday 22 March 2018, AM

Media Masters - Andrew Tuck

The BBC is driving its presenters to despair

The BBC is now recouping tax and national insurance from his fee - on which, of course, tax and national insurance contributions have been paid as company income - to the extent that he fears being made homeless. The overwhelming majority of people in our group are not lavishly paid, and all of us accept our tax responsibilities but forming PSCs was forced upon us by the BBC, which must take responsibility for that. - www.theguardian.com

Wednesday 21 March 2018, PM

How Carole Cadwalladr exposed Facebook

COBA claims EPG changes may derail kids content investment – TBI Vision

UK multichannel broadcasters' association COBA has issued a warning that changes to regulations governing the prominence of channels on electronic programme guides could threaten its members' willingness to invest in kids programming. COBA said that 74 of the money invested by its members in kids programming came from non-domestic channels related to UK-based broadcasters. - tbivision.com

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Tuesday 20 March 2018, AM

BBC presenters reveal 'constant anxiety' caused by pay arrangements

A BBC presenter has told MPs she tried to kill herself because of stress over the controversial arrangements under which she was employed. The announcement came a day before DJ Liz Kershaw, radio presenter Kirsty Lang and financial journalist Paul Lewis were due to give evidence to an inquiry by the House of Commons culture committee into the use of PSCs. Before Tuesday's hearing, the committee released a dossier of evidence from presenters who claim the BBC put pressure on them to be employed via a PSC, rather than as a member of staff, only for them to find themselves targeted by an HMRC clampdown on the arrangement. - www.theguardian.com

Sunday 18 March 2018, PM

Russian voices in western media leave regulators with new type of headache

Although RT is a very minor part of the diplomatic crisis between Russia and the UK, it serves as a metaphor for the ingrained and fraught nature of the relationship between western governments and the globalised systems of free media they have perpetuated. The ability of the Russian authorities to infiltrate and amplify within the European and US news environment leaves regulators with a new type of headache. - www.theguardian.com

Friday 16 March 2018, PM

16/03/2018 Radio 4 Feedback

Media Masters - Sarah Sands