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Unfortunately Shane Hegarty has finished writing his blog on the Irish Times website due to commitments.
Adam Maguire has an interesting post off the back of an article about The Guardian’s move to consolidate its varying newsroom into one entity. Maguire ponders the implications for various Irish media outlets.
The Irish Independent reports that RTE’s Joe Duffy Show was strongly criticised by a prominent judge for interviewing family members of a victim after his attacker was convicted but before he was sentenced.
According to the Guardian, Channel 4 and Channel Five have collaborated on a programme-makers’ handbook designed to stamp out the TV deception incidents that dogged the industry last year.
Honda got a lot of publicity last week for a live prime-time advertisement break broadcast on Channel. The Times reports that the advertisement which consisted of a skydiving team lasted spelling “out a message to viewers from Honda before pulling their parachute cords. The revival of ‘live’ adverts, once a common feature of soap operas in the Fifties, is seen as a weapon in the battle against apathy to advertising in the television audience. The spread of personal recording systems now allows viewers to speed through the commercial breaks at 30 times normal speed.”
According to the Irish Times (subscription required) the broadcasting regulator plans to review the radio licences held by billionaire businessman Denis O’Brien, after he increased his stake in Sir Anthony O’Reilly’s Independent News & Media (IN&M) to 25 per cent.
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