Telegraph: ITV lobbies for funds for regional news

Posted on 5 July, 2007 by Martin Stabe

"ITV will have a strong case for stopping its regional news coverage unless it gets some form of public funding once the analogue signal is switched off, according to new research by media regulator Ofcom."

Simon Dickson: News Knight: funnier than I feared

Posted on 25 June, 2007 by Martin Stabe

"I enjoyed ITV’s new News Knight a lot more than I expected. It’s clearly trying to be a British answer to Jon Stewart’s Daily Show, with a bit of Have I Got News For You thrown in. "

Monthly ABCe figures for broadcasters’ streaming content?

Posted on 13 June, 2007 by Martin Stabe

Broadcast is reporting that a working party of leading broadcasters, including the BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Five, Sky has tasked ABCe to “provide basic statistical reports using agreed criteria” about streaming media on their web sites. The working party also includes the broadcast ratings organisation Barb and the Institute of Practitioners in Advertising. Broadcast says ABCe reports [...]

MediaBizTech: It’s not the BBC the newspapers need to worry about, it’s ITV Local

Posted on 4 May, 2007 by Martin Stabe

Robert Freeman: "ITV Local is an altogether different disruptor. This one is a direct threat. The BBC just wants to stay relevant with local audiences, ITV not only wants the local audience"

Virtual Economics: "ITV will keep control online"

Posted on 2 May, 2007 by Martin Stabe

Seamus McCauley reiterates that content creation is not the source of value in newspapers: "Think about it this way - if content creation the source of value why ... are newspaper owners so rich and journalists not?"

AOP: AOP names JICIMS representatives

Posted on 13 April, 2007 by Martin Stabe

"Senior research and commercial executives from the BBC, Channel 4, ITV and Guardian Newspapers have agreed to represent the interests of AOP members on the Steering Committee of the JICIMS."

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