Raymond Snoddy reveals all from the MediaPro conference – GNM is making more money from its online dating service than NI is from Times online; i has only been selling around 125,000 a day; and Lebedev says the Standard and The Independent are “definitely doomed” if they stay as they are…
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Raymond Snoddy thinks the launch of i is one sign of a new confidence in print… “The hangdog look has gone and there is mounting evidence that advertising will continue to return – as long as the government doesn’t manage to engineer a double-dip recession”.
Raymond Snoddy declares himself gobsmacked by the changes taking place at the BBC at the behest of the Government…
Raymond Snoddy wonders if the latest witch-hunt against Rupert Murdoch has much substance: “The only real argument is that full ownership of BSkyB will give Murdoch direct control of too much money”…
Raymond Snoddy believes he has found the solution to the local TV conundrum – something, he says, that has been under our noses all along and would work (a light-bulb moment that happened in a pub on the way to a QPR game no less)…
Raymond Snoddy says “local TV in the UK would be a very good thing and Jeremy Hunt is clearly serious about trying to establish it… It’s just that there might be fundamental economic reasons why this sector has not flourished, or even managed to established itself at all in the UK…”
Raymond Snoddy on paywalls: “Everyone in the media business, with the possible exception of immediate rivals, is praying that somehow, against all odds and conventional wisdom, the Murdoch hunch will prove to be right…
Raymond Snoddy gives his views on 3D TV – hot on the heels of the IBC broadcasting exhibition and conference in Amsterdam…
Raymond Snoddy on ‘Daybreak’: “If I had spent £10 million, covered Adrian Chiles and Christine Bleakley with bucket-loads of gold, and promoted the relaunch relentlessly, I would be disappointed”…
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”…