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House Prices Could Fall For Two Years: Citigroup
LONDON (Reuters) - Citigroup chairman Win Bischoff has warned that house prices in Britain and the United States are likely to keep falling for another two years. The chairman of one of the world's most powerful banks told the BBC in an interview...
House Prices Could Fall For Two Years
LONDON (Reuters UK) - Citigroup chairman Win Bischoff has warned that house prices in Britain and the United States are likely to keep falling for another two years. The chairman of one of the world's most powerful banks told the BBC in an interview that he...
BBC Feels Inflationary Pinch But Sees No More Job Cuts
By Kate Holton LONDON (Reuters UK) - The BBC expects the next few years to be difficult due to higher energy costs and inflationary pressure, but it said it did not expect to have to make further redundancies. The broadcaster is paid for by the public...
BBC buys Sky's stake in Australian UKTV venture
BBC buys Sky's stake in Australian UKTV ventureBBCInteresting article.
Tell the Beeb: U.S. Magazine Ads Are in Free Fall
Tell the Beeb: U.S. Magazine Ads Are in Free FallEither the BBC has endless funds or...they know something we don't. Wish it was the latter!BBC's decisionDespite my tone in this post, I do respect BBC enough to trust their market research that Americans are ready for a smart competitor to...
Tell the Beeb: U.S. Magazine Ads Are in Free Fall
It's always been one of those trick questions that kids of a certain age love: "What's black and white and read all over?" The answer, of course, is "a newspaper," but nowadays we could drop the letter "a" from the word "read" and the joke would still make a grim...
Learn the Proper Way to Send Group E-mails
Learn the Proper Way to Send Group E-mailsContemporary "crunch" wordsWhile we're on the subject, how about eliminating these contemporary crunch words "OK", "You know" and "You guys" from professional presentations.RE: Learn the Proper Way to Send Group E-mailsWord choice! Word choice! Word choice!The use of bcc as described...
How to Foster Collaboration with Web 2.0; BBC's Advice
Over 350 individuals, including a Forrester Research representative and blogger, gathered in Rhode Island last week for the Business Innovation Factory conference. According to Forrester's blog, Euan Semple of British Broadcasting Company shared some insight into how the company successfully adopted Web 2.0 tools. Since you were likely not in Rhode Island...
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Still seeking a distinctive voice
LEADING ARTICLE THE LIBERAL DEMOCRATS S even months ago, the Liberal Democrats chose Nick Clegg to lead them because he is the sort of personable, sensible man you would not mind meeting in a pub. The elder statesman's gravitas of his predecessor, Sir...
Mission: impossible?
A new BBC2 thriller wants to charm us into taking notice of climate change. James Rampton reports from the set The makers of Burn Up knew from the outset that their drama would be a tough sell. The two-part BBC2 thriller by Simon Beaufoy, the writer of...
Portraits of a lady who lost focus
Last Night's TV THE THIRTIES IN COLOUR BBC4 THE BILL ITV1 Strictly speaking, The Thirties in Colour should be called "Toffs on Their Hols", Far Eastern sweatshops not yet having placed this particular means of production into the hands of ordinary joes such...
BRYAN COWGILL
Combative television executive who launched 'Match of the Day' Bryan Cowgill, who launched Match of the Day in August 1964, was a television executive who was good at making headlines - often as a result of his combative style. As the BBC's Head of...
There's no need to go overboard
Last Night's TV OLYMPIC DREAMS BBC1 TRUE STORIES MORE4 Having hope yourself is one thing. Being "a hope" for someone else is quite another, and Olympic Dreams effectively caught the queasy ambiguity of that condition, in its profile of three young hopes for...
Former Telegraph literary editor wins non fiction award
M2 BEST BOOKS-C2000-2008 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Kate Summerscale, a former literary editor of The Daily Telegraph, has won the GBP30,000 BBC Four Samuel Johnson Prize with a non-fiction story entitled The Suspicions of Mr Whicher. The award winning title, for which Summerscale received the prize in...
Nigerian conmen targeting budding African footballers: BBC
LONDON AFP — Young African footballers hoping to make their fortunes in top English clubs are being conned out of thousands of dollars by Nigerian fraudsters, according to a BBC investigation broadcast on Tuesday. The undercover probe included a "sting" operation on a man claiming to be an...
BBC taxi bill has risen to Pounds 13.8m
Home News IN BRIEF *The BBC's taxi bill for taking guests to and from programmes rose by 2m last year. The Corporation spent 5.3m on driving contributors and guests in the last financial year, up from 3.3m. In total, the taxi bill for the BBC rose to...
Winner of BBC National Short Story Award announced
M2 BEST BOOKS-C2000-2008 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD A short story entitled The Numbers, by Clare Wigfall, has won the 2008 BBC National Short Story Award. Wigfall will reportedly receive GBP15,000 for her 5,600 word story, which was picked from 635 entries. According to the Daily...
Man on a mission restores some faith
Last Night's TV THE QUR'AN CHANNEL 4 BANGED UP FIVE Whatever is the opposite of turning in one's grave, Lord Reith must be doing it. The old boy, who gave the BBC the mission to educate, inform and entertain, would have heartily approved...
Sony Computer Entertainment and Sky announce launch of Go!View PSP video-on-demand service
TELECOMWORLDWIRE-15 July 2008-Sony Computer Entertainment and Sky announce launch of Go!View PSP video-on-demand serviceC1994-2008 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD http://www.m2.com Sony Computer Entertainment Europe SCEE, the company responsible for the sales, marketing, distribution and software development for the PlayStation, and UK entertainment company Sky have announced the launch of Go!View,...
SCOTT MILLS ON PHILLIP SCHOFIELD
MY MENTOR I remember watching Phillip Schofield on Children's BBC and thinking he was everything I wanted to be. I have met and worked with him since, but back then I would watch him every Saturday morning on Going Live. He was extremely professional and engaged with...
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