Do you remember when Bill Gates was seen as the Darth Vader of world business, bullying others out of various sectors; operating systems, web browsers and more? And Apple and…
January 27, 2021Comments Off on Apple’s core valuesRead More
At the beginning of this sorry excuse for a year I wrote that predictions were difficult, but I would have a go anyway. Hands up, writing in early January, I…
December 21, 2020Comments Off on 2020, the end is nighRead More
Fox News won the ratings war in the US election hands down. But its candidate lost, even if that is taking a while to sink in. Ironically, Fox’s statisticians were…
November 11, 2020Comments Off on FOX will find another of its facesRead More
The Disney Corporation is known for two things: Family-friendly entertainment, and taking no prisoners. It is at the top table of world media as much through the second attribute as…
October 13, 2020Comments Off on Mickey mugs the big screenRead More
Many headlines rang out ‘New BBC DG against subscription model’ following Tim Davie’s first speech. If my memory of reporter school is right – it is a very long time…
September 4, 2020Comments Off on Good luck, TimRead More
Sumner Redstone has died at 97 years-old, hardly an untimely tragedy. The man himself often attributed his phenomenal drive to his very close brush with death as a young man…
August 12, 2020Comments Off on RIP Redstone, goodbye the old guardRead More
advanced-television.com’s Colin Mann has contributed a chapter to The Generation Game, a collection of essays asking the question: ‘Can the BBC win over today’s young audience?’ The work, published by…
July 20, 2020Comments Off on A TikToking clock heading towards regeneration – or not?Read More
Tired of the Covid Crisis? The good news is that a distraction is heading our way. Not long after covering TV in ads telling us to stay home and do…
July 14, 2020Comments Off on Between the Devil and the Deep Red SeaRead More
Covid-19 is complicated. Only an idiot would expect governments and their institutions to get everything, or even most things, right first time. But there is a premium on clarity of…
June 23, 2020Comments Off on China: Complicated but clearRead More
Does the world need another global streamer? ViacomCBS thinks so and has talked of plans to bring one to market, possibly an upgraded and rebranded version of CBS All Access,…
May 12, 2020Comments Off on ViacomCBS makes its SVoD betRead More
Is it okay to write about anything except Covid-19 just now? I think so; the only useful thing to say is good luck to us all. Actually, it is a…
April 9, 2020Comments Off on Quibi quibblesRead More
“Democracy is the worst way to run a country, except all the others,’” said Winston Churchill. The same may well be true of a licence fee and a PSB national…
February 17, 2020Comments Off on Game over for BBC licence?Read More
There has been a week-long drum roll here in the UK leading up to today’s announcement about vendor inclusion in 5G roll out. When the ‘ta da’ moment came it…
January 28, 2020Comments Off on Huawei did it come to this?Read More
Most years in digital media could be captioned “a significant year of change [development], [evolution], [revolution]”, your precise description choice probably depending on your perspective. 2020 will, I think, be…
December 20, 2019Comments Off on 2020 not predictable, but anyway…Read More
Who’d have predicted that broadband would take centre stage in the UK election in such spectacular fashion? But then, who would have predicted much at all about the shambles that…
November 15, 2019Comments Off on UK broadband makes election bowRead More
So, SoftBank has ‘rescued’ WeWork in a deal that will cost it at least $10 billion and pretty much guarantee WeWork’s departed Svengali founder $1.7 billion. The rescue was from…
October 23, 2019Comments Off on SoftBank, SoftTouch?Read More
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