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Can Local TV Survive?
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Ofcom tells us this week that local TV rollout is not to progress “in the light of the significant financial challenges that the local TV sector is facing”. For those who know anything about local advertising revenues that’s not a surprise. It  was the idea of a smiling Jeremy Hunt in 2010, sat in …

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How Indignant May Eddie Mair be on Commercial Radio?
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As Eddie Mair slides off his sticky BBC headphones for the last time and hands over his lanyard, what will he be thinking? With due respect to his many accomplished colleagues who have hosted PM frequently and excellently, it is Eddie who has defined the immaculate style of the programme in recent …

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Another BBC year - the 2017/2018 Report
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It’s not quite as exciting as the arrival of the bumper Christmas Radio Times, but the annual BBC report and accounts usually provide for some interesting titbits and a sense of the mood in the BBC's wood-panelled offices - in the shadows of portraits of dead DGs Whilst the salary details attra…

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