James' Tumblelog

Guardian: “ITV’s resurrected News at Ten will launch with a revamped set including a state-of-the-art touch screen allowing presenters such as Sir Trevor McDonald to interact with images and objects on screen.”

Surely not like this? Will be interesting to see what the News at Ten is like tonight. I suspect lots will turn over to see what’s going on, the papers will get excited about the overnights for it, then the figures start to even out again…

And it was in an advert for thinkproperty.com on Smooth Radio.

Smooth Radio launched here in the North East yesterday and sounds very good so far on DAB and FM. 

I don’t know what it is about this programme that makes compulsive viewing. I like Richard Bacon and some of the talking heads (Spencer Brown, Jo Caulfield etc if you’re interested), but feel a bit uneasy with the format.

Whilst Britney Spears and Chris Crocker might be annoying, they’re not really forced upon us until the media publish stories about them. Many of the people on the show complain about the people in the list and ask them to go away, whilst at the same time appearing on a show talking about the person. Many of them are some way involved in publishing the stories which bring their antics into the media we consume.

Richard Bacon (who provides the commentary) is a host on Five Live, which has covered Paris Hilton et al at some point in their news bulletins, let alone BBC News 24 which decided that for several minutes this week nothing was more important in the world than an altercation at Britney Spears’ house with a shot from a helicopter, commentary from the presenter, the breaking news strap with a headline and all news dropped from the ticker to carry one line over and over about Britney Spears.

Chris Crocker appeared in a YouTube video and subsequently a TV show in the States. He’s not on the TV here (except for when this programme brings him to us), he’s not presenting breakfast radio, or in newspapers, or on advertising billboards.

There’s probably some irony in the programme I’m missing here.

;-)

Reason for posting this (in the comments on Digg)…

Dugg by the use of the original Associated Press source rather than some lame spam blog.

Exactly what I thought when I saw it was on ap.google.com. :-)

Europe 2 (radio and TV) has been rebranded as Virgin Radio. The site looks pretty good, but I still prefer the UK’s Virgin Radio site (see Feist on Virgin Radio UK and France).

The music on VR France looks very good. Will tune in today. :-)