British Broadcasting Corp.

Recent Events

News & Analysis

british broadcasting corp. and marketing and sir - All News and Analysis

• A set of teeth that wasn't sunk into M&S

  - 2008-07-19

  It's been a colourful few weeks at Marks & Spencer--profit warnings, a share price plunging faster than the neckline of a BBC newsreader ... and the eyes of the nation's press on on agm that always promised to be tastier than a six-quid ready-meal. Sadly, the star of the...

  Tags: British Broadcasting Corp., FINANCE, MARKETING, Marks & Spencer, Sir

• Call for BBC to slim down

  - 2008-07-04

  SIR Antony Jay, the co-writer of TV comedy Yes, Minister, has called for the BBC to be radically slimmed down. He said it was time for the corporation's digital channels, which include youth-focused BBC3 and highbrow operation BBC4, "to make their excuses and leave". The annual licence fee,...

  Tags: British Broadcasting Corp., MARKETING, radio, Sir, TVs

• SPECTATOR'S NOTES, THE

  - 2007-06-16

  Anyone who believes British Muslim hostility to the war in Iraq is the big motivator of terrorism should read the fascinating cover piece by Shiv Malik in the latest edition of Prospect. Investigating the background of the 7 July London bombings for a television drama (which the BBC, of...

  Tags: Benefits, British Broadcasting Corp., captain, Government, HEALTHCARE, ITN, MARKETING, Sir, SOFTWARE

• Kidnap plea

  - 2007-04-02

  Some of the UK media's best known personalities have joined together to demand the release of BBC reporter Alan Johnston, who is believed to have been abducted in Gaza. Sir Trevor McDonald, Jeremy Paxman, Sir David Frost, Jon Snow, Kirsty Wark and Natasha Kaplinsky are among 300 people who...

  Tags: British Broadcasting Corp., MARKETING, plea, Sir

• 'My dear, you of all people know history is relative'

  - 2006-09-02

  The BBC's Laura Trevelyan found others knew more about her famous ancestors than she did - until she went in search of the great dynasty of scholars and public servants My introduction to the legacy of my ancestors came rather late in life. You might think I had been...

  Tags: British Broadcasting Corp., MARKETING, Sir

• Ivanhoe

  - 2005-03-01

  IVANHOE. Sir Walter Scott. 1819/1997. Read by Christopher Lee. 3 cds. 3 hrs. BBC Radio 4/BBC Audiobooks America. 0-5635-2482-0. $34.95. Vinyl; plot, author notes. SA * Returning from the Crusades to claim his inheritance, Sir Wilfred of Ivanhoe also seeks the hand of his beloved Rowena. Rowena was the...

  Tags: British Broadcasting Corp., MARKETING, Sir

• Johnnie's golden

  - 2004-05-13

  Sir Elton John presented a Gold Award to Radio 2 DJ Johnnie Walker left at the Sony Radio Academy Awards. BBC Radio 4 has been named Radio Station of the Year. It follows a gruelling 12 months for its flagship Today news programme over the Hutton inquiry. The accolade was...

  Tags: British Broadcasting Corp., MARKETING, Sir, Sony Corp., Strategy

• Evening Standard, London, Business Insider Column.

  - 2004-02-17

  Evening Standard, London Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Feb. 17--BROWN'S SUIT HAS LESS CLOTH: How are the mighty fallen. Bill Brown, once the City's highest-paid man, earning UKpound 8 million and more in the early 1990s, is finding life a bit tougher these...

  Tags: Benefits, British Broadcasting Corp., FINANCE, Investment, MARKETING, Sir, turnover

• Former CEO Says British Aerospace's Government Bids Unrealistically Low.

  - 2004-01-23

  Evening Standard, London Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jan. 23--Former British Aerospace boss Sir Raymond Lygo today lifted the lid off decades of chicanery in the art of winning multibillion defence contracts. Admiral Lygo, who was chief executive of BAe during...

  Tags: British Broadcasting Corp., CEO, Government, MARKETING, radio, Sir

• Who'll lift the lid on the media's oops and downs? Although the BSC has forced broadcasters to be more open about their mistakes, news organizations are still reluctant to admit they are wrong

  - 2003-08-21

  It must be one of the great newspaper corrections of all time, and it appeared in last Tuesday's Guardian: "In our interview with Sir Jack Hayward, the chairman of Wolverhampton Wanderers, page 20, Sport, yesterday, we mistakenly attributed to him the following comment: 'Our ream was the worst in the...

  Tags: British Broadcasting Corp., Guardian, MARKETING, media, Sir