Raymond Snoddy on Sky, BT and the staggering wealth of technology companies (and the potential they represent)…

Raymond Snoddy says you can see the sort of word association games that lead to individual reshuffle decisions in David Cameron’s mind: Disabled, Paralympics, Olympics legacy, culture secretary and then shove in equality to make a natural bridge and bingo…

Raymond Snoddy asks: Can a local TV station run as a sustaining business once the BBC subsidies end? Will enough viewers watch? Will advertisers be the slightest bit interested?

As Netflix pursues its assault on the UK market, Raymond Snoddy analyses the four-way OTT battle, as well as the latest Thinkbox and Deloitte research studies…

Raymond Snoddy on the complex challenges facing the BBC’s in-coming director general George Entwistle…

As Leveson kicks off again, Raymond Snoddy wonders whether a larger remit for Rufus Olins of Newsworks would help sustain newspapers’ economic future…

Raymond Snoddy says coverage of the Olympics has become the video and soundtrack to all our lives. Even those with zero interest in sport get sucked into the drama and sports such as the epee, dressage and single sculls that you normally wouldn’t cross the road to watch. It all adds up to one of the great shows on earth…

Raymond Snoddy says we have got a decent handle on how the UK’s two largest commercial broadcasters are weathering the storms of recession and technological change, and on the whole, in their different ways, are producing respectable performances…

Raymond Snoddy says that Lord Justice Leveson’s quest for balance between press freedom and censorship leaves only one task outstanding – the creation of a new regulatory body for the British press…

Raymond Snoddy says that the latest advertising spend figures are certainly good news for most, but its at the local level where some of the most positive developments are taking place, and not in the area you might expect…Great news from Nielsen – advertising spending is up, up and up on every available medium. Well,… Continue reading Growth in global ad spend is industry’s “crumb of comfort”