By Stephen Foster on April 15, 2013
New bosses (director-generals as they quaintly call them) don’t get an easy ride at the BBC and newly-installed DG (Lord) Tony Hall (left) is receiving his own baptism of fire. At the weekend he had the fuss over the anti-Margaret Thatcher Facebook campaign’s Ding Dong The Witch Is Dead reaching number two on the singles [...]
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By Stephen Foster on October 22, 2012
There’s nothing quite like the BBC when it goes into one of its periodic bouts of self-analysis and we had another blast this morning on the Today programme about its treatment of the Jimmy Savile affair. The BBC’s Panorama is airing a programe tonight examining whether or not another BBC programme Newsnight pulled an item [...]
Posted in Media, News, Politics | Tagged BBC, George Entwistle, Helen Boaden, Jimmy Savile, Meirion Jones, newsnight, panorama, Peter Rippon, Steve Hewlett
By Stephen Foster on March 29, 2012
Remember ITV Digital, OnDigital in its first incarnation? It was the pay-TV business set up by Carlton and Granada (who subsequently came together as ITV) which briefly challenged Rupert Murdoch’s BSkyB in the UK pay TV business. ITV Digital eventually subsided in 2002 leaving ITV £1bn or so out of pocket, the most spectacular of [...]
Posted in Finance, Media, News | Tagged 2002 closure, australian financial review, BBC, Chase Carey, cisco, damages, hackers, itv digital, nds, news corporation, news of the world, ondigital, panorama, pbs frontline, permira, phone hacking, Rupert Murdoch, surrey police, £1bn losses
By Stephen Foster on March 14, 2011
More evidence is emerging almost daily about the fetid pool British tabloid hacks cheerfully swam in through the last decade. We already know that News of the World royal correspondent Clive Goodman was jailed in 2007 for phone hacking, as was his sidekick freelance private investigator Glenn Mulcaire. Coalition government director of communications Andy Coulson [...]
Posted in Media, News, Politics | Tagged Alex Marunchak, Andy Coulson, Clive Goodman, daily mirror, Glenn Mulcaire, News International, news of the world, panorama, phone hacking scandal, Piers Morgan, Rebekah Wade, trinity mirror
By Stephen Foster on December 6, 2010
And if you believe that you’ll believe anything. BBC director general Mark Thompson told Sunday’s Andrew Marr Show that the reason the corporation’s Panorama FIFA programme, which essentially broadcast some warmed-over material about bribery that referred to events at least ten years old, went out three days before the 2018 World Cup bid was decided [...]
Posted in Media, News, Politics | Tagged Andrew Jennings, Andrew Marr, BBC, fifa world cup bid 2018, Mark Thompson, panorama, Sepp Blatter
By Stephen Foster on December 2, 2010
Well it hardly helped considering that four of the 22-man FIFA executive committee who voted on the bids for 2018 and 2022 today were accused in a Panorama programme on Monday of taking bribes or, in the case of Trinidad and Tobago’s Jack Warner, seeking to profit from tickets. Warner was supposed to be England’s [...]
Posted in Media, News, Politics, PR | Tagged Andrew Jennings, BBC, David Beckham, fifa, panorama, world cup 2018
By Stephen Foster on November 30, 2010
“It should have been on the History Channel,” said David Dein, former director of Arsenal, of the BBC Panorama programme on bribery at FIFA, the governing body of world football. Dein, who is now trying to apply sticking plaster to England’s bid for the FIFA 2018 World Cup which will be decided in Zurich on [...]
Posted in Media, News, Politics | Tagged Andrew Jennings, Andy Anson, BBC, David Dein, england world cup bid 2018, fifa, isl, Mark Thompson, panorama
By Stephen Foster on November 18, 2010
The BBC’s Panorama current affairs programme is planning to broadcast an edition on November 29 examining corruption in FIFA, the body that runs world football. On December 2 the twenty-odd delegates of FIFA who will make the decision about the destination of the 2018 tournament (the competitors are England, Russia, Belgium/Holland and Spain /Portugal) will [...]
Posted in Media, News, Politics | Tagged Andrew Jennings, BBC, fifa, Mark Thompson, panorama, world cup bid 2018
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