Comment – Page 69
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CommentOpen up BBC training to develop skills base
I want to support some of Matt Born’s points in BBC Training: Friend or Foe? (Broadcast, 11.03.11) and try to take the discussion forward.
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CommentPrincess really cares about its freelancers
I joined Princess a year and a half ago, after working at the BBC and at a number of indies over the years.
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CommentTerrestrials must raise their game to stop losing at sport
Free-to-air losing the race for rights is damaging sports viewing, says Kimi Zabihyan.
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CommentAudience demands high-quality content
The research findings from Rice University that revealed viewers would be content with watching low-resolution or massively compressed videos (‘Viewers happy to watch lower-quality video’, Broadcast, 20.08.10’) completely flies in the face of every other piece of evidence out there.
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CommentThanks for the praise, but it's Pug not Ivy
Many thanks to the reviewers in last week’s You The Jury column (Broadcast 18.6.10) for their incredibly generous comments about a series I exec produced for UKTV, The Channel Islands At War.
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CommentFreelancers look after each other – however you do it
When is it OK to pay less than the minimum wage? Moray Coulter follows the debate.
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CommentTapping into the untapped
It’s about time the industry realised the potential of emerging markets.
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CommentLifting placement ban levels the playing field
Mark Murphy seems to have missed some of the key arguments when he says that the recent lift of the ban on product placement “puts UK indies at a significant disadvantage in the international TV marketplace” (Broadcast letters, 19.2.10).
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CommentThat was the year that was
2009 was painful, but there’s the promise of better things to come
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CommentSmall Island / Eating Art / Kidnapped by the Kids
Dan Korn and Will Daws on the latest new shows.
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CommentTop-slicing: the slippery slope
A move to top-slice the BBC licence fee would set British broadcasting on a slippery slope into a crevasse, writes Storyville’s Greg Sanderson.
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CommentThe pictures are better on radio
This year’s radio ad awards show that personal, emotional and simple ideas can cut through - something zoo format presenters should learn from, writes Paul Robinson.
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Comment20 August, '09
“Wonderfully, compulsively bad.” Read on for the full verdict on last night’s TV.
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CommentHow we created a hands-on training scheme despite a challenging job market
Elli Metcalfe of Screen Manchester unpacks the creation of the Screen Alliance North Connected Campus
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CommentWe cannot afford to be blasé about freelancers leaving the industry
A shrinking freelancer pool is seen as inevitable but, Richard Wallis argues, it’s an existential crisis
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CommentHints of optimism after a tough period
Commissioners in our survey see signs that the market is improving
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CommentAlex Connock: The key AI battlegrounds that will transform the industry
From finding an audience to copyright, the arrival of AI throws up numerous issues that need to be addressed
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CommentBronagh Monahan: YouTube isn’t a threat - it’s an untapped resource
The video platform offers a pipeline for talent who can really shine on linear
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CommentBuyers have their say on slowdown
70 buyers from across the industry reveal their views on the current industry landscape and how they’re navigating the slowdown
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CommentTV must put its money where its mouth is on diversity
Reluctance to listen to or pay black creatives reveals the darker side of shallow diversity intiatives, says Gabriella Lafor