While I was in London Luke, Jack and I were talking about classic television ads, and we remembered the Tango campaigns. I looked at YouTube and found they had a series of them there. This is the best one of them.
Yesterday British Telecom announced that they were investing £100 million in a new service to be called BT Vision. This has been misleadingly described in some reports as “BT’s new television service”. It would be more accurate to say that this represents BT’s calculated bet that, like radio, television is in terminal decline.
A list of annual viewing figures (in percentages) for British television stations for the twenty five years from 1981 to 2006.
A small set of facts extracted from a report entitled Digital Television: what, why, how? by Pertti Näränen
YLE, the Finnish state broadcasting company, has published some statistics about finnish television viewing habits in the first quarter of this year.
Freeview has overtaken BSkyB in the UK digital television market after strong growth during the first quarter made it the main TV provider in 8.2 million homes.
In today’s online version of the British newspaper The Independent, there is an interesting article called Internet TV: let’s do the show right here.
At the end of an interview Honor Blackman tells an anecdote about Irene Handl, for years a star of British film comedies and later a mainstay of television comedy.
Today the Guardian online has pointed out Justin Kan has strapped a video camera to his head and is broadcasting the results twenty four hours a day.
According to an article on Yahoo News, taken from Reuters, this morning
Europeans’ interest in watching mobile television is as tiny as cellphone screens, a new study showed on Monday, even though
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The current British series of Celebrity Big Brother has caused international anger as three of the “contestants” ganged up on another resident, Shilpa Shetty, the Bollywood star.
Some interesting figures about the relative costs of broadcasting conventionally as opposed to the costs of streaming via YouTube.
Henry Jenkins offered a plethora of examples of convergence in mass media as networked culture becomes the way most people live.
Once upon a time Tim Bell dismissed the idea of 24-hour news channels. Now I dig up the quotation.
Originally Transformers were Japanese puzzle toys, three dimensional jigsaws where children were supposed to work out how to turn one object into another. They were odd cousins to rubik cubes. Then they got a back story…
The other day I was thinking about the fifties television western series Wagon Train. I was thinking about it because I remembered that Gene Rodenberry had pitched Star Trek to the television networks by describing it as “Wagon Train in space”.
