tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-41432892024-03-14T02:35:08.447+00:00Media MattersMedia musings and grumbles from a grouchy old git......Tim Bournehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14566871263590504489noreply@blogger.comBlogger102125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4143289.post-5828985021624935832022-02-16T14:59:00.000+00:002022-02-16T14:59:01.150+00:00Tutorial over Zoom A name that cropped up Had the chance of a Tutorial with City Lit Art & Design's Moving Image specialist Dr Pete Gomes today.One of the things that I was aware of and will now act is to make the online posts more reflective - with the benefit of time I will revisit and hopefully be able to extrapolate more in the way of lessons and attitudes to my own efforts.It was a wide Tim Bournehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14566871263590504489noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4143289.post-30262056567972875282021-10-31T16:00:00.002+00:002021-10-31T16:02:36.358+00:00Keep Feeling Fascination .. There are a couple of things I'm thinking of these days and one of them is Prosopagnosia (or face blindness).Oliver's book It's all about people not recognising faces and there are some big names who've suffered it, they include Oliver Sacks (who wrote a book about it) Stephen Fry, Comedian Paul Foot and seemingly the rather strange connection of US photo-realist Tim Bournehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14566871263590504489noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4143289.post-1147532382461880942012-11-27T11:16:00.000+00:002012-11-27T11:16:52.102+00:00Amazing serviceTim Bournehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14566871263590504489noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4143289.post-42977666814234424622007-06-03T14:56:00.001+01:002007-06-03T14:57:37.506+01:00My research on participation TV continues, I’m putting a query on Linkedin and also going to check out some of the other offerings. any thoughts?What happened to Playdate?What do you think of 5’s Quizcall ?If you want to help or have a view please e-mail ITVplaysurvey@btopenworld.comTim Bournehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14566871263590504489noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4143289.post-15576289011366345242006-10-21T15:27:00.000+01:002006-10-21T15:28:42.252+01:00to see my up-to date entries go here now ! Tim Bournehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14566871263590504489noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4143289.post-85725992567074957102006-08-28T11:48:00.001+01:002006-08-28T11:48:36.661+01:00Bank Holiday MondayTim Bournehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14566871263590504489noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4143289.post-80144296148932740662006-08-26T19:11:00.001+01:002006-08-26T19:11:47.947+01:00this is a testTim Bournehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14566871263590504489noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4143289.post-1156600252389002922006-08-26T14:41:00.000+01:002006-08-26T14:57:45.556+01:00Charles Allen slags off C4The TV festival in Edinburgh gives TV 'luvvys' a chance to speak about the industryInteresting that Charles Allen the outgoing ITV CEO has decided to have a go at C4 and the BBC in this year's keynote address.Andy Duncan who I think is doing a remarkably good job at Horseferry Road has ruled himself out of the race to succeed the departing Allen and the ITV hot seat is Tim Bournehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14566871263590504489noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4143289.post-1156535529869084842006-08-25T20:45:00.000+01:002006-08-25T20:52:09.883+01:00CBS’s innertube streams primetime shows freeThere’s been an awful lot of talk about youtube and the like (Sony bought Guba this week).The US TV networks are fighting back against the proliferation of video content on the web with their major asset –content some of this content is original and some recently broadcast network shows.CBS has an internet TV portal innertube with the obligatory lack ofTim Bournehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14566871263590504489noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4143289.post-1156279507435413642006-08-22T21:37:00.000+01:002006-08-22T21:45:07.480+01:00One TV Gone TVIf you’re troubled by the plethora of TV shopping channels there’s a bit of good news from OFCOM who earlier today revoked One TV’s UK licence to broadcast.One TV has been in business since January 2005 and consumers have been experiencing problems with the supply of ordered goods since the start of 2006.Amongst their products were the standard fare of cameras, DVDs and the keep fitTim Bournehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14566871263590504489noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4143289.post-1156087321609302132006-08-20T16:19:00.000+01:002006-08-20T16:35:04.730+01:00 Videoblooging hits the headlinesso this week we've learnt about geriatric1927 - what does this tell us about anything?1) that the technology is not too difficult to use2) that bores come in all ages3) that youtube's hit the mainstream here's my current fave from youtube there's a bit of a story there.Tim Bournehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14566871263590504489noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4143289.post-1155674265058693372006-08-15T21:12:00.000+01:002006-08-15T21:46:29.716+01:00making a little go along wayjust finished reading The Long Tail and it makes a good argument for the landscape of abundancy we find ourelves in, living in a free market economy at the start of the 21st century - but I can't help feeling that it's a magazine article stretched to a book. I'm now on the Undercover economist and I'm hoping this has a little more to it but I'm fearing it's a similarlyTim Bournehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14566871263590504489noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4143289.post-1155144069261619482006-08-09T18:01:00.000+01:002006-08-09T18:23:08.476+01:00Interesting stuffA great black and white film - Guns at Batasi, this is a really neglected film with great acting by Dickie Attenborough (easy to forget what a talent he was as a youngish actor - Brighton Rock is another good example) and was written by Robert Holles whose son I went to school with. (and Richard Attenborough went to the same school as my dad)Interesting book Baghdad Business Tim Bournehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14566871263590504489noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4143289.post-1154210940812228262006-07-29T23:04:00.000+01:002006-07-29T23:09:00.826+01:00Tim Bourne resourceI've upleaded (having scanned it in) my branding dissertation (a word document) from 1999 and created a resource pagemore to follow ...Tim Bournehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14566871263590504489noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4143289.post-1153691710174461582006-07-23T22:30:00.000+01:002006-07-23T22:55:10.256+01:00Failure of the market in BroadcastingThis week has been a big one interms of broadcasting, the BBC has had one its routine musical chairs at the top where Ashley Highfield continues to dazzle- as Emily Bell says on the Guardian Media Podcast these things are required to keep people on their toes in non commercial organisations. Speaking of these changes and also the goings on at Channel 4 (movingTim Bournehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14566871263590504489noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4143289.post-1153074791693962222006-07-16T19:11:00.000+01:002006-07-16T19:33:11.736+01:00My contribution to one day in the life of TELEVISION ..I've been hard(ish) at work on my final assignment (before the dissertation) and noticed a book I contributed to, it's derived from daily diaries of people working in TV in UK on one day (November 1st 1988), I was at ITN and here's my entryWe break for lunch, Elliot (my replay colleague), Jim an editor and I go to an Italian restaurant which Tim Bournehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14566871263590504489noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4143289.post-1152479385326588612006-07-09T21:54:00.000+01:002006-07-09T22:14:55.653+01:00The Power of NarrativesThe power of narrative has a momentum to ones own (and to others lives) the question of what will happen to Prescott (to me) has an inevitability to it and on the same subject I wonder how one would feel about the France/Italy final if there wasn’t a narrative to buy into (and it seems the narrative is the flawed Zidane)And FictionI was interested to hear Germaine Greer on Tim Bournehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14566871263590504489noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4143289.post-1152138440483861182006-07-05T23:04:00.000+01:002006-07-05T23:27:20.570+01:00Johnny Prescott B GoodJohn it's time to go - the momentum around the casino sleaze and the extra marital dalliances is unstoppable.Like Major's Gov't before Tony's is now disintegrating in front of our eyes.Find out about Prescott's affairs here and here oh yes and hereTim Bournehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14566871263590504489noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4143289.post-1151764140199069722006-07-01T15:04:00.000+01:002006-07-01T15:29:00.253+01:00The week in BlogPoliticsUK by elections (Wales and Kent) gave bllody noses to both of the major political parties do we have a case of Ming the winner? (despite his party not winning), it seems to me that (New) Labour did as one might expect a tired party of Government to do (lose badly in all three votes, two for MPs to the UK Parliament and one to the Welsh assembly) but the protest was Tim Bournehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14566871263590504489noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4143289.post-1151246059146919072006-06-25T15:29:00.000+01:002006-06-25T15:42:56.546+01:00Another week another dining hot spotThis week I managed to m eet up with two good friends and ex-Euronews colleagues for a meal on a lovely balmy evening in the heart of London.Next door to the the Royal Court (where I saw one of my favourite productions Hitchcock Blonde) is the Oriel which offer the atmosphere of a genuine French establishment.Other news from the week is that Somali TV project Tim Bournehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14566871263590504489noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4143289.post-1150651638412403562006-06-18T18:19:00.000+01:002006-06-18T18:36:45.636+01:00VinopolisSo despite it being more than 6 months since Christmas I’m still getting to grips with the presents I received in those long ago winter days one of which was a visit to the above London location where one can stagger through a virtual worldwide wine bar crawl .Various options are available and on a summers evening it’s fun to visit this part of London (no hangover to report).Taste of Tim Bournehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14566871263590504489noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4143289.post-1149970507279899462006-06-10T21:09:00.000+01:002006-06-11T10:15:52.793+01:00TV spectrumThe move from analogue TV to Digital in the UK will potentially free up valuable radio spectrum and OFCOM are responsible for allocating said freed up spectrum.There’s a debate going on about the best and most economic (in terms of raising cash for the government) utilisation– the BBC would like to see extra spectrum made available for HD (high definition) TV – is this a good thing? Tim Bournehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14566871263590504489noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4143289.post-1149943897665912082006-06-10T13:48:00.000+01:002006-06-10T13:51:40.553+01:00Fire in my heart (of West Ealing) If the video does not display properlyclick here to upgrade to Flash 8Tuesday night demonstrated how quickly fire can take hold.A burning piece of paper thrown from a loft window, and Ealing fire brigade on the scene to sort it out.Amazing to see so many people actually talking to each other, hopefully the houses affected were insured! Tim Bournehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14566871263590504489noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4143289.post-1149432999340466522006-06-04T15:55:00.000+01:002006-06-04T16:48:49.080+01:00DevonSo a bit of a gap on the blogging due to a pleasant break in Bideford, had a good look around Westward Ho! and we found a house/cottage to our liking right in the centre of town, we will likely put an offer in but time will tell how the process goes (if it’s still for sale) I gather property buying can be difficult.This week I’ve had the opportunity to catch up with friends one who I’ve not Tim Bournehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14566871263590504489noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4143289.post-1148220061450644102006-05-21T14:51:00.000+01:002006-05-21T15:01:01.450+01:00Hong Kong 1997 MusicalI'd like to try and recreate my first webpage project (about 10 years ago) when I tried to get some interest going for a musical project co-written by the late and great Mort Schuman (Viva Las Vegas amongst others) - trouble is I need to contact Richard (White?) - any ideas help would be greatTim Bournehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14566871263590504489noreply@blogger.com