September 3rd 2008
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Still catching up from the past few weeks... some pretty miserable stuff associated with the PSB review. First, there is Tim Gardam's piece in the Telegraph - 'Quality TV could disappear from our screens'. Wow, what a pessimist.
Newsflash, Tim: The earth will still rotate around its axis if more public ...
September 3rd 2008
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It's difficult for me to defend / harass Ofcom when I haven't fully read the underlying document, but when did that stop me?
Anyway, this editorial from mobileshop.com is pretty typical of what I have seen in terms of misdirected coverage of Ofcom's mobile sector assessment. The typical line: Ofcom want ...
September 2nd 2008
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Ofcom launched a big thing last week: the mobile sector assessment.
It looks interesting. Ofcom, as others have noted, have also launched a related blog and interactive summary. The blog and interactive summary were also launched for the PSB review, so it's good to see Ofcom continue down this path of ...
September 1st 2008
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I was looking through some old Ofcom Annual Reports for my research and found an interesting difference between last year's report and the most recent one. Regardez:
Driving, promoting, improving, delivering, reducing and maximising!
The interesting thing about the 2008 descriptions is that -- were it not for the word spectrum -- ...
September 1st 2008
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Folks, if you checked OfcomWatch last week all you saw was a white screen. Or was it white? I thought it was a bit green-tinged with subtle waves of amber. It was our commentary on media fragmentation and the collapse of the public sphere.
Anyway: Ofcom watching -- our ...