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HBO Max and Paramount+: What It Might Mean For Sports
Today the deal was done, and Paramount took over Warner Bros. Discovery in a massive deal that has much of Hollywood quaking. There were some last minute wrinkles with a deal being struck a couple of weeks ago with a group of US Attorneys General, with the general view being that they folded and didn’t…
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Hertfordshire 100
Relive ‘A Very Wet Hertfordshire 100 (KM)’ You know how when you check the weather forecast for something, how you totally rely on it? Well that didn’t work out too well for me today. On Friday, on a whim, I signed up for the Hertfordshire 100, a cycling sportive that begins and ends not too…
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Screen Printing on Fabric
Here are a few recent screen printing pieces that I’ve been making. His Girl Friday is one of my favourite films of all time, and I’ve been meaning to make a t-shirt or two out of this for some time. I’m not sure… I’m certain that these photos don’t do the print justice. For starters,…
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Bauer Buys Jazz FM
Bauer today announced it was buying Jazz FM, which is good news for the continued existence of a musically important station. I imagine that they’ll be squeezing into Golden Square away from their current Margaret Street studios which will save some money. But I suspect that the key thing in this deal is that Bauer’s…
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Overly Mannered Podcast Presentation
I wrote this as a podcast thread last week, but thought it was worth re-visiting a little more here. If there is one thing I hate in many podcasts (or radio programmes), it’s a presentation style that I would describe as overly mannered. What I’m talking about is a podcast that’s likely to be scripted,…
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Succession
I’ve been keenly awaiting Succession for a while. It comes from Jesse Armstrong who created Peep Show and more recently has done a lot of work with Armando Ianucci on things like The Thick of It and Veep, the latter being from HBO as this is. What’s interesting is that, simplistically, this is a fictionalised…
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RAJAR Q2 2018
As ever, this post is brought to you in association with RALF from DP Software and Services. I’ve used RALF for the past 9 years, and it’s my favourite RAJAR analysis tool. So I am delighted that I continue to be able to bring you this RAJAR analysis in association with RALF. For more details…
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The Death of MoviePass?
A few months ago, I tried to work out what the business model of MoviePass (and putative UK equivalent cPass) might be. I concluded that the operators were going to need very deep pockets, and there was absolutely no certainty that the model works. And that seems to have been an accurate prediction. The service…
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RideLondon Classique 2018
This last weekend saw a massive collision of all things cycling. It was the final weekend of the Tour de France – fabulously won by Geraint Thomas. That had been pushed back a week to stay clear of the World Cup. Meanwhile it was also the Saturday night of the Dunwich Dynamo, from London Fields…
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Geraint Thomas Wins the Tour
It has been thrilling over these last three weeks to see one of cycling’s real Mr Nice Guys win the Tour. I couldn’t say exactly when I first became aware of him, but Britain’s success on the track meant that I’d seen him pick up medals ahead of his gold at the Beijing Olympics in…
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Virgin Media and UKTV (And ITV) – Continuation
On my commute to work this morning, I saw a digital outdoor sign advertising a programme on Yesterday. I can’t recall the programme, but I can tell you that at the bottom, a large blue strap had added “Not available on Virgin Media.” Things are ramping up in Virgin Media and UKTV’s dispute. The Guardian…
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Virgin Media and UKTV
We seem to be in the middle of a real old-school rights agreement brouhaha at the moment. Virgin Media has just removed all UKTV’s channels from its platform after what we must assume was a lengthy period where the two parties failed to meet terms. UKTV is 50% owned by the BBC, and 50% owned…
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Radio is Fastest
If you wanted to know what was happening in Moscow as fast as possible last night, your best bet was the radio. I’ve mentioned before that when a big fixture goes to penalties, I always listen on the radio, because I get the news first. More regularly, if there’s a match that’s both being covered…
Hadrian’s Wall
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