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Communications

Jonathan Ross made a right mess of silly, needy Russell Brand

Thursday, 30th October, 2008 | Communications, Community News, Social issues | None

Look - Jonathan Ross is the senior broadcaster, the iconic boundary-pusher, pretty much a cult hero to those newer to the industry. Russell Brand - and who, including himself, ever thought good judgment was an arrow in his quiver - was performing for an audience of one - Jonathan.
Watch the clip - you cannot [...]

About GB’s notion of a UK football team for 2012…

Tuesday, 26th August, 2008 | Communications | None

So far not a voice in favour of this one. Everyone’s - reasonably - been focusing on the inevitable resistance from the celtic fringe nations, anxious both to maintin their traditional separate footballing identity and their own places in the World Cup. Nobody’s looked at the practicalities - and they knock it on the head. [...]

The Great DAB & Radio Swindle

Thursday, 26th June, 2008 | Communications, Independence, Local Government, Media, Politics, Radio, Social issues | None

As a teenager when I heard the Sex Pistols on old analogue radio for the first time, I knew, with many of my contemporaries, that I was hearing history in the making, even out in nowhere-near-anything-north of England. That day burned bright in every teenager’s consciousness – radio had allowed us to activate in a [...]

Yippee. Vodafone may dump BT

Tuesday, 13th May, 2008 | Communications, Media | None

Industry sources suggest that if Carphone Warehouse succeeds in getting control of internet group, Tiscali, Vodafone is developing a partnership proposal to Carphone Warehouse which might see BT cut back as Vodafone’s main partner for consumer broadband provision. The plan might even see BT dropped altogether as Vodafone’s major source of telecoms infrastructure in the [...]