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…
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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.
Raymond Snoddy says that the BBC Trust has to have the courage to do the right thing and save Radio 6 from a misguided BBC management
Raymond Snoddy says that while it’s just a matter of time before 3D TV takes-off, there are some hurdles to overcome first.
Raymond Snoddy explains why the last World Cup saw the England football team and advertising industry “not so much missing penalties more like missing open goals” – although he predicts that “the beer makers and the car boys are definitely in this time and with the help of the final of Britain’s Got Talent as well as the World Cup, ITV could take nearly £100 million in June”…