Raymond Snoddy on Mark Thompson’s lecture; the value of the BBC; and how Jeremy Hunt “has got the hang of dodging tricky questions with commendable speed”…

In his latest column, Raymond Snoddy sets the scene for this weekend’s MediaGuardian Edinburgh International Television Festival where “entertainment is virtually guaranteed”. Mark Thompson’s MacTaggart lecture “had better be good” and Jeremy Hunt should at least be “more coherent”…

Raymond Snoddy on the growing use of super-injunctions; privacy v free press; and what the Premier League should do with footballers…

Raymond Snoddy on Virgin Media’s decision to sell its 50% stake in UKTV – “the most valuable asset in the tier of basic pay channels” – at the bottom of the market…

Raymond Snoddy on Adam Crozier: He “is making many of the right noises, but as the management manual would say, he now has to deliver – and history is not on his side…”

Raymond Snoddy on Jeremy Hunt: In opposition, there had been a marked tendency to open his mouth to journalists faster than his brain’s ability to catch up… Then Hunt was elected and appointed and it was like BP finally getting a handle on its errant oil well – the flow of nonsense slowed to a… Continue reading Jeremy Hunt and his ‘Dangerous Dogs Government’

Raymond Snoddy on News International’s adventures in online with SunTalk and the Times paywall.

Raymond Snoddy says the NMA’s new Creative Benchmarking for national newspaper advertising is another valuable candle in the darkness, but “in difficult times for newspapers, it is increasingly clear that there is no magic potion to cure the problem”…

Raymond Snoddy says that while Channel 4 chief executive David Abraham is the very model of a modern media executive, eight weeks into his reign there are, if not quite concerns, a few worries.

Raymond Snoddy reports back from this week’s Future of Broadcasting conference, where Ed Richards showed that Ofcom is getting on with business, despite David Cameron’s disdain for quangos.