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In response to Raymond Snoddy’s article ‘Jeremy Hunt may be a classy lambada dancer but unless he listens he won’t shimmy his way out of this one’, OMG!’s Roger Gane and the Broadcast Journalism Training Company’s Steve Harris comment.

As Jeremy Hunt reaches out for the disastrous “bottom-up” solution for local TV, would-be operators at yesterday’s Future of Broadcasting conference had one simple piece of advice – have the courage to stick to the original plan. It is the only one that will work…

According to Simon Redican, radio, TV and online all lift people’s levels of happiness and energy on a daily basis – all day, every day…

James Whitmore, MD of POSTAR, says to make sense of today, why not place yourself in the future? Get up from your desk now. Abandon your computer and smart phone. Go and sit in the park. Lie on the sofa. Think…

I always feel some sympathy for the systems guys in the media industry – especially at the agency end, where the role seems to consist all too often of aborted (potentially interesting) projects replaced by (far less interesting) fire-fighting. But competing hard for our sympathy vote are surely researchers these days – and in that case I mean the guys who are meant to be delivering the research, not those using it.

A new series of blogs about the broadcast industry, narrated by David Brennan…

Chris Bennett, director of media and business development at Blyk, says globally rich, expanding businesses are building locally relevant features and making their money from local businesses, which means the mobile industry is well placed to win the hearts, minds and marketing dollars of brands…

Raymond Snoddy: If Lord Patten can handle the sometimes sulphurous politics of a major university, never mind the Tory party, then the manoeuvrings of the BBC are tame by comparison…

Dean Wilson, UK MD at Active International: “Challenges for the press are many but I doubt whether there will be a day in my life when I won’t be able to get what I want to read on good old analogue processed tree.”

Alex Franks, director at Blyk, says developments in mobile coupons, NFC and mobile payments will be the catalyst that fires a significant shift on mobile ad spend…