The London 2012 Olympics are just twenty-five days away. In the UK, the BBC has started building a sense of excitement… Check everything the BBC is planning for this global event. Reshared post from +BBC News The BBC has just released its trail and titles sequence for the Olympic Games. Watch the 60 seconds film [...]
Universal reputation
April 10, 2012
I’m hooked watching The Voice UK, the reality talent show with a difference that the BBC started broadcasting in primetime on Saturday nights a few weeks ago. I’m not a fan of talent, reality or any other such TV show. I’ve never seen a complete episode of Britain’s Got Talent, The X Factor, Celebrity Whatever, [...]
The whirlwind of Social Media Week London
February 19, 2012
Social Media Week took place last week in more than a dozen cities around the world including London. It’s only a few days since events concluded so I’ve yet to see any in-depth analysis of how it all went on a global perspective: how many people participated, what the key topics and trends were in [...]
YouTube: the global TV channel
January 31, 2012
I caught a few minutes of President Obama’s Google+ Hangout last night as it was streamed on YouTube. If you’ve done a Google+ Hangout video chat before, you’ll be familiar with the format and this was no different. Except, of course, it was the President of the United States plus five lucky citizens chosen by [...]
The 2012 Olympics: tech on a huge scale
October 13, 2011
When you’re sitting in front of your widescreen HD television in July 2012 to enjoy two weeks of the 2012 Olympic Games, spare a thought for the huge technology infrastructure that will enable you to get images and sound as well as up-to-the-minute instant results, rankings and other metrics about each and every event, the [...]
The Royal Wedding broadcast live on YouTube
April 20, 2011
The global media event that will be the wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton (aka The Royal Wedding) on April 29 will also be a global internet event as the ceremony will be broadcast live on YouTube. According to Google: [...] we’re thrilled that the Royal Household has just announced that footage of the [...]
Al-Jazeera’s coverage of Egypt protests may hasten revolution in world news
February 7, 2011
Al-Jazeera English is enjoying new-found global popularity in the wake of the chaos in Egypt
Product placement comes to UK TV and radio
December 23, 2010
Broadcast industry regulator Ofcom confirmed this week that product placement – paid-for references for products and services – will be allowed in UK TV programmes for the first time from next February. […] Ofcom has today [December 20] published the rules governing product placement, including what can and can’t be shown on TV screens. We [...]
