Month: February 2003
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Top-slicing
Charles Allen, Chairman of Granada, tells the Royal Television Society that the BBC should be required to hand over 10% of its licence fee revenue to fund public service output…
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Proles vs Toffs
I’ve spent a fascinating day in Oxford at the Politics of Code conference, featuring the estimable Larry Lessig, Esther Dyson et al – and a lot of old friends. It’s…
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BBC Charter big guns
The Guardian confirms that the BBC has responded quickly and seriously to Tessa Jowell’s announcement that Charter renewal won’t be a cake walk. They’ve rolled out two top executives to…
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Barry Cox on the future of the BBC
Barry Cox’s second Oxford University lecture on the future of television, reprinted in
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Bridge fanatic
Another beautiful day in Soho. To Blacks in Dean Street for lunch with John Wilmott. John founded – with his brother Eamonn – Internet Publishing which became Online Magic and,…
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Got little kids?
Throwing out the self-promotional boom a bit further today – to take in my wife Juliet’s latest column at Tigerchild. Juliet’s been writing her funny and frank weekly accounts of…
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The manned space programme and human vanity
Those who doubt that we should continue sending people into space have a point – but only in the short term. As soon as you stretch the time scale out…